"The Master's Degree University of Architecture offers a very complete pathway through a module of business, the project End of degree program and two design and technical modules. Within the latter, the workshops of Projects, Composition and Urbanism (project workshop) and Construction, Installations and Structures (technical workshop) are developed.

This year, the workshops have revolved around the figure of Enric Miralles (and his very complex and very rich architecture) through intense conference where we were proposed to analyze his work, always from the dual perspective of the workshops.

Honestly, the first workshop(developed during the first weeks of October and November on the disciplines of Structures and composition) was the best starting point. On the afternoon of October 6, after the appropriate presentations and lessons throughout the morning, there was a meeting and a roundtable about wood construction presented by the Chair Wood Onesta, in which we could count on the presence of great experts such as Benedetta Tagliabue, Freddy Massad (architecture critic in ABC), José Antonio Tenorio Ríos (from CSIC) or Luis García Malo de Moirá (from AEDAS Home), among others. We also counted with the presence of many professors from the School of campus of Pamplona or well-known architects such as Alberto Campo Baeza or Ignacio Vicens. The afternoon culminated with the inauguration of exhibition 'Perpetuum Mobile' by EMBT Architects-Benedetta Tagliabue and the Fundació Enric Miralles and a cocktail. 

As for the subsequent session of the same workshop(in early November), an event at the Espacio Bertelsmann (designed by Miralles) was particularly noteworthy, where Agustí Obiol and Julio Lahuerta proposed an interesting approach to Miralles' work from a structural and historical-conceptual point of view, respectively. 

The second workshop(installations and urbanism) took place between November and January and, like the first workshop, ended with the submission of an original article written by groups. The subject matter was not simple and returning to work on a figure that we thought we already knew well enough was a challenge.

The sessions of the third and last workshop(projects and construction) took place between February and March. The work we had to submit was different: it was no longer a article of research, but an architectural proposal that will frame a Miralles building. On Thursday, March 23, we also had the presence of the business STO.

At final, the workshops have been complex and challenging, and have allowed us to delve in an unimaginable way into an architecture as complex, symbolic, staff and seemingly random as that of Miralles".

Text written by Ana, MUA student (course 22-23).