Academic news
Academic news
January 2026
Trip to Madrid in 1.4 subject Buildings and sites. Several visits to important 20th century architectures guided by Sara Pérez Barreiro from Docomomo Ibérico.
December 2025
During December 9th and 12th 2nd edition students were in San Sebastian for the December workshop.
The program was diverse with different guests and on going thesis dissertation presentations during the afternoon.
Docomomo Iberico visited San Sebastian for some classes in 1.4 course titled Builgin and Sites. Fernando Agrasar, Sara Pérez and Susana Landrove were the guests for presenting diverse Spanish contribution for 20th century architecture to 3rd edition students.
October 2025
3rd edition student group presentation. Days after they visited Bilbao Guggenheim and surroundigs, Bizkaia bridge in Portugalete and Punta Galea galerys.
Another day in course 1.1 this group of student visited Aizpea mining reserve in Zerain.
They also have been to Chillida Leku (by bus) in preparation for the class and visit to the Peine del Viento with Mario Sangalli and Rocío Peña.
July 2025
2nd edition students working in Lingotto, Torino, in course 2.5 Design seminar in Block 2.
June 2025
2nd edition students are working in Lingotto, Torino, in course 2.3 Urban needs and requierements in Block 2.
April 2025
2nd edition students travelled to Torino by bus and stopped in Nimes with Ana Azpiri and Enkarni Gómez. In following days students started Block 2 in Torino.
March 2025
In course 1.6 2nd edition students visited the refurbishment of the San Juan de Dios Hospital in Pamplona and also visited the urban regeneration office of Pamplona's historic center to the underground gallery system in Pamplona's old town.
Through these galeries the neighborhood's water, waste, and internet services are managed.
After finishing the academic courses 2nd edition group visited Bourdeaux with Ana Azpiri. There they visited "Le Bassin des Lumières", a World War II submarine bunker, also visited the Contemporary Art Center, a renovated 19th-century warehouse that used to store colonial goods.
1st edition students defended their Dissertation Theses in Torino and Kaunas. One week later we celebrated their Graduation in a nice ceremony in San Sebastián.
February 2025
Visit to the Museo Vasco del Ferrocarril in Azpeitia in course 1.5.
They also visited Olaran in Beasain for the Case Study and the visit was reported in local news.
January 2025
Trip to Barcelona in 1.4 subject Buildings and sites.
Several visits to important 20th century catalan architectures.
December 2024
Docomomo Iberico visited San Sebastian for some classes. Fernando Agrasar, Sara Pérez and Susana Landrove were the guests for presenting diverse Spanish contribution for 20th century architecture
November 2024
In course 1.3 several visits where done to Tecnalia headquarters, exactly to Digilab and Kubic
October 2024
2nd edition student group visited Bilbao Guggenheim and surroundigs, Bizkaia bridge in Portugalete and another day also visited Hondarribia in Gipuzkoa.
A Good start for ARURCOHE experience.
October 1, 2024
Today start the Block 3, Master Dissertation works.
September 16, 2024
Today we were able to organize a conference to present the project of the New Civic Library in Turin, in the complex of Torino Esposizioni, designed by Pier Luigi Nervi in the '50s. They related the designers: arch. Andrea Bondonio (Isolarchitetti), arch. Antonio Torres (Rafael Moneo Arquitectos) and ing. Pierluigi Violetto (ICIS S.r.l.), who then accompanied us to visit the site.
Pending confirmation, 2024
Conference by the Studio Isolarchitetti, which is planning (together with Rafael Moneo) the recovery of the Nervi pavilion of Torino Expo to realize the New Civic Library of Turin.
Conference: The Masterplan office of the Politecnico di Torino, to present the project of the Campus of Architecture along the banks of the river Po, which combines the castle of Valentino with the complex of Torino Expo and Teatro Nuovo.
June 26 and 27, 2024
Trip to Alessandria where there is a visit to the chapel made by Ignazio Gardella for the ex-Sanatorio, the object of the project exercise
April 11, 2024
Trip to Ivrea (a city included in the UNESCO heritage list), accompanied by Prof. Novelli, to visit the works of contemporary architecture designed by the masters of the Italian twentieth-century (Luigi Figini and Gino Pollini, Mario Ridolfi, Roberto Gabetti and Aimaro Isola, Gino Valle, Edoardo Vittoria, Ignazio Gardella, Marcello Nizzoli and Annibale Fiocchi) commissioned by Olivetti.
March 25, 2024
Block 2 presentation at Torino.
March 21 and 22, 2024
Students evaluation (personal interview).
March 20, 2024
Students-teachers session cheking the general management of Block 1.
March 18 and 19, 2024
Visit to Bordeaux (France).
March 14, 2024
Visit to the Aránzazu site
January 29, 2024
Visit to the Higer Cape lighthouse
January 10, 2024
Intervention by the architect Ms. Susana Landrove, General Manager of DOCOMOMO spanish branch.
January 8 and 9th, 2024
Visit at "Vila de Gracia" in Barcelona.
November 28th, 2023
The call for grants for the participation of students in official Master's Degrees offered by the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU ("attract talent") has awarded one full scholarship to an ARURCOHE student and a second scholarship is on the reserve list.
October 30th, 2023
ARURCOHE has recently become a member of PTEC (Spanish Construction Technology Platform) which in turn is a part of the European Construction Platform. The most important industrial groups at European level are represented in the PTEC. The basis for the interrelation between PTEC and ARURCOHE will be established shortly. The aim is to connect ARURCOHE students with the construction business sector.
October 2nd, 2023
Today at 10.00 h (Brussels time) the Program Director Prof. Santiago Sánchez-Beitia has presented the first edition of ARURCOHE. Here you may see the pdf file of the power point file shown and here the link to the emitted conference by streaming.
September 2nd, 2023
Call for grants to attract talent to university master's degrees at the University of the Basque Country. Academic year 2023/2024.
The University of the Basque Country has published a call for grants for enrollment in University Master's Degrees. In the case of ARURCOHE, applications of the non-scholarship students will be supported. Those interested can contact the ARURCOHE Secretariat and enter on line application.
August 27th, 2023
26
students are pre-enrolled in ARURCOHE: 19 fully scholarship students and 7
non-scholarship partially funded by the ARURCOHE Programme. The latter 7 have paid a
pre-enrollment fee. These 26 students are currently in the process of
obtaining the corresponding visa to ensure their presence at the end of
September in Donostia-San Sebastian. All of them have an insurance
policy for their stay in Europe.
The origin of the 28 students is as follows: Syrian Arabic Republic (1), Mexico (2), Pakistan (4), Brazil (4), Ethiopia (1), Portugal (1), Greece (2), Turkey (2), China (1), Iran Islamic Republic (1), Italy (1), Spain (2), Albania (1), Poland (1), Paraguay (1) and Vieth Nam (1). That is, 26 students from 16 countries.