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Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta Receive the 2017 Pritzker Architecture Prize
Landscape and architecture are united to create buildings that are intimately connected to place
and time. 스페인 건축가 3인이 '건축계의 노벨상'으로 불리우는 2017 프리츠커상 수상자로 선정됐다.
Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta
Photo by Javier Lorenzo Domínguez
Chicago, IL (March 1, 2017)—Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta have been selected
as the 2017 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureates, announced Tom Pritzker, Chairman of Hyatt
Foundation, which sponsors the award that is known internationally as architecture’s highest honor.
The three architects, originating from Olot, in the Catalonian region of Spain, have worked together
collaboratively since founding their firm RCR Arquitectes, in their hometown in 1988. Their work
demonstrates an unyielding commitment to place and its narrative, to create spaces that are
in discourse with their respective contexts. Harmonizing materiality with transparency, Aranda,
Pigem and Vilalta seek connections between the exterior and interior, resulting in emotional and
experiential architecture.
Mr. Pritzker remarks: “The jury has selected three architects who have been working collaboratively
for nearly three decades. Mr. Aranda, Ms. Pigem and Mr. Vilalta have had an impact on the discipline
far beyond their immediate area. Their works range from public and private spaces to cultural venues
and educational institutions, and their ability to intensely relate the environment specific to each site
is a testament to their process and deep integrity.”
Mr. Aranda, Ms. Pigem and Mr. Vilalta represent the first time that three architects together are
honored with the prize. Their intensely collaborative way of working together, where the creative
process, commitment to vision and all responsibilities are shared equally, led to the selection of
the three individuals for this year’s award. As the winners of the 39th edition of the Prize, it is the
second time that laureates hail from Spain, following Rafael Moneo who received the award in 1996.
In response to being named the 2017 Laureates of the Pritzker Prize, Ms. Pigem states: “It is a great
joy and a great responsibility. We are thrilled that this year three professionals, who work closely
together in everything we do, are recognized.”
The locally-based architects evoke universal identity through their creative and extensive use of
modern materials including recycled steel and plastic. “They’ve demonstrated that unity of a
material can lend such incredible strength and simplicity to a building,” says Glenn Murcutt, Jury
Chair. “The collaboration of these three architects produces uncompromising architecture of a poetic
level, representing timeless work that reflects great respect for the past, while projecting clarity that
is of the present and the future.” As such, an early 20th century foundry has become their office,
Barberí Laboratory (2007), and many remnants of the original building have remained, blended with
highly contrasting, new elements, which were added only where essential.
Notable projects include La Cuisine Art Center (Nègrepelisse, France, 2014), Soulages Museum
in collaboration with G. Trégouët (Rodez, France, 2014), La Lira Theater Public Open Space in
collaboration with J. Puigcorbé (Ripoll, Girona, Spain, 2011), Les Cols restaurant marquee (Olot,
Girona, Spain, 2011), El Petit Comte Kindergarten in collaboration with J. Puigcorbé (Besalú, Girona,
Spain, 2010), Bell-Lloc Winery (Palamós, Girona, Spain, 2007), Sant Antoni - Joan Oliver Library,
Senior Citizen’s Center and Cándida Pérez Gardens (Barcelona, Spain, 2007), and Tossol-Basil
Athletics Track (Olot, Girona, Spain, 2000).
The 2017 Pritzker Prize Jury Citation states, in part: “we live in a globalized world where we must
rely on international influences, trade, discussion, transactions, etc. But more and more people fear
that because of this international influence…we will lose our local values, our local art, and our local
customs…Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta tell us that it may be possible to have
both. They help us to see, in a most beautiful and poetic way, that the answer to the question is not
‘either/or’ and that we can, at least in architecture, aspire to have both; our roots firmly in place and
our arms outstretched to the rest of the world.”
In 2013 Mr. Aranda, Ms. Pigem and Mr. Vilalta founded RCR BUNKA Foundation to support
architecture, landscape, arts and culture throughout society. They have been consultant architects
to the Natural Park of the Volcanic Zone of La Garrotxa since 1989. Much of their work may be seen
throughout Catalonia, Spain and greater Europe. They remain based in Olot.
This year, the Pritzker Prize ceremony will take place at the State Guest House, Akasaka Palace in
Tokyo, Japan, on May 20, 2017.
About the Pritzker Architecture Prize
The Pritzker Architecture Prize was founded in 1979 by the late Jay A. Pritzker and his wife, Cindy.
Its purpose is to honor annually a living architect or architects whose built work demonstrates a
combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and
significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.
