On Thursday, 14 February 2013, the ESARQ School of Architecture inaugurated the exhibition «Granada, Roma, Santiago. Un viatge inacabat» at the centre of the association Fostering Art and Design (FAD). A roundtable discussion was held in which students, architects and professors participated, including Juan Domingo Santos, Carlos Quintáns, Elena Rocchi and Joan Vitòria.
The exhibition is part of the FAD Incubator series and showcases the work of a group of architectural students on an initiatory journey to three mythical and universal cities.
During the event, students and professors exchanged knowledge and experiences. Travelling to places of the past has been a constant for artists and architects throughout history. Just as the humanists of the Renaissance travelled to the classical world in search of inspiration for their creations as an exercise in learning from great works, the students doing Projects 5 at the UIC ESARQ School of Architecture, accompanied and guided by their professors, took a trip to measure, register and interpret the extraordinary architectural works found in the Alhambra in Granada, Villa Adriana in Rome and the Cathedral in Santiago de Compostela.
Using field books, drawings and sketches, the students collected elements of interest to take back to the course workshop in order to create their own projects. The proposals that came out of this academic activity, curated by the architects Diane Gray and Joan Vitòria, make up the content of an evocative exhibition on display in the FAD’s Crypt exhibition space until 27 February.
