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Architectural practice in Barcelona, Spain From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Flores & Prats is an architectural practice based in Barcelona, Spain, founded by Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores in 1998.
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Established in 1998 by Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores, after their experience at Enric Miralles’s office, Flores & Prats combines design and constructive practice with academic activity.
In 2017 Flores & Prats were finalists for the FAD Architecture Prize,[1] ENOR Architecture Prize,[2] and Beazley Designs of the Year[3] at the Design Museum in London. They received a special mention in the National Architecture awards for Spain[4] in 2018 and been named Architects of the Year in the 2018 AD Awards.[5]
Born in Buenos Aires in 1965, Ricardo Flores is the founder of Flores & Prats with Eva Prats. He studied architecture at Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo. In Buenos Aires he collaborated with various architecture firms, such as Aslan y Ezcurra and Baudizzone - Lestard - Varas Arquitectos. with a thesis titled "Interstitial Spaces". He collaborated with Solà Morales's studio for the exhibition project "Alexanderpolder, New Urban Frontiers"[6] held at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam in 1993. From 1993 to 1998 he collaborated as Design Architect at Enric Miralles's office.[7] He completed a PhD in architecture at ETSAB in 2016 with his thesis "Casa La Ricarda by Antonio Bonet Castellana". Ricardo has been professor of Design Studio at the School of Architecture of the Universitat International (Esarq-UIC) since 2004 until 2012, and since 2009 he is Associate Professor of Design Studio at ETSAB - Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona.
Eva Prats was born in Barcelona in 1965. She studied architecture at the ETSAB, where she graduated in 1992. Since 1986 she collaborated with Enric Miralles.[8] In 1993, Eva Prats participated the EUROPAN III[9] International Housing Competition, starting her own practice in 1994. In 1998 she established Flores & Prats with Ricardo Flores. In March 2019 she completed her PhD at RMIT University with a dissertation titled "To Observe with the Client, to Draw with the Existing. Three cases of architecture dealing with the As Found", directed by Jo Van Den Berghe, Leon van Shaik and Martyn Hook. She is Associate Professor of Design Studio at ETSAB since 2002. Since 2014 she is also Professor of Architecture and Urbanism – Industry Fellow at the RMIT – Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.[10]
Selected works by the firm include:
Flores & Prats Architects’ participations in La Biennale di Venezia:
The work of Flores & Prats has been awarded internationally. They have been part of the Emerging Offices Wallpaper* Directory in 2007. They won the Grand Prize for the Best Architectural Work of the Royal Academy of Arts in London 2008 for the rehabilitation project Mills Museum in Palma de Mallorca, which was also recipient for the Mallorca Architecture Award.[45] Flores & Prats were nominated for the International Prize Dedalo Minosse in Vicenza in 2011 for the New Microsoft Campus in Milan.[46] They have been nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award three times: first in 2005 for the Mills Museum of the Balearic Islands,[47] then in 2015 for Casal Balaguer and in 2017 for Sala Beckett. Their work was exhibited at La Biennale di Venezia - International Architecture Exhibition in 2014,[48][49] 2016[50] and 2018.[51][52]
Casal Balaguer was nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award in 2015[53] and was finalist in the Mallorca Architecture Awards in the Rehabilitation Category in 2017, and awarded the City of Palma Prize of Architecture in 2018.
Sala Beckett / International Drama Workshop was finalist at the FAD Architecture Prize,[54] ENOR Architecture Prize,[55] and Beazley Designs of the Year[56] at the Design Museum in London, nominated for the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award 2017,[57] winner of Barcelona City Prize 2016 in Architecture[58] and Living Spaces - Simon Prize of Architecture 2016.[59] They have received a special mention in the National Architecture awards for Spain[60] in 2018 and been named Architects of the Year in the 2018 AD Awards.[61]
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