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, Eva and Ricardo founded Flores & Prats Architects in 1998, a architecture studio dedicated to confronting academic theory and practice with projective and constructive activity. The studio has worked throughout Europe on projects ranging from the rehabilitation of disused structures to the design of public spaces with community participation, as well as social housing and its capacity to create community.

The work of Flores & Prats has received numerous 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 2019 Women in Architecture award 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 professors of Projects 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. The Architecture of 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 / International Dramaturgy Workshop, and in 2023, a new book of writings, Flores & Prats. Drawing without erasing and other essays, was published by Puente Editores and Walther König. Now, in 2024, the editorial C2C has just published Building Communities, a book that collects the teaching experience at the ETH Zurich school.