(Delta de l’Ebre, 1978)
Architect, curator, researcher and educator based in Barcelona, Prague and New York. She is a professor at UMPRUM, the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague and co-founder of FAST, a transdisciplinary creative platform. Franch has been Director of the AA Architectural Association in London, Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York and professor at Cooper Union, Princeton University, GSAPP Columbia University, Rice University, SUNY Buffalo and IUAV Venice.
Franch has curated more than 30 exhibitions around the world from Taipei to Buenos Aires and Berlin. Most recently, Franch curated and designed the exhibition Picasso: Untitled at La Casa Encendida in Madrid and was the co-founder and artistic director of Model: Barcelona Architecture Festival, founded by the Barcelona City Council and the Architects’ Association of Catalonia (COAC). In 2014 Franch directed and co-curated the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale with the OfficeUS project, which included three publications: Manual, Atlas and Agenda (Lars Müller), as well as the film, The Architects (Amie Siegla), recently acquired by MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as part of its permanent collection.
(Madrid, 1981 i Barcelona, 1982)
Directors of the architecture and research studio TAKK, with offices in Barcelona and New York. Mireia Luzárraga is the director of Studio I at Columbia University GSAPP in New York and both Luzárraga and Alejandro Muiño are guest professors at the University of Tokyo. Their work focuses on investigating how architecture can be a catalyst for the development of more just lives through the incorporation of feminist thought and ecology into spatial practices.
Their work has received the “Design Vanguard 2024” award, the “Best Archilover Project 2023” award, the jury special mention at the “FAD Awards 2023”, the “COAM 2022” award and the “Temps de les Arts 2022” award. The work of Luzárraga i Muiño is also naturally present in some of the most prestigious collections of architecture museums in the world: the FRAC Center Val-del-Loire, the Vitra Design Museum, the Mak Center for Art & Architecture in Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rabat and the Design Hub in Barcelona, to name a few.
Institut Ramon Llull produces and organizes the participation of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands in the Eventi Collaterali of the Venice Biennale and has been present at the Architecture Biennale since 2012, and at the Art Biennale since 2009. Proposed projects are always selected by a jury made up of professionals with extensive and recognized international experience. On this occasion, this committee of experts was chaired by Pau Bajet and Tomeu Ramis, members of the curatorial team of the proposal Becoming, Architectures for a Planet in Transition of the UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona, with a single vote. The committee members were, Maria Buhigas, chief architect of the Barcelona City Council; Judit Carrera, director of the Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB); Guim Costa, chairperson of the Architects’ Association of Catalonia (COAC); Marina Otero Verzier, architect, curator and researcher, and curator of the Dutch pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale and co-curator of the 13th Shanghai Biennale 2021, and Eva Serrats, architect and co-curator of the exhibition of Catalan culture at the Biennale Architettura 2023 Seguint el peix).
ORGANIZATION AND PRODUCTION / ORGANITZACIÓ I PRODUCCIÓ
Institut Ramon Llull
CURATORSHIP, EXHIBITION DESIGN, AND PRODUCTION / COMISSARIAT, DISSENY DE L’EXPOSICIÓ I PRODUCCIÓ EXPOSITIVA
Eva Franch i Gilabert, Mireia Luzárraga, Alejandro Muiño
CURATORIAL, DESIGN, AND PRODUCTION COORDINATION / COORDINACIÓ DE COMISSARIAT, DISSENY I PRODUCCIÓ
Esther Fernández Cifuentes
IDENTITY AND GRAPHIC DESIGN / IDENTITAT I DISSENY GRÀFIC
Arauna Studio + Paratext
AUDIOVISUAL PRODUCTION / PRODUCCIÓ AUDIOVISUAL
15L FILMS
Marc Luguera
Núria Gascón
PARTICIPANTS IN THE LABORATORIES OF FUTURES / PARTICIPANTS DELS LABORATORIS DE FUTURS
Susanna Abella, Christian Alonso, Eva M. Álvarez Isidro, Didac Amat i Puigsech, Caterina Amengual Morro, Núria Arias, Edurne Bagué Tova, Carles Balasch, Marta Ball-llosera Font, Ferran Bartomeu, Marina Bernard, Gerardo Bonet, Gabriel Borràs Calvo, Josep Bunyesc, Xavier Canosa Magret, Genoveva Carrión Ruiz, Enric Cassú Camps, Rosa Cerarols, Francisco Cifuentes, Joaquim Comas, Aleix Coral Alcolea, Lluís Corominas, Sergi Cot, Marcel Cumplido, Anna Dot, Carles Enrich Giménez, Xavier Eritja, Josep María Escribà, Joan Estrany, Esther Fanlo, Jorge Fernàndez, Margarita Fernández, Alberto Flores, Nati Franch Ventura, Mónica Fuster, Cels Garcia, Jordi Gimenez Garcia, Maria Giramé, Jesús Gómez, Carlos J. Gómez Alfonso, Carmel Gradolí, Alejandra Guerrero Lozada, Carles Ibáñez Martí, Andreu Iglesias, Biel Jover, Imma Juan, Estelle Jullian, Tatiana Kourochkina, Ferran Lega, Lara Llop, David López, Miquel Àngel Marín, Pilar Martínez, Sergio Martino, Sebastián Martorell, Sebastià Mascaró Cabrer, Pau Mendoza Muñoz, Carlos Monleón, Marina Monsonís, Marc Montlleó, Jordi Morell, Lorena Mulet, Joan Muntané Raich, Ivan Murray, Bernat Nadal, Teresa Ninou, Marco Noris, Roger Paez, Rosa Pardo, Silvia Párraga, Eva Perisé, Manel Poch Espallargas, Josep Polet, Alfred Porres, Quim Pou, Jaume Puchalt Lacal, Elvira Pujol Masip, Tomeu Ramis, Celeste Reyna, Antònia Ripoll, Joan Roig i Duran, Guillermo Ros Lluch, Eduard Ruiz, Josep Sabaté, Catalina Salvà, Ana Sanchis, Marc Sants i Gilabert, Pau Sarquella, Nèstor Serra Domènech, Alba Terés, Montserrat Termes Rifé, Adrián Torres, Carmen Torres, Joan Vázquez, Enric Vicedo, Víctor Víscor
DESIGN AND PRODUCTION COLLABORATORS / COL·LABORADORS DE DISSENY I PRODUCCIÓ
Roger Monfort, Sergi Musach, Berta Ribaudí, Lucas Vierkoetter, Oriol Pinell
WEB DEVELOPMENT / DESENVOLUPAMENT WEB
Institut Ramon Llull
Pablo Huertas
ATLAS RESEARCH / RECERCA ATLES
Alžběta Drcmánková, Krištof Krebs, Olímpia Solà Inaraja
TEXTILE RESEARCH, DESIGN AND PRODUCTION / RECERCA, DISSENY I PRODUCCIÓ TÈXTIL
Linda Kaplanová, Martin Pondělíček, Ema Bártová, Amélie Dolanská, Alžběta Drcmánková, Karen Ósk Ellenardóttir Magnúsdóttir, Eliška Gogolová, Eliška Harris, Anna Hubená, Karla Kislingerová, Šimon Leffler, Eliška Sahulová, David Salamon, Emma Šádová, Anna Šípová, Mobina Tajik, Fuyu Yeh
CONSULTING / ASSESSORAMENT
Comunitat de Regants de l’Esquerra de l’Ebre
Nati Franch Ventura
Sonia Frias Rollón
Carles Ibáñez Martí
Parc Natural del Delta de l’Ebre
Unió de Pagesos
EXHIBITION SETUP / MUNTATGE EXPOSITIU
GROP Exposicions i Museografia
METALLIC STRUCTURES / ESTRUCTURES METÀL·LIQUES
Gerardo Gorris, GE-GO
CARPET / CATIFA
Nayla Ventura
CERAMICS / CERÀMICA
Laia Amigó
TRANSPORT / TRANSPORT
Grup Socolo
VENICE COORDINATION / COORDINACIÓ A VENÈCIA
Tamara Andruszkiewicz
Favio Monza
TRANSLATION AND PROOFREADING / TRADUCCIÓ I CORRECCIÓ
Mireia Alegre
Tiziana Camerani
Emilie Delcourt
Anna Turró
COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC RELATIONS / COMUNICACIÓ I RELACIONS PÚBLIQUES
Institut Ramon Llull
Pati Nuñez Agency
Andrea Elvira
IN COLLABORATION WITH / AMB LA COL·LABORACIÓ DE
Centre d’Art la Panera
Lo Pati Centre d’Art - Terres de l’Ebre
Bòlit. Centre d’Art Contemporani
Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya
Col·legi Territorial d’Arquitectes de València
Institut d’Estudis Baleàrics
TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona.
Becoming. Architectures for a Planet in Transition
WITH THE SUPPORT OF / AMB EL SUPORT DE
Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya (COAC)
Columbia Graduate School of Architecture
Planning and Preservation GSAPP - New York
UMPRUM / Academy of Art, Architecture and Design - Prague
