First International Photography Competition “Cities without Architecture” has already started receiving entries from all over the world! We are happy to announce that Fernando will be a member of the jury, together with the photographer Alexandra Kononchenko, architect Changfang Luo and Ben Murphy. Below we copy a brief description of the competition and the idea behind it.

According to the Un-Habitat (United Nations) Urban Observatory, it is estimated that fifty million people will move from rural areas to the cities in western Africa over the next ten years. In Mumbay, the population has recorded a four-fold increase. Half of the population live in slums, 700.000 spend the night on the streets, 100 million people in the world, mostly kids, have no permanent home.

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Desde el pasado 1 de diciembre hasta el 20 de enero de 2017 queda abieto el plazo de pre-inscripción de la primera edición del curso de Fundamentos de Fotografía y Arquitectura.

Dirigido por Javier López Rivera y Jorge Yeregui Tejedor, el principal objetivo del curso es introducir nuevos horizontes y ámbitos laborales para arquitectos y fotógrafos, dotando al alumno de los conocimientos y técnicas necesarios para realizar todo el proceso: desde la planificación del proyecto fotográfico, la toma fotográfica, la presentación y entrega, pasando por el flujo de trabajo en la postproducción digital y la edición, e incluso la exposición final del trabajo, Además incide en la concepción del proyecto fotográfico como un proceso integral que no se limita al instante de la toma de la imagen y al retoque en postproducción sino que comprende además una fase previa de organización y preparación del proyecto.

Toda la información detallada sobre el curso, así como el proceso de pre-inscripción e inscripción, se puede encontrar en la web del Centro de Formación Permanente de la Universidad de Sevilla, o a través del siguiente acceso directo a dicho curso:

http://www.cfp.us.es/cursos/fc/fundamentos-de-fotografia-y-arquitectura/3093/

We would like to invite you to visit the Fernando Alda’s exhibition “La memoria de lo imaginado”, that will open next 24th Octubre in Centro Andaluz de Fotografía of Almería (CAF). It’ll be a pleasure to count on your presence.

The next May 18th and 19th, Fernando Alda will teach a master class in the photographic sessions organised by The Arts School of Granada.

“100 años de fotografía” - cultural programme

More information: FAME – Proyecto de Investigación, Fotografía y Arquitectura Moderna en España

Registration (free): CICUS – Centro de Iniciativas Culturales de la Universidad de Sevilla

“Arquitectos de todo el mundo compiten por diseñar tu casa a modo de concurso público”

Con motivo de la reciente incorporación de Fernando Alda a este innovador proyecto, nos complace presentarles Selecta HOME: una empresa creada por jóvenes emprendedores que le ayudarán a diseñar su hogar a través de un concurso de arquitectura entre una exclusiva selección de arquitectos. Acorde a sus gustos y necesidades, Selecta HOME le brinda la posibilidad de elegir entre cuatro diferentes propuestas realizadas por arquitectos de reconocido prestigio.

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On Wednesday 4th September the Contemorary Art Museum in Panama will open the exhibition FOTOSEPTIEMBRE by Fernando Alda. The photographs belong to the project “The poetry of a skeleton” and will be exhibited within the permanent collection at MAC. For more information, the Museum will publish a press relase next week. You are cordially invited to attend the opening and to visit the exhibition at a later stage.

The TV programme “Los Reporteros” by Canal Sur presents its special edition for the 20th anniversary of Expo´92 in Seville. It was a great and very special period in the city´s history and for its inhabitants. We relive the same emotions through the eyes of the photographers who worked days and nights recording everything related to the Expo, its spaces, art, events and people. Today, thanks to Fernando Alda, Pepe Morón, Anna Elías, Luís Castilla, Atin Aya and Emilio Sanmartín the Expo´s archive has at its disposal great quantity of material that is being digitalized. For the moment around 40 thousand has been photographs processed.

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This Thursday, the 1st of March 2012, a Sevillian art gallery El Fotomata will launch an exhibition by Fernando Alda “The poetry of a skeleton”, under the patronage by Gabriel Campuzano. We are honoured to invite you to the opening of the exhibition and to visit it at later stage, as it will be open until the 27th of April 2012.

Below you can find the presentation letter.

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The article by Anatxu Zabalbeascoa, dated Sunday 29th of January 2012, talks about the tendency or need for transformation, extension and reparation of the architecture as an alternative to the new construction. The saturation of the market by the empty properties reinforced by the economical difficulties obliges to reinvent, recycle and take care of what we have. As an example of a mixture of restauration, remodeling and extension, the journalist presents Alameda Theatre in Tarifa (Cadiz, Spain). The project by Julia González and Miguel Bretones is a complex case, executed with a help of an archeologist and urban planner. “It constructs a bridge between the past and the future” without leaving the funcional needs unresolved, which  “constitutes today the most complete architecture”.

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In this post we would like to present a recently photographed building in Valle Navarro de Salazar designed by Gutiérrez-Delafuente Arquitectos: Natalia Gutiérrez y Julio de la Fuente. The complete report on this project will be soon uploaded to our web, however we consider that this image, some drawings and the model, are worth anticipating.

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We would like to present a complimentary entry about the works on the Rehabilitation of Casa Pinillos designed by the architect Francisco Reina.

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Between the 4th and the 6th of November we took part in a workshop organized by Fotomata and conducted by a Guatemalan photographer Luis Gonzalez Palma, nevertheless we did not mention it here, as it seemed  it would have been impossible to transmit, even get close to, the extraordinary sensations we went through these days spent together. Last Saturday, by coincidence, we came across this photograph by Luís on the cover of a cultural supplement Babelia and we cannot avoid a small review of his work anymore.

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A few days ago we had a chance to see an Article by Zabalbeascoa Anatxu published in the newspaper El País, dated 23rd of October, 2011, and with a note od satisfaction we observe that the concise analysis of Culinary school in a former slaughterhouse in Medina Sidonia confirms all the impresions we had about the project, while realizing the photographic report and through the contact we had with its authors, the architects Juanjo González and María de la Cruz.

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