Architecture Speaks! Carles Baiges, Lacol

In the twelfth season of the Architecture Speaks! lecture series, organized jointly by Aalto University and the Architecture & Design Museum, Professor and Head of Department Jenni Reuter invites seven speakers to share insights into their design processes and their roles in the world of architecture. The theme of this season is Local Memory.

Carles Baiges, Lacol

Carles Baiges Camprubí is an architect from ETSAB in Barcelona and has a master’s degree in Urban Sociology from Universiteit van Amsterdam. He is one of the founding members of the cooperative of architects Lacol. Lacol has been awarded several recognitions, including the Emerging category of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Awards 2022, and has been selected in the biennials of architecture in Venice (2016, 2021), Buenos Aires (2017) and San Sebastián (2019). Their project La Borda has also won the European Collective Housing Award and has been awarded at the European Responsible Housing Awards and the World Habitat Award.

“I invited Lacol because of the positive example they offer of cooperative and collective architectural practice, and of architecture as a tool for social transformation and for intervening in the immediate environment.” – Jenni Reuter

The free online lecture will be held on Zoom, and registration is required. Read more.