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Polish researchers visit the School of Architecture

The group is made up of researchers from the National Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning (Narodowy Instytut Architektury i Urbanistyki) in Warsaw, Poland.

The group, headed by director attachment Tomasz Slawinski, and composed of professors and academics from the Warsaw University of Technology and the University of Warmia and Mazury, Katarzyna Domagalska, Marta Akincza, Justyna Zdunek-Wielgolaska, Piotr Hardt, Jakub Certowicz, visited the University of Navarra to work on the project Laboratory of Regions.  

The group has given a class and a workshop to the students of the 2nd year of Degree in Architecture with the goal to encourage a reflection on the internship of contemporary architecture in the context of the conservation of historical heritage and regional developments.

With the purpose to collect good practices and experiences, and with the partnership of the professors of the School of Architecture Elena Lacilla, Joaquín Torres and María Angélica Martínez, as well as the doctoral student of the University of Szczecin in Erasmus stay, Ewa Balanicka, the group is studying the architecture of small and medium-sized cities of the communities of Navarra and Aragon and carrying out conversations with the different agents involved in the conservation of cultural heritage, urban planning and architecture in the regional administrations and local entities. In addition, the municipalities of Olite, Ujué, Estella, Tudela, Jaca, Tarazona, Daroca, Albarracín and Teruel were visited.

A selection of examples of high quality spaces from the towns visited will be published in Poland as part of a toolkit aimed at local governments, to provide a basis for dialogue with residents, investors and architects on architectural culture. 

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