Talk

Izaskun Chinchilla

International Women's Day

Thursday 9 March 2017 6.30 - 7.45pm

Geological Society, Piccadilly, W1.

£12, £6 concessions. Includes talk and drinks reception.

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As part of our International Architects Series, the RA invites you to join Izaskun Chinchilla for a discussion on architecture as a gendered practice.

Izaskun Chinchilla is characteristic of a new generation of architects focusing on the connections between social and scientific thinking. While her practice and research range across a broad selection of socially and environmentally sensitive projects, they are consistently informed by a dedicated attention to “how a fully developed female mind-set can create new business, cultural, social and environmental opportunities".

Join us to consider how architectural design practices can be used to empower women. Would an architecture that is more in tune with the needs of women be more beneficial for everyone? How can planning policy adapt to the fact that men and women use public space in different ways? Would embracing the aesthetics associated with women allow architecture engage a wider public?

£12, £6 concessions. Includes talk and drinks reception.

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Biography

Izaskun Chinchilla

Izaskun Chinchilla studied at Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura in Madrid from where she graduated with honours in 2001. At the moment, she is in the process of completing her doctoral thesis, entitled “Sustainability and Architecture: Revolution, Crisis or Orthodoxy?”, in the same institution. She is also a Senior Teaching Fellow and Researcher at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.

Since 2001, Chinchilla has also been the driving force of her own practice. Its work has been exhibited extensively and has shown in the Venice Biennale on several occasions. Apart from several installations and small to medium range refurbishments, the practice also works on housing and museography projects along with urban planning commissions.

Its largest undertaking to date is the refurbishment of the Garcimuñoz Castle in Cuenca, Spain. Demonstrating a thorough understanding of the historic context, this project manages to find the balance between a desire for new infrastructure and the need to preserve the existing built environment.