Jordi Garcés, Daria de Seta and Anna Bonet Architects. The 2011 partnership of Jordi Garcés, Daria de Seta, and Anna Bonet inaugurated a new era of international competitions and commissions that integrates and continues Jordi Garcés's already established career: the winning projects of the international competition for the New Maritime Station of Syracuse in Sicily (Italy) and the competition for the Renovation and Extension of the Palace of Justice in Strasbourg (France), as well as the new building annexed to the Picasso Museum in Barcelona and the recently completed studio building for the painter Arranz-Bravo, reflect a new professional complementarity from both a generational and cultural perspective.
Jordi Garcés. was born in Barcelona on June 25, 1945, and studied at the Barcelona School of Architecture. He has been an architect since 1970 (Barcelona School of Architecture).
He earned his PhD in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 1987 and has been a professor of design at the ETSAB (National Technical University of Catalonia) since 1975. He has been a visiting professor or external expert since the 1995-96 academic year at the Ecole Polytechique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland).
Of his body of work, the following stand out for their greater visibility: the Picasso Museum in Barcelona; the Navarre Art Museum in Pamplona; the Olympic Pavilion in the Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona; the Plaza Hotel in Barcelona; the Museum of Science and the Cosmos in Tenerife; and the headquarters of the Francisco Godia Foundation in Barcelona.
Daria de Seta has been an architect since 1998 (Faculty of Architecture in Naples). With a PhD in Architecture and Museography from the Polytechnic of Milan and the ETSA of Barcelona (2004), she has been a guest lecturer at various European universities and has taught on the Master's program "Spaces and Communication" at HEAD in Geneva, directed the Cours en Projet et Construction at L'HEPIA in Geneva, and is currently a professor of Projectes III and Global Project at Elisava.
After collaborating with Renzo Piano and MBM Architects (among others) and designing her own projects, she joined Jordi Garcés' studio in 2005.
She has always combined design practice with theoretical and critical activity, curating architecture and photography exhibitions and publishing articles in Italian and Spanish industry magazines. Her latest published book is Giuseppe Pagano. Vocabulary of Images, Lampreave & Millán, Madrid 2009.
Anna Bonet Giné, architect since 2003 (Barcelona School of Architecture). After collaborating with various firms such as Dani Freixes i Varis Architects and MMBM, she joined Jordi Garcés' studio in 2007. In parallel, she is working on several of her own projects, such as the Porqueres Library, Casa Badrena, and some specific interventions at the Museum of the History of Catalonia (the latter in collaboration with Daria de Seta).
