Spanish architects Antón García-Abril Ruiz, Carme Pinós, and Alberto Morell Sixto will lecture about their work and their vision in a series of seminars and lectures.

Carme Pinós is an Architect and Urbanist based in Barcelona, where she set up her own firm in 1991, after a decade of partnership with Enric Miralles. She has received various awards and recognitions, including the National Prize of Architecture by the Spanish Architects Association in 1995, the 2001 Prize by the Professional Architect Association of the Comunidad Valenciana for the Juan Aparicio Waterfront in Torrevieja, the 2005 Arqcatmón Prize by the Professional Architect Association of Catalonia for the Cube Tower in Guadalajara, as well as the 1st Prize of the Biennial of Spanish Architecture in 2007 for the same building. In 2008 she received the National Prize of Architecture and Urban Space by the Catalan Government for her professional work. Since 2008 she is a Board member of the Spanish National Museum of Architecture and Urban Space and since October 2009 a member of the Academic Council of the Master and PhD School of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

Her work has also been widely published and exhibited at galleries, museums, and universities, including the Kunstakademie in Stuttgart (1995), the Architektur-Hochschule in Aachen (1995), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1994), the AAM Gallery in Rome (1996), the Urania Gallery in Barcelona (1996), the Eight Plan Gallery in New York, the Contemporary Art Museum of Puerto Rico (1997), the COAM Foundation of Madrid (1997) and the Professional Architect Association of Ibiza (1996), Valencia and Galicia (1997), as well as the Spanish Pavilion in the Venice Architecture Biennale (2006). Carme Pinós has often combined her dense professional agenda with teaching at places such as the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1994-1995), the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf (1996-1997), the Columbia University in New York (1999), the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne (2001-2002), the ETSAB in Barcelona (2002), the Università Degli Studi di Sassari in Alghero (2002-2004), the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2003), the Accademia di Archittetura di Mendrisio in Switzerland (2005-2006) and the Universitá di Roma Tre (2007-2008).

Some of her most relevant projects include the Pedestrian Bridge in Petrer (Alicante), the Juan Aparicio Waterfront in Torrevieja (Alicante), La Serra High School in Mollerussa, the Cube Tower in Guadalajara (Mexico), and the Primary School in Castelldefels (Barcelona). Her current work includes the Catalan Government Headquarters in Tortosa, the Museum of Transport and Metropolitan Park in Málaga, La Gardunya Square in the Historical District in Barcelona comprising La Gardunya Square Design, La Massana Fine Arts Center, a Housing Block and La Boqueria Market's back façade, as well as a Department Building in the New Campus of the University of Economics in Vienna, the Caixaforum in Zaragoza and the Cube 2 Tower in Guadalajara (Mexico).

This lecture is part of the Architecture Lecture Series Features Contemporary Spanish Trends presented by The Catholic University of America’s School of Architecture and Planning. Free and open to the public.

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The Catholic University of America, Edward M. Crough Center for Architectural Studies, Koubek Auditorium, 620 Michigan Ave., N.E, Washington, D.C.

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