Postgraduate accredited by the Universidad Politécnica de Barcelona (UPC).
From February 3rd, 2015 to July 2nd, 2015. Price €3500.
The postgraduate, dedicated to the deep learning of the work by Enric Miralles, is structured from the complex cosmos that surrounds his creative ability. Miralles is not an architect analyzable from linear structures, but rather he is organized in twists and turns where the before and after do not exist and everything is mixed to achieve a result that is not such. From this point of view, giving a postgraduate about the work of the architect requires a number of parallel tasks in which the teachers will offer some clues and where the students will continue in the ways they chose. All this will be shared in the classroom without any prior academic order and presupposes the opening of roads more than the effectiveness of the forms, something that Miralles defended under the motto he learned from the Italian Mannerism: run away from the mimesis. Therefore, the planned programs are likely to be extended or contracted as buildings, ideologies, imaginary and texts permit to advance in the knowledge of an intellectual universe that stretches through the slides, drawings, notes, photographs, journeys… content between the walls of the Enric Miralles Foundation – EMBT studio.
From there, let’s advance through successive beginnings.
Again and again, as if each were the final…
Enric Miralles, 1987
Therefore, the course will try to place Enric Miralles in an erratic, changeable and multidirectional center of the cultural history in which architecture would be its most important component. For example, when Miralles refers to the Smithsons, a student enrolled in the course should never think about issues of mimesis but about the presentation of an affinities’ universe that the architect dominated through the looking, thinking and working. Offering the student the deep knowledge of these worlds is indispensable to avoid thinking in operative terms. The development of these issues will build a corpus of references needed to reconstruct the changing and always provisional constellations that surround the work of Miralles. Calling some of them will be part of the competency that the students will achieve after making their final research work.
