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SUMMARY:Thermodynamics\, Architecture and Beauty
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DESCRIPTION:Iñaki Ábalos\nIñaki Ábalos is a Ph.D. in Architecture (199
 1). Appointed Chair of Department of Architecture GSD Harvard University (
 2012). He is professor in Residence at the Graduate School of Design (GSD)
  (since 2012) and Chaired Professor of Architectural Design at the ETSAM (
 since 2002).  He was Kenzo Tange Professor (2009) and Design Critic in Ar
 chitecture (2010-2012). He is the codirector of Ábalos+Sentkiewicz arquit
 ectos\, and the director of the Laboratorio de Técnicas y Paisajes Contem
 poráneos (LTPC\, since 2002). He has sat on the scientific committee of t
 he Study Center of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal 
 (2005/2011) and was a member of the board of directors of the Barcelona In
 stitute of Architecture (2008-2012). In 2009 the RIBA awarded him its inte
 rnational membership.\nA thermodynamic conception of architecture stresses
  the importance of the air\; it demands to project the air and not just th
 e materials\, forms and iconography. This leads\, to some extent\, to a gr
 owing evanescence of the spatial systems which\, in turn\, leads to new wa
 ys to experience architecture. In fact\, projecting the air gives prominen
 ce to the somatic experience of the subject. In other words\, to the indiv
 idual that moves around and makes his/her own experience of art\, city and
  life\, following impulses that are regulated neither by the reason nor by
  a sort of phenomenological stimuli\, but by a set of instincts\, social a
 nd cultural rules\, and by the will to expand the boundaries of his/her ow
 n experience. This idea can be included in what I like to call the thermod
 ynamic beauty\, close to the Aristotelian idea of a good life.
LOCATION:Forum d’Architectures Lausanne http://www.archi-far.ch/Joom/ind
 ex.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=38&Itemid=60
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