IN TREATMENT [>2] METALOCUS

Piranesi said after travelling from Rome to Venice and realising how difficult it would be in that period of crisis to mange to build things like those he imagined and saw in the ruins, that since there was no hope for architects of his time to really execute anything similar, he didn’t see for himself, or for any other architect of his era, any other possibility than explaining his ideas by imagining the impossible.

In the past, architects knew what to expect after finishing their degree. In reality, nobody considered other alternatives than what seemed to be a small bunch of unambiguous possibilities, typical and predictable channels of professional development.

Nowadays, it’s clear that the situation has mutated. Things are different, there are multiple channels, and even the ways we practise them are being reinvented. Just recall some of the examples in the first edition published two years ago (For example, the article whose link we have provided at the end: Arquitectos tenderos y ¡a mucha honra!)

Today, more and more, the way we see the reality has been reinvented. Monolithic ideas are viewed in a fractured way and then are constructed again in a new, equally valid reality.

The psychotherapist in the series In Treatment (a story based on the successful Israeli series of the same name), Paul, reconstructs the ideas of his patients from Monday to Thursday, a new reality for his narrators, leaving Friday for he himself to go to therapy with his colleague and friend of many years, Gina. During the sessions we learn about the various characters and the conflicts they confront.

The actors that participate in the first season of INTREATMENT [>2] - METALOCUS, are young architects looking for their own identity every week.

In this second season of INTREATMENT [>2] - METALOCUS project and when we first discussed the idea about a reconstruction of an architectural In Treatment, I remembered how METALOCUS was born of the same interests Fourteen years ago:

the need to explain reality in a different way than we were seeing it being narrated, knowing full well that interpretation was a common cause among the architects of that generation.

IN TREATMENT [>2] – METALOCUS will be the sofa where a series of architects will talk about reality kaleidoscopically, their reality. Using Yi Fu Tuan’s definition of place, they will build a place for contemporary architecture relating what they think about this reality, in this reality and with this reality. What links all the guests together is that they are architects far from the city where they studied, and the majority are even far from the country where they thought they would be professionally based.

Faraway from their city, from a reality that doesn’t exist, building a reality around a void. INTREATMENT [>2] - METALOCUS Thank you to the participants and thank you especially to the readers. Enjoy!

The architects of the second season:

JAVIER SANCHO
FRANCISCO PELAEZ
MICHAEL MORADIELLOS
MELISSA SCHUMACHER
VERÓNICA ROSERO
AINHOA MARTÍN

... and more if you send us contributions during the 2nd edition that are interesting. It is a vote to invite everyone to participate!

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JOSÉ JUAN BARBA

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.

Published on: January 10, 2013

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