GREEN AND RED BY CARLOS FERRATER

Carlos Ferrater Lambarri

PhD in architecture, professor of architectural projects at the UPC and director of the Cátedra Blanca de Barcelona. Elected academic of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi. Invested Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Trieste.

In 2006, together with Xavier Martí, Lucía Ferrater and Borja Ferrater, he founded the company Office of Architecture in Barcelona (OAB), with Núria Ayala as Projects Director.

2009 National Architecture Award for his career, awarded by the Ministry of Housing and named, since December 2011, a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (International Fellow of the RIBA).

Since 2000, Ferrater has received five FAD awards, the City of Barcelona Award in its 1999 and 2008 editions, the Ciudad de Madrid Award, the 2005 Brunel International Architecture Award in Denmark and the BigMat Award in 2009. He has been a finalist for the Mies van der Rohe Award on three occasions and has received the National Award for Spanish Architecture 2001 and 2011, the DedaloMinosse Award 2006 in Vicenza, the Década Award 2006 and the International Flyer Award 2007. RIBA International Award 2008 for the monograph of the MP publishing house. The architect has received a mention at the 10th Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism in 2009 and another special mention from the European Prize for Urban Public Space 2010 for Ponent Beach’s Seafront in Benidorm, which has also received the National Award for Spanish Architecture 2011, the FAD Award, the CEMEX Awards, the Saloni Award, the ASCER Award, the FOPA, the COACV Award 2007-2009, as well as the Chicago Athenaeum International ArchitectureAward "best new global design" in 2010. He has been invited to the International Pavilion and the Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2004, by MOMA in New York to the exhibition "On site: New Architecture in Spain" and to exhibit his work monographically in the Crown Hall IIT in Chicago, in the Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao, the Technological Institute of Israel, the Architects’s Association of Catalonia, the Foundation of the Architects’ Association of Madrid and the Accquario in Rome. Since June 2012, several models and original drawings of the Benidorm Seafront have become part of the collection of the Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, together with the Barcelona Botanical Garden and the project of the Iberia building on Passeig de Gràcia in Barcelona.

Ferrater is the author, among other works, of the 3 blocks in the Vila Olímpica of Barcelona and the Vila Olímpica of Vall d'Hebron, the Rey Juan Carlos I Hotel, the Conference Hall of Catalunya, the Castelló Auditorium, the Scientific Institute and the Botanical Garden of Barcelona, the Royal El Prat Golf Club, the buildings on Passeig de Gràcia in Barcelona, the Zaragoza Intermodal Station, the MediaPro building in Barcelona, the Aquileia tower in Venice, the Science Park of Granada and the Ponent Beach’s Seafront in Benidorm, the GISA and FGC headquarters in Barcelona, the AA House in Sant Cugat, the Vila-real Library, residences in Abandoibarra (Bilbao) and the headquarters of Michelin in Paris. He is currently building, among others, the Cultural Centre des Jacobins in Le Mans, housing and office buildings in Barcelona, The City of Music in Sabadell, cellars in Toro, the IMQ Hospital in Zorrotzaure, in Bilbao, intermodal and multimodal buildings at Barcelona Airport, Murcia Airport, housing in Toulouse, corporate and hotel complexes in Turkey and a hotel in Miami. Recently, he received the order for the reorganisation of the Port of Tangier and some residential buildings also in Tangier.