Flores + Prats | ESP [ESALA Geddes Visiting Fellows]
The Discipline of the Existing
Accepting the accumulation of history in an existing
building requires discipline, it is to accept the ghost that is present in the whole life of a building as the physical
quality that time grants to things. This is the state that interests us: valuing all the lives contained in the building
that we inherit with a univocal gaze, where no single one prevails over the rest, with no concern for what came earlier and what later, or for where one period
begins and another ends.
Flores & Prats is an architectural studio founded by Eva Prats and Ricardo
Flores, dedicated to the confrontation of theory and academic practice
with design and construction activity.
Their work obtained,
among others, the Grand Award in Architecture at the
Royal Academy of Arts 2009, the City
of Barcelona Award 2016, the City of Palma Award 2017, the AD Architects of the Year Award 2018 and the AR New into Old Award 2019.
Eva and Ricardo are both Doctors of Architecture and Professors of Design Studio at ETSA Barcelona, RMIT Melbourne and ETH Zurich.