This year, Catalonia in Venice has a lot to celebrate as it brims with content, presenting Dream and Nature by RCR, the studio founded by Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta, winners of the 2017 Pritzker Prize. The 16th edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2018, curated by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, pays homage to architecture that shows a generosity of spirit, and RCR are a point of reference in that regard: they create spaces that protect and shelter their inhabitants, that respect the fragility of the planet, and that transform the experience of the built environment into a spiritual longing – a dream of nature.
RCR’s designs and buildings leave no one indifferent: their forms take us by surprise, their contrasts tug at us, their atmospheres envelop us. Like the false thrusts of fencers, harmless and bloodless, their beauty thrills us. Perhaps because they’ve managed to make their dreams a reality?
