AAUP SLP is a company created from the architectural study Jordi Romero & Associates (architect in 1975) and primarily dedicated to urban planning, landscape and public space. AAUP is based on two fundamental premises: the personal involvement of architect partners in all the plans and projects carried out by the study, and the presence of a multidisciplinary team of collaborators, stable and highly qualified professionals in different specialities, which guarantee the quality of work and strict compliance with the orders, always considering architecture and planning as a cultural product without compromise.
Jordi Romero Sabí is architect since 1975. He worked as a student with Josep Llinás, architect (1970-71), in Menorca and Barcelona. Later, he was part of the team of Planners Associates (Lluís Brau, Carles Tejedor and Marcal Tarragó). Since then, he has worked from his own professional office or collaborating with other architects. In 2008, George Romero founded AAUP Associates SLP, incorporating a group of young collaborators. He has held various positions in the field of municipal planning in San Vicente dels Horts (1979-82), Santa Coloma de Gramenet (1982-83) and in Sant Just Desvern (1995-00). From 1999 until today was the final consolidation phase of the study, which in 2008 joined the professional society shaped by the name of George Romero AAUP and associates. Recent years have been especially important for the quantity and characteristics of the development plans approved: The 12 municipalities of POUPM Cerdanya, Sant Bartomeu del Grau (Barcelona), Avia (Berguedà), Alp (Cerdanya), La Coma i la Pedra (Solsonès), in addition to the initial approval of the POUM and the draft Olvan Bellver and Llívia Isòvol. In the area of public space, the inauguration of the Carmel settlement Funicular Street, Alghero, the Agency for Promotion of Carmel and environments and the arrangement of anti-aircraft batteries of the Hill Rovira. This project has received the European Prize for Urban Free Space in 2012, granted by a group of European organisations related to architecture and landscape: Centre for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona (CCCB); Nederlands Architectuurinstituut (NAi); Architekturzentrum Wien (AZW); Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine (La Cité); Architecture Foundation (AF); Suomen Rakennustaiteen Museum (SMR); Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM). This project has also been honoured as a finalist in the "XII Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism" (June 2013). With Massimiliano Fuksas, the team has won (April 2013) the Project Baricentrale in Bari (Italy). Currently, the project is developing the balcony of Barcelona in Three Hills, commissioned by BIMSA.
