Building on the Built: Vora Aquitectura

Established in 2000, VORA Arquitectura is a multi-disciplinary practice based in Barcelona, led by Pere Buil and Toni Riba. They have won numerous international awards for their work at various scales and they combine practice with teaching, curating and cultural activism.

From small, precise interventions in existing buildings through to large-scale urban transformations, their work betrays a critical eye and a voracious appetite for the pleasures and complexities of urban life.

In Catalan ‘vora’ means an edge or limit, such as the hem of a garment or a coastline. This suggestion of a liminal, or ‘between’ space, helps to situate the practice’s position somewhere on the borderline between the past and future and between the domestic and civic realms. Pere Buil has described the work of the practice as a dialog between audacity and melancholy; looking forward, critically, to what transformations are possible and yet simultaneously looking back to the past, of being aware of the presence of history and the value of collective memory.

This talk will take place at 7:00pm GMT on Thursday 10th February 2022 in London at the ACAVA Faroe Road Studios, just around the corner from the offices of Jonathan Tuckey Design.