YONA FRIEDMAN. La Dissolution de l'Architecture

Yona Friedman was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1923, and pass away Paris, France, February 21, 2020. He studied at the Technical University in Budapest (Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem) and in Haifa. His work has spanned areas ranging from architecture, art and animated film to education and writing. He has participated in numerous art biennials including Shanghai, Venice and Documenta 11. His highly visionary ideas have nurtured various generations of architects and urbanists, influencing groups such as Archigram and even Kenzo Tange, who declared as such in 1970 in Osaka.

In 1956 he published L'architecture mobile, his manifesto which conceived of an urban structure on piles, appropriate for spaces where building is not possible or permitted. This also became the foundational document of the GEAM, Groupe d'étude d'architecture mobile. He created urban concepts such as the Spatial City, based on the free organisation of a city by citizens using low-cost mobile and reusable modules. In 1965 he founded, together with Ionel Schein, Walter Jonas and others, the GIAP, Groupe International d'Architecture Prospective.

From the 1960’s he also became interested in animated film making which would lead him to propose a series of do-it-yourself construction manuals with simple pictograms addressing basic questions, which we could summarise under the title L´habitat c’est mon affaire. Comment habiter la terre (Habitat is my business: how to inhabit the earth). These were edited by the United Nations and given broad distribution in India, South America and Africa.

José Juan Barba (1964). Architect from the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM) in 1991. He received his PhD in Architecture from ETSAM in 2004, graduating summa Cum laude with the doctoral thesis "Inventions: New York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi." In 1991, he received a Special Mention in the Spanish National Graduation Awards. Until 1997, he worked as an advisor to several NGOs. In 1992, he founded his architectural practice in Madrid (www.josejuanbarba.com). 

He is an architectural critic and, since 1998, Editor-in-Chief of the internationally acclaimed bilingual architecture journal METALOCUS (Spanish/English), recipient of several national and international awards.

Barba is an Associate Professor at the University of Alcalá and a member of several research groups. He has been invited to participate in numerous international forums on architecture and urbanism, including the II Forum of Mexican World Heritage Cities, Urban Development, History and Modernity, organized by the Pan-American Committee for Urban Development and Historical Heritage; the World Urban Development Forum (FMDU), held in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico; and the International Conference on Architecture and Urbanism from the Perspective of Women Architects. He has also been invited as lecturer and guest critic at numerous national and international institutions, including the National Building Museum, Roma Tre University, Politecnico di Milano, University of Genoa, Université Pierre Mendès France Grenoble, the Madrid and Barcelona Schools of Architecture, National Autonomous University of Mexico, the Faculty of Architecture in Montevideo, the Schools of Architecture of Medellín and Ecuador, Universidad Iberoamericana, IE University, as well as the Schools of Architecture of Zaragoza, Valladolid, Málaga, Granada, Seville, and A Coruña, among others.

He has extensive professional experience in architecture, urbanism, landscape intervention, and territorial regeneration. His work has received numerous awards, including First Prize in the “Gran Vía Posible” competition for Delirious Gran Vía, Madrid; recognition for the Rivers Interpretation Centre in Zamora, awarded and exhibited at the World Architecture Festival 2008; and recognition for the Santa Bárbara Park project in Toledo. He was also awarded the Erich Degner Prize for Architecture (1995), promoted by the BBVA Foundation. His project for a Day Centre for the Elderly was included in Volume 3 of the Madrid Architecture Guide published by the Official College of Architects of Madrid (COAM) in 2007. His work has been widely published in national and international books and journals.

He served as Maître de Conférences at the Institut d’Urbanisme de Grenoble, Université Pierre Mendès France Grenoble, during the 2013–14 academic year, following his appointment through a European open competition. His work has been published internationally. He regularly serves on academic and professional juries, including the editorial competition jury for the journal Quaderns (2011), the selection committee for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Awards (2007–present), and the jury panels for EUROPAN 13 (2015–16) and TRANSFER, Zurich (2019). He was also invited to participate in the Biennale di Venezia 2016 as part of the exhibition Spaces of Exception / Spazi d’Eccezione.

He has authored several books, including "The Dark Line. michele&miquel, dA Vision Design" (2024), "CONGRESO ANYWAY. La ciudad de las ciudades" (2020), "#Positions" (2016), and "Inventions: New York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi" (2015). He has also contributed to publications such as "Espacio público Gran Vía. La Ciudad del Turismo" (2020), "Spaces of Exception / Spazi d’Eccezione" (2016), "La manzana de la discordia" (2015), and "Contemporary Japanese Architecture: New Territories" (2015), as well as chapters in numerous books, including "Women Architects: A Professional Challenge" (2009), "21st Century Architectures" (2007), "Ruta de la Plata, New Conquerors of Space" (2019), and "The City of Tourism" (2020).

Selected awards include:

•    “SANTIAGO AMÓN” AWARD, award for the promotion of architecture, COAM Madrid, 2000.
•    “PANAYIOTI MIXELI AWARD,” SADAS-PEA, award for the promotion of architecture, Athens, 2005.
•    “PIERRE VAGO” ICAC. International Committee of Art Critics Award, London, 2005.
•    FAD Award 07, Ephemeral Interventions, First Prize, M.C. Escher Exhibition, Arquin-FAD, Barcelona, 2007.
•    World Architecture Festival, Center for Research and Interpretation of the Rivers, Tera, Esla, and Órbigo, Finalist, Barcelona, 2008.
•    Gran Vía Posible, First Prize, Delirious Gran Vía, Madrid, 2010.
•    Reform of the Río Segura Surroundings, Award, Murcia, 2010.

Jennifer Cabrera Fernàndez. Nació en Poza Rica de Hidalgo Veracruz, México, 1975. Estudió danza clásica y neoclasica en la "Academia Danza Arte" dirigido por la maestra Norma Chenge. Estudió en la "Unidad de Artes" en la Facultad de Danza Contemporánea de Xalapa, Veracruz. Técnica de Martha Graham. También estudió al mismo tiempo canto, danza y ritmos mesoamericanos y afro con el maestro Enrique D´Flon Khun. Alumna y bailarina de Yocasta Gallardo y Estela Lucio.

Primera bailarina, cantante y percusionista con los grupos "Son de Cuero" "Clave Nueva". Bailarina, performer y percusionista del maestro Leo Coloroado. Bailarina y actriz del grupo teatral musical "Macalacachimba".  Ha trabajado en varias ocasiones como performer para pintores y escultores.

Estudios en: Danzas, ritmos, cantos y plegarias de los ritmos afro-cubanos, en particular de la tradición yoruba pero también congos y paleros de Cuba.
Danzas, cantos y ritmos del noroeste de Africa con el gruppo "Muntú" Chicago. U.S.A. Danzas balinesas en Bali, Indonesia, por mas de un año. Estudia por 4 años danza "Bharata Natyam" con los maestros Paloumi Pandit, Saroja Mani, Raghunat Manet y otros mas. "El arte del movimiento" con Tapa Sudana de la compañía de Peter Brook Danzas del Mahgreb (específico de Marruecos) con Baania Bandit.

Ritmos de Uganda con la maestra Silvya Nannyonga-Tamusuza

Performances Internacionales: En México, Indonesia Bali (por un año) Jakarta, Singapur y Senegal.  Con el grupo de musica Medioeval de Venecia "Asinaria Festa" en el cual fué la cantante principal por mas de 5 años y se exhibió en Alemania y Taiwan, además de presentarse en toda Italia en colaboración con el CERS (Consorcio Europeo de Evocación Historica). Representando Italia en el Sexto Encuentro Mundial de Arte Coporal con Sonia Biacchi.

Ha colaborado con varios grupos como Leo D'angilla en "Marghera Village" y en la muestra del cine de Venecia.

Grupo senegales Diambolo.
Con el grupo Tamtabanda, dirección artística y bailarina.
Participación en películas y cortometrajes históricos. Película "Casanova" Walt Disney como Bailarina.
Delta Ballet en la Regia de Venaria en Turìn, Italia.

Ha colaborado con la Fundación de Venecia -Giovani a Teatro- con el Laboratorio de Musica Creativa. Ha enseñado danza afro y afrocontemporánea por 8 años en el CTR Centro de Búsqueda Teatral, bajo la dirección de Sonia Biacchi.

Actualmente es la docente de danza para actores en la Escuela Giovanni Poli Teatro a l'Avogaria de Venecia.

Están bajo su dirección y creación los siguientes grupos: "Orunla Iya" afrocontemporáneo , "Le Diásporas" danza y canto afro, "La cumbanchera y los tequileros" - sentimiento mexicano, el proyecto "Fighting dance" bailarines vs musicos. Y el nuevo proyecto "Living the City"  Es la presidenta de la Asociación Cultural Musical "Aye Kin", colabora con el nuevo grupo "Mamafoli" y en la transmisión de radio "Radio Vanessa" - "Vanessa Latina" - como locutora cultural-musical. www.radiovanessa.it

Emmanuele Lo Giudice (Palermo, Italy, 1975) is an Italian architect and artist, has participated in several important exhibitions and festivals of art and architecture in Italy, Switzerland, Venezuela, Germany, Spain and Colombia: FESTARCH Perugia 2011; Hamburg Art Week 2012; Museum Architecture Leopoldo Rother of the National University of Colombia in Bogota, la Casa Velázquez in Madrid, the University of Architecture of Venice IUAV and ARCHIZOOM in Lausanne.

Since the year 2010, Yona Friedman and Emmanuele Lo Giudice have developed some projects, especially analyzing the tubject of the museum and reaching even more radical solutions over other projects by Friedman, considering the following projects: Venice Street Museum 2012; Perugia Street Museum 2011; Venice, 2010 The Museum of Civilization.

Emmanuele Lo Giudice work is multidisciplinary, where architecture, drawing, photography and readymade become instruments for critical analysis of the architecture and the city. His works have been acquired for the important Archivio Progetti IUAV of Venice and some of his books and articles have been published in ABITARE and SKIRA.

The main idea in these projects is that the Earth is over-built, so what is required is not more buildings but learn to creatively manage the space you have. Architecture and urbanism as frameworks for human life and creativity is well understood. Public Museums, low budget, which does not necessarily have to be buildings, but a visual display and a conceptual transformation of this new way to see the space, a museum focused on the content and management of an area not built.