ArchiLectures | Fernando Vegas

The lecture will show examples of the built work of the authors using local materials, techniques and resources in order to encourage sustainability, both in new design and preservation of old buildings. This 0 km architecture and preservation tends to sharpen the wits and creativity of the architect, boots the development of trades and local economy and teaches the population to appreciate architecture as an identitarian legacy of the past to be preserved and designed for the future in contemporary architecture.

Camilla Mileto and Fernando Vegas are architects and professors at the Universitat Politècnica of València (Spain), where they teach architectural composition and conservation both in graduate and postgraduate courses. They have been guest lecturers in the universities of Venice and Palermo (Italy), Cordoba (Argentina) and the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, USA) and have given lectures in many other universities. They have received several international awards for their research, new projects and built work on architectural conservation, like the 1^st European Union Prize (2004, 2011), Europa Nostra Awards (2008, 2013), the Domus Award 2012, among others.

University:
Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain)