Pritzker-winning architects to look at ‘next 30 years of career’ in Venice

After winning this year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize, the world’s most prestigious award in the field, three Catalan architects based in the Northern town of Olot are to look at the next 30 years of their career in the next Venice biennale.

Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta, the three members of PCR Arquitectes, are to design the Catalan pavilion that will be displayed at the 2018 exhibition.

Their project is two-fold: on the one hand, they will present an overview of their work since they began their careers three decades ago; on the other, they will look ahead, to answer the question what comes next.

“How did we get here? It’s been 30 years since we started working in architecture, and it’s the moment to revisit what we’ve done,” said Pigem in an interview with ACN. “But we’re also saying ‘Ok, these were the first 30 years: now let’s look at what we’ll do in the next 30. It’s like a window into what is yet to come.”