From July 3 to 15, 2023, the IV International Audiovisual Workshop will take place, organized by RCR Arquitectes and directed by the prestigious Japanese photographer Hisao Suzuki.

The Peralada winery complex designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning studio RCR Arquitectes has become the first European wine production center to receive the LEED Gold seal, which is the most recognized sustainability certificate in the world.

The city of Valencia remains one of the most outstanding cities in Europe after having welcomed the world capital of Design in 2022 and having increased its cultural, educational and leisure offer in recent years. Now it does so after being chosen as European Green Capital for next year.

The recovery of this industrial complex has been one of the life goals of Juan Domingo Santos, who shares part of this process with our students on their visits to MArch. An exhibition has recently been held at the Royal Hospital of Granada that revolves around the evolution of the Azucarera itself.

On April 27, the Giner de los Ríos Foundation, in Madrid, will hold a talk between the recent winner of the National Architecture Award, Emilio Tuñón, the renowned architect Fuensanta Nieto and the Pritzker Prize winner Eduardo Souto de Moura.

The city of Tokyo is one of the largest cities on the planet, and has a high concentration of good architecture distributed throughout its many neighborhoods. Ginza, Aoyama, Shibuya or Shinjuku are some examples where we can find representative buildings signed by studios such as Kengo Kuma, Toyo Ito, Herzog & de Meuron, Richard Rogers, Tadao Ando... but beyond these great works of architecture, Tokyo also hides locations with little gems that are worth a trip to where they are.

In 2023, the city of Valencia will be home to the new comic and graphic novel museum, Micharmut. The museum's collection is expected to start with around 30,000 pieces, spanning a wide range of genres and styles that will appeal to the interest of amateurs and professionals alike.

The PalauGea creative studio, made up of Ana Gea and Víctor Palau, has visited MArch to share their experience on graphic design and product design.

April 1st marked the 18th anniversary of MUSAC, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León, designed by renowned architects Emilio Tuñón and Luis Moreno Mansilla. Since its inauguration in 2005, MUSAC has been the cultural benchmark in León and one of the most visited museums in the Castilla y León region.

Choosing a postgraduate degree in Architecture and Design is crucial for the professional development of every architect/designer. If you have doubts between the MArch Master in Architecture and Design and the MArch Advanced Master in Architecture, Design and Business Administration, we will try to resolve them here.

Last Monday, the FSA LAB team, part of the Fran Silvestre Arquitectos studio, began module 04_Digital Innovation within the second part of the course and the MArch postgraduate course in Digital Innovation, focused on Architectural Visualization. These sessions, which will run until April 21, will address crucial issues in the digital representation of architectural and product design projects, providing students with valuable knowledge and skills in the realm of digital innovation in architecture.

Last Friday, the acclaimed architect Alba de la Fuente visited MArch to offer an informative and enriching talk to students on the use of CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) in contemporary architecture. With a solid accumulated experience working with renowned studios such as Ricardo Bofill, Andrés Reisinger, Sabine Marcelis and Charlotte Taylor, Alba de la Fuente has left her mark in the world of architectural design, fusing technology and art in the work of she.

Since March 22, the Memory, Projects, Works exhibition, which was held at the Casa da Arquitectura in Porto, where a large part of the enormous Souto de Moura archive is deposited, and curated by Francesco Dal Co and Nuno Graça Moura , has now traveled to Brazil and, specifically, to Rio de Janeiro, in the Paço Imperial.

Through the Gallery streaming platform, it will be possible to enjoy the documentary "Siza", which focuses on capturing on the screen a more intimate and personal vision of the Pritkzer Prize, delving into his childhood, his family and his passion for sculpture. or his taste for classical music.

Lavernia&Cienfuegos presented last week the redesign of the València brand for the tourism promotion of the city through the different advertising channels it uses.

Between July 3 and 15, the XI edition of the International Photography Workshop will take place in Olot, directed by the winners of the Pritzker RCR Arquitectes.

Cassandra Carvas, a Portuguese architect, has started the second part of the course by giving a session focused on making a portfolio.

The Portuguese studio Noarq by Zé Carlos Oliveira has won the competition for the construction of the new bridge that will link Porto and Gaia.

Today is MArch Internacional, a day in which our students share their culture with everyone else, through presentations that are exhibited in the classroom. The students meet in groups and talk about the typical architecture, gastronomy, history or nature of their countries. At the end of the day, each one shares some typical food or drink to share with everyone else.

The graphic designer Ibán Ramón, recognized on numerous occasions by the LAUS awards, and who will share his knowledge with our students in June, has participated in the design of the first superblock to be implemented in Valencia. For his part, he has taken care of all the graphic development that can now be seen both on the pavement and in the signage.

In the coming weeks, the trip to Japan for the students of the MArch Advanced program in architecture, design and business administration will take place. During it we will visit the cities of Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, with the aim of knowing first-hand both contemporary architecture and traditional architecture typical of the Japanese country.

This Monday the 20th begins the MArch postgraduate course in Design and Digital Innovation, which includes the modules of Digital Innovation, Interior Design, Product and Final Project.

In this 2022/2023 academic year, the MArch students who have attended the trip to Porto have had the opportunity to visit the Fundação Gramaxo, a work of the Pritzker prize-winner Álvaro Siza that was completed in 2021.

Today, Tuesday, March 14, a cycle of conferences begins that revolves around the La Azucarera de San Isidro de Granada complex, a space in which the studio of the renowned architect Juan Domingo Santos is located.

From this March 9 to September 10 you can visit an exhibition at the IVAM where some of the most representative works of La Nave are exhibited, which marked a before and after in Valencian design.

The Fran Silvestre Arquitectos studio has published a new monograph for the renowned Rizzoli publishing house, leaders in interior design, art and architecture publications. It has been curated by the prestigious architecture critic Philip Jodidio, who writes a concise analysis for each of the projects included in the publication.

From March 8 to 10, the students are in Porto, a study trip where they have the opportunity to see first-hand works by the Pritzker prize-winners Álvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura and the Noarq studio, by the architect Zé Carlos Oliveira, as well as the Portuguese studio Correia/Ragazzi.

The winners of the 2017 Pritzker Prize, RCR Arquitectes, launch the new edition of the RCR Summer Workshop 2023, which will take place in person from July 3, 2023 in Olot and offers a space dedicated to researching key issues in architecture and disseminating the methodology project by RCR Arquitectes.

The prestigious British architect David Chipperfield (1953) has been recognized with the Pritzker Prize, the most important award in the field of architecture.

The Portuguese architect António Choupina, who has been linked to Álvaro Siza for more than 10 years, has given a talk for the students of the different MArch architecture and design programs, which precedes the trip to Porto that is taking place this week.

The MArch Graduate School of Architecture and Design has recently opened the application period for enrollments for the MArch Graduate Degree in Industrialized Architecture.

Within the framework of the workshop directed by RCR Arquitectes in La Vila, included in the MArch Advanced program in architecture, design and business administration, our students have visited the Bell Lloc wineries, a project that masterfully integrates into the landscape and reinterprets the traditional winery concept.

The eighteenth edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale opens in May, which we will visit with the students of the MArch Advanced program in architecture, design and business administration between May 25 and 28.

Last Monday, within the workshop coordinated by RCR in La Vila in collaboration with MArch, the visit of the renowned photographer Eugeni Pons took place, who gave a workshop on photography related to the approach to the landscape.

The eighteenth edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale opens in May, which we will visit with the students of the MArch Advanced program in architecture, design and business administration between May 25 and 28.

Desde el 24 de febrero hasta el 3 de marzo, los alumnos del programa MArch Advanced en arquitectura, diseño y business administration se han desplazado hasta Olot para realizar el workshop organizado por RCR en La Vila.

This week, within the M03_Build module, we have started the BIM sessions with Salva Moret, an architect from the UPV, founder of the Ensenyem Academy, from where training courses are given for different programs related to architecture and design.

The Fran Silvestre Arquitectos studio has finished its latest project, The Empty House. Located on the main street of a town near Valencia, the house is part of a fragment of 20th century history.

Last Thursday we had with us the renowned architect Juan Domingo Santos, also a professor of Architectural Projects at the School of Architecture of Granada and who has collaborated with Álvaro Siza on projects such as the Zaira building in Granada or the Atrium of the Alhambra.

Last week we received a visit from the Granada-born architect Carmen Moreno, an architect and a PhD in architecture from the UGR, where she has also taught classes since 2007.