Sergi Bastidas wins the Rafael Manzano Prize 2021
12/11/2021.
[Mallorca] Spain
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metalocus, JAVIER ARIAS
The 10th Rafael Manzano New Traditional Architecture Prize has been awarded to Sergi Bastidas, who has worked chiefly in Mallorca, in both new building and renovation, seeking always to use traditional materials and techniques.
The Rafael Manzano Prize of New Traditional Architecture is mainly aimed to promote in Spain and Portugal traditional architecture as a tool for upgrading the contemporary practice, both in the restoration of architecture or urban ensembles and in new built works which, based on local traditions, are able to harmoniously draw on the context where they are built.
The Rafael Manzano Prize of New Traditional Architecture is mainly aimed to promote in Spain and Portugal traditional architecture as a tool for upgrading the contemporary practice, both in the restoration of architecture or urban ensembles and in new built works which, based on local traditions, are able to harmoniously draw on the context where they are built.
Can Ferrereta Hotel by Sergi Bastidas. Image courtesy of Premio Rafael Manzano 2021
Can Ferrereta Hotel by Sergi Bastidas. Image courtesy of Premio Rafael Manzano 2021
Can Ferrereta Hotel by Sergi Bastidas. Image courtesy of Premio Rafael Manzano 2021
Can Ferrereta Hotel by Sergi Bastidas. Image courtesy of Premio Rafael Manzano 2021
Can Ferrereta Hotel by Sergi Bastidas. Image courtesy of Premio Rafael Manzano 2021
Son Garrot, Mallorca, renovation and new construction. Image courtesy of Premio Rafael Manzano 2021
Son Garrot, Mallorca, renovation and new construction. Image courtesy of Premio Rafael Manzano 2021
Ameskar School, Morocco, rehabilitation and expansion by Sergi Bastidas. Image courtesy of Premio Rafael Manzano 2021
Ameskar School, Morocco, rehabilitation and expansion by Sergi Bastidas. Image courtesy of Premio Rafael Manzano 2021
Ameskar School, Morocco, rehabilitation and expansion by Sergi Bastidas. Image courtesy of Premio Rafael Manzano 2021
Sa Barralina, Mallorca, reform and extension by Sergi Bastidas. Image courtesy of Premio Rafael Manzano 2021
Sa Barralina, Mallorca, reform and extension by Sergi Bastidas. Image courtesy of Premio Rafael Manzano 2021
Sa Barralina, Mallorca, reform and extension by Sergi Bastidas. Image courtesy of Premio Rafael Manzano 2021
Es Puig, Mallorca, new construction by Sergi Bastidas. Image courtesy of Premio Rafael Manzano 2021
Es Puig, Mallorca, new construction by Sergi Bastidas. Image courtesy of Premio Rafael Manzano 2021
Es Puig, Mallorca, new construction by Sergi Bastidas. Image courtesy of Premio Rafael Manzano 2021
Rialto Living Store by Sergi Bastidas. Image courtesy of Premio Rafael Manzano 2021
Rialto Living Store by Sergi Bastidas. Image courtesy of Premio Rafael Manzano 2021
Rialto Living Store by Sergi Bastidas. Image courtesy of Premio Rafael Manzano 2021
Sergi Bastidas also has a particular interest in integrating into his buildings the identity of the place to which they belong. The buildings he designs seem to merge with their setting thanks to his attention to local terrain, climate, materials and building traditions, the ways in which the place has been used traditionally and its vegetation and landscape. Hence he is a great advocate of more natural and sustainable materials, which also give his work warmth and humanity: stone, lime, wood or cane.
It was first awarded in 2012 in a ceremony held at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid), where it has been held each year since then. In 2017, thanks to the collaboration of the Fundação Serra Henriques and the Ordem dos Arquitectos the prize was extended to Portugal, being granted to practitioners in either of the two countries.
It was first awarded in 2012 in a ceremony held at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid), where it has been held each year since then. In 2017, thanks to the collaboration of the Fundação Serra Henriques and the Ordem dos Arquitectos the prize was extended to Portugal, being granted to practitioners in either of the two countries.
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Sergi Bastidas
Sergi Bastidas. Born in Barcelona, in 1979 he set up his first architecture practice, BB-Architects, which later gave rise to his current firm, Bastidas Architecture. He began his career also in Barcelona, where he worked with Enric Franch Miret, his mentor, with whom he collaborated for various ADI-FAD industrial design competitions. Over a career of nearly 40 years he has practised in the Balearic Islands, Barcelona, Paris, New York and Marrakech. After several years of working with his sons Gerard and Boris, in 2020 they both joined him in the management team of Bastidas Architecture.
One of the most notable qualities of his work is that his finished projects seem always to have been part of their setting and only an expert eye can easily discern whether they are restorations or new buildings, between what already existed and what has been added. Local landscape and culture thereby become central to each of his projects.
Notable among his extensive work in Mallorca are Hotel Can Ferrereta in Santanyí, the product of renovating and enlarging an 18th-century farmhouse; the rebuilding and restoration of the 18th-century Can O’Ryan mansion in Palma de Mallorca so as to convert it into the Rialto Living store; and many country houses that he has designed, restored or enlarged, such as Sa Barralina, organised around a central courtyard; Son Garrot, in which he aggregated several volumes; or the more vernacular Es Puig. As to his work outside Spain, we may note in particular, for the use of traditional forms and systems and especially of earthen construction, his refurbishment and enlargement of the school of Ameskar in Morocco.
One of the most notable qualities of his work is that his finished projects seem always to have been part of their setting and only an expert eye can easily discern whether they are restorations or new buildings, between what already existed and what has been added. Local landscape and culture thereby become central to each of his projects.
Notable among his extensive work in Mallorca are Hotel Can Ferrereta in Santanyí, the product of renovating and enlarging an 18th-century farmhouse; the rebuilding and restoration of the 18th-century Can O’Ryan mansion in Palma de Mallorca so as to convert it into the Rialto Living store; and many country houses that he has designed, restored or enlarged, such as Sa Barralina, organised around a central courtyard; Son Garrot, in which he aggregated several volumes; or the more vernacular Es Puig. As to his work outside Spain, we may note in particular, for the use of traditional forms and systems and especially of earthen construction, his refurbishment and enlargement of the school of Ameskar in Morocco.
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