Metropolis Master in Architecture and Urban Culture

The Contemporary Landscape of Infrastructure, co-authored by Metropolis guest professor Kelly Shannon, who will be teaching the Water Urbanism seminar this spring. Read more at the Metropolis blog: http://bit.ly/13xmtZL

The Metropolis Master in Architecture and Urban Culture program is held at the CCCB, the Contemporary Culture Centre, in the heart of Barcelona.

Metropolis is held at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona

A video of Andrés Jaque’s "Ikea Disobedients", part of the collection at New Yorks’ MoMA, on the Metropolis blog: http://bit.ly/YMiKPj Jaque will be leading this year’s Metropolis Master Class: “Urban Assemblages”.

We are currently receiving applications for the 2013-14 edition of the Metropolis Master in Architecture and Urban Culture program. If you would like to apply, please visit http://metropolis-bcn.org/general-information/admission.html or write us an email to [email protected]

Under the premise that land speculation is the primary motive for city-building today, not need; students in last year’s LandSpec seminar where asked to analyze a “speculative” building type commonly found in a city of their choice, drawing upon three examples to illustrate the typological principles they embodied. Read more at the Metropolis blog: http://bit.ly/14a8c4L

Stunning photographs from the 2012 Critical Images seminar led by Diego Ferrari: "We are Water" http://bit.ly/Zgf6Oo at the Metropolis blog.

You can browse "The Architectural Voice: Urban Gluts", a collaborative newspaper edited for the 2012 Metropolis Public Space Workshop on the Metropolis blog: http://bit.ly/YkjY79

Metropolis faculty member and co-director, Suzanne Strum, has been featured in “In Context” section of online architecture zine MAS Context http://bit.ly/WeRtLc The section features guest curators who browse the archives of MAS Context, uncovering new relationships between articles and establishing new topics

An exhibition presenting the work of the Aga Khan Historic Cities Program (AKHCP) will be opening at Barcelona’s Casa Asia, this Wednesday, February 6: http://bit.ly/11llkU1 Via Ibai Rigby, coordinator a the AKHCP and Metropolis Master in Architecture and Urban Culture alumnus

Metropolis alumnus Tilemachos Andrianopoulos (‘06) and his young office Tense Architecture Network selected as part of the Greek entries for the 2013 EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award for their spectacular residence in Sikamino, Greece: http://bit.ly/VWVi3q

The 2013 Metropolis Public Space Workshop, directed by Kathrin Golda-Pongratz and David Bravo: http://bit.ly/WwskXv

Information regarding the 2013 edition of the Metropolis Master in Architecture and Urban Culture program is now available at the Metropolis blog: http://bit.ly/WbtqXq