Barcelona—Finally Free of Icons! Architecture as an Interface for Private/Public Life

Eduard Bru and his partners, Neus Lacomba and Victor Setoain, although they like to work in all scales, have been involved in each one of the major projects of transformation of their base city Barcelona, since the Olympic Games in 1992. Its current process of internationalization does not pretend to export a brand image but an attitude -one that prefers to find things without searching for them, playing and getting involved with reality, in a “Picassian” way more than a natural science research - tested in their studio as well as in the academic work of Eduard Bru, who is the director of the Masters program “Mediterranean Cities” from the Mies Chair organized by the Mies van der Rohe Foundation, UPC and the Mediterranean Union of the European Community. This lecture is part of the "Restoring, Regenerating, Rethinking: The Urban Transformation of Madrid, Barcelona, & Bilbao" lecture series directed by Iker Gil and organized by MAS Studio and the Instituto Cervantes of Chicago. http://chicago.cervantes.es/FichasCultura/Ficha67511_47_2.htm