Category: CITIES CONNECTION

After being staged in Brussels at ULB – Faculty of Architecture La Cambre-Horta last October 2018 and Barcelona at Arts Santa Mònica last April 2019, the exhibition _IMPORT WB_EXPORT BCN RE-ACTIVATE THE CITY continues its itinerancy at Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya (COAC) in Tarragona. 

The exhibition, curated by Nicola Regusci and Xavier Bustos in collaboration with Wallonie-Bruxelles Architectures, will be on display from the 19th of September until 14th November. 

 19th September 2019

Opening conference, 7.30pm, Sala d’Exposicions de la Demarcació de Tarragona:  Lecture led by A229 (Import Wallonie-Bruxelles) + Taller 9s (Oriol Cusidó + Irene Marzo) (Export Bcn). The opening speech will be given by Xavier Bustos and Nicola Regusci (Cities Connection Project), curators of the exhibition.

17th October 2019

Intermediate conference, 7.30pm Sala d’Exposicions de la Demarcació de Tarragona:  Lecture led by AGWA architects (Import Wallonie-Bruxelles) + GATPA (Alex Gallego + Jordi Adell + Gerard Puig + David Tapias) (Export Bcn).

The “Import WB_Export BCN. Re-Activate The City” exhibition in Barcelona ended this week, marking the closing of this edition of the Cities Connection Project. We’d like to thank everyone involved in the project and everyone who attended the exhibitions!

The project starts with the connection between Barcelona and other cities in Europe by means of a double exhibition of architecture, which serves as a meeting place to ​​share knowledge, discuss the different city proposals and understand the architectural culture of each territory.

This fifth edition, which connects Barcelona with Wallonia-Brussels, works on the idea of ​​reactivating projects in the city, and examining the architecture of public facilities (cultural, educational, mixed use, public spaces…) with special emphasis on the improvement of social cohesion of the city, particularly in areas with a certain level of urban degradation.

Photos by J. Van Belle & Jordi Play.

From the 4th to the 23rd of April 2019, there will be an exhibition with plans, photos and models of the 40 projects to re-activate the city (20 from Barcelona + 20 from Wallonia-Brussels) at Arts Santa Mònica in Barcelona. The opening event of the exhibition will take place on the 4th of April 2019.

4th of April

Opening conference, 19h, Auditorium Santa Mònica: Lecture led by Ferran Grau (Dipl. Arch, PhD. Department of Architectural Design ETSAB) and Audrey Contesse (Art historian, architect, critic and curator) who contextualized the selection of the 40 projects of the exhibition. Opening of the exhibition, 20h, First floor (level 1) and Sala Balcó.

5th of April

Round table, 17h, Fundació Mies van der Rohe: Roundtable between Catalan and Belgian architects, moderated by Ferran Grau and Audrey Contesse (authors of the critical texts of the Cities Connection Project catalog) on the projects and the urban, political and social context with which each study has worked. At 19h, once the debate is over, there will be music and drinks. See the event.

9th of April

Conference, 19h, Auditorium Santa Mònica: Lecture by the authors of two projects exposed in exhibition Import Wallonie-Bruxelles / Export Barcelona. RE-activate the city: Centro Cívico Baró de Viver by Territori 24; Guinardó Facilities Building by Bayona-Valero / Cantallops-Vicente. More information here.

The project starts with the connection between Barcelona and other cities in Europe by means of a double exhibition of architecture, which serves as a meeting place to ​​share knowledge, discuss the different city proposals and understand the architectural culture of each territory.

This fifth edition, which connects Barcelona with Wallonia-Brussels, works on the idea of ​​reactivating projects in the city, and examining the architecture of public facilities (cultural, educational, mixed use, public spaces…) with special emphasis on the improvement of social cohesion of the city, particularly in areas with a certain level of urban degradation.

On 18th October 2018 Nicola Regusci and Xavier Bustos opened the fifth edition of Cities Connection Project that took place in Brussels at the ULB – Faculty of Architecture La Cambre-Horta in collaboration with Wallonie-Bruxelles Architectures.

The first part of the CCP double exhibition focuses on the re-use of existing spaces, mixed uses and reconstruction, beginning in Wallonia-Brussels, the second part will be in Barcelona in 2019.

The presentation of the 40 projects, all of which have been carried out in the last 10 years, serve to examine the architecture of public facilities, with special emphasis on the improvement of social cohesion in areas with a certain level of urban degradation.

Photos by Jérôme Van Belle – Wallonie-Bruxelles International.

Last September 21st Daniel Kurz ( WERK editor-in-chief) and Nicola Regusci and Xavier Bustos (Curators) opened the exhibition Import ZURICH_cooperative housing in COAC, Tarragona.

photos by: Jesús Arenas and CCP

Last September 11th Antonio Hodgers (conseiller d’Etat) and Nicola Regusci and Xavier Bustos (Curators) opened the Quinzaine de l’Urbanisme 2017 and the exhibition Open Space Connection in Pavillion SICLI, Geneva.

photos by: CCP

Last May 4th Bruno Ryff (Cónsul General de Suiza en Barcelona) and Nicola Regusci, Xavier Bustos, Monique Keller, Anna Hohler (Curators) opened the exhibition Open Space Connection in  Jardí Botànic, Barcelona.

Swiss architects made guided tours in some public spaces around the city and were able to discuss with their Barcelona colleagues in a debate organized by Mies van der Rohe Foundation in the Pavilion on May 5th.

Photos by: Dmitry Stepanov

Last September 24th Andrea Bassi (BASSICARELLA ARCHITECTES) made the opening lecture for the exhibition Import GENEVA in I2A Villa Saroli, Lugano. After the lecture, many architects from Ticino and Geneva enjoyed an amazing archiparty with music by dj tanreb (Barcelona) and closing cocktail by GINRAW.

photos by: Dmitry Stepanov