In the last several years, a crisis of capitalist development has redefined our understanding of cities in terms of international policy making, political constituencies and individual and collective political expressions in the urban realm. Inter Unit 8 has been experimenting with possible new scenarios for this political readjustment at a global scale, departing from its most basic expressions in the city. As a result, students have constructed innovative political arguments by experimenting with the relationship between everyday material activities–such as waiting for a bus, dancing, chatting in the streets, or wheeling and dealing in the city squares–and a particular material organization. In these common everyday practices, students have found the materials from which to reconstruct the political experience in the city. Manifested in public and constructed as a physical material expression, these everyday practices acquire a political value — understanding the political as what Hannah Arendt described as action in public — and redefine new models of the interaction between the individual and the collective in the public arena.

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Tutors


Francisco Gonzalez de Canales
ETSASevilla B.Arch ETSABarcelona Dip. Arch., Harvard GSD (H&T) M.A, ETSASevilla + Harvard GSD PhD.
Francisco Gonzalez de Canales studied architecture at ETSA Seville, ETSA Barcelona and Harvard University, and worked for Foster + Partners and Rafael Moneo before establishing Canales & Lombardero. An active architectural critic, he has previously lectured in England, Mexico, Spain and the USA, collaborated and worked in different architectural publications, and is currently the AACP coordinator. He has recently completed his PhD on the radical domestic self-experimentations of the 1940s and 1950s.


Nuria Alvarez Lombardero
ETSAMadrid B.Arch Dip. Arch., AA (H&U) M.A, ETSASevilla M.Phil.
Nuria Alvarez Lombardero studied architecture at ETSA Madrid and the Housing and Urbanism MA at the AA. She has worked for Machado & Silvetti in Boston, and was part of the editorial board of Neutra magazine. She has co-directed Canales & Lombardero since 2003 and has lectured at the University of Seville and worked as a researcher at Harvard University, the University of Cambridge and the AA. She is currently finalising her PhD on the dissolution of boundaries traced by modern urban planning.
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Design and research work of Intermediate Unit 8 Architectural Association School of Architecture London UK