Conference of the architect Peter Rich in ‘Forums Esarq: Ways to see'

On 10 April, like part of the programming of the cycle of conferences ‘Forums Esarq: Ways to see' that organises the Upper Technical School of architecture of the Universitat International of Catalonia, Esarq-UIC, together with the Chair of Ceramics Ascer of the same faculty; the recognised architect and expert in African culture Peter Rich gives the conference ‘Learnt in translation'. The conference, opened to the public, will take place to the 19.00 hours in the classroom Magna of the Campus Barcelona of the UIC and will teach the wide personal path and professional, as well as the methodology of work of the architect. Big part of the process of intensive observation of the population, of the environingingment and of the documentation of the context that Rich exerts, allows him develop an autochthonous architecture that preserves the social structures and the communities that form part of the place and that they are unalterable.

In addition to being researcher and pioneer in the documentation of the African settlements for his back divulging, Rich was faithful activist during the Apartheid and his relation with the native communities has allowed him create and promote a sustainable African architecture and true, respecting at all times the essence of his location. “Through a sustainable investigation in the conditions and the local context, deal to contribute solutions that result only for his space and time”, ensures the architect.

The work of Peter Rich has been recognised with different award like the prize World Building of the Year of the World architecture Forum of Barcelona, the IASS Tsuboi Award of Shanghai or the Built Environingingment Category Winner in the Earth Award of London in 2009. Member honorario of the American Institute of Architects in 2010, Peter Rich was rewarded the same year with the medal of gold that concedes the South African Institute of Architects, the galardón more recognised awarded in South Africa to a professional of the architecture.