1to100. GUILLAUME YERSIN in the SAA 3.0

Tomorrow, with the lecture by Guillaume Yersin (also participating: Alberto Alarcon and Anna Nufri), will open the SAA 3.0, the third edition of the Architecture Week Alcalá, with the title: "Pilas Alcalaínas. Rehabilitating Energy Dose City" in ETSAG, the School of Architecture, Alcalá. Yersin Guillaume is an exceptional guest, an active member of "1to100".

NOMAD. Museo Quai Branly. Paris. © 1to100architects. Photo / Thomas Mailaender

1to100 is a newly created architectural collective based in Geneva.

Its members have been active and decisive parts in projects such as the winning participation of Bahrain at the last Venice Biennale - RECLAIM Golden Lion 2010, exhibitions such as The Gulf - OMA-AMO's participation at the Venice Biennale 2006 and publications such as AMO-Rem Koolhaas's Al Manakh in 2007. Parallel to that, they conduce many different operations ranging from architecture, to journalism, until urban design. They have teaching positions at the ETHZ, EPFL and the University of Arts and Design in Geneva.

Its aim is to take position and initiate reflexions upon our contemporary environment.

SAA 3.0

Organization and Coordination.
DELEGACIÓN DE ALUMNOS DAETSA.UAH
Roberto Alia Cuadrado and Fang Yi Chen Chen.

Collaboration
CONSEJO DE ESTUDIANTES CEAUAH
METALOCUS (media partner)
gmtmasarquitectos (graphic design)

Sponsors
ETSAG
Vicerrectorado de Estudiantes
CEUAH
DAETSAUAH

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Jack, Usine Genève. Geneva. © 1to100architects + architectes1024. Photo / LB

RECLAIM. Venice Biennale 2010 © 1to100architects.

RECLAIM. Venice Biennale 2010 © 1to100architects. © Foto: Iwan Baan.

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Guillaume Yersin

Guillaume Yersin (Vevey-CH, 1981), architect and urban designer (Msc.Arch. ETH Zürich, 2009) from Geneva, Switzerland. Guillaume also has a Bachelor in Human Medicine from the University of Geneva (2003).

Is a guest professor at the HEAD (Haute Ecole d'Art et de Design) in Geneva since 2010 and Assistant Professor at the ETH Zürich since 2011.

After working for Lacaton&Vassal in Paris (2006), he took a decisive part in AMO's contribution for the Venice Biennale 2006 (The Gulf) and the following book AL Manakh (2007). He's been working for Prof. Kees Christiaanse at the ETHZ, as an active part of the research branch. Following that, on a grant from ETHZ, he spent 6 months of research in Tokyo. He's currently working on a publication based on a serie of interviews made with the biggest real estate developers in the Japanese capital. He's been developing his work as a architect and urban designer working for Hosoya&Schaefer as well as for HelsinkiZürich Office.

Since 2010, he is member of "1to100architects" in Geneva. With 1to100, he has been an active part of RECLAIM, Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale 2010, and recently completed NOMAD, a temporary public installation in the garden of the Museum Quai Branly in Paris.

He's currently working on a intervention in the city of Biel, Switzerland, together with BASK, from Zürich.

He recently joined the leading team for Christ&Gantenbein's contribution at the next Rotterdam Biennal 2012, Making City.