José Manuel Pozo, profesor de la Escuela de Arquitectura, dirige el Campus Internacional Ultzama 2012
José Manuel Pozo, professor of the School of Architecture, directs the Campus International Ultzama 2012.
Organized by the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad, it will bring together 30 architects and other social agents to debate about the status current situation of architecture and its immediate future.
José Manuel Pozo, professor at School of Architecture of the University of Navarra, directs the Ultzama 2012 InternationalCampus "Beauty: challenge and service", organized by the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad at the Zenotz Equestrian Center (Ultzama Valley) and the Oteiza Museum Foundation (Alzuza, Navarra). In its third edition, the activity aims to address the social function of architecture as a vehicle for transmitting beauty, optimism and novelty.
From September 6 to 9, thirty architects and other social actors will discuss the current status of architecture and its immediate future. The campus will bring together experienced and new architects and students from postgraduate program, mainly from the three strongest centers of teaching and internship of European architecture at the moment: Switzerland, Portugal and Spain. The origins of the participants also include South America and the Arab world.
According to José Manuel Pozo, architect and professor at the University of Navarra, the Campus will allow "to contrast and exchange ideas and points of view to go beyond what service in architecture entails and derive the discussion to the need to achieve something more to start talking about this discipline, and that something more is beauty".
The dynamics of Campus is structured on the basis of two discussion areas. The first, which will take place in the mornings at the Complejo Hípico, is reserved for members of Campus, with short presentations and joint debates in which the young architects will be the protagonists. The other area, open to all those who wish to participate, will include interventions at position by the "masters" and will take place in the afternoons in Alzuza.
The results of the discussions and the global content of the Campus will later be published in specific publications, but they can also be followed and found on the Internet atlink Campus Ultzama 2012, where there is already a lot of information about the participants in the Campus and their ideas, as well as the planned program.
As part of the development of Campus parallel activities have been planned that intensify the convivial character of this event and contribute to give it more content: a visit to the walls and old town of Pamplona, and to the Jorge Oteiza Museum Foundation.
Participating architects
Gonçalo Byrne (Alcobaça, Portugal), Juan Ignacio Baixas (Chile), Juan Miguel Otxotorena (Pamplona, Spain) and Cyril Veillón (Lausanne, Switzerland) will participate as guests.
The senior architects who will participate are Nuno Brandao (Porto, Portugal), Ignacio Dahl Rocha (Lausanne, Switzerland), Mikkel Frost (Denmark), José Miguel Iribas (Valencia, Spain), Carlos Quintans (A Coruña, Spain), Carlos Rubio Carvajal (Madrid, Spain) and Ramón Sanabria (Barcelona, Spain).
Young foreign architects include Damián Capano (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Nuno Graça (Porto, Portugal), Jeannette Kuo (Lausanne, Switzerland), Isa Clara Neves (Porto, Portugal), Juan Eduardo Ojeda (Santiago de Chile, Chile), Ranad Shqeirat (Ramallah, Palestine) and Jorge Silva (Lisbon, Portugal).
The 6 young Spanish architects are Arturo Franco (Madrid, Spain), Rubén Labiano (Pamplona, Spain), Esteban Salcedo (Madrid, Spain), Asier Santas/ Luis Suárez (Bilbao, Spain) and Jorge Vidal (Barcelona, Spain).