ISLAND: light, architecture and design

'Light and architecture: air', held on 8 July at the Roca Madrid Gallery is the first lecture of ISLAND, a series of three sessions that will talk about light and its role as a generator of the XXI century architecture as part of the 'Cátedra Luz y Arquitectura' directed by Jose Luis Esteban Penelas.

Metacity of Light, China, by José Luis Penelas and AIR LAB UEM Research Group.

ISLAND is a lecture series moderated by José Luis Esteban Penelas and organized by Universidad Europea and Philips, in collaboration with Roca, focused on light, architecture and new design, as part of the International Light Year, designated by the UN for this year 2015.

ISLAND is presented as a series of debates that pretends to think about light as generator of architecture in the twenty-first century and seeks to establish a criticism of its position in the present city.

It is divided into three sessions - Air, Future and Dreaming - in which proposals will provide "a new understanding of architecture generated by the liquid mutability of today's cities, it will be set a critical reflection about the future of architectures produced in super modern globalized cities, where light is one of its strongest generators."

This action is part of the 'Cátedra Luz y Arquitectura', announced last January. The Cátedra was born in order to generate knowledge and future proposals in the field of innovation applied to the world of lighting. It also aims to establish links of cooperation and dissemination activities based on the importance of light in the generation of indoor and outdoor environments that improve the quality of people's life.

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Lectures.- Air, Future and Dreaming.
Venue.- Roca Madrid Gallery, 57 José Abascal Street, 28003 Madrid.

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José Luis ESTEBAN PENELAS

José Luís Esteban Penelas is an architect and urbanist (Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, ETSAM1985, UPM). Dr. Architect and Professor of Architectural Projects (UEM). He founded in 1986 his office of Architecture and Urbanism PENELAS ARCHITECTS.

He is Professor of Architectural Projects (School of Architecture, UEM), where he has been a professor since 1999; he has been a professor at ETSAM (1987-2001) and is a visiting professor and lecturer at numerous universities and national and international institutions.

He has done extensive work on projects and works in the field of building, urban planning and urban design. Between its production has developed, among others: Park Juan Carlos I, Madrid; Plaza of the Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid; Design of the Green Railway Corridor (Madrid); Urban remodeling of the district of Lavapiés Madrid; Remodeling of the Paseo de la Castellana Madrid Phase 1; Museum and Stove of the Park Juan Carlos I Madrid; Nine bridges, Madrid; New Park of Pradolongo, Madrid; Centro de Mayores, Madrid; Master Plan for the new city of Saemangeum, South Korea (5 million inhabitants); Park-Cemetery, Quito (Ecuador); Office tower, Costa Rica; Towers of houses and hotel (Ecuador); 8 bridges in Shanghai, China.

He has been linked to China since 2002, professionally and educationally, where he currently develops various projects, such as various bridges in Shanghai, or the computer city "MetaLight City". He has been a guest lecturer and lecturer at Tongji University (Shanghai), Tsing Hua (Beiging), Shenzhen, Guili. He was a guest curator at the Shenzhen Biennial - Hong Kong (2013-14) and at the Shanghai Biennale (2015), where he has exhibited his projects, works and theories.