描述
Architecture 2014-2025
This double issue, spanning 390 pages, covers more than a decade of work by the Barcelona-based studio, Peris y Toral, through a selection of projects that place collective housing at the center of contemporary architectural debate.
The projects presented in this issue originated in public competitions, a field in which Peris and Toral have developed a particularly consistent track record. The publication showcases their most significant works in the areas of social housing and collective space, demonstrating how regulations, far from being a limitation, become a design tool, and how technique can precede form to give rise to open, flexible, and durable architecture. Intermediate spaces, bioclimatic atriums, honest construction systems, and a materiality understood in terms of its performance define a body of work committed to long-term social, environmental, and cultural sustainability.
The projects are presented through an extensive collection of plans, axonometric drawings, and construction details, some specifically reworked for this edition, allowing readers to precisely follow the structural, spatial, and material logic of each work. The attention to detail, passive systems, the relationship between structure and space, and the economy of means is reinforced by three fold-out sections that expand upon key projects.
The trajectory of Peris + Toral, founded in 2005 by Marta Peris and José Toral, has been widely recognized both nationally and internationally, with awards that place their work among the most significant in contemporary architecture. These include the RIBA International Award 2024, the DETAIL Prize 2024, the Erich Mendelsohn Prize 2023, and the CSCAE Spanish Architecture Prize 2022, in addition to being finalists for the Mies van der Rohe Award on several occasions. These accolades reflect a rigorous and committed practice in which research, construction quality, and the social dimension of architecture are coherently integrated.
