Lecture's IaaC - IaaC Lecture Series 2007-08 > Vicente Guallart

Vicente Guallart was born in Valencia in 1963. He opened his studio in Barcelona, GUALLART ARCHITECTS (www.guallart.com) in 1993. Since then, he has been working in project of different scales “from bits to geography” and participating in electronic publishing and research projects. He works in the confluence of architecture, nature and new technologies. Some of his more relevant projects are the Denia Mountain (reconstruction of an old quarry, in an environment that hold and old Arab castle, selected for the Venice Biennale 2004), 3 ports in the North of Taiwan that will improve the tourism in the island (winners of 2 international competitions), the artificial mountain of Wroclaw (Poland), selected for the biding for the Expo 2012, or the Sharing Tower in the neighborhood of la Torre (Valencia). His work have shown in the Venice Biennale, MOMA, Arkitertur Zentrum or IVAM (www.guallartblog.com), and he have been lecturing at MIT, Columbia, Princeton, Mexico DF, Taipei, Beijing among others. Actar publishing house have published a book based in his ideas and projects called “GeoLogics”.

http://www.guallartblog.com