COMING SOON
ATMOSPHERIC TAXONOMY PROJECTS & IMAGINARIES
ATMOSPHERIC TAXONOMY PROJECTS & IMAGINARIES
ATMOSPHERIC TAXONOMY PROJECTS & IMAGINARIES
Take a look at some of the AAA's on-going research projects that establish a network of productive connections between diverse ideas, meanings, places, temporalities and materialities, searching for alternative forms of environmental imagination.
ATMOSPHERIC MANIFESTO WRITINGS, TALKS, EXHIBITIONS
ATMOSPHERIC TAXONOMY PROJECTS & IMAGINARIES
ATMOSPHERIC TAXONOMY PROJECTS & IMAGINARIES
Whether it takes built, speculative or written form, AAA approaches architecture as a territory with elastic boundaries – a tangle of diverse practices, in which experience, design, construction, communication and dissemination of architecture are all important and intrinsically connected.
ATMOSPHERIC ARCHIVE OF FUTURE POSSIBILITIES
ATMOSPHERIC TAXONOMY PROJECTS & IMAGINARIES
ATMOSPHERIC ARCHIVE OF FUTURE POSSIBILITIES
Revisit a series of earlier projects which have cultivated AAA's curiosity about new ways of understanding design and knowing through atmospheres, exploring affective, performative, and participatory aspects of spaces and places.
ABOUT
Izabela Wieczorek
is an EU-registered-architect in Spain (COAM Nº 16.452), and a researcher and educator based in London. She holds a MSc in Architecture and Urban Design from Politechnika Krakowska, and a PhD in Architecture from ETSAM Universidad Politécnica de Madrid within the Programme Theory and Practice of Architecture. Izabela is currently an Associate Professor at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, where she serves as Deputy Director and Director of Professional Accreditations.
Izabela’s research sits at the nexus of academia and practice, embracing diverse methodologies and outputs, from papers, to artefacts, buildings, installations, and exhibitions. From 2003 to 2016, Izabela was a co-director of an award-winning Madrid-based office Gálvez+Wieczorek Arquitectura, whose diverse portfolio of work was published and exhibited internationally, including a monographic exhibition and publication Excepto 21: Active Cartographies at the Fundación Cultural COAM (2008). Izabela’s current research-based practice Atmospheric Architecture Agency addresses ecological, affective, sensorial and performative aspects of architecture, focusing on the reception and production of spatial atmospheres.
Izabela has 20 years of teaching experience, designing and delivering Architecture courses at leading institutions in Spain, Denmark, and UK, including Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca Campus de Madrid, Instituto Europeo di Design Madrid, and Arkitektskolen Aarhus, where she curated the In-Between international public lecture series (2013-2016). She was also a visiting lecturer in Energy and Sustainability at a Postgraduate Professional Programme of Advanced Studies in Collective Housing run by ETSAM UPM and ETH Zürich. Prior to joining UCL, Izabela was a Director of the Master of Architecture Programme (MArch Part 2) and a Research Lead for Architecture at the University of Reading.
Her work has been published in books, journals and magazines of international standing such as The Journal of Architecture, Idea Journal, Arquitectura Viva, Bauvelt, Detail, A10 new European architecture, PEN with New Attitude, Parametro. Rivista internazionale di architettura eurbanistica, a+t, and exhibited internationally, including ‘Cartographies of the Imagination’, London (2021), ‘Works+Words Biennale of Artistic Research in Architecture’, KADK, Copenhagen (2019), and the Spanish Pavilion Exhibition ‘#Becoming’ at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale (2018).
During her career as both an academic and a practitioner, Izabela has been a strong advocate for public engagement with architectural culture, practice, and research. She was a co-presenter of the weekly radio show PlanetaBETA (2010-2012) on Spanish radio station Radio Círculo with world-wide coverage online dedicated to architectural debate, which was awarded First Prize at the VIII Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo in the category Other Media. She contributed to publications accompanying exhibitions in major public art institutions, including Cosmowomen. Places as Constellations at Galleria Nazionale d'Arte in Roma (2021), and the retrospective exhibition of the Spanish architect José Miguel de Prada Poole, coproduced by the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (2020-2021). In 2023, she was appointed as a Jury Member of the International Architecture Exhibition 'The Laboratory of the Future', at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale, curated by Professor Lesley Lokko.
Izabela is an associate member of the international research platform Atmospheric Spaces: Aura, Stimmung, Ambiance, the International Ambiances Network, and the Urban Living Research Group at UoR. She is also a member of the reviewing committee of Ambiances. International Journal of Sensory Environment, Architecture and Urban Space.
