Thursday, May 29th, 2014 . . NYC

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Social Housing in Spain THURSDAY, MAY 29, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM — Register At the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place [Directions]

Speakers: Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, 2014 President, AIANY; Rick Bell, FAIA, Executive Director, AIANY; Fernando Villa, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Co-chair, AIANY Housing Committee Carmen Espegel, Partner, espegel- fisac arquitectos Iñaqui Carnicero, Associate Professor of Design, School of Architecture, Polytechnic University of Madrid Maria Hurtado de Mendoza, Co-founder, estudio entresitio Moderator: David Burney, FAIA, Associate Professor of Planning and Placemaking, Pratt Institute School of Architecture Organized by: AIANY Housing Committee Co-Sponsored by: AIANY Women in Architecture Committee Sponsored by: Spain Arts & Culture and Spain Culture New York AIA CES: 1.5 LU Price: Free for AIA members; $10 for non-members Register

This event is intended to be the first of a series of international programs by the AIANY Housing Committee, highlighting exemplary housing design around the world. For the first program of the series, we have invited three leading architects from Spain who are currently teaching in the tri-state area. The panelists will present and comment upon innovative projects that follow the country’s strong social commitment to housing. The first decade of the XXI century was a landmark of quality and diversity in social housing in Spain. During those years, Spain built more collective housing than the production of England, France, and Germany combined. Approximately 4 million of units were built between 2000 and 2008. The municipal housing companies promoted, by means of open design competitions, a large number of significant works that championed research to new ways of living, hybrid typologies, construction systems linked to prefabrication and industrialization methods, and towards finding new explorations of shared space for new communities. The right to housing is guaranteed by the Spanish Constitution. Publicly protected housing in Spain represents a peculiarity compared to social housing models in other EU countries, in that it is housing provided almost entirely for owner-occupation. Reception: 6:00PM - 6:30 PM with musical performance by the group Racalmuto, courtesy of the Consulate of Spain NYC