Adrian Parr, a polyhedral relationship with water

Authors

  • Margarita Jover Biboum Tulane University
  • Rubén García Rubio Tulane University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-6057
  • Carlos Ávila Calzada Universidad de Zaragoza

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.2020154932

Keywords:

Water, Environment, Sustainability, Future Cities, Transversality

Abstract

Adrian Parr is a transdisciplinary scholar who brings the design disciplines into conversation with the humanities, social sciences, and science. Rather than work within the clearly defined boundaries of a specialized discipline, her writings and movies create ethical montages consisting of theoretical criticism, poetics, imagery, and sound. The daughter and niece of two of Australia's most well-known contemporary artists, she has a sensitivity toward the affective potential of thought and ethical reflection. Her writings encompass a journey through the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Deleuze, feminism, contemporary art, sustainability culture, urbanism, climate change, policy, collective memory, trauma theory, and Marxist thinking. Her films set out to humanize the water and sanitation statistics driving national and international policy. In this interview Adrian Parr talks about the environmental and water problems in different parts of the world under a vision in which humanism, education, ethics, awareness and leadership play a transcendental role.

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Author Biographies

Margarita Jover Biboum, Tulane University

Margarita Jover is Associate Professor of Architecture at Tulane University and co-founder of aldayjover architecture and landscape. Founded in 1996 and based in Barcelona (Spain) and New Orleans (USA), aldayjover is a multidisciplinary research-based practice, focused on innovation and in the specific character of the place. The work is particularly renowned by its leadership in a new approach to the relation between cities and rivers. aldayjover has designed the most significant recent public spaces in Barcelona (Sagrera Park or The Green Diagonal), Zaragoza (Water Park, Tramway), Pamplona (Aranzadi Park) or Ibiza (Vara de Rei), together with cultural centers, theaters, sports halls, infrastructural buildings, and housing. The firm has received, amongst others, the ‘European Urban Public Space Prize’ (2002), the FAD Prize for ‘City and Landscape’ (2009); The Prize for International Urban Integration ATP (2011), finalist of the ‘International and European Landscape Architecture Biennales Prizes’ (2008) and (2013), the Ibero-American Architecture Biennale (2004); and nominated for the European Union Architecture Prize-Mies van der Rohe Award (2009).

Rubén García Rubio, Tulane University

Ruben Garcia Rubio holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Valladolid (Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award), and a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Roma Tre. He has been a “Visiting Scholar” at the American Academy in Rome in 2012. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at Tulane University (New Orleans, USA) and, previously, has taught in several schools of architecture and international institutions in Europe and the Middle East, where he was able to work on several university-projects that combined his teaching objectives, research interests, and professional work. In addition to his teaching role, Ruben is a practicing architect and is the co-founder of studioVRA (with Sonsoles Vela). His work has been distinguished with several architectural awards, both design and built, and published in international architectural magazines. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the architectural weblog CajondeArquitecto.com.

Carlos Ávila Calzada, Universidad de Zaragoza

Zaragoza, January 8, 1962. Degree in Biology from the Complutense University of Madrid specialized in Botany (1985). Certificate of Higher Landscape Architectural Studies from the National School of Landscape Architecture in Versailles (France/1988). Part-time teacher in the Department of Urbanism at the School of Engineering and Architecture University of Zaragoza. Teacher Master Landscape, gardening and Public Space University of Granada. Publications: “Zaragoza: Avanzamos rápido. Planes y proyectos para la ciudad 2000/2015” (2007), “Z arquitectura” nº 9-10 (2008), “El Parque del Agua” (2008), “El Urbanismo de  la Expo. El Plan de Acompañamiento” (2008), “Civiltà delle acque. Valorizzazione e risparmio della risorsa acqua nell’architettura e nell’ambiente. Atti 2009”, “Parchi Pubblici, Aqua e Città. Torino e l’Italia nel contesto europeo” (2010), “#012 Low Cost” revista “PAISEA” (2010), “A New Strategy for Water & Green Space” nº 95 “Newsletter IFLA” (2011), “Proyectos integrados de arquitectura, paisaje y urbanismo 2011”, “LIFE+ TERUEL: Recuperación del entorno de Las Arcillas” (2014), “Jaca: Ciudadpaisaje/landcsapecity” (2017), “Urban Visions: from Planning Culture to Landscape Urbanism” – Chapters 27/28 (2018).

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Published

2021-01-27

How to Cite

Jover Biboum, M., García Rubio, R., & Ávila Calzada, C. (2021). Adrian Parr, a polyhedral relationship with water. ZARCH. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture and Urbanism, (15), 188–195. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.2020154932

Issue

No. 15 (2020): Urban Processes, Water Dynamics & Climate Change

Section

Miscellany

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