Laura Sánchez Carrasco & Íñigo Cobeta: What Space Builds | Architecture Lecture
Join us for a lecture with UPM Professors of Practice Laura Sánchez Carrasco and Íñigo Cobeta. In 2020, after working for years in a highly demanding professional and academic context, they started a small project on a wasteland within a public high school and experienced a different way of exercising architecture. In this lecture they ask, “Can the re-creation of inherited forms that evoke civic behavior hand some civic sense back to us?” They propose that question as a working principle: We build space, and space, in turn, can build us back.
About the Speakers
Laura Sánchez Carrasco is an architect and associate professor at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, UPM, where she has taught since 2018. She holds a degree in architecture (2007), a master’s in analysis, theory, and history of architecture (2014), and a PhD cum laude (2017), all from UPM. Her research addresses postwar North American architecture and its connections with Spanish architecture, combining architectural history with digital methods of historiographic analysis. She is currently part of the research project “Conexiones de la arquitectura española con las Américas (1976–2006)” and has previously collaborated with MIT on the project “Mapping Global Architectural Histories on Modernism”. Alongside her academic career, she practiced architecture professionally for nearly 20 years, both running her own studio and working within established firms, where she led competition-winning projects from design through construction.
Íñigo Cobeta is a researcher and associate professor in the Department of Architectural Composition at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM), where he has taught since 2006. He has collaborated with specialized international publications such as ArquitecturaCOAM or RITA. He has also acted as an independent national curator (Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo 2006). For 20 years he worked as an architect, collaborating with MoneoBrockStudio on the Termas de Tiberio in the Panticosa Spa and developing his own practice. In 2019, the bicentennial of the Museo Nacional del Prado, he was invited to lecture on some of the conclusions of his thesis, The Prado, from Territory to Stage, directed by Rafael Moneo. He is currently part of the research project “Conexiones de la arquitectura española con las Américas (1976–2006)”. Since 2020, he has focused on teaching, research, and developing experimental projects on public schools.
This lecture is part of the Department of Architecture’s fall lecture series.
Bauer Wurster Auditorium is wheelchair accessible. If you require accommodations to fully participate in this event, please contact arch-events@berkeley.edu.