European Building Summit 2023

Miquel Lacasta

Miquel Lacasta Codorniu, PhD architect by ESARQ UIC (special prize best doctoral thesis 2012), Master in Biodigital Architecture by ESARQ UIC and architect by ETSAB. He is co-founder of A rchikubik studio as well as @kubik, a transdisciplinary and co-working space since 1994. He is founder and editor of Axonométrica, a blog on architectural theory. Professor at the School of Architecture UIC since 1997 Author of Paseos por el Voladizo, Ediciones Asimétricas 2020, as well as co-author of multiple teaching books. archikubik, is a French-Catalan architecture and urbanism agency, formed by Marc Chalamanch, Miquel Lacasta and Carmen Santana, specialized in projects that generate a great ecological and social impact. The poetry of the living is the infrastructure of all their projects. Scale 1, humans, flora and fauna, allows them to deploy a systemic and holistic vision necessary for the de-standardization of the production of our cities and our lives. Archikubik moves forward hand in hand with the inhabitants through “exploratory interviews”, a social interaction tool indexed by Unesco, establishing a permanent dialogue, in order to accelerate the ecological, energetic and social transition, in order to walk together the open paths of urban and architectural innovation. Awards: Our latest recognitions are: Spanish Urbanism Award 2021, CSCAE, for the Agro-city Gagarine Truillot, FAD International Award for a housing project in Ivry-sur-Seine, double selection for the Venice Biennale 2017 with the Depósito del Rey Martí in the Spanish Pavilion and with the Parking Saint Roch in the Catalonia Pavilion, nomination for the 2017 Mies Van Der Rohe Award (15th edition of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture) for the Parking Reversible Saint-Roch, the Futurs Possibles Award for the ZAC Rouget de Lisle, honorable mention at the Ascer Awards for ceramic construction with the Parking Reversible Saint Roch in Montpellier; the award of the Éco-quartier label in 2017 for the ZAC Rouget de Lisle in Vitry-sur-Seine, France; selected by the Observatoire de la qualité architecturale du logement Île-de-France – CAUE Val de Marne 2017, Best Project Awards 2017 by Archilovers for the Depósitot del Rei Martí in Barcelona; winners in the Excellent Communications Design Urban Space and Infrastructure category at the German Design Awards with the Parking Saint-Roch, the European Award for Business Management and Innovation 2019 by the European Association for Economy and Competitiveness (AEDEEC); the award of the Éco-quartier label, stage 2 in 2020 for the Agro-city Gagarine Truillot in Ivry-surSeine, winner of the Quartiers Fertiles 2021 competition also for the Agro-city Gagarine Truillot, winner 2021 of the Réinventer Paris 3 competition with Scène des Loges, finalist of the EPL trophy 2021 Category “City of Tomorrow – Smart City”, for the ZAC Rouget -de-Lisle.