Made in the UPM, 2. [Book presentation] URBAN CONDENSERS updating heritage areas: Madrid & Ahmedabad

In 2019 two siamese workshops were organized by aula coopera [Spain/in/India]. Under the same research topic Urban Condensers. Updating heritage areas, these took place in two different cities: Madrid and Ahmedabad. two countries in two continents. With the participation of 14 profes-sors, 8 conferences, previous trips visiting paradigmatic architectures, walking through the intervention sites in contact with their inhabitants; 50 students of various levels and seven nationalities produced different proposals for the re-activation of public space in both cities in 17 working groups. But the most fascinating of all were the immense experiences lived in situ together …

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Authors: Franca Alexandra Sonntag (Postdoctoral Fellow, Lecturer, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT - Margarita Salas Postdoc Programm, ETS Arquitectura de Madrid, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, UPM) & Ricardo Montoro Coso (Profesor asociado, DPA, ETS Arquitectura de Madrid, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, UPM, Project leader, GC cooperACTioning [spaINdia], DPA ETSAM,,UPM). Guest speakers: Krishna Handa (Philanthropist, Founder Brihati Foundation, Ahmedabad, India) & Javier Morán Uriel (Student, Workshop Urban Condensers [Ahmedabad], ETS Arquitectura de Madrid, UPM)

Sponsors: RCCHU; UPM Delegation of North America; UPMpress; ETSAM, MIT.