Institut Ramon LLull

The French Academy of Architecture has awarded the Academy’s Gold Medal  for 2015 to the Olot Studio RCR Arquitectes, created and formed by Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta, in recognition of the work done in the art of building. The presentation of this prize and others that the Academy has awarded will take place on 10th June, at the Maison de l’Architecture in Paris. RCR Arquitectes is one of the studios that were part of the Catalan exhibition at the last Venice ...

Josep Ferrando, one of the best known Catalan architects abroad at this time, has been invited to show his work at Palazzo Bembo in Venice in the framework of the collective exhibition “Time Space Existence” and as part of the Venice Architecture Biennale which will open on 7 June.

The Flores & Prats architecture studio is to present a show that takes a good look at the social dimension of collective housing at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen. Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats have been associated with the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen since 2003, and last year they put on an exhibition in the Danish capital that they combined with a workshop for the students of the school. This year they are presenting Meeting at the Building, an exhibition that combines ...

Architect Josep Torrents is to be the curator representing Catalonia at the next Venice Architecture Biennale with the project Of the Fragment and the Whole. This is the decision of the independent panel of experts that at the request of the IRL had to choose a curator for Catalan participation in Venice. Of the Fragment and of the Whole illustrates the fundamental capability of Catalan architecture to fuse the new with the old. Josep Torrents starts with Jujol's Casa Bofarull (els Pallaresos, ...

The Institut Ramon Llull (IRL) has announced an open international competition to choose the curator who will have to draft the proposal for Catalonia's participation in the 14th edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale, to be held from 7th June to 23rd November 2014. This will be the second time the IRL has promoted the presence of Catalonia at the Architecture Biennale, after presenting the project Vogadors, curated by Jordi Badia and Félix Arranz, in 2012, featuring nine works by ...