Emiliano López and Mónica Rivera will give a lecture as part of the lecture series organized by Colexio Oficial de Arquitectos de Galicia.

An Award-Winning Architecture: 125 Years of Architecture Awards traces the history of the FAD Awards and their predecessors from the late 19th century to the present day. Our Social Housing for Young People project, which won the 2008 FAD Award, is featured in the exhibition. The exhibition will be on view at Espai Oliva Artés from July through October 2026. An exhibition organised by ARQUIN-FAD as part of the celebration of Barcelona 2026. World Capital of Architecture.

Emiliano López and Mónica Rivera have been invited by Eva Prats to join her final review panel.

Our project House in Aiguablava has been selected.

We are happy to share that our project Intergenerational Social Housing is part of the exhibition “Cities Connection Project: 15 years of comparative architecture” that brings together 202 international architecture projects, within the framework of Barcelona World Capital of Architecture 2026. MUHBA, Oliva Artés, Barcelona
From April 16 to June 10, 2026.

Emiliano López has been appointed as Eugene McDermott Centennial Visiting Professor for the spring term 2026.

Special Mention

The jury awarded a Special Mention to the project Intergenerational Social Housing, by Emiliano López Mónica Rivera Arquitectos, Mallorca, Spain.

“The jury emphasized the high quality of the project, which was considered exemplary for a small of an infill in an exhibiting settlement in a marginal location, in this case with high tourist pressure, providing housing to residents with an intergenerational scope. The building proposes a reinterpretation of traditional bioclimatic principles with addressing the inhabitants as active users.  The public façade shows a humble and respectful relation to the surrounding with precise details, while the internal façade has a more contemporary language and which respond greatly to a functional and bio climatical aspects. Another point of attention concerns the common spaces, which can encourage meetings between residents. The jury emphasizes the need to maintain the quality of architecture in a marginal area; although the project is small-scale, it sets an example for the wider area”.

Jury: Frédéric Chartier, David Lorente Ibáñez, Marco Peverini, Enrico Scaramellini, Paola Viganò.

Our project House in Aiguablava is featured in AN Interior.

We are happy to announce that our project Intergenerational Social Housing in Mallorca has been shortlisted.

Emiliano López will give a lecture as part of the lecture series organized by arquitectosdecàdiz, COLEGIO OFICIAL.

Our project Intergenerational Social Housing in Mallorca has been shortlisted.

Our project  Intergenerational Social Housing is featured in Casabella nº969.

We are happy to announce that our project Intergenerational Social Housing in Mallorca has been shortlisted for the biennial Enor architecture prize.

We are happy to announce that our project Intergenerational Social Housing in Mallorca has been shortlisted for the Casa de Arquitectura 2025 architecture prize.

We’re proud to share that our project, House in Arteaga, has been selected as one of 16 featured works in Internalities, an exhibition at the Spanish Pavilion during the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale 2025. This year’s theme, Architectures for Territorial Equilibrium, reflects an approach to design deeply connected to place and material.
The exhibition showcases projects that embody a balance with their territory, using local, regenerative, and low-carbon materials such as wood, stone, ceramics, cork, earth, clay, and plant fibers.
We extend our gratitude to curators Roi Salgueiro and Manuel Bouzas, as well as the panel of experts, for this meaningful recognition. It’s an honor to be part of this group of inspiring colleagues.

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Mónica Rivera as the Harry K. & Albert K. Smith Professor. In addition to this distinguished professorship, she will also assume the role of Director of Graduate Studies.

Our project Intergenerational Social Housing in Mallorca has been selected.

We are delighted to share that the model we created in 2004 for our Social Housing for Young People project is included in the exhibition “Habitar España”, curated by Fernanda Canales.
The exhibition will be on view from April 24, 2025, to April 30, 2026, at La Arquería in Madrid.

We are honored to be invited to share our projects alongside these amazing architecture practices. BLAF, Förtsberg Ling and Ultramoderne.

Starting in March 2025, la casa de la arquitectura will offer guided tours of a curated selection of recent projects across the Balearic Islands. This itinerary, featuring twelve projects, traces a journey through evolving architectural practices—marked by low-impact construction systems, diverse bioclimatic strategies, and adaptable typologies. Each work establishes a dialogue with its landscape and traditions, reconnecting architecture with the territory and the cultural memory of each island.

Our project Intergenerational Social Housing is featured in El País.

López Rivera will be guest lecturers in Porto Academy Summer School 2024 in Barcelona.

Our project Two Cork Houses has been featured in the Book Natural Building Materials.

We are delighted to share that the first model we made in 2004 of our project Hotel Aire de Bardenas @airedebardenas is included in the exhibition entitled “LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DE UN PAÍS: MAQUETAS DE ARQUITECTURA ESPAÑOLA DESDE LA TRANSICIÓN HASTA NUESTROS DÍAS”. The exhibition is on view -2023.12.18/2025.4.30- at La Arquería, Madrid.

Our project Passive House in Arteaga has been selected.

Emiliano López has been invited by Roger Tudó to join his final review panel.

Emiliano López has been invited by Amélia e Rodrigo to join their final review panel.

Emiliano López and Mónica Rivera will give a lecture as part of the lecture series organized by Casa de Arquitectura in Santiago de Querétaro, México.

Our project Intergenerational Social Housing in Esporles, Mallorca  is featured in El croquis nº219.

Emiliano López will give a lecture as part of the lecture series organized by The Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Murcia.

Our project Two Cork Houses has been featured in the Book Biogenic House Sections by LTL Architects.

Oro editions

An Exhibition on the publication, curated by the authors is on view -22.06.10/23.01.13- at Princeton University SOA.

To know more read Jack Murphy’s article at The Architect’s Newspaper

Mónica Rivera have been invated to lecture at the 3rd Symposium of the Istituto di studi urbani e del paesaggio (ISUP) at the Università della Svizzera Italiana.

Mónica Rivera will give a lecture as part of the lecture series organized by Rice Architecture.

We are thrilled to announce that Mónica Rivera, chair of graduate architecture, will be honored with endowed professorships.

Emiliano López and Mónica Rivera will give a lecture as part of the lecture series organized every year by Club Pollença, Mallorca.

Cosentino City Barcelona and ARQUIN-FAD presents this series of four conferences entitled “Language versus style, an approach to the current state of housing” in the framework of Model. Barcelona Architecture Festival, to be held from 5 to 15 May 2022.

Mónica Rivera has been invited by Carlos Jiménez to join his final review panel.

Our project Passive House in Arteaga is featured in Casabella nº932.

Our project Passive House in Arteaga has been selected.

Emiliano López will give a lecture as part of the lecture series organized by Escola Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Universidade da Coruña.

Mónica Rivera has been invited to give an on-line lecture at the “Technology, Building Cultures and Habitation” programe coordinated by Ann Aloy Kilpatrick at Aarhus School of Architecture.

Our project Two Cork Houses is one of the 26 exemplary single-family houses presented from the organization of the floor plan to the structural detail. It shows how the house is embedded in its surroundings, how regional building traditions are reinterpreted and materials are used in unusual ways, or how extensions and renovations help to meet today’s economic and ecological living requirements.

Mónica Rivera has been invited by Eva Prats to join her final review panel.

Mónica Rivera has been invited by Andrea Deplazes to join his final review panel.

El jurado de este año está integrado por Jorge Torres como presidente y Susana Landrove y Joan Olona como vocales.

Josep Lluís Sert y lo superfluo has been shortlisted for the XV Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial.

Mónica Rivera has been invited by H arquitectes to join their final review panel.

Emiliano López has been invited to participate at the Energy & Sustainability seminar coordinated by Javier García-Germán by giving a lecture and reviewing the student’s projects within the framework of the Master in City and Housing organized by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH).

Mónica Rivera will be presenting the annual Allen Eskew Endowed Fund lecture on Human Inhabitation & Aging.

Emiliano López will give a lecture as part of the lecture series organized by Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura, Universitat Politècnica de València.

Mónica Rivera is featured in the special edition issue to celebrate the 40 years of the magazine presenting the work of 40 women architects and interior designers in Spain

Our project Hotel Aire de Bardenas is featured in the tv architecture show “Human Scale”.

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In this essay, Emiliano López reconstructs the architectural design process behind the Harvard Married Student Housing, one of Josep Lluís Sert’s most significant works, examining its social, cultural, and ideological context. This approach allows for a deeper understanding and interpretation of the project, revealing key aspects of the architect’s work.

The project, comprising 499 housing units intended to provide temporary accommodation for married students within the Harvard University campus, presents numerous parallels with contemporary debates on collective housing. Despite the differences in context and time, it remains relevant today as a methodological reference.

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Emiliano López and Mónica Rivera have been invited to give an on-line lecture at the Housing Studio “Housing & City” coordinated by Pere Joan Ravetllat at ETSAB, UPC in Barcelona.

Our project Social Housing for Young People is part of the exhibition “INCASÒL 40. 40 anys, 40 raons”. The exhibition celebrates the Institut Català del Sòl 40 anniversary.

Mónica Rivera has been invited to give an on-line lecture on our work on housing and to participate in the reviews of Sample’s students’ housing studio projects at Columbia University in New York.

Mónica Rivera will give an on-line lecture at the 8th Egurtek International Forum of Architecture and Construction in Wood in Bilbao as a recipient of the the 2018 Biennial Egurtek Wood Award.

Emiliano López has been invited to take part in the jury of the Egurtek Awards, a basque international biennial fair and prize on wood architecture. The jury for the 2020 awards includes, Matxalen Acasuso, José Antonio Barea, Javier Cenicacelaya, Oskar Azkarate, Javier García, Andoni Díaz y Jon Abad.

We are happy to announce that our project Two Cork Houses have been shortlisted for the biennial Enor architecture prize.

Emiliano López has been invited to participate at the Energy & Sustainability seminar coordinated by Javier García-Germán by giving a lecture and reviewing the student’s projects within the framework of the Master in City and Housing organized by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH).

Mónica Rivera has been invited by Hilary Sample to join her final review panel.

Our project Two Cork Houses is published in DETAIL 11-2019, an issue focused on how ­natural materials are being rediscovered as building materials.

This exhibition of award-winning Spanish Architecture from the BEAU will be held
at the Cervantes Institute of New York.
Under the motto “Más habitar, más humanizar” (“more living, more human”), this exhibition will highlight the best projects by Spanish Architects, both in Spain or in foreign countries. Our project Two Cork Houses takes part in the exhibition.

2019.10.30 > 2019.12.01

Our project Lattice House is on exhibit at Des Lee Gallery in downtown St. Louis as part of the simposyum Decoys & Depictions: Images of the Digital at Wahshington University in St. Louis. Organized and curated by Constance Vale.

Emiliano López and Mónica Rivera will give a lecture as part of the lecture series organized by the Basque Country International Architecture Biennial.

López Rivera will be workshop leaders in Porto Academy Summer School 2019. 2019.07.19 > 2019.07.26

Emiliano López will give a lecture as part of the lecture series organized by the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Sevilla.

Pop-in store for Pedro García Shoes in Santa Eulalia Shop, Barcelona. Until May 28th.

Emiliano López will give a lecture as part of the seminar Energy & Sustainability coordinated by Javier García-Germán within the framework of the Master in City and Housing organized by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH).

Mónica Rivera will give a lecture as part of the Academic Seminar organized for the XXI Bienal Panamericana de Arquitectura de Quito organized by the Colegio de Arquitectos del Ecuador.

We had the great pleasure of visiting Rural Studio, reviewing the student’s projects and giving a lecture about our work.

Rural Studio is an off-campus design-build program of Auburn University’s Architecture program. Rural Studio gives architecture students a more hands-on educational experience while assisting an underserved population in West Alabama’s Black Belt region.

To celebrate the International Libraries Day, the Library of the Catalan Institute of Architects –Col.legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya- has published a list of the top five most checked-out books. The COAC Library holds the second largest architecture books collection in Europe after the RIBA Library in London. Our book ‘Domestic Thresholds’ has been the third most demanded book during last year.

Here is the list of the five most checked-out books:

1. ‘Adaptative reuse: extending the lives of buildings’ Liliane Wong (Ed. Birkhäuser,  2017)
2.  ‘Por qué se caen los edificios’ Matthys Levy (Ed. Turner, 2015)
3. ‘Domestic Thresholds’ Emiliano López Mónica Rivera Arquitectos (Ed. Quart Verlag, 2016)
4. ‘Made in Norway: new Norwegian architecture’ (Ed. Arkitektur N – Birkhäuser)
5. ‘Recordando a Coderch: incluye proyecto inédito La Herencia’ Pati Nuñez (Ed. Librooks, 2016)

Our project ‘Social Housing for Young People in Sant Andreu, Barcelona’ is part of the exhibition “Spanish Architectures. Crónica desde Europa” in the Exhibition Hall La Arquería Nuevos Ministerios in Madrid.

The exhibition presents all the projects nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award realized by Spanish architecture studios as well as projects built by studios from the rest of Europe, in Spanish territory.

2018.09.06 > 2018.10.28

We are delighted to announce that our project Two Cork Houses have won the 14th Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial. This edition of the Biennial was titled “More Living, More Human”. Our project, Inferniño, was shortlisted.

Mónica Rivera will give a lecture as part of the Summer School Workshop organized on behalf of the XIV BEAU by the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo in Santander and directed by José Morales & Sara de Giles.

Mónica Rivera, who most recently served as a visiting professor, has been appointed as the new chair of graduate architecture and a professor of practice.

We are delighted to announce that the Two Cork Houses have won the »best architects 19« gold award.

La celebració i lliurament dels Premis FAD 2018 serà el dijous 7 de juny a les 20h a la seu del FAD: el Disseny Hub Barcelona (Plaça de les Glòries, 37-38).

Els Premis FAD d’Arquitectura i Interiorisme s’emmarquen dins de la Barcelona design Week, l’esdeveniment que uneix tots els premis de disseny del FAD i que tindrà lloc a Barcelona del 5 al 14 de juny de 2018.

We are delighted to announce that the Two Cork Houses have won the 2018 Egurtek Wood Award, given to one building every two years as part of the International Forum of Architecture & Wood Construction that this year will take place in Bilbao in October 18th & 19th.

Emiliano López will give a lecture entitled “Married Student Dormitories vs. San Gimignano” as part of the seminar organized by the Observatorio del Instituto Cervantes at Harvard University.

Emiliano López together with Bakpak and MGM Arquitectos will give a lecture at Convento Santa María de los Reyes in Sevilla as part of lectures series organized by the AxA and curated by Omar Ornaque and moderated by Beatriz Borqué.

Our project Two Cork Houses is published in Casabella nº 882 together with a text by Stephen Bates entitled “A Wander Through the Woods”.

Emiliano López together with Lluís Clotet will give a lecture at the Col·legi Oficial d’Arquitectes in Tarragona as part of opening ceremony of the traveling exhibition organized by the COAC and curated by Jaume Farreny and Ramon Fité. Our project Two Cork Houses is part of the exhibition.

Mónica Rivera will give a lecture at the Kemp Auditorium, Givens Hall as part of the Visiting Faculty Lecture Series at the School of Architecture at Washington Univerrsity in St. Louis.

Emiliano López will give a lecture on the work realized in wood as part of the 2n Congrés I Fira de Vic. Fusta Constructiva.

Emiliano López will give the closing lecture at the  Escola Sert’s postgraduate course conducted by Daniel Isern and entitled: Proyectando el Hotel del siglo XIX.

Emiliano López will give the lecture entitled “Sustainable Construction: The use of Cork in Housing” as part of the lecture series organized by the Barcelona Building Construmat Fair.

Emiliano López will give the lecture entitled “Domestic Thresholds” at the Carles Rahola Library in Girona as recipient of the 2017 Girona Architecture Award with the project Two Cork Houses.

Mónica Rivera will give a lecture as part of the lecture series organized by The University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture.

Mónica Rivera has been appointed as Eugene McDermott Centennial Visiting Professor for the spring term 2017.

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This volume shows the diverse ways in which the young architectural couple from Barcelona has always addressed questions of architecture, utilization and space. For instance a series of dated momentary photographs while travelling, aptly formulated impressions, thematically specific thoughts and photographs of interior spaces using models present their uninterrupted study of the important themes of architecture. Scattered in between are seven precisely designed buildings on the theme of housing, which are described in detail. The exciting collection is complemented by four essays by renowned guest authors.

Articles by: Stephen Bates, Ricardo Carvalho, Jan Olav Jensen, Gillermo Zuaznabar, and Emiliano López and Mónica Rivera

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Emiliano López will give a lecture at the 6th Egurtek International Forum of Architecture and Construction in Wood in Bilbao.

Emiliano López will give a lecture as part of the international conference Arquitectonics Network: Mind, Land and Society organized by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

On occasion of the presentation of the guide “Arquitectura d’avantguarda a Barcelona. Josep Lluís Sert i el GATCPAC”, Emiliano López will share round table toguether with Mario Corea, Carolina B. García and Josep Torrent discousing about “Mirades a l’avantguarda“.

Emiliano López together with Toni Cumella will give a lecture as part of the first seminar “Arquitectura e Industria. Innovar con Cerámica” organized by the Universidad de Granada.

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Mónica Rivera will give a lecture as part of the lecture series organized by the Hochschule für Architektur, Bau und Geomatik in Basel.
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW.

Mónica Rivera and Emiliano López have been invited as final review critics by Stephen Bates to the Visiting Studio he is currently running at the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB) by invitation of the Municipality of Barcelona.

On 5th, 6th and 7th of may Mónica Rivera together with  Marta Thorne, Carla Juaçaba, Frida Escobedo, Beatriz Rave, Claudia Uccelli, Angela Stessano, Paula Santos and Cazú Cegers have been invated to lecture at the architecture schools of  Cordoba, Granada and Sevilla as part of the lecture series organized by the “Aula Americana de Arquitectura en Andalucía 2014/2015. Arquitectura y Mujer en Iberoamérica. [AM_Ib]”

Mónica Rivera has been apointed member of the jury of the 57th edition of the prize.

Emiliano López has been invited to talk together with Daniel Moreno Flores (Ecu) and Gerardo Caballero (Arg) about “Territorio / geografías continentales”. Moderated by Miguel Alfredo Irigoyen (Arg) Foto: Luis Vignoli

Our project “27 habitatges de protecció per a joves a Barcelona” will be exhibited with pictures by Román Yñan at the “Centre de la creativitat Arts Santa Mònica”.

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Emiliano López will give a lecture as part of the lecture series ‘Foros 2014’ organized by the School of Architecture UIC Barcelona.

Our project ‘Social Housing for Young People in Sant Andreu, Barcelona’ is part of an exhibition at l’Accademia di Architettura a Mendrisio. The exhibition shows 20 social housing projects in Barcelona.

The Connection_ Project is promoted by the Agencia de Apoyo a la Arquitectura de Barcelona [AAAB]

An exhibition catalogue by dpr- barcelona accompanies the exhibition.

Debate session “Materia Sensible”: Monday July 9th  at 16.30. Exhibition Hall , Catalan Institute of Architects (COAC). Event in Spanish.

“Materia Sensible: jóvenes arquitectos catalanes” reúne una muestra representativa de una manera de proyectar la arquitectura hoy en Cataluña y Baleares. Se trata de 20 proyectos realizados por 10 estudios dirigidos por arquitectos de entre 30 y 40 años de edad. Todos ellos presentan una concepción y aproximación a la arquitectura comunes, con una identidad singularizada, que responde a los retos globales de la arquitectura a partir de rasgos específicos propios del territorio y la cultura donde se inscriben.

La conceptualización de la muestra y la selección de obras y estudios de arquitectura ha ido a cargo de los comisarios, los arquitectos Pere Buil , Carlos Cámara y Joan Vitòria, con el objetivo de dar visibilidad a una manera de entender y proyectar la arquitectura. La selección pone el acento en la intencionalidad de estos jóvenes estudios capaz de reinterpretar los modelos y referentes históricos para dar respuesta a nuevas realidades y necesidades sociales.

TU Munich professors Bruno Krucker and Stephen Bates organized the Symposium ‘At home in the City‘ at the Vorhoelzer Forum from 10 am till 6 pm. The architects Rivera and Lopez from Barcelona, Brendeland and Kristoffersen from Trondheim and Roger Diener from Basel took part as guest speaker.

On October 14th 2010 The Hotel Aire de Bardenas was one of the awarded projects at the Biennial.
The Awards Ceremony and Exhibition opening took place at the Plaza Mayor Congress Center in Medellin, Colombia.

The Hotel Aire de Bardenas has been awarded the Young Prize, while the ‘Social Housing for Young People’ was one of the 33 finalists. The Awards Ceremony and Exhibition opening took place in the Peredo Barreda Palace in Santillana del Mar, Asturias.

The ‘Social Housing for Young People’ has been awarded the FAD Prize of Architecture!