Alona Martinez-Perez - 18 March 2009
Urban Designer, Edinburgh and Dundee

This lecture will look at the city of Paris from the late 19th century to the 1960's. Starting with the Haussmannisation of the city at the end of the 19th Century the lecture will focus in the 1960's period with the work of the Situationists and the Paris based novelist Julio Cortazar. It will look at the metaphors between art and urban form from Debord's Society of Spectacle to Cortazar's Hopscotch.

Alona Martinez-Perez is a Spanish architect and urban designer. She qualified as an architect at Sheffield University, and studied her masters and postgraduate diploma in urbanism at Edinburgh College of Art. Over the past few years she has worked in practice in the North of England and Scotland. Her work has been shortlisted in competitions, and she has lectured on urban design and architecture in the UK and Spain, and spoken at International Conferences. She has published articles in journals on urban design, and has been visiting tutor at the ETSAB (School of Architecture Barcelona). She is a design studio tutor at the School of Architecture, Dundee University, and works for the Geddes Institute. She is the regional Convenor for the Urban Design Group in Scotland.