The ICO Foundation and the ICO Museum launched the architecture podcast Cómo suena un edificio by Pedro Torrijos, in April. The proposal is to use an ambisonic microphone in the new room of the museum, which allows listening to a four-way sound that is experienced in 360º and that generates a true sound and enveloping 'space'.

The podcast delves into the idea of ​​experiencing architecture through all senses and all formats. The ambisonic format allows you to hear the footsteps of people entering and leaving the room, cars in the street, a paper being ripped, and even to the wind blow.
In the first episode of the ICO Museum podcast, The woman who sewed the Plaza de la Gardunya, the cultural creator Pedro Torrijos takes the microphone and invites us to learn about the life and work of the architect Carme Pinós, with special attention to the building from the Escola Massana, in Barcelona. Through a new sensory experience, Carme Pinós talks about the importance of context and the environment on which architecture is based.

The objective of the podcast Cómo suena un edificio is to create content beyond the exhibitions and educational activities to reach all types of audiences, thus diversifying and increasing the scope of communication of the different activities developed by the ICO Museum. The podcast can be heard below, or on all major listening platforms. Among them, Spotify, Apple or Ivoox.
 
“In our vocation to bring art and architecture closer to society, we are betting on new formats and channels that allow us to connect with different audience profiles and attractively show the Museum's activity. We seek interaction, dialogue and also enjoy culture with all the senses. The podcast format allows us to break down barriers and bring architecture closer also through sound”.
 
Director of the ICO Foundation, Lucinio Muñoz.

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From April 20, 2021
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ICO Museum. C / Zorrilla, 3. 28014 - Madrid, Spain.
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Pedro Torrijos started telling stories because that's what he's always liked. What happens is that afterward, he studied two majors. One was music, which taught him what time was, and the other was architecture, which taught him what space was. He dedicated himself to being an architect until the brick crisis swept over half the world, including him.

Then he remembered what he liked to do when he was little and then when he was an adult: tell stories. And he counted them. First, he called a media outlet and told them that he wanted to collaborate however it was. And he started to write. Then he called another medium again and also told them that he wanted to collaborate. And they also said yes. And he wrote in that medium. And then they called him from two other media to collaborate. And he collaborated.

Essentially, he decided to tell his stories on a social network like nobody had done before: as if it were a television program. And they called him from a podcast production company. And then they called him from a publisher. And from a couple of cultural entities. His last work is the podcast "Cómo suena un edificio" in colaboration with ICO Fundation.
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Carme Pinós i Desplat graduated with a degree in architecture from the school of Architecture in Barcelona (ETSAB) in 1979. In the mid 1980s the architectural proposals she developed in partnership with Enric Miralles obtained recognition in several architectural competitions. In 1991 she set up her own studio and since then she has combined her activity as an architect with teaching as a guest professor at different universities such as the Graduate Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation de Columbia University (1999), the École Polytechnique Féderale of Lausanne (2001-02), the Graduate  School of Design of Harvard University (2003), the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio (2005-06) o la Universitá di Roma Tre (2007-08).

Her built work and projects have been exhibited at several galleries and museums. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris hold models of her projects in their permanent collections. Her work has been published in several monographs (Actar, 1998: Monacelli Press 2004; “Documentos de Arquitectura”, nº 60, 2006). In 2008 she received the National Prize for Architecture and Urban Space from the Catalan Government in recognition of her entire professional career.

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Published on: April 24, 2021
Cite: ""What a building sounds like", ICO Museum launches its new way present architecture" METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/what-a-building-sounds-ico-museum-launches-its-new-way-present-architecture> ISSN 1139-6415
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