This University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture's Research Center addresses urban culture and sustainability challenges within different but complementary academic perspectives. Since its creation in 2OO7, CIUDAD has promoted research projects, urban design studios, courses in the Rio Piedras campus and abroad, seminars, lectures, exhibitions and publications. CIUDAD aims to establish an academic space which produces new interdisciplinary knowledge useful to inform urban public policy, planning and design.
Los campos principales de estudio bajo el trabajo de investigación de sTAND consisten de la transmisión del conocimiento mediante nuevas tecnologías y el uso de la narrativa como herramienta para organizar información.
La iniciativa, fundada por el profesor JAVIER ISADO, ha contado para su comienzo con el apoyo de una beca de fondos semilla del DEGI (2OO9) y con la oportunidad de publicación de sus temas de trabajo con la edición número cinco de la revista INFORMA (2O1O).
sTAND nace para agrupar y organizar un componente de curso electivo dirigido que forma parte de los requisitos de graduación del programa de bachillerato en diseño ambiental de la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Puerto Rico. La oferta de cursos y talleres adscrita a sTAND está encaminada a ofrecer, primero, una secuencia de estudios, luego un área de énfasis y finalmente una concentración.
Coursework
Berlin, from modern to open source urbanism. CISO 5995. Berlin, Georg Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies, Urban Passion, Deutschland. April 8-23, 2013. Professors Jorge L Lizardi, Martin Schwegmann, Tore Dobberstein.
San Juan, challenges and opportunities in a shrinking city. ARCH 4135. San Juan, UPR. August-December 2013. Professors Darwin Marrero, Jorge L. Lizardi.
Common and uncommon grounds: San Juan colonial and modern. ARCH 6311. UPR, San Juan. August December 2011. Professors Manuel Bermúdez, Jorge L Lizardi.
Santo Domingo: the colonial and modern urban contradictions. ARCH 6312. UPR, San Juan and Santo Domingo. January-May 2010. Professor Manuel Bermúdez.
Rio Piedras Periphery. ARCH 6312. UPR, San Juan. August to December, 2009. Professors Manuel Bermúdez, Jorge L Lizardi.
Visiting professors and lectures series
MANUEL DE LANDA, Parsons, The New School for Design, New York. April 24-26, 2010. Cinematrics: architectural drawing today.
MARK BURRY, Parsons, The New School for Design, New York. April 24-26, 2010. Cinematrics: architectural drawing today.
ATHANASSIOS ECONOMOU, Parsons, The New School for Design, New York. April 24-26, 2010. Cinematrics: architectural drawing today.
BRIAN MCGRATH, Parsons, The New School for Design, New York. April 24-26, 2010. Cinematrics: architectural drawing today.
IGNASI PEREZ ARNAL, Parsons, The New School for Design, New York. April 24-26, 2010. Cinematrics: architectural drawing today.
EVAN DOUGLIS, Parsons, The New School for Design, New York. April 24-26, 2010. Cinematrics: architectural drawing today.
Publications
Jorge L Lizardi, Neeltje van Marising, , Millie Reyes et al., San Juan unseen: other views on the Old City. School of Architecture, University of Puerto Rico, Fundación San Martín de Porres, 2013, 129pp.
Jorge L Lizardi and Martin Schwegmann (eds), Ambivalent Spaces: memories and oblivion in modern social architecture. San Juan: School of Architecture of the University of Puerto Rico, Ediciones Callejón, 2012, 279p.
Grants Received
2012-2013. Puerto Rican Foundation for the Humanities / National Endowment for the Humanities. San Juan unseen: other views on the Old City. $19,950.00
2010-2012. Puerto Rican Foundation for the Humanities / National Endowment for the Humanities. Architectures, cities and communities: histories and memories of modern social housing. Puerto Rican Foundation for the Humanities / National Endowment for the Humanities. $14,600.00
2008-2012. Institutional Research Fund, Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research. Towards a multidisciplinary cartography of San Juan Metropolitan Area. $32,200.
2008-2009. Institutional Research Fund, Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research. CIUDAD seed funding. $16,600.00