Batlle i Roig, Rafael de la Hoz, Mª Á. López Amado and Alternativas GEA 21, awarded with the Medals of the CSCAE 2017

The architect Rafael de La-Hoz, born in Córdoba (Spain), directs his own architecture studio and participates in urban planning projects and the construction of architectural complexes in Spain, Portugal, France, Poland, Rumania, Hungary, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and the United Arab Emirates, many of which are the fruit of international architecture competitions.

His most emblematic projects include: the Repsol Campus in Méndez Álvaro (recently in receipt of LEED Platinum Certification, awarded to very few buildings in the world); the Rey Juan Carlos Hospital in Móstoles; Distrito C of Telefónica in Las Tablas; the Headquarters of Endesa; the ‘Pórtico’ building (award-winner as one of the best buildings in the world); the Higher Council of Chambers of Commerce; the Rafael del Pino Auditorium –alongside the Paseo de la Castellana- and the Retiro Municipal Assembly building, included in the Daoíz y Verlarde complex of former barracks and an award-winner for its ‘technological innovation’.

Enric Batlle Durany (Barcelona, ​​1956) is an architect from the ETSAB, where he graduated in 1981 and received his doctorate in 2002. He works in association with Joan Roig. He is a professor of Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture at the ETSAV and in the Master of Landscape Architecture at the UPC. He holds a Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture. He has been a Doctor of Architecture since 2002 with the thesis “The Garden of the Metropolis” for which he received the extraordinary doctorate award by agreement of the Doctoral Committee of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.sis “The Garden of the Metropolis”, for which he received the extraordinary doctorate prize from the Doctorate Commission of the UPC.

In 1981, he founded Batlle i Roig Architects, with Joan Roig. Their office has developed numerous building projects, urban planning and landscape. He lectures in Landscape Architecture in the Department of Urbanism and Territorial Development at the ETSAV and is involved in the Architecture and Project workshops there, and in the master’s degree in Landscape Architecture at the UPC and in the School of Architecture of Navarre (Pamplona). His work has won several awards and has been the subject of several publications.

Joan Roig Duran (Barcelona, ​​20 September 1954) has been an architect since 1981 from the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB). In 1981 he founded Batlleiroig together with Enric Batlle Durany.

Since then until now he has developed multiple projects in the fields of construction, urban planning and landscape. He is committed to environmental sustainability and actively seeks solutions to address the climate emergency facing our planet.

His work at Batlleiroig has earned him the highest recognition in Spain for an architectural studio: the CSCAE Medal 2017 awarded by the Higher Council of Architects of Spain. The jury mentioned Batlleiroig as "an architectural studio that stands out for its quality, professional rigour and well-structured and solvent business management. Its collaborative and global philosophy focuses on process control and uses cutting-edge technologies, always respecting the fundamental values ​​of our discipline."

Joan Roig has been a professor of Architectural Projects at the ETSAB since 1984, has taught at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Agricultura in Barcelona and has been a visiting professor at the following schools, among others: Academie van Boukunst (Rotterdam, Netherlands); Delft University of Technology (Netherlands); ILAUD-International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design (Urbino, Italy); IUAV-Istituto Universitario di Architettura (Venice, Italy); Faculty of Architecture (Genoa, Italy); ITU, Faculty of Architecture of Istanbul (Turkey); Washington University (St. Louis, USA); University of Illinois (Chicago, USA); École Supérieure du Paysage de Versailles (France); Technische Universität (Munich, Germany); Universität Stuttgart (Germany), and Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Navarra (Pamplona).

His most notable contributions include his participation as a jury member in national and international competitions such as Europan, the Spanish Architecture Biennial and the European Landscape Biennial. He has also provided advice as a Cultural Delegate of the Barcelona Section of the Official College of Architects of Catalonia, consultant for the Mixed Collection of the Gustavo Gili Publishing House and Cultural Representative of the Barcelona Demarcation of the Official College of Architects of Catalonia.

His publications include the book «Nuevos puentes» by GG. and numerous opinion articles published in specialist magazines, including METALOCUS, El Croquis, Topos, Quaderns and Domus. His work has won several awards and has been the subject of several publications.

Batlleiroig is an architecture multidisciplinary office based in Barcelona, that combines the practice of Planning, Landscaping and Architecture. Founded in 1981 by Enric Batlle and Joan Roig, it is made up of over 140 technicians from various disciplines. Committed with the environment and involved in the search for solutions to solve our planet's climate emergency, Batlleiroig has been talking about Landscape and Nature since its foundation.

With a holistic view, which always seeks to link the definition of urban to the logic of landscape, a visionary commitment to innovation and a stable, diverse, and constantly formed team, Batlleiroig works in three different disciplines: City and Territory, Landscape and Public space, Architecture and Construction. Areas in which they intervene, trying to be highly specialized in each of them, but without forgetting the essential transversality that is required today to develop any project.

The versatility of their work and the implication that it demonstrates to ensure the well-being and health of people, in addition to recognition, has given them the credibility and rigor to be considered, on the international scene, one of the leading practices in solutions linked to the future development of cities.

Medal CSCAE from the Superior Council of the Associations of Architects of Spain in 2017 for their business performance and FAD 2012 Prize for Architecture and Criticism, they have also received numerous awards for their built work, among which are: The International Architecture Awards in 2020 and in 2014, Landscape of the Year WAF 2018, several Catalonia Construction Awards, IAKS-International Olympic Committee Award 2015, multiple WAF Awards and the European Prize for Urban Public Space 2004.

Their work is presented in the monographic publications: Merging City and Nature. Actar (2022); Batlle i Roig, Building with Nature. AV Monographs Num 20, Arquitectura Viva (2017); Batlle i Roig Architecture 2008-2018. TC Cuadernos (2017); Twenty Gardens 1981-2011. Paisajismo (2011); Batlle i Roig Architecture 1996-2009. TC Cuadernos (2009); Architecture Described. Actar (2000), among others.