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MGM Lecture tonight

Reading the description of this lecture in the guide book will tell you all about this offices lecturing achievements but not really reveal much as to this offices style of architecture.

However thanks to some reasearch from the Umbrella team, we are proud to announce that this lecture looks like its going to be Really Good (capital R and G).

The office is based in seville and demonstrates perfectly the local modern style (alot of white). Having a quick look around their very slick website we were also delighted to see that they have a project here in Cadiz. The project “building rehabilitation of 7 subsized housing in El Populo, Fray Felix St Cadiz, not only is this project in Cadiz but it seems to be right across the street from our school.

Time: 9:30/10:00 pm Location: The steps beside the Bar

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โ ข We go out and about in Cรกdiz in search of the latest workshop news.

W o r k s h o p . R e v i e w s Orgadiz

The Snowglobe

During the morning I found a part of the Orgadiz people seemingly hard working (0n sketch up) to solve some construction problems with the pavilion. Frederik (tutor) has during the day been in contact with their engineer who went through the 8 proposals for the solution of the pavilion.

At lunch they were still waiting on which proposal the engineer found the best. Apparently this workshop has started a little business by selling panels to Avanzada, nothing fishy though, the profit will go to new materials.

It seemed like the group upstairs has been folding paper in a very high pace. Keep up the tempo and you will probably have a day off at the beach!

While searching for the Avanzada! (and the third nipple) we found a happy bunch of people from the Snowglobe workshop, hanging out in Paseo de Canalejas down at the harbour. We had a chat with them and found out that they were waiting for materials to build a Snowglobe headquarter at the site, making their presence known to Cรกdiz.

Their next plan is to get in contact with the chief of the port and see if they can get more materials.

Their aim of the workshop is to create perfect disconnections from the surrounding. Even though they are planning three elements Charley (tutor) is very confident that they will get finished in time.

Marcis Kalnins, a participant from Latvia told us that he is in the workshop because he wants to build and he liked the concept of the workshop.

Just when we were heading out the van with materials arrived and everyone got busy. Even though the complain of to many Latvians they definitive were a happy bunch!

Sandsation Is it a house?

Is it a pavilion?

Is it a sculpture?

Is it a giant sand monster planing on attacking Cรกdiz?

Is it safe?

Is it a narcotics stash?

Is it a shelter for the homeless?

Is it for the animals?

Can it get angry?

Does it eat socks?

How big is it?

How do you get inside?

Why would you get inside by the way?

How do you get out once you're in?

Where will it be located?

When will it be finished?

What will be inside?

Is it energy efficient?

Is it transformable?

What is it for?

Is it gay friendly?

Will it blend?

Well we are not quite sure.

But we know one thing, it will be sandsational.

La Cometa Have you ever bothered to lift your head and look toward the sky? The air is as important as the earth. By altering the direction of our attention, we can change the atmosphere around us. There is no need for heavy modifications.

In Andalucian culture there is tradition of kiting and kite making.

La Cometa is trying to remind us of the childhood days when we were actually enjoying the city. The sky is their playground.

These people are honest when they say that they do enjoy the making of paper planes and kites. Pure funpourfuntizm.

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Wildlife stories

Three little pigs The piggy participants have completed their first round of discussions, and are moving on to deconstructing 'stuff'. Our reporter spent the morning with tutor Chris, and participant Noora on a scavenging hunt around the old town of Cadiz.

"There had been a plan to have things we could use, but nothing turned up, even after two trips to the city dump", Chris explained to me over a refresco.

Missing materials is a common problem at EASA, so they took matters in their own hands, sending one participant out on a bike, and the rest to New Town with a shopping trolley.

After they finish being gitanos, they plan on breaking the found objects into component parts, then building them up again into different items.

The next few days will depend on what they find, with some emergency planning needed if the come up empty handed.

One bit of good news happened on our way back. We found some greasy kitchen units waiting to be thrown out. Its a shame they needed carring back up the hill in the midday sun!

Albert, Austria Came to Spain to get away from his wife and kids.

Said it was a business trip. Gets wasted every night.

On Smoking....

EASA does not run on money.

It doesn't run on electricity.

It isn't even beer that holds it together.

If there is anything you could say an EASA runs on, it is cigarettes.

Cigarillos, savukkeiden, sigara; whatever you call them you are never more than 6m from somebody smoking while at EASA. This is all very well, but please USE AN ASHTRAY. There are plenty of buckets, empty cans or paper cups to use for your fag ends. Lets keep the outside areas a healthy place to work and play for everybody. Thank you.

Likes tortilla.

He thinks he can speak Spanish but he says ‘grazie’ all the time.

Benedetta, Italian She wanted to be a cowgirl all her life.

She is a cosmetician and she knows all the boulevard stories about celebrities.

She bought an iPhone recently.

Now she is looking for a rich man to marry her.

She likes Madonna.

EASA.FM ON AIR Easa.FM have been broadcasting music all day and will continue to do so throughout the assembly. Bring your music to their studio on the first floor. Tonight is their first news broadcast at about 8.30pm.

TUNE IN ON FM 92.0ish

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• We will daily print the answers to the call for submissions about the theme deCOASTruction • Monica Tusinean (RO), living in Zurich • http://monilogues.tumblr.com

DeCOASTruction Grande Hotel Beira MOT: A few weeks ago, i found an article in Mare about the Grande Hotel Beira. Inaugurated in 1955 and deserted only a few years later, it now houses a community of about 3000 people. About 200 of which are children. People are born and die here. They go about their daily lives, formed their own social structures, and ever so often dream of some day leaving the Grande Hotel. you can check in any time you want…

The first people to come there in the 1980s were fleeing from the war that raged around the bushlands of Mosambique. The Hotel turned into a refugee camp.

There isn’t water running from the taps, nor electricity or a sevage system - only the rotting remains of the 30 Million Euro that were invested in the building back in the olden days.

I won’t bore you with details or plagiarize the article or the documentary (for the trailer: http:// grandehotelthemovie.com).

What I’m concerned about within this year’s EASA framework on DeCoasTruction is how it relates to the theme of deserted estates, the bursting construction bubble and what i learned from the people there.

How does this model keep repeating itself all through modern history? How does common sense not prevail when build-

ing a massive luxury hotel in an area where that money would be more sustainably invested in anything else, however flourishing the area is at a given moment?

Well, there’s the money, of course.

Shitloads of money and the desire for more.

Glad we’ve settled this.

The free market does not regulate itself! Architecture, however, does.

What do we learn from this then?

Well, being an aesthetic sucker i found this thing insanely beautiful - once it rid itself of the pretenses of “beauty” and luxury - once the plaster brittled off, once the wallpaper was torn down and the gold taps and pipes sold, the beauty came out.

Once the shine wears off, we can often see beneath. Because it’s pure, we say, because it’s simple and now exists only because it hasn’t collapsed yet - which it still might, taking down with it the 3000 something inhabitants.

Therein lies the perversion - in our fascination with ruins, with the hot messes that we create and leave behind. But hear me out - i don’t think the Grande Hotel is more beautiful now because of the exposed concrete and the dust that makes for such aetheral images.

The romanticists did this first -their obsession with ruins marked the first big aesthetic breach from Palladian order - just as we now seek to liberate ourselves from formalism in a broader sense.

One could assume, though, that they loved their ruins so much out of nostalgia and longing after the good old days of antiquity - and thus our similarities would end.

But! it was not the past, but Na-

ture that was revered through the ruins of ancient temples. Keep this in mind, since my whole feeble little argumentation rests on this notion and i will reiterate it.

So I guess beneath my fascination with this, and beneath the shame for taking pleasure in the horrible environment its inhabitant live in, lies something else.

It is, to some extent, the same mechanism that makes architects adore favelas. So organic, so unaltered and so intrinsicly human and then you get over yourself and notice the drugs and the crime and the disease and the innocent children dropping like flies from cholera and stray bullets.

In the Grande Hotel a few children fall to their deaths every year because the staircase railings have been sold to iron merchands. Then suddenly, the unpretentiously beautiful structures appear as nothing more than the architectural equivalent of a can of worms.

Y U C K !

And we know all this! We know all the dire statistics and we see the ads on tv; and as much as we risk, venturing into those places, taking pictures, ogling the locals, we always return to our comfy air mattresses. We hold on to our little aesthetic fetish, not knowing: refusing to admit that we know. This never transcends ideology, and we remain disconnected from the real world.

But there is hope! I’ve figured this one out for all of us! Hooray!

It’s because we are all secretly sick of aesthetics. We search for ways to disconnect ourselves from formal requirements and take solace in the fact that yes, people still live

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(however poorly equipped) happily there, that communities emerge and cohere more than any architect might expect from his or her lovingly planned public spaces.

There is no room for assembly there, on the contrary, nothing provides a platform for social interchange and discourse, and yet those people stay together. Like we did, until we got kicked out of DownTex, with its black mold and its dust and its duct-taped windows - for that one week in Manchester, we called it home.

Just like that, friendships form, mayors get elected, children play and people hang out to gossip. Some refuse to leave, even when oportunity arises.

«There are two fundamental rules: “keep the cleanliness and the respect.” The cleaning is maintained by nominating shifts; as for the respect, is has to be kept by everyone. “There have been cases of abuse and rape, and the people who perpetrated these actions were kicked out”, our host tell us with a determined tone.» also check: http://www.buala.org/en/city/we-the-onesfrom-the-grande-hotel-da-beira This gives us hope, that people prevail, no matter their environment, live happy lives, have children and die, and architecture didn’t have anything too important to do with it.

(Yes, it could’ve made things better, but not excessively, i would argue - as long as basic economic and hygienic requirements aren’t met, pretty houses do nothing) Takes quite a our shoulders,

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Unless you’re a cynical asshole and think those communities actually suffer from cognitive dissonance and since they can’t change how they live, they trick themselves into loving it, in order not descend into depression. « “the situation is extremely bad, but a person gets used to it. Only when someone from the outside comes here, are we reminded of the inhumane conditions we live in”» buala.org I also suspect something else behind our grotesque fascination with deserted industrial wastelands and decomposing luxury beach resorts. As horrible as living there turns out to be, it is refreshing to see how buildings like the Grande Hotel regain some of their humanity, once time and nature have had their way with them.

The fat, white colonialist suddenly turned into a social worker, welcoming the outcasts, giving them whatever he has left. He is stripped off his pretenses, all his money is gone, and he suddenly ages more gracefully than we would have expected him to. The underdogs now inhabit the luxury hotel and reclaim what was never meant to be theirs to begin with.

There is hope for us, because just as cockroaches and tardigrades outlive the caprices of civilization and whatever calamities might

strike, so does architecture. Because shelter transcends personal taste, communities transcend planning, and building materials transcend trends; and in the end, things can be beautiful without our intervention or specific intention to make them pretty.

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I need to insist, after all my musings and my theory, that we don’t let this happen again. That architecture students in 20 years’ time, won’t need to justify our mistakes, like i just did. Because while we can retroactively praise or deconstruct existing monsters, we have an obligation to not make them the norm. Because the empty beauty of the deserted can never be recreated, and this is what we could be going towards if we turn it into a fetish.

There is intrinsic beauty in this type of emergence, but we must not allow ourselves to become mesmerized with it, beyond the point where we become blind to the greed and stupidity that might have lead to it. The Hotel Grande survived and has been partially reclaimed and put to use - most buildings like this one, however, won’t even have the privilege to house the least fortunate, and will turn into murder sites at worst, or fancy settings for fashion shoots at best, neither of which we should be aiming towards.

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• Meet EASA

Q of the d Adam Myczkowski, Poland --->Emilio Roldan Zamarron He`s a really nice guy and makes such a good queen Sabine Lepera, France --->Alvaro Paya Piqueras Well very well organized, calm and focused Loosineh Davoodian, helper --->Javier Diaz Garrido He´s a very outgoing guy, and always takes the right decisions really fast Zsofia PaczolaY, Slovakia --->Mar Vicens Fuster She´s very helpful, always smiling and beautiful Patrick Roche, unknown --->Alba Minguez Moreno Super crazy and super SMALL Robert Hanson, Finland --->Diego Garcia Esteban He`s such a cool guy

Who´s your favourite organiser, and why?

EASA dictionary pt. 2 More words to become a street smart EASAian / EASAiana: EASA sneak [iːˈɛːsa sniːk] verb

Sneak away from a conversation you think is boring.

dino [ˈdʌɪnə] noun

Someone who has been to a great deal of EASAs. (It could be good to know that everyone doesn’t like this expression.) Find out more at www. easadino.com

token [ˈtəʊk(ə)n] noun

EASA money. Historically used as a loophole in the legislation to serve alcohol.

cabreez [kaˈbriːz] noun Paz Nevado Llopis, Spain --->Alba Minguez Moreno We`re really good friends Jon Pyle, UK --->Francisco Rodriguez Cheeky innocent smile ; ) Irene Rossi, Italy --->Emilio Roldan Zamarron So funny and makes the perfect queen --->Jonathan Cruz Recalde Javier Guerra Gomez Apart from being a good friend of mine, he´s also funny and such a relaxed guy Anonymous!!

--->Jesus Diaz Osuma He has a beard : )

Origin: UK team. The breeze in Cadiz. Keeps EASA from melting.

The search for old and new EASA words continues.

Please come to Umbrella with suggestions! /Kajsa Börjesson

Corrigendum Yesterday our 'coffee expert' was misquoted due to a transcription error. It should have read 'Coffee and nicotine...' instead of 'coffee and caffeine...' Umbrella wish to apologise for this error.

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EL PARASOL • Meet the Organizers Section • • High Rise FUN club Revival

Serbia vs The Netherlands

There has been a long running question of who is the tallest country in EASA? After a few glasses of sangria last night the boys from the netherlands started to brag about how they were infact the tallest country in Europe and at EASA.

However the verdict is still out as the team from Serbia is also extremly tall (and muscly). So in order to solve this important question Umbrella is going to host EASAs first tall country compitition.

Here are the Details

Who are you?

Carlos Valderrama Where are you from?

Malaga What are you thinking of right now?

Pufffff… Stuf that i have to Carry What is your proudest achievement in life?

My first botellou (its something that you get drunk in the street with 100 people)

• All the guys from Serbia and The Netherlands report to the Umbrella desk after dinner.

Who is your favourite Spanish architect?

Euric Miralles

• Everyone from that counrty will be measured

What is your favourite building in Spain?

The Museum Art Visogodo, Toledo

• The country with the highest average wins

Recommend a book or poem or music that has changed your perspective on life?

La Copa Rota – Jose Feliciano

• All the proceedings will be adjudicated by El Presidenté of the High Rise Fun Club – Thomas Cattrysse (BE)

The winning country will be announced and have their photograph in tomorows umbrella.

The compitition is very intense and both teams seem confident as to their victory, especially the Dutch participant David (2m) who said “we are going to win”.

However the Serbs remain quietly confident “on average we will probably win, but I think they have the tallest guy” – Alexsandar.

If any other country thinks that they can challenge the height of the Dutch or Serbs feel free to show up at the Umbrella desk later also.

If you could wish for one change in the world what would it be?

Remove Borders For you what is easa all about?

Having fun while learning about life.

Organisers say….

Our Organisers lost a set of keys. If u find them, please return them to the infopoint.

Beer or sangria?

Beer…

Boxers or briefs?

Boxers Moist or used?

I Don`t know...

Fran or Jesus?

It`s not possible with out them together..

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• Breakfast Review • Fan-tastic : the language of the fan

French Team Breakfast.

Slowly everyone is getting into the rythem of not doing everything at the same time. This was especially visible this morning at breakfast, where the queue was much shorter and faster than usual. This also might have been due to the heavy beats of the dance party music being pumped out by Hugo.

However it might also have been due to hugos sweaty attire from the previous’s evenings.

Either way from a distance we enjoyed the co-ordinated dancing and energy.

Fan-Tastic Gbr : Typically the architecture student (also known as architectura CADulis) uses the medium of dance under a blanket of electronic sounds to convey their sexual urges to the opposite sex. Unfortunately due to the lack of mega parties at easa so far this has not been possible.

However don’t worry umbrella has devised a plan and all you need is a simple handheld fan! It has been said that years ago, in the courts of Spain fans were used in a secret, unspoken code of messages. These fan languages were a way to cope with the restricting social etiquette and we wish to reestablish this long lost ancient tradition.

We say; a fan costs just 3euro @ info point. So learn "the language of the fan" for tonight!

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EL PARASOL • Party Review • Party Preview/Football Tournament

Basement Wonderland

Party shows promise After the disappointing no show of the EASA Evening at the lecture space - with no real explaination as to why - the momentum shifted back to the bar late last evening. This years EASAsians seem to have taken very well to the Espanish custom of lounging about ALL NIGHT. Admittedely the heat and comfortable doss space makes it a very attractive proposal, but there had been rumours that basement would finally be opened up to the EASAparty treatment for the first time.

At the very Spanish time of three-ish, the cage was opened by Dutch superDJ Stef Sjerf playing an appropriately laidback selection. The place, music and DJ were never really used though, with no more than about 30 people in at one time. Its a promising start, but it lacked any-

thing to budge people from the cushions and hammocks, and really, who can blame them. I've heard one or two of the more veteran participants stayed up late with a number of organisers to see off the night but it is still early days.

Tonights double dancefloor "super-club" should kick a bit of life into the nightlife, so this reporter is off for a nap to be ready for the long night ahead.

EASA Football Tournament 2011

Party Preview

Tonights Party – We are going OUT Tonight we will be partying out in Cadiz. The party is going to be held at 2 different clubs, just next to each other, NAHU and PLACE LOW COST. Entrance is free, beer is for 1 euro and drinks for 4 euro. We will head there after tonight`s lecture at around

11 pm and dance there till 3.30am.

We will be leaving in smaller groups and walking to the clubs together.

If anyone wants to come later, just go to Calle Beate Diego, less than 5 minutes away from Plaza de España and you´ll find us there.

Get your dancing shoes ready!

EASA organizers will be holding a 5-a-side football tournament next week for all the participants who would like to enter some serious competition. It will be held at a private gym close by and countries should form teams from 5 up to 8 persons. All those interested should sign up at info point with Diego or Carlos Cabrera.

Entrance is free so go make your country proud!

After last years close final between Spain and Franco/Serbia we asked Carlos Cabrera wo he thinks will win this year?

Carlos insisted “Spain will win! We always do. Come on!”

Whatever, we`ll see.....

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• Coffee and Cadiz (CnC)

CnC A shameless Café Américano

My favorite coffee is filtered. At home I use a stainless steel Belgium filter which my mother passed down to me. It is a small filter made to fit a single cup. The morning ritual consists of boiling water while filling the filter with a regular grind. After poring the water I start my breakfast and read the paper. At some point the water has run through and I remove the filter. Using the lid as a coaster, I am not having to walk back to the kitchen until I have finished my coffee. The coffee is mild but distinct in flavour and I drink it without milk or sugar.

Instead of adopting the local coffee culture like Marten with his appreciation of the local Cortado, I have been attempting to find a sufficient substitute for my treasured filtered coffee. I started by ordering a cafe solo which is the most basic coffee you can get

in Spain. But the experience was rather harsh. In quantity a cafe solo lies somewhere between a dubble expresso and a filter coffee.

But in taste it is somehow stronger and more heavy on the palate.

Trying -in my best Spanish- to ask for a cafe solo with some extra hot water, I was quickly told by the waiter to simply order a Café Américano. Not wanting to be associated with American tourists -who I thought had coined the term by rudely demanding extra hot water in their coffees- I have always been hesitant in ordering a Café Américano. Yet it turns out the origin of the Café Américano is quite less negative and although the correct spelling is in debate, carries the story of its origin in its name.

It did all start with the Americans, but in the setting of the second world war. The American GI's used to order extra hot water, adding it to the strong European coffees. All in an attempt to approximate the coffee they where accustomed to at home.

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A truly Pan-European coffee which I am no longer ashamed of ordering.

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• FUN • NEWS

Today’s hotties are: Alba Minguez Moreno (ES) and Sam Patterson (UK)

EASA'S NEXT TOP MODEL

EASA KITCHEN --->Spring Onion Pancakes

These compact pancakes offer little in the way of visual impact, their oval shape hiding the promise a mid afternoon snack. After the first bite though, the summery zest and spicy overtones fill the mouth without being overpowering.

The texture is bright and bouncy, while its smell fills the surrounding area. The half token cost makes going back for another one - or two - a pleasure rather than a sin.

FREE VECTOR

EASA kitchen will be selling other delectable treats all week near the bar.

FOUND

-earings (HOOP with Beads) -sunglasses (lots of them) - bikinis (hundreds of them)

LOST

- Sam Paterson’s heterosexuality - we are looking for the ultimate cure to mosquito bites? A free beer for the best one!

- if you lost something let us know!

BBC STYLE WEATHER ICON France

International.jokes:

Two french sausages are being fried. One says to the other: “Oh it’s so hot here!” The other: “Waaa! The sausage is talking!!!”

Tomorrow’s Weather

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"I like this Calendar Idea, cause now i have a new reason to bring Umbrella to the toliet" Hugo Pontiak (FR)