The majority of projects and works that we have designed to date have been related with public architectures and fragile, incomplete urban contexts. Within this working framework, our aim has been to try to dignify what is public as a collective space and to define an architecture that is specific to its environment.
For this reason we have always sought to produce architecture that strikes a balance between the specificity of the place and autonomy of form. This irreducible dichotomy has guided our work over recent years and has gradually taken it towards a ‘sentimental monumentality’.
We seek an architecture that aspires to confer dignity, identity and a sense of belonging upon places of civic community life, the civitas, through an autonomous, primal and povera approach that can transcend the point in time at which it emerges and establish a temporal link between past, present and future. But at the same time an architecture is necessary that establishes a specific relationship with its surrounding context. An architecture that is empathetic and perceptive, that transcends the rational to define a sentiment-based connection with the reality of an environment.
In the opposition between monument and sentiment our work resides: it is something that aspires to belong to a place but at the same time to belong to all places. It is an architecture that is simultaneously specific and autonomous, intimate and monumental, capable of preserving the richness and singularity of each place while never failing to discover the unexpected landscapes that each hides.
Barozzi / Veiga is an architectural firm founded in 2004 in Barcelona by Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga. Their work has been featured at different exhibitions and has been published in a wide range of specialist literature. Barozzi / Veiga has received numerous prizes, including the AJAC Young Catalan Architect Award (2007), the Barbara Cappochin International Architecture Award (2011), the Gold Medal for Italian Architecture (2012), the Young Talent of Italian Architecture (2013), the International FAD Opinion Award (2015), the Life in Architecture Award (2015) and recently the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture (2015).
Fabrizio Barozzi, born in 1976, grew up in Rovereto, Italy, and studied architecture at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia and went on to complete his academic studies at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Sevilla and at Ecole d’Architecture de Paris La Villette. Between 2007 and 2009 he was Professor at the International University of Catalonia, in Barcelona. Between 2013 and 2015 he was Visiting Professor at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia and he has been a Professor at the University of Girona since 2009.
Alberto Veiga, born in 1973, grew up in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and studied architecture at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Navarra. Between 2007 and 2010 he was Professor at the International University of Catalonia in Barcelona. In 2014 he was Visiting Professor at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia.
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