This brief remark of the architect Lucien Kroll sums up his architectural approach. His most famous buildings, the living quarters of the medical students and the University of Louvain at Woluwe, now look like fragments of an old city.
Barcelona Architecture Walks Spring tours program
In spring Barcelona becomes a charming city, the streets and its people, the sky, the light, the smells…. everything in spring makes Barcelona an irresistible city. Don’t miss this moment and come to enjoy, with our spring tours, the best time to stroll around our beautiful city.
Restoring Jorba’s Castle by Carles Enrich
The castle of Jorba has sat aloft in peaceful solitude for the last 1000 years, but it just got a renovation. A year ago, architect and urbanist Carles Enrich began restoring Jorba’s Castle, which overlooks the town of Jorba and the royal road that passes through it.
Aleksandar Ivancic Lecture at Foros 2018
Serbian engineer Aleksandar Ivancic, will offer a lecture on the concept of a net zero energy building (nZEB). This concept is becoming a new paradigm in building design and is being promoted globally, particularly in Europe.
Great reviews for finish the winter season
Winter is coming to the end and we are proud to finish it with some great reviews of the latest that we have received from TripAdvisor, all with the highest score!
10 arquitectas que merecen un Pritzker
Injustamente, el premio Pritzker, el más prestigioso de arquitectura, ha ignorado históricamente a las mujeres. Solo una, la arquitecta anglo-iraqui Zaha Hadid, recibió el galardón a título individual en 2004. Hoy repasamos la brillante trayectoria de 10 mujeres que lo merecerían sin lugar a duda.
Balkrishna Doshi, Pritzker Prize 2018
Professor Balkrishna Doshi, of India, has been selected as the 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, announced Tom Pritzker, Chairman of Hyatt Foundation, which sponsors the award that is known internationally as architecture’s highest honor.
BAW’s Women team
This week we are celebrating the International Women’s day. At BAW we have an amazing women team. Every one has something special, and we are happy to share it with you!
Foros 2018. Itziar González Virós: “Las Ramblas sociales”
Itziar Gonzalez, en el marco de #Foros2018 “Plural Innovations” hablará de innovaciones sociales desde su experiencia como mediadora en múltiples procesos participativos que han definido espacios públicos de Barcelona como la plaza Lesseps.
BAW & RCR Arquitectes first expedition
Today we share the lastest new BAW’s expereince: last 20th february we have launched our BAW & RCR Arquitectes expedition, a one-day excursion lead by Jaume Prat Ortells (Architect and critic of architecture), to meet the great work of RCR architecture studio, awarded with the Pritzker prize 2017.
REM Documentary Screening at IAAC Lecture Series 2018
Tomas Koolhaas: “When you make a film about your father the first thing people ask you about is objectivity, or more specifically your lack of it. Without getting too philosophical about it I believe no human being is capable of true objectivity.
BAW Expedition for Carleton University
This week we have had the pleasure to be part or a great experience beside a nice student group from Architecture at Carleton University in Otawa, Canada. 2 years ago we did our first BAW Expedition for Carleton University, in 2017 we repeated and in 2018 we have been part of his Amazing Architecture Studio trip.
Co-Housing in Barcelona: La Borda
Housing is a major issue in most European cities due to housing shortage and a lack of affordable houses. La borda Co-Housing is the light on community housing projects, who represent an alternative to traditional social housing or purely market-driven real estate.
Llum Bcn Poblenou 2018
When night falls, a new Barcelona shines out thanks to the talent of both artists from all over the world and students in our city who have mastered the transforming power of light, this is Llum Bcn Poblenou.
Drawings by Enric Miralles
As architects, we unconsciously tend not to associate necessarily the plans we draw with the notion of map. However, both of those two objects register in the same process of cartographic creation and, in this regard, use a two dimensional language in order to create space. Enric Miralles