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| Carme Pinós | |
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| Name | Carme Pinós |
| Birth date | 1954 |
| Birth place | Barcelona, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Alma mater | Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona |
| Significant projects | Igualada Cemetery, Jardins de Joan Maragall, Plaça de la Sardana |
| Awards | National Architecture Prize of Catalonia, FAD Architecture Prize |
Carme Pinós (born 1954) is a Spanish architect and designer known for public works, urban interventions, and sculptural architecture. Her practice has engaged with projects across Barcelona, Madrid, Seville, Munich, and Mexico City, integrating landscape, structure, and civic space in dialogue with clients such as municipal councils and cultural institutions. Her commissions span cemeteries, schools, cultural centers, plazas, and housing, and she has been recognized by national and international bodies for contributions to contemporary architecture.
Born in Barcelona, she studied at the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona where she was formed during a period shaped by figures and movements such as Ricardo Bofill, Enric Miralles, Rafael Moneo, Álvaro Siza, and the discourse present in the milieu of Catalonia and the Institut d'Estudis Catalans. Her formative years coincided with architectural debates influenced by exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and theoretical writings circulated by journals like El Croquis and Casabella. Early exposure to the work of Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Louis Kahn, Alvar Aalto, and discussions around the Modern Movement and reactions exemplified by Postmodernism informed her emerging praxis.
Pinós began professional practice in partnership with fellow architects in Barcelona, engaging with municipal commissions from bodies such as the Ajuntament de Barcelona and collaborations connected to the Spanish Ministry of Public Works. Her work developed alongside contemporaries and networks including Benedetta Tagliabue, Norman Foster, Jean Nouvel, Zaha Hadid, Santiago Calatrava, and offices like OMA, RCR Arquitectes, Miralles-Tagliabue EMBT. She has worked on competitions and built commissions that intersect with institutions such as the Fundació Joan Miró, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Fundación Antoni Tàpies, and funded programs linked to the European Union and the Barcelona City Council. Her office has engaged international teams for projects in contexts involving municipal authorities of Madrid, Seville, Munich, Mexico City, and collaborations with firms from France, Italy, Portugal, and Germany.
Major works include the cemetery of Igualada, the Jardins de Joan Maragall, and the Plaça de la Sardana, executed within urban contexts involving stakeholders such as the Ajuntament d'Igualada, Consorci del Parc de Montjuïc, and cultural patrons like the Fundació La Caixa. Other commissions encompass housing projects alongside developers and agencies such as the Catalan Housing Authority, urban revitalizations comparable in scale to interventions by Peter Zumthor and David Chipperfield, and pavilions and installations exhibited in venues like the Biennale di Venezia, Venice Biennale, Royal Institute of British Architects, and the Princeton University School of Architecture. Her designs have been published in periodicals including Architectural Review, Domus, Pin-Up Magazine, Detail, and The Architectural Record.
Pinós has received distinctions paralleling those awarded by institutions such as the FAD (Fomento de las Artes y del Diseño), the National Architecture Prize of Catalonia, and honors in competitions organized by the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award, the Pritzker Architecture Prize-style juries, and national academies like the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. Her practice has been shortlisted and awarded in contests judged by figures from AA School of Architecture, ETH Zurich, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, and the Architectural Association. Recognitions have placed her in conversation with laureates such as Carlo Scarpa, Tadao Ando, Kengo Kuma, Rem Koolhaas, and Glenn Murcutt.
She has held teaching and visiting positions at universities and schools including the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Columbia University, ETH Zurich, Royal College of Art, Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, and the University of Navarra. Pinós has been invited to deliver lectures at venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, MoMA, MAXXI, Tate Modern, and symposia organized by the European Architectural History Network and the International Union of Architects. Her pedagogical engagements intersect with research programs, workshops, and juries at institutions like the Barcelona Architecture Center, Bauhaus Universität Weimar, and the University of Cambridge School of Architecture.
Her design approach dialogues with precedents and contemporaries including Gilles Clément, Roberto Burle Marx, Kenzo Tange, Frei Otto, and theorists found in the writings of Aldo Rossi, Sigfried Giedion, Christopher Alexander, and Kenneth Frampton. She emphasizes materiality, topography, and social function in ways resonant with projects by Luis Barragán, Hans Scharoun, Hannah Arendt-linked urban theorists, and the civic interventions exemplified by Jane Jacobs and Jan Gehl. Her influence is evident in younger practices across Spain, Portugal, France, Mexico, and Chile, and through exhibitions, monographs, and curated shows at institutions such as the Fundació Mies van der Rohe and the Centro Cultural Montecarmelo.
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