Next March13th, the Cañada Blanch Center at LSE will host a roundtable discussion bringing together architects and professionals from diverse backgrounds to examine how regional traditions, materiality, and community shape architectural practices across all project scales, from a small local school in Nepal to an expansive urban development in Mexico City.
Led by Andrés Rodriguez-Pose, Princesa de Asturias Professor & Professor of Economic Geography, Director of the Cañada Blanch Centre, and Editor of Economic Geography, this conversation will explore how to balance local traditions with modernity and sustainability, using materials that connect the past and the present. The influence of the cultural and social context on design will be discussed, along with the challenges of integrating traditional techniques into a globalized world and how projects of different scales can apply the same principles of local engagement.
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Meet our speakers
Fernando Sordo Madaleno – Principal, Sordo Madaleno.
Magdalena Filipek – Project Architect, ARUP.
Gloria Perez – Unidad de Ensayos Físico-Químicos, Instituto Torroja.
Ricky Burdett – Professor of Urban Studies, Director of LSE Cities and Urban Age, School of Public Policy.
Meet our chair
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose is the Princesa de Asturias Chair and a Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics. He is the Director of the Cañada Blanch Centre LSE. He is a former Head of the Department of Geography and Environment between 2006 and 2009. He is a past-President of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) (2015-2017) and served as Vice-President of the RSAI in 2014. He was also Vice-President (2012-2013) and Secretary (2001-2005) of the European Regional Science Association.
This public event is free and open to all and registration is not required. This event will be a hybrid event, with an in-person audience and an online audience.
The Marshall Building (LSE)
44 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
London WC2A 3LY
United Kingdom
For the online event: this event will be streamed live on Youtube:
Streaming
More about this event
The Cañada Blanch Centre at LSE is the vehicle to achieve the objective of the Fundación Cañada Blanch: developing and reinforcing the links between the United Kingdom and Spain. This is done by means of fostering cutting-edge knowledge generation and joint research projects between researchers in the United Kingdom, and at LSE in particular, on the one hand, and Spain, on the other.