AV 279 : Flores & Prats

Description

For Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats, their architectural practice is approached through drawing – meticulous and meditative to the point of fixation. This is how they describe it in this issue, which explores their unique design process, featuring their projects, drawings, and models, and covering more than 25 years of work. The magazine is organised into four sections, shedding light on a process of thinking in pencil that they pursue uninterruptedly, whether in their projects or in their classes. Full of insightful and intense lessons, the array of projects is accompanied by texts from architects Jorge Otero-Pailos and Jan De Vylder, who decipher these musings of sketches and tracings.

CONTENTS

• Luis Fernández-Galiano, The Presence of Ghosts
• Jorge Otero-Pailos, In Praise of Mistakes. The Metamorphoses of Ricardo and Eva
• As Found
• Trafalgar 12 Studio, 1998-, Barcelona (Spain)
• La Favorita Industrial Complex, 2016-, Barcelona (Spain)
• Emotional Heritage, 2023, Venice (Italy)
• Castles. Architecture in an Age of Uncertainty, 2023-, London (United Kingdom)
• Building Communities
• Fabra & Coats Gardens, 1997-1999, Barcelona (Spain)
• Pius XII Square, 2001-2005, Barcelona (Spain)
• Building 111, 2004-2011, Terrassa (Spain)
• Community in Lund, 2020-, Lund (Sweden)
• On Natural Light
• Providencia House, 2002-2008, Badalona (Spain)
• Campus Microsoft Milan, 2007-2011, Milan (Italy)
• The Morning Chapel, 2018, Venice (Italy)
• Liquid Light, 2018, Venice (Italy)
• Working with Time
• Mills Museum, 1997-2002, Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
• Casal Balaguer Cultural Center, 2001-2016, Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
• Sala Beckett, 2011-2016, Barcelona (Spain)
• Variétés Urban Laboratory, 2019-, Brussels (Belgium)
• Jan de Vylder, The Happening, the Care, and the Continuous