Carme Pigem Barceló (born

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, 8 April 1962) is a Spanish

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, a member of the

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-winning architectural firm

RCR Arquitectes RCR Arquitectes is a Spanish architecture firm consisting of principles and co-founders Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta. The trio were the 2017 recipients of the Pritzker Prize for Architecture. While the firm had won many awards befor ...

, together with Ramón Vilalta and Rafael Aranda.

Biography

Between 1977 and 1979, she studied at the School of Fine arts of Olot, and in 1987 graduated in architecture at ETSA Vallés. In 1987 she founded RCR Arquitectes together with Ramón Vilalta and Rafael Aranda. Between 1992 and 1999 she worked as professor of Architectural Projects at ETSA Vallés and was a member of the board of examiners for the final examinations from 1995 to 2004. From 1997 to 2003 she was professor of Architectural Projects at the ETSAB and a member of the board of examiners in 2003. Since 2005 she has been a visiting professor in the Department of Architecture at the Zurich Institute of Technology (

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), Switzerland. She was awarded the 2017

together with Ramón Vilalta and Rafael Aranda. In June 2020, she and other architects, as well as chefs, Nobel laureates in Economics and leaders of international organizations, signed the

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in favour of the purple economy (“Towards a cultural renaissance of the economy”), published in ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pigem, Carme Spanish women architects 20th-century Catalan architects 21st-century Spanish architects 1962 births Living people ETH Zurich faculty 20th-century Spanish women People from Olot