Principal Architects
Principal Architects
Born in Barcelona, the 24th February of 1956, he leads the Barcelona office with Carmen Fiol. He is involved in client liaison and all stages of project development. He is jointly responsible for the design direction of the practice.
He graduated from the superior technical School of architecture of Barcelona (ETSAB) in 1981. Rewarded by the William Fullbright grant in 1985, he attended the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning at Columbia University, New York, receiving a Master in Architecture and Building Design (1986).
He was responsible in the Urban Design Department for the urban transformation developed throughout the city of Barcelona between 1981-87 and awarded the Harvard University Prince of Wales Prize in Urban Design in 1990 for its ‘exemplary demonstration of leadership in the physical conformation and renewal of a city’. He was Associate Director of the Institute of Urban Development and Olympic Games. In this capacity, Andreu designed and coordinated Olympic projects in preparation of Barcelona’s hosting of the 1992 Olympic Games. The development for these games were recognized internationally as creating a meaningful legacy in the urban design landscape of Barcelona.
He has taught at a number of schools of architecture, including the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura (ETSAB) in Barcleona, was Visiting Professor at the Politecnico de Milano to Piacenza, the Università degli Studi di Cagliari, the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Since 1994, he has been an Associate Professor of Architectural Design at the School of Architecture of Barcelona.
He is particularly interested in urban questions and the changing conditions of the contemporary European city. More specifically, he has addressed through teaching and practice the complexity of each site that requires the sensitive interpretation of place and space as a critical synthesis of historic layers, existing natural and man-made systems, cultural forces, and the potential for future meaning. The success of the designs resided not only in their ability to address these often conflicting site and program characteristics, but in their creation of a whole larger than the sum of the parts. in this changing context.
A Barcelonian by birth (17th October 1956), she graduated in architecture at ETSAB in 1981. She received a Scholarship from the Generalitat de Catalunya Grant in 1985-87 and William Kinne Fellowship 1986-87. She received her Master of Science in Architecture and Building Design from Columbia University in New York in 1986. She has been pupil of Oriol Bohigas, Manuel de Solà-Morales and Peter Eisenmann. From 1981-1988 she was a leading architect in the Departament de Project Urbans de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona whose Public Spaces between 1981 and 1987 were awarded the Harvard University Prince of Wales Prize in 1990.
From 1993-2002 she was professor in the Departament d’Urbanisme i Ordenació del Territori at ETSAB, in 1997 she was Member of the Jury of the ‘Concours Imperatrice’ Foundation Roi Baudouin à Bruxelles and professor at ILAUD (International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design), Venezia 1998. Since 2003 she‘s visiting by professor at the Scuola di Architettura dell’Università degli Studi di Cagliari. Doctor Europeus at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Barcelona, 2007.
Andreu Arriola, Carme Fiol, Andrea Arriola, Adrian Mellado, Rachele Cappellini, Giacomo Arillotta, Ana Vidal, Gerardo Peregrín, Annalisa Cicero, Chiara Cossu, Roberto Ibba, Elena Macciocca, Sofia Marci, Alberto Aragón
Carme Fiol, Andreu Arriola, Alessandra Curreli, Andrea Arriola, Adrian Mellado, Ana Vidal, Alexander Kruse Bredgaard, Silvia Torterolo, Carolina Tozzi, Serena Nenciarini, Elisa Fregosi, Alessandra Elia, Antonio Pira, Sara Col, Valentina Romano, Ines Sanfeliu, Giorgia Clarioni, Rachele Cappellini, Federico Goldoni, Rafaella Psaroude, Skevi Hadjipetri, Ludovica Rolando, Annalisa Cicero
Andreu Arriola, Carme Fiol, Andrea Arriola, Adrián Mellado, Alessandra Curreli, Ana Vidal, Alexander Kruse Bredgaard, Silvia Torterolo, Martina dal Salvio, Carolina Tozzi, Enrica Biondi, Serena Nenciarini, Endi Andoni
Andreu Arriola, Carme Fiol, Andrea Arriola, Antón Monedero, Adrián Mellado, Dario de Fazio, Benedikt Schlund, Roxane de Buttet, Elena Pisano, Margherita Porfirio, Emanuele Calaresu, Maria Krysavva, Marc Vives, Eugenio Chironna, Martina Biasci, Chiara Maccari, Lapo Saladini, Giulia Barbero
Andreu Arriola, Carme Fiol, Jennifer Petermann, Claudia Castellana, Stella Taousiani, Antón Monedero, Adrián Mellado, Andrea Arriola, Alessandra Curreli, Stella Taousiani, Emanuele Calaresu, Benedikt Schlund, Elena Pisano
Andreu Arriola , Carme Fiol , Giulia Roba, Lina Monaco, Gabrielle Betti, Arine Aprahamian, Sylvia Sykorova,Maria Luigia Convertino, Elisa Montalti, Eric Angelats, Katy Snodgrass, Cvijeta Skaric, Emanuele Calaresu, Elisa Montalti, Silvia Campagnaro, Corrado dell’Olio, Louise Nicollon des Abbayes, Samer Schinder, Roberta Guerra, Ludovica Masia, Francesco Scilla, Federica Forcesi, Elisabetta La Rosa, Eric Angelats, Erika Garay, Usue Belandia, Ana Martinovic, Alessandra Curreli, Antón Monedero, Adrián Mellado, Piergiorgio Angius, Gert-Jan Vos, Zofia Kmita.
Andreu Arriola, Carme Fiol, Xavier Arriola, Dimitra Katsadourou, Elisabetta Sforza, Federica Costa, Andrea Pisanu, Flavia Feroce, Giovanni Ortu, Dalila Serusi, Malgorzata Czora, Inga Nissen, Julija Skobelkina, Marie Gelová, Marta Alonso, Mateusz Skalski, Mathew Reilly, Meritxell Gras, Monika Pezdek, Paulina Mysiak, Petra Kacmarova, Siba Jaber, Valeria Erasmo, Veronica Linden, Saimir Ducellari, Andrea Arriola, Joan Amargós, Alvaro Matías, Adrián Mellado, Anton Monedero, Xristina Antonelli, Irene Giovanetti, Mathieu Hefti, Silvia Gergulics, Carlo Pavan, Marina Schlatter, Irene Tedde, Damiano Cadoni, Giovanna Pittalis, Sandro Paglia, Ana Bilan, Sophia Tesche, Tania Schiavon.
Andreu Arriola, Carme Fiol, Xavier Arriola, Alessandra Curreli, Andreas Puck, Giulia Maniscalco, Jayon You, Julia de Vito, Anna Boscian, Aviva Bruckmayer, Cinzia Cabras, Dario Canu , Elisa Policriti, Fanny Brouillet, Giulia Milza, Ilaria Congia, Marco Solinas, Maria Kosinska, Mariaclara Masi, Marianna Iurilli, Marie Bettler, Marion Guichard, Nicole Garlich, Nora Bukovits, Nora Franckevi Ciute, Patrizia Gatto, Raffaele Gagliardi, Julia Moschen, Ramona Stiehl, Alessandro Sabino, Silvia Floris, Silvia Nicoli, Valeria Fabrizi, Kris Huysmans, Fabienne Legros, Andrea Bussola, Aleksandra Miller, Cristian Ramírez, David Drews, Elisa Deiana, Emanuela Borri.
Andreu Arriola, Carme Fiol, Xavier Arriola, Annalia Sedda, Claire Brunelat, Elena Ferrucci, Fabiane Unger, Marius Lund, Matt Stanley, Fabrizio Masala, Francesca Podda, Giulia Bartolucci, Guillaume Barsalou, Leonard Cattoni, Margot Chabert, Monika Bozek, Rupert Toobms, Stefano Tiracchia.