VOGADORS Official Launch

The commissioners of the pavilion, Félix Arranz and Jordi Badia, present at the place of New College on Monday 4 June at 19.30 the concept and content of the project Vogadors. Catalan Balearic & Threads in Permeable Hard Materiality for Architecture, which won the competition organized by the Ramon Llull Institute in cooperation with the COAC and COAIB to represent for the first time in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands in the Collateral section Eventi the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Poster. Proposal won by the architects, Jordi Badia and Félix Arranz.

The event also will take part the deputy director of the Institut Ramon Llull, Alex Susanna, the dean of the COAC, Louis Comerón, authors and representatives of the new equipment works selected to be part of the project, which will be in the Biennial Venice from 29 August to 29 November this year.

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JORDI BADIA

Jordi Badia (Barcelona, 1961) graduated in architecture from the ETSAB (Barcelona School of Architecture) in 1989. Between 1989 and 1993 he practiced a professional partnership with Tonet Sunyer. In 1994 founded the BAAS architecture study, Jordi Badia combines his professional task of an architect with that of a professor at the Department of Architectural Projects at ETSAB since 2001 and at ESARQ-UIC since 2009. He also collaborates to the newspaper ARA since 2010 and is editor of the Hic Architecture since 2009. Along with Felix Arranz, he curated the Catalan and Balearic Pavilion at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale 2012.

The practice is currently working on various projects, including the town hall in Montroig del Camp, the headquarters of the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre and the new premises of the MUHBA (Museum of History of Barcelona) in Poblenou district, Barcelona. The office is also working on the citizens building in Palamós, the extensive rehabilitation of Alta Diagonal office building in Barcelona and the Radio and TV University in Katowice, Poland.