Social Housing in the Balearic Islands
Thursday 24 April 2025 5 - 8pm
The Benjamin West Lecture Theatre | Burlington Gardens & digital livestream
Leading Spanish architects including 08014, HARQUITECTES and TEd’A will be in conversation with Rowan Moore, discussing their visionary social housing on the Balearic Islands.
Inspired by this year’s Architecture Prize Winner, this talk brings together practices working on social housing in the Balearic Islands. The 2024 winner, Cris Ballester Parets, was awarded the Prize as a representative of remarkable bioregional social housing projects on the islands between 2019-23. Three of the commissioned architects, 08014, HARQUITECTES and Ted’A will speak about their projects on the islands, discussing climate management techiniques, innovative approaches to materials, and the context that allowed them to create work.
HARQUITECTES is an architecture studio based in Sabadell near Barcelona. The studio was founded in 2000 by David Lorente, Josep Ricart, Xavier Ros and Roger Tudó. All four partners, studied at the ETSA Vallès, where Ulldemolins and Galí teach today. Their buildings’ aesthetics are defined by their construction processes. They have been at the forefront of experiments in passive heating and cooling and argue that the conditions inside buildings should mirror their surroundings more closely.
08014 was founded in 2014 and was formally established in 2018. The studio is directed by Adrià Guardiet (Barcelona, 1982) and Sandra Torres (Eivissa, 1985). Their architecture encompasses different scales and typologies; each project coexists with a body of research specific to each building’s focus. 08014's work has been published in magazines such as El Croquis, Architectural Review, Detail, Arquitectura Viva and Werk Bauen+Wohen and they have been recognised in more than twenty architecture competitions.
TEd’A is an architectural practice based in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, founded by Irene Pérez Piferrer and Jaume Mayol Amengual. Their buildings are characterised by careful attention to context and tradition, use of warm materials, reinterpretation of vernacular structures and systems, and exploration of typologies. The work of TEd’A arquitectes was exhibited in the Spanish Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale 2016 (winner of the Golden Lion), the Catalan-Balearic Pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale, and the itinerant exhibition ‘Sensitive Matter: Young Catalan Architects, 2010-2012’, among others.
Rowan Moore is architecture critic of The Observer. He was formerly Director of the Architecture Foundation, Architecture Critic of the Evening Standard and Editor of Blueprint magazine. His most recent book is Property, the Myth that Built the World, published by Faber in 2023. Previous books include Slow Burn City (Picador 2016), which explores the unprecedented transformations of London in the 21st century, and Why We Build (Picador 2012). His awards include Critic of the Year at the UK Press Awards.
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