Anna Ramos, the daughter of Fernando Ramos, one of the architects responsible for the reconstruction, architect at the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB) ). She is a practicing architect and associate professor at the ETSAB, where since 2014 she has also been Deputy Director of International Relations. At postgraduate level she holds a UPC diploma in Advanced Construction, Restoration and Architectural Refurbishment Studies and is currently working on her PhD thesis at the same university. Having set up her own practice in Barcelona in 2000, she has developed renovation projects such as the one for the Teatre de Sarrià, designed public facilities like the headquarters of the Serra del Montsant Natural Park in El Priorat (Tarragona)
The new Manager contemplates developing a set of projects whose aim is to bring the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion closer to both Barcelona citizens and to professionals from all over the world and to enhance the experience of visiting the Pavilion. And in the international sphere, she aims to uphold and potentiate the Mies van der Rohe Award as official acknowledgement of European Union architecture as well as to establish new forms of collaboration with international organisations and institutions.
The new Manager contemplates developing a set of projects whose aim is to bring the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion closer to both Barcelona citizens and to professionals from all over the world and to enhance the experience of visiting the Pavilion. And in the international sphere, she aims to uphold and potentiate the Mies van der Rohe Award as official acknowledgement of European Union architecture as well as to establish new forms of collaboration with international organisations and institutions.
The contest was set in motion halfway through February and is the first time the Fundació Mies van der Rohe has had recourse to an open procedure of these characteristics. The contest was a consequence of a sudden cessation held on June 12, 2015, one day before the inauguration of the new municipal government of Ada Colau, the current deputy mayor of Ecology, Urban and Mobility, Janet Sanz phoned the director of the foundation then, the Italian architect Giovanna Carnevali, to announce its sudden cessation "lack of confidence". "She told me that ceased after the call; it was not necessary to incorporate me on Monday," said Carnevalli nine months later to different media.
The selection was made by a jury. And the jury-commission members were the President of the Fundació Mies van der Rohe and fourth Deputy Mayor, Janet Sanz; the Director of the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB), Jordi Ros; the Dean of the Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya (COAC), Lluís Comerón; the Director of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum and member of the Mies van der Rohe Award Advisory Committee, Peter Cachola; the Head of Urban Ecology at the Barcelona City Hall, Jordi Campillo, and the Deputy Head of Urbanism and Infrastructures, Aurora López, with the support of the Fundació Executive Director, Antoni Garijo.
