The New Urban Condition: Criticism and Theory from Architecture and Urbanism

Leandro Medrano is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo (FAUUSP). His main work addresses the relationship between social housing and urban development. Theory of urbanism, urban sociology, urban design and economic development are some of the research fields involved in his research. Medrano has also been involved in partnerships with research groups from other universities, such as GSD Harvard, KTH, UPM and TUDelft. In addition to teaching and research activities, he has served in many positions at the University, as: Coordinator of the Architecture and Urbanism Course, Board of Directors of the Science Museum of Unicamp, Executive Committee of the Museum of Visual Arts at Unicamp. Is Editor-in-chief of de journal Pós.Revista FAUUSP and Coordinator of the research group Critical Thinking and Contemporary City (PC3). His work has been published in books and academic journals.

Luiz Recaman is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo (FAUUSP). His main work addresses the critique of architecture and aesthetics, and modern Brazilian and contemporary architecture. He is Editor-in-chief of de journal Revista ARA FAUUSP and Coordinator of the research group Critical Thinking and Contemporary City (PC3). Prof. Recaman is co-author of Brazil’s Modern Architecture (Phaidon, 2004), and Vilanova Artigas--Habitação e Cidade na Modernização Brasileira (Editora da Unicamp, 2014).

Tom Avermaete is Professor for the History and Theory of Urban Design at ETH Zurich. His research focuses on the architecture of the city and the changing roles, approaches and tools of architects and urban designers from a cross-cultural perspective. Recent book publications include Architecture of the Welfare State (with Swenarton and Van Den Heuvel, 2014), The Balcony (with Koolhaas, 2014), Casablanca--Chandigarh (with Casciato, 2015), Shopping Towns Europe (with Gosseye, 2017) and Acculturating the Shopping Centre (with Gosseye, 2018). Avermaete curated the exhibitions In the Desert of Modernity (Berlin, Casablanca, 2008, 2009), How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh (Montreal, 2015) and Lived-In: The Modern City as Performative Infrastructure (Antwerp, 2017).