Resumen de La experiencia del ilaud y la "escuela de barcelona
ILAUD (International Laboratory of Urban Design) is an international research laboratory organized since 1974 by Giancarlo De Carlo at the University of Urbino with the aim to create an international network on the processes of the contemporary architectural and urban project research.
The School of Architecture of Barcelona has been one of the partners that have participated in the activities since the foundation of ILAUD. Through ILAUD passed, professors and students, who, over the years, have become some of the main protagonists of the urban transformation of the city of Barcelona.
This work deepens in the knowledge of these relations and the influence that the thought and the methods of project, developed in the ILAUD, could have had in the processes of urban transformation of Barcelona from half of the seventies until the beginning of the nineties. The study of documents and bibliography, and the direct testimony of some of the protagonists, allow us to reconstruct these relationships. A balance is established between what the experience of the Barcelona School has led within ILAUD and what it has left behind in the formation of the culture of the architectural and urban project in Barcelona. The thesis is centered between 1976 and 1992, period between the first edition of the ILAUD and the year of the Barcelona Olympics. The knowledge of the material contributed in the thesis allows to have a sufficient information to understand the direct and reciprocal relationships without pretending to elaborate final conclusions neither categorical on this subject.
The thesis is structured in the following chapters: Cap 01 – ILAUD The necessary knowledge is synthesized to understand what ILAUD is, the reasons and antecedents of its birth, who have been its promoters, the universities involved and the topics treated in the different activities that were developed under this name.
Cap 02 - Teachers and students who have participated in ILAUD Of the 60 students who have participated in ILAUD since the first years, 41 are professors of the ETSAB or in the ETSAV. A reconstruction of the professors and students of Barcelona that participated in the ILAUD allows us to understand how this International Laboratory has been a condenser of the best academic and professional energies that took part in the transformation of Barcelona.
Cap 03 - The transformation of Barcelona after Franco This chapter tries to focus on some issues that have accompanied the process of transformation of the city and that have a parallel with the themes developed in ILAUD without trying to add more knowledge on a subject widely developed and studied, Cap 04 - The School of Barcelona in ILAUD A selection of the works developed by the group of professors and students of Barcelona in ILAUD is presented.
Cap 05 – Interviews It is an important part of the thesis with the direct voice of some of the protagonists of this relationship between ILAUD and the transformation of the city of Barcelona.
Cap 06 - Enric Miralles and the ILAUD A specific chapter of the thesis is dedicated to the strict relationship between the work and the thought of Enric Miralles and the themes that were developed within ILAUD. Some protagonists of ILAUD in primis P. Smithson became constant reference points in the work of Enric Miralles, who participated in ILAUD as a student in 1977 in Urbino and returned as a teacher in 1983 in Siena.
Cap09 - Bibliography
