Sarquella Torres Architects is an architecture studio founded in 2019 in Banyoles by Pau Sarquella and Carmen Torres. The practice has received awards, including a jury mention and the audience choice award at the 2019 ARQUIN-FAD International Prize for the Bang Nong Saeng Kindergarten project (Thailand, 2018). Other accolades include the Bauwelt International Prize: First Works 2015 (Germany), Arquia Próxima (2014, 2018, 2022), AJAC Awards (9th, 11th, 12th), and Europan17. Pau was also nominated for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts International Initiative in 2016. He co-founded Persiana Barcelona in 2014, a company that redesigned the traditional blind, which won the Delta de Plata (ADI FAD) and the Arquia Próxima award in 2016. Pau and Carmen have curated and designed exhibitions such as the Premis d’Arquitectura de les Comarques de Girona, INDA Parade (2018 Thailand), El Millor Disseny de l’Any (2019-2021), Arquitectura i Ciutat a Banyoles, and A través de les Pesqueres – L’exposició que no es va dur a terme (2023).
Pau Sarquella Fàbregas (Banyoles, 1986) is an architect who graduated from ETSAB-UPC in 2011. In 2015, he moved to Bangkok, where he taught architectural design at INDA, Chulalongkorn University, until 2018. In 2019, he co-founded Sarquella Torres Architects with Carmen Torres in Banyoles, developing projects across architecture, public space, interior design, exhibitions, and industrial design.
In 2014, he co-founded Persiana Barcelona, a research-driven design initiative focused on reinterpreting the traditional roller blind. Since 2020, he has been Associate Professor of Architectural Design at EPSARQ–University of Girona and ETSALS–Ramon Llull University. His work has received distinctions including the Bauwelt Prize, FAD Awards, AJAC Awards, Arquia/Próxima, and the ADI-FAD Silver Delta. Together with Carmen Torres, he is co-curator of the UIA World Congress of Architects Barcelona 2026.
Carmen Torres González (Barcelona, 1986) is an architect who graduated from ETSAB-UPC in 2011, after also studying at ENSA Paris-Malaquais. She began her professional career in France, working on public facilities and housing projects in several Paris-based practices. From 2015 to 2018, she lived in Bangkok, combining professional practice with teaching architectural design at INDA, Chulalongkorn University.
In 2019, she co-founded Sarquella Torres Architects with Pau Sarquella in Banyoles. The practice works across architecture, public space, interior design, exhibitions, and industrial design, and has received recognition including the ARQUIN-FAD International Award, Bauwelt Prize, Arquia Próxima, AJAC Awards, and Europan 17. Since 2019, Torres has been an Associate Professor of Architectural Design at ETSAV-UPC, where her research studio was selected as a finalist for best teaching practices at the 13th Ibero-American Architecture Biennial (BIAU).
