NEW GENERATIONS. RAMIRO LOSADA
02/10/2012.
Ramiro Losada Interview. [VIDEO]. By Itinerant Office
metalocus, CARMEN RUIZ
metalocus, CARMEN RUIZ
We continue with the interviews conducted by Itinerant Office in his project "New Generations". It's turn Ramiro Losada, a Spanish architect based in Madrid and Caceres whose work focuses on audio-visual production.
Waist trick. Madrid 2007 Contest. Ramiro Losada and Jesús Navarro. Image courtesy of Ramiro Losada.
Midnight Passage. Madrid 2011 Contest. Ramiro Losada and LUX arquitectos. Image courtesy of Ramiro Losada.
Urban Growth. Retiro South Regeneration. Ramiro Losada PFC 2006. Madrid. Image © Ramiro Losada.
Urban Growth. Retiro South Regeneration. Ramiro Losada PFC 2006. Madrid. Image © Ramiro Losada.
Urban Growth. Retiro South Regeneration. Ramiro Losada PFC 2006. Madrid. Image © Ramiro Losada.
Urban Growth. Retiro South Regeneration. Ramiro Losada PFC 2006. Madrid. Image © Ramiro Losada.
Ramiro losada is an architect and director of a "Platform of architectural operations" based on three sections: architecture, audio-visual (related with culture and architecture) and education.
He has been working for other offices in London and Rotterdam but then he dedicated to start his own activity. When he started in 2006, his study was working in collaboration with a dutch office. He started with some small competitions, reforms and education and we induced the audio visual production as something important for the office.
In Madrid we based our office in Studio Banana. It is a multidisciplinary platform with different professionals.Together with other people with many interests in common we decided to start architectural and audio visual projects. Two years later, in 2008, we founded "Studio Banana Television" with 5 partners. We produce audio visual documents for cultural events.The 5 partners have differents backgrounds: architects, informatics, video -makers..and depending by the project, the team can be bigger or smaller.
Studio Banana was founded in 2006 by Ali Ganjavian and Key Kawamura and is a multidisciplinary studio in which people with different education work together. We always try to get the best of every disciplinary and apply it to your field of work. Sometimes it is architecture, other is audio visual or education.Always around architecture but not always intended as building construction. One of the best thing of Studio Banana consist in the posibility to start new projects.Everybody of us is a professional that work independently or in group, depending by the commission.
Sometimes ago, together with other people we decided to found "Studio Banana Cultural". It is a platform that provides a space to show your work, organize debates, improving the cultural diary of Madrid. We decided to document those activities , and this was the beginning of "Studio Banana Television", It started as a small activity and we are now a company. The most interesting thing is that you can meet with different people that help to start new ideas.
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RAMIRO LOSADA
Ramiro Losada Amor was born in Madrid and is a Building Engineer, Architect and Master Architectural Design, Theory and Methods of projects (ETSAM) with honours. Following his scholarship studies at the University Lombart Lambert (Belgium), he moved on to work experience in the field of Design, Architecture, and Urbanism in Madrid (Rueda Pizarro Architects), London (Alejandro Zaera, FOA) and Rotterdam (Mecanoo Architecten).
Currently he is researching for PhD at ESTAM, titled “Documentary Film Architecture: Construction of the Contemporary Non-fiction for XXI century Architecture”.
In 2007 he founded Ramiro Losada Architects based in Madrid and Caceres, and has 3 areas of focus: Experimental architecture, with award such as Winner of Interior Architecture award with Iniciarte-ARCO. Saloni Architecture Awards.
Since 2007 he is Professor of Architectural Design at UEM-Architecture Madrid. He was vising Professor at Technische Universität Braunschweig and Architecture Design Sciences Artesis, Antwerp. He has audiovisual documentation about Architecture including several interviews with architects international prestige such as Herzog de Meuron, Toyo Ito or Mansilla Tuñon o audiovisual documentation of buildings such as Canal Theater (Navarro Baldeweg), Benidorm beach promenade (Carlos Ferrater) or Spanish Pavillion for Expo Shaghai 2010(EMBT). He is founder partner of Studio Banana TV and Studio Banana Asociación Cultural.
