If you weren't able to attend the book launch of 'Invenciones: Nueva York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi' last month in Madrid, you now have the chance to attend the second launch of José Juan Barba's latest book which will be held in Barcelona on 1st July at 7:00pm at COAC (Plaça Nova nº5, Barcelona).

Once again, we are very glad to invite you all to the second launch in Barcelona of the book 'Invenciones: Nueva York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi' by José Juan Barba. The author will be accompanied by Enric Massip-Bosch, architect founder of EMBA and Professor at UPC BarcelonaTECH and Iñaki Alday, architect and co-founder of Aldayjover arquitectura y paisaje and Chair of the University of Virginia Architecture Departament. The event will be directed by Lluís Comerón, architect and Dean of COAC.

This presentation is also in a way a token of gratitude to the city of Barcelona for the important role it played in the thesis research process.

'Inventions' was the title of an exhibition held in Hannover in 1981 which gathered together graphic work by different architects  around the work of G.B. Piranesi. The drawings displayed here were not intended to reflect the pre-construction phase but to establish a metalinguistic discourse.

In this event, we will go deeply into José Juan Barba's essay to explain how it seeks to identify, just like the 1981 exhibition did, a non-textual narrative able to suggest new points of view for architecture in a moment of crisis.

Dates.- The launch will take place on Wednesday 1st July at 7:00pm.
Venue.- at COAC, Architecture Association of Catalonia (Plaça Nova 5, Barcelona).

The first launch of the book took place on Wednesday, May 6 at CSIC Scientific Bookshop in Madrid and was presented by historian Francisco Javier Gómez Espelosín, architect Pilar Chías and architect Luis Fernández-Galiano, who introduces the book with a preface entitled "Black Brains".

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Title.- Invenciones: Nueva York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi.
Author.- José Juan Barba.
Number of pages.- 368 pages.
Format.- Paperback. 17x24 cm.
Publisher.- Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.
Language.- Spanish.
ISBN.- 9788416133444.

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José Juan Barba (1964) architect from ETSA Madrid in 1991. Special Mention in the National Finishing University Education Awards 1991. PhD in Architecture ETSAM, 2004. He founded his professional practice in Madrid in 1992 (www.josejuanbarba.com). He has been an architecture critic and editor-in-chief of METALOCUS magazine since 1999, and he advised different NGOs until 1997. He has been a lecturer (in Design, Theory and Criticism, and Urban planning) and guest lecturer at different national and international universities (Roma TRE, Polytechnic Milan, ETSA Madrid, ETSA Barcelona, UNAM Mexico, Univ. Iberoamericana Mexico, University of Thessaly Volos, FA de Montevideo, Washington, Medellin, IE School, U.Alicante, Univ. Europea Madrid, UCJC Madrid, ESARQ-U.I.C. Barcelona,...).

Maître de Conférences IUG-UPMF Grenoble 2013-14. Full assistant Professor, since 2003 up to now at the University of Alcalá School of Architecture, Madrid, Spain. And Jury in competitions as Quaderns editorial magazine (2011), Mies van der Rohe Awards, (2010-2024), Europan13 (2015). He has been invited to participate in the Biennale di Venezia 2016 as part "Spaces of Exception / Spazi d'Eccezione".

He has published several books, the last in 2016, "#positions" and in 2015 "Inventions: New York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi " and collaborations on "Spaces of Exception / Spazi d'Eccezione", "La Mansana de la discordia" (2015), "Arquitectura Contemporánea de Japón: Nuevos territorios" (2015)...

Awards.-

- Award. RENOVATION OF SEGURA RIVER ENVIRONMENT, Murcia, Sapin, 2010.
- First Prize, RENOVATION GRAN VÍA, “Delirious Gran Vía”, Madrid, Spain, 2010.
- First Prize, “PANAYIOTI MIXELI Award”. SADAS-PEA, for the Spreading of Knowledge of Architecture Athens, 2005.
- First Prize, “SANTIAGO AMÓN Award," for the Spreading of Knowledge of Architecture. 2000.
- Award, “PIERRE VAGO Award." ICAC -International Committee of Art Critics. London, 2005.
- First Prize, C.O.A.M. Madrid, 2000. Shortlisted, World Architecture Festival. Centro de Investigación e Interpretación de los Ríos. Tera, Esla y Orbigo, Barcelona, 2008.
- First Prize. FAD AWARD 07 Ephemeral Interventions. “M.C.ESCHER”. Arquin-Fad. Barcelona, Sapin 2007.

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Published on: June 23, 2015
Cite: "Launch of 'Invenciones' by José Juan Barba, in Barcelona" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/launch-invenciones-jose-juan-barba-barcelona> ISSN 1139-6415
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