COUP DE DÉS
DEBATES ON ARCHITECTURE: HOUSING AND PUBLIC SPACE

BARCELONA PAVILION
October 22 – 23, 2004

Coup de Dés is intended to be the first of a series of regular events to present and discuss some of the most significant propositions that inform the architecture being built today, as an extension of the research and documentation developed in the framework of the Mies van der Rohe Award. The reference to the text by Stéphane Mallarmé serves as a point of departure. Nothing is pre-established, not even plurality, hybridisation or multiplicity. Today's architectural project is a risk, calculated or not, faced with an unlimited number of possibilities. Acuteness, ingenuity, astuteness or chance are the reference points of a reality that appears as un-disciplined, dis-ordered, un-leashed. Presented by their authors, discussed by other architects and critics, and evaluated by experts from other disciplines, each presentation provides the opportunity to understand a particular work of architecture by bending it in many different directions. For this edition, the aim is to focus on housing and its relationship to public space, a theme that will be developed in parallel within an architectural workshop with an international body of students. Six works will be analysed for two days at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona.

Organized by: Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Ministerio de la Vivienda

Director: Xavier Costa

Collaborators: Anna Pla, Ana Cristina Werring

FRIDAY OCTOBER 22nd

9:15 COUP DE DÉS PRESENTATION
Director: LLUIS HORTET
Coordinator: XAVIER COSTA

9:30 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
moderator: EDUARD BRU

10:00 architect : JOSEP LLINÀS
10:40 critic: XAVIER COSTA
11:00 DEBATE


12:00 – 12:15 COFFE BREAK

12:15 architect : WINY MAAS
12:55 critic: STEFANO BOERI
13:15 DEBATE

14:15– 16:15 LUNCH BREAK

16:15 architect : ABALOS+HERREROS
Forum Barcelona
16:55 critic: SANFORD KWINTER
17:15 DEBATE

18:15 END OF SESSION

SATURDAY OCTOBER 23rd

09:30 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
moderator: JOAN BUSQUETS

10:00 architect: ANNE LACATON
10:40 critic: JOSEP A. ACEBILLO
11:00 DEBATE

12:00 - 12:15 COFFE BREAK

12:15 architect: JOSEP LLUIS MATEO
12:55 critic: MOHSEN MOSTAFAVI
13:15 DEBATE

14:15 – 16:15 LUNCH BREAK

16:15 architect : KAZUYO SEJIMA
16:55 critic: ANDREAS RUBY
18:15 DEBATE

18:15 END OF SESSION