Carme Pigem Barceló

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Carme Pigem Barceló

Carme Pigem Barceló (born April 18, 1962 in Olot ) is a Spanish architect from the Catalan cultural sector.

Life

Carme Pigem graduated from the 1977 to 1979 art school in Olot ( Escola d'Art i Superior de Disseny d'Olot ). As an architect, she graduated in 1987 from the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura del Vallès (ETSAV) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).

In 1988 she founded the architecture firm RCR Arquitectes in Olot with her former classmates Rafael Aranda Quiles and Ramón Vilalta Pujol . With a view to the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona , she moved to the Comarca Garrotxa .

From 1992 to 1999 she taught as a professor for architecture projects at the ETSAV in Sant Cugat del Vallès , where she supervised diploma theses from 1995 to 2005. From 1997 to 2003 she taught as a professor in the same subject at the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB ) of the UPC in Barcelona . She has been a visiting professor at the Faculty of Architecture at ETH Zurich in Switzerland since 2005 and has been offering workshops worldwide since 2012.

In 2017, together with the two RCR colleagues mentioned, she received the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize .

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