This issue brings together, across 326 pages, forty years of work by the Barcelona-based studio GCA Architects, founded in 1986 by Josep Juanpere and Antonio Puig, through a selection of nineteen works —most from the past decade and a half— spanning its practice in corporate, hospitality and residential architecture. An architecture that integrates building and interior design within a single project, attentive to materiality and detail, and a trajectory that grew with the Barcelona that emerged from the Olympic years to become a benchmark practice.
Located mostly in Barcelona, the works span almost every typology and scale: from the corporate towers —Puig T1 and T2— to office buildings such as Cuatrecasas or Aragó 330; from The Mirror Hotel to housing on Passeig de Gràcia 93 or Ausiàs March 49; from cultural venues and foundations —Castell de Peralada, Fundació Bofill— to St. Paul's School and the Sea Towers in the 22@ district. Large-scale works of an urban character that have absorbed the new demands of construction —energy efficiency, renaturalization, passive climate control— to the point of making them part of their method.
