“Margarita Brender Conference / Flores & Prats”

With the title Emotional Heritage, Flores & Prats inaugurate the Margarita Brender conference.

Eva Prats is an architect from the Barcelona School of Architecture and Doctor of Architecture from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology RMIT. Ricardo Flores is an architect from the University of Buenos Aires, Master in Urban Design, and Doctor Architect from the Barcelona School of Architecture. After a long collaboration at Enric Miralles’ studio, in 1998 Eva and Ricardo founded Flores & Prats Architects, an architecture studio dedicated to the confrontation of theory and academic practice with projective and constructive activity. The studio has worked throughout Europe on projects for the rehabilitation of disused structures, the design of public spaces with community participation, as well as social housing and its ability to create community.

The work of Flores & Prats has received several national and international awards, including the Barcelona City Award, the Palma City Award, the Grand Award from the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the AR New into Old Award 2019, and Eva has been nominated for the Women in Architecture Award 2019 awarded by The Architectural Review and Architect’s Journal. Their work has been nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award on several occasions and exhibited at the last four editions of the Venice Architecture Biennale.

In addition to their professional practice, Eva and Ricardo are actively involved in the academic world. Both are Project professors at the Barcelona School of Architecture, and Eva Prats is a full professor at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio.

In 2014, the Mexican publishing house Arquine published the first monograph of Flores & Prats: Pensado a Mano. La Arquitectura de Flores & Prats, and in 2017, the new magazine Archives dedicated its first issue to the work of the studio. In 2020, Arquine and the Barcelona City Council published the monographic book Sala Beckett / Obrador Internacional de Dramatúrgia, and in 2023, a new book of writings, Flores & Prats. Dibujar sin borrar y otros ensayos, was published by Puente Editores and Walther König. Now, in 2024, the C2C publishing house has just released Building Communities, a book that compiles teaching experience at the ETH Zurich School.