Manuel Garcia de Paredes and Fernando Pino take part in the cycle "The Appetizer" organized by IE School of Architecture & Design

The third conference of the series "The Appetizer" of the 2011-12 course, organized by IE School of Architecture & Design, will be held next Monday 10 October.  Manuel Garcia de Paredes and Fernando Pino, professors at IE University will give a lecture called "Superoptimísticoadapthabilidoso", which offers a reflection on the creation of opportunities through various strategies. The event will take place at 2pm, in Room 142 of the university´s Segovia Campus.

"The Appetizer" are series that run for a second year and aim to bring students closer to the key forces that shape contemporary architecture. Recognized professionals and academics in the discipline will address specific issues that are near or tangent to the field of architecture. They will be using small presentations that are less formal and rigid than a normal conference.

A total of nine lectures, thirty minutes each are scheduled until next January 2012. The panel of participating experts include Edgar González, Fermín González Blanco, Paredes-Pino, Julia McAnallen, Luis Alfaro Álvarez, José VelaCastillo, Maki Kawaguchi, Manuel PérezRomero, Isabel Collado and Ignacio Peydro.

The lecture series is organized by the Associate Dean of External Relations at IE School of Architecture and executive director of the Pritzker Awards, Martha Thorne, and IE School of Architecture & Design academics, Julian Garcia and Anna Mestre.