Launch of the fifth edition of the Vertical Workshop magazine

The November 11, at the Museum of Modern Art, the School of Architecture - together with its Laboratory of Architecture and Urbanism (LAU UDA) - launched the fifth edition of the Vertical Workshop and the presentation of the magazine Vertical Workshop 5 '' Equipments and City''.

Francisco Salgado, Rector of the University of Azuay was present at the event; Jacinto Guillén, Vice Chancellor for Research; Genoveva Malo, Dean of the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Art; Rafael Estrella, Subdecano; Santiago Vanegas, Coordinator of the School of Architecture, and Alexis Shulman, Director of the Laboratory of Architecture and Urbanism.

Vertical Workshop magazine has publications by international architects such as Marcelo and Cícero Ferraz from Brazil. His architectural works are based on the social and cultural function that the built heritage must fulfill, the opportunity for spaces and relationships with the environment.

Carlos Bedoya and Víctor Jaime, architects of Mexico, exhibited for their part a work worked from the construction of the urban image through collage, while Marta Pelegrín and Fernando Blanco -from Spain- addressed the equipment in the peripheral city within a territory where urban and agricultural overlap.

Genoveva Malo said that `` the fifth edition of the magazine was published in honor of the 10 years of the School of Architecture. The Architecture career, despite being a School with a short career, has laid solid foundations in research and bonding. ''

For the Dean, each edition of the magazine invites creative solutions to real problems that the city demands. On this occasion the topic of urban equipment that is the space and soul of the city was addressed.

Likewise, Jacinto Guillén, Vice Chancellor for Research, added that `` in the magazine, in addition to international professionals, the best works of the students of the University are shown. ''

Before finalizing the event, Alexis Shulman commented that the UDA has a workshop that bears the same name as the magazine.

In this space of projects and learning, we intend to explore, for a week, an urban-architectural theme of current affairs in Cuenca.

Within the laboratory, students have a teacher who transmits knowledge to develop participatory work.