Event's IaaC - Post it Exhibition CCCB > Taipei Prototypes of Urbanity

Post it looks at different overlapping uses of urban territory, focusing on the viewpoints offered by architecture, town planning and the visual arts. "Post-it Cities" seeks to explore the phenomenon by means of the ephemeral cities that infect the everyday city with uncoded, temporary, anonymous uses, with an implicitly critical approach.
Taipei, Prototype of Urbanity. The Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC) directed by Vicente Guallart in collaboration with The Observer Design Group directed by JM Lin, started in 2006 this research work with the students of the 2005-2006 master of advanced architecture, 10 days at Taipei measuring and reading the city in order to get the primary information for the following workshop at Barcelona; this publication is the result of the entire research. IaaC wants to map cities over the world to have a picture of this moment of the history of urbanism and architecture development that will allow to understand what our cities are, how they are functioning and whose are the possible facts that will lead urbanity on the future.

Exhibition March 13th 2008 - May 25th 2008, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. C/ Montalegre 5, 08001 Barcelona

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