Tile of Spain continues to offer a full program of educational seminars
devised for the retail sector and/or specifiers. Workshops this autumn
have covered innovation and versatility in ceramic products and have
been run in Moscow and Piatigorsk (Russian Federation), Boston and
New York (USA) and Frankfurt (Germany)
RIBA North, in Liver-
pool, is staging an exhibi-
tion titled “CERÁMICA”,
that has been organized
by ASCER’s Ceramic Stu-
dies Department in Liver-
pool in collaboration with
ICEX, Liverpool University
and Leeds Beckett Univer-
sity. As well as the best work by students, the exhibition showed a se-
ries of ceramic tile installations where a number of eminent British cera-
micists put their spin on architectural sustainability by creating ceramic
walls and ceilings.
The exhibition was supported by a symposium titled “Moulding Futures:
A Collaborative Exploration of Architectural Ceramic”, at which a number
of architects and tile industry professionals discussed the present and
the future of ceramic in architecture. The speakers at the symposium in-
cluded, amongst others, British architect Eric Perry, engineer Alexis Ha-
rrison, of ARUP, and architect and head of Ascer’s Ceramic Studies De-
partment at Harvard, Martin Bechthold
TILE OF SPAIN AT SURFACE
DESIGN SHOW
The United Kingdom is one of the prime destinations for Spanish cera-
mic products. In 2016 and 2017 it ranked third in the top ten markets
with sales hitting 165 million euros (Approximately 188 million USD).
10 Tile of Spain companies will be taking part in the Surface Design
Show (February 6-8, 2018) with an information stand that will also
feature a display of products
From November onwards, the gardens of St Martin Castle in Graz,
Austria, will be home to ceramic installation “C-Shell Shelter”: three
curved ceramic surfaces joined together to form a shelter.
The ‘C-Shell Shelter” has its origins in the project developed jointly by
the Technical University of Graz and the Graduate School of Design at
Harvard in 2014, at the heart of the Ceramic Studies network. The two
universities worked together to develop the “Ceramic Shell” installa-
tion that was shown as part of trans-Hitos at CEVISAMA that year. The
particular feature of the installation is that it manages to reproduce a
double curved ceramic tile roof made of a single piece, as against the
standard practice of using a number of different pieces to create a
double curved roof
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NEWS FROM TILE OF SPAIN
Institute of Structural Design (Robert Schmid).
