The City That Never Was

A 21st Century Grand Tour | A photographic series by Ricardo Espinosa. (image via archleague.org

The Architectural League of New York invites you to "The City That Never Was," a one-day symposium that will use the situation in Spain as a point of departure for challenging the increasingly generic strategies upon which contemporary urban planning and design rely in both established and emerging economies. The event will be organized through four primary themes related to the City That Never Was phenomenon— infrastructure, waste, landscape, and instant urbanism — in order to explore new possibilities for how future formats of urbanization can be conceived, financed, planned, deployed and inhabited. Speakers will include: Dominique Alba, director of the Atelier Parisien d’Urbanisme (APUR) in Paris. Enric Batlle, co-director of multi-disciplinary design studio Batlle i Roig Arquitectes in Barcelona. Rania Ghosn, assistant professor of architecture at the University of Michigan. Willie van den Broek, program manager of Metropolitan Food Security in the Netherlands. Daniel Zarza, professor of urban planning at Universidad de Alcalá, in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid. Chris Reed, founding principal of Stoss Landscape Urbanism and Adjunct Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Iñaki Abalos, Spanish architect and professor in residence at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. William Braham, associate professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Byron Stigge, director of the Level Agency for Infrastructure in New York. Llàtzer Moix, journalist and architecture critic for Barcelona newspaper “La Vanguardia.” James von Klemperer, design principal at KPF. To read more about the questions and topics that frame the symposium, visit http://archleague.org/2013/02/the-city-that-never-was-2/ or explore an extended feature on archleague.org, which includes an article and discussion with Christopher Marcinkoski and Javier Arpa.