“Glocal: acting global, acting local”: Emiliano López - Mónica Rivera Arquitectos

Friday 19/02/2010 13.00 h

Emiliano López. Assistant Professor of Architecture, ETSAV-UPC, Sant Cugat del Vallés.

Emiliano López and Mónica Rivera develop their work turning constraints into opportunities. They find constructive and conceptual responses that are specific to each project and to each site, moving the attention to the value of the everyday life, the discreet and attached intervention within contexts, and to clarity of construction. Mónica Rivera was born in Puerto Rico. Emiliano López was born in Argentina and grew up in Barcelona, where they are based today and develop their main academic activity. They have built with equal success both public works and private commissions in urban compact contexts and open natural environments. They have recently finished the construction of the 4-star Hotel Aire de Bardenas in the south of Navarra, for which they have been awarded an endless number of prizes, the Young Prize of the X Spanish Architecture Biennial and the First Prize AR Awards for Emerging Architecture 2008 among them. Another recently finished public building matches in recognitions this private hotel. Their social dwellings for young people in Barcelona have been Finalist in the X Spanish Architecture Biennial, Nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe Award 2009 and awarded the FAD Prize of Architecture in 2008. Emiliano López is also currently writing his doctoral dissertation on Harvard's “Married Students Dormitories” by Josep Lluís Sert.