Eva Prats Lecture 15 March 6:30

Eva Prats
15 March | 18.30 – 20.00
Christopher Ingold Auditorium
UCL Chemistry Building | WC1H 0AJ | Map
No booking required | first-come, first-seated
35 Doors and 19 Windows for the new Sala Beckett

The lecture will focus on the process of designing and building the Sala Beckett Theatre in Barcelona, the most recent work by the Flores & Prats architecture studio.

The project has been developed in close relationship with the Theatre Director and the existing building.

The way in which the Sala Beckett team and the Flores & Prats studio develop their ideas is by testing them physically. The handicrafts practised by the theatre team are similar to the way the studio develops their ideas: through hand drawings, modelling and conversation. This similarity facilitated the relationship during the design process.

Enric Ruiz-Geli (Cloud 9) Lecture 20th October

Enric Ruiz-Geli (Cloud 9)
Media ICT and El Bulli
Thursday 20th October, 6pm
Robin Evans Room (M416)
University of Westminster
Department of Architecture




Enric Ruiz-Geli is an architect based in Barcelona who works with a group of collaborators and researcher’s as Cloud 9. Enric works at the interface between architecture and art, digital processes and technological material development. The architects’ multifaceted projects include stage designs and buildings, installations and technical patents. In 2011 he was awarded the prize for best building by the World Architecture Festival (WAF) for his groundbreaking net zero-energy building project ‘Media-ICT’ in Barcelona, which featured bioluminescent fireproof paint and an interactive smoke filled ETFE wall.



Key projects of Enric Ruiz Geli / Cloud 9 include the Villa Nurbs in Empuriabrava, an organically formed, ecological and futuristic house; Media-ICT building in Barcelona and the elBulliFoundation for the chef Ferran Adrià. Designed as a living laboratory in Cap de Creus on the Spanish/French border, the elBulliFoundation (culinary institute) is designed to sustainably regenerate its site within a national park using a mixture of ancient and contemporary environmental design strategies and is being developed in partnership with the national parks authority.



For details contact Will McLean - w.f.mclean@westminster.ac.uk

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