Roger Paez – Actar Publishers

Authors/roger paez

Roger Paez is an architect, professor and researcher – Architect (ETSAB 1998, Hons.), MS AAD (Columbia University 2000, Honor Award for Excellence in Design), PhD (UPC 2015, Cum Laude). Following professional experience in the studios of Alison+Peter Smithson and Enric Miralles, he founded A i B estudi d’arquitectes (www.aib.cat). He is a professor of Architectural Design at ETSALS, a research leader and director of MEATS at ELISAVA (www.elisava.net | meats.elisava.net), and a guest professor and lecturer at universities worldwide.

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Operative Mapping

Roger PaezThe book’s fundamental aim is to offer a methodological contribution to the design disciplines, both in conceptual and instrumental terms.

Maps as Design Tools Roger Paez The book's fundamental aim is to offer a methodological contribution to the design disciplines, both in conceptual and instrumental terms. When added to the resources of contemporary design, operative mapping overcomes the analytical and strictly instrumental approaches of maps, opening up the possibility of working both pragmatically and critically by acknowledging the need for an effective transformation of the milieu based on an understanding of pre-existing conditions. The approach is pragmatic, not only discussing the present but, above all, generating a toolbox to help expand on the objectives, methodologies and formats of design in the immediate future. The book joins together a review of the theoretical body of work on mapping from the social sciences with case studies from the past 30 years in architecture, planning, and landscape design in the interest of linking past practices with future ones.

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Critical Prison Design

Roger PaezThe newly built Mas d’Enric penitentiary sparks a series of reflections on architecture’s role in the problematic subject of prison design.

Mas d’Enric Penitentiary by AiB arquitectes + Estudi PSP Arquitectura Roger Paez The newly built Mas d’Enric penitentiary sparks a series of reflections on architecture’s role in the problematic subject of prison design. The prison is an uncomfortable institution and its architecture is often subjugated to technocratic criteria. This servility forces the prison out of the socio-cultural realm where it belongs, thus erasing it from public discourse. “Mas d’Enric” is a new penitentiary that overturns preconceptions and posits architecture as a medium to critically rethink contemporary prison buildings. The discussion is enriched by contributions from a number of influential architects and architectural theorists, and is complemented by original work in film, photography, literature, sculpture and visual arts. Catalan edition

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Presó i Projecte

Roger PaezThe newly built Mas d’Enric penitentiary sparks a series of reflections on architecture’s role in the problematic subject of prison design.

Centre Penitenciari Mas d'Enric: AiB arquitectes + Estudi PSP Arquitectura Roger Paez The newly built Mas d’Enric penitentiary sparks a series of reflections on architecture’s role in the problematic subject of prison design. The prison is an uncomfortable institution and its architecture is often subjugated to technocratic criteria. This servility forces the prison out of the socio-cultural realm where it belongs, thus erasing it from public discourse. “Mas d’Enric” is a new penitentiary that overturns preconceptions and posits architecture as a medium to critically rethink contemporary prison buildings. The discussion is enriched by contributions from a number of influential architects and architectural theorists, and is complemented by original work in film, photography, literature, sculpture and visual arts. English edition

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Uncharted

Juan Elvira, David Goodman, Pablo Oriol, Roger Paez, Fernando Rodríguez, Lina ToroThe book has a two-fold objective: to explore new avenues of thought in design teaching, and to do so through research that deals with new architectural landscapes that are linked to tourism.

The New Landscape of Tourism Juan Elvira, David Goodman, Pablo Oriol, Roger Paez, Fernando Rodríguez, Lina Toro An IE University Undergraduate School academic experiment emphasizing the importance of architectural design strategies in the process of reformulating the tourist offering within the framework of an open debate about new models for development. The book has a two-fold objective: to explore new avenues of thought in design teaching, and to do so through research that deals with new architectural landscapes that are linked to tourism. Publishing the Undergraduate Final Projects from IE University’s Undergraduate Architecture program responds to the desire to highlight the importance of design strategies in the process of reformulating the tourist offering within the framework of an open debate about new models for development. The infrastructural nature of architectural design imbues the architect’s creative capacity with the healthy ambition of transforming the territory into new landscapes for touristic opportunities. See Preview on issuu

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