Carles Baiges Camprubí
Carles Baiges Camprubí is an architect who works at the intersection between the social and spatial, specifically in projects of citizen participation in architecture and urban planning, including researching cooperative housing.
He is one of the founding members of Lacol, an architecture cooperative that works with architecture for social transformation as a tool to intervene in the immediate environment in a critical way.
Lacol was awarded the Mies van der Rohe Emerging Prize 2022 for their cooperative housing building, La Borda and have been selected in the biennales of architecture in Venice (2016, 2021), Buenos Aires (2017) and San Sebastián (2019).
Above: Cooperativa d'habitatges La Borda and La Balmba designed by architecture cooperative, LaCol
LaCol architecture cooperative (pictured above) recipient of the Mies Van Der Rohe Emerging Architect Prize, 2022