2024 JUNE, SEVEN LESSONS ON ARCHITECTURE 2 AT RABASF
The School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM) received in 2022 the Medal of Honour of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, the institution from which it was born in 1752. And to celebrate the generosity of its alma mater, the ETSAM offered Seven Architecture Lessons which were given at the Academy’s own headquarters, in the Goyeneche Palace on Calle Alcalá in Madrid. I was lucky enough to be invited as professor emeritus and I can only be grateful for such deference.
And after the success of the first Seven Lessons in Architecture in the 2023 academic year, we wanted to continue this academic activity that links the School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid with the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. This year, the seven new lessons have been given by seven emeritus professors of the ETSAM-UPM.
The videos below reproduce these seven classes and show the high level of the cycle. All this would not have been possible without the generosity of the seven guest lecturers who have shared with us the knowledge and reflections acquired after many years of teaching, research and work. The course has been more than interesting. A large number of students, architects and people interested in architecture came to the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando every Wednesday morning between 21 February and 10 April 2024, that was our first and foremost interest.
The videos of each class are available at the following links:
Lección 1 – Juan Navarro Baldeweg: La luz del sol, la luz interna
Lección 2 – José Ignacio Linazasoro: De lo sacro a lo popular. Una experiencia autobiográfica
Lección 3 – Antón Capitel: Las formas ilusorias en la arquitectura de Alvar Aalto
Lección 4 – Carlos Sambricio: Una mirada sobre El Escorial
Lección 5 – Gabriel Ruiz Cabrero: Artilugio estupefacto
Lección 6 – Margarita de Luxán: Arquitecturas con árboles. Nueve interacciones
Lección 7 – Ignacio Vicens: La casa de la diva
The book with the texts of the lessons will be available soon at Ediciones Asimétricas.
