Eva Prats graduated from the School of
Architecture of Barcelona (U.P.C.), in 1992 and obtained her Doctorate Cum
Laude by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology RMIT, 2019.
After a long experience at Enric Miralles office,
in 1998 she established in Barcelona the Studio Flores & Prats, with
partner Ricardo Flores, which combines design and constructive practice with an
intense academic activity. Together they developed a career where research is
always linked to the responsibility to make and build, giving importance to the
possibilities of open interpretations and critical views that the built work
reveals as part of this research process.
Their projects investigate fields such as
rehabilitation and reuse of abandoned or ruined constructions, social housing
and its capacity to build community, or urban public spaces with the
participation of neighbors.
Eva Prats is Associated Professor at the School
of Architecture of Barcelona (ETSAB) since 2002. She was a Visiting Professor
at ETH Zurich from 2019 to 2021, and Professor of Architecture and Urban
Planning at the RMIT Campus in Barcelona from 2014 to 2022.
She has lectured, and run academic design
workshops in the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Austria, Lebanon,
Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Australia, Argentina, Mexico… She has been guest
lecturer at Arizona State University in Phoenix (Spring 2000), and directed the
International Guest Project Workshop at ETSAB together with Enric Miralles
(1998), John Hejduk (1999), Juan Navarro Baldeweg (2000), Cedric Price (2001)
and Clorindo Testa (2002).
Ricardo Flores
Ricardo
Flores is an architect for the University of Buenos Aires, Master in Urban
Design and Doctor of Architecture for the School of Architecture of Barcelona.
After a long collaboration with Enric Miralles, in 1998 he establishes Flores
& Prats Architects together with Eva Prats in Barcelona, an office
dedicated to the confrontation of theory and academic practice with design and
construction activity.
The
practice has worked throughout Europe on projects of adaptive reuse, social housing
and urban public spaces with neighbours’ participation. Flores & Prats
obtained among others the Grand Award in Architecture at the Royal Academy of
Arts, the City of Barcelona Award, the City of Palma Award, and was invited to
the last four editions of La Biennale di Venezia.
Besides
his professional practice, Ricardo is Associated Professor of Design Studio at
ETSA Barcelona and has been Guest Professor, conducted workshops and Guest
Lecturer at several universities in America, Europe and Australia.
Affiliated architects
Master
Laura Martínez del Olmo
Graduated
in Architecture from ETSA in Madrid and PhD at the University of Granada. She
has worked for various architecture firms in Spain and Switzerland and
co-founded Atelier Pevere Martínez in Lugano in 2019. Since 2022 is affiliated architect
at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio.
Michela Romanò
Graduated in
2015 from the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio, with professors Shelley
McNamara and Yvonne Farrell, founders of Grafton Architects.
She worked with Grafton Architects from 2016 to 2021,
having contributed in all phases to the realisation of the ‘’Marshall
Building’’, the new edifice of the LSE university campus in London.
Since 2021 Michela is a free-lance practitioner in
Milan.
In 2022 - 2023 she became student assistant at
Politecnico di Milano.
Since 2023 is affiliated architect at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio.
Diploma
Amanzio Farris
Architect Amanzio Farris graduated in 2003
in Architecture at Università della Sapienza in Rome, where he obtained his PhD
degree in 2009.
In his activity as architect he
intertwined project research, carried out both individually and in
collaboration since 2016, with university teaching, which since 2018 has seen
him engaged at Facoltà di Architettura at Politecnico of Milan.