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Carme Pinós
Carme Pinós
Born	1954 (age 69–70); Barcelona, Spain
Alma mater	ETSAB, Barcelona School of Architecture
Occupation	Architect
Awards	2007 First Prize of the IX Biennial of Spanish Architecture
Practice	Estudio Carme Pinós
Buildings	Cube Tower; Igualada Cemetery; Olympic archery range, Barcelona;

Carme Pinós Desplat (born 1954) is a Spanish architect.

Biography

Pinós graduated Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB) in Barcelona in 1979 and returned to the school in 1981 to study Urbanism. From 1982 on she formed a partnership with her husband, Enric Miralles, which ended in 1991. During this period the projects developed include the Igualada Cemetery Park, the Archery Range Buildings for the 1992 Summer Olympic Games and the La Llauna School in Badalona. The work of Pinós-Miralles received awards on several occasions, including the FAD prize for the La Llauna School and the Igualada Cemetery Park, as well as the City of Barcelona Prize for the 1992 Olympic Archery Range Buildings.

In 1991 Pinós set up her own studio and transferred the supervision and construction of several projects initiated in her previous office. Amongst them was the Community Centre and Auditorium in Hostalets de Balanya, La Mina Community Centre and the Boarding School in Morella. Since then she has combined her activity as an architect with teaching, working as a guest professor, amongst others, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1994–1995), the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (1996–1997), the Columbia University in New York (1999), the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne (2001–2002), the ETSAB in Barcelona (2002), the Università Degli Studi di Sassari in Alghero (2002–2004), the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2003) and at the Accademia di Archittetura di Mendrisio in Switzerland (2005–2006).

Notable projects during her career include the Pedestrian Bridge in Petrer (Alicante), the Juan Aparicio Waterfront in Torrevieja (Alicante), the La Serra High School in Mollerussa, the Ses Estacions Park and the Espanya Square in Palma de Mallorca, the Cube Tower in Guadalajara, Jalisco (Mexico), and the Primary School in Castelldefels (Barcelona). More recent projects include the Novoli housing complex in Florence, the Catalan Government Headquarters in Tortosa, a high school in Sant Carles de la Ràpita and an office building in Igualada. Pinós designed the Gardunya Square in Barcelona, as well as two adjacent buildings, a housing building and the Massana Fine Arts School.

Pinós's work has been exhibited at several galleries, museums and universities, including the Kunstakademie in Stuttgart (1995), the Architektur-Hochschule in Aachen (1995), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1994), the AAM Gallery in Rome (1996), the Urania Gallery in Barcelona (1996), the Eight Plan Gallery in New York, the Contemporary Art Museum of Puerto Rico (1997), the COAM Foundation of Madrid (1997) and the Colleges of Architects of Ibiza (1996), Valencia and Galicia (1997) and the Spanish Pavilion in the Venice Architecture Biennale (2006). Since 2006 the model of the Cube Tower is part of the permanent collection of the MOMA.

Work

In partnership with Enric Miralles

1984 to 1986 La Llauna Factory School, Badalona
1985 Canopy for the Plaza Mayor, Parets de Vallés
1985 to 1994 Igualada Cemetery, Igualada
1986 to 1992 Hostalets de Balenya Civic Centre, Barcelona
1986 to 1993 Boarding school in Morella
1987 to 1993 La Mina Civic Centre, Sant Adrià de Besòs, Barcelona
1988 to 1992 House, Bellaterra, Barcelona
1989/91 Olympic archery range for the 1992 Summer Olympics, Valle de Hebrón, Barcelona.41°25′31.53″N 02°08′41.51″E / 41.4254250°N 2.1448639°E / 41.4254250; 2.1448639
1988 to 1992 Sportcentre in Huesca
1990/91 Centre for rhythmic gymnastics, Alicante
1990 to 1992 pagoda for the Paseo Icario, Olympic village, Barcelona
1992 Corbetes Avda, Icaria, Barcelona

With Estudio Carme Pinos

1999 Urban Park and Bridge (Spanish:Pasarela a Petrer), Petrer, Alicante^[1]
1999 Juan Aparicio Waterfront Torrevieja, Alicante
2001 La Serra High School, Mollerussa, Lleida
2002 Parc de Ses Estacions, Palma
2004 Torre Cube, Guadalajara, México
2005 Sports centre, Egues^[2]
2006 Primary School, Castelldefels, Spain^[3]
2013 Vienna University of Economics and Business, building Departement 4
2014 CaixaForum Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
2017 Escola Massana, Art and Design Center, Barcelona, Spain

Awards

1987 FAD Prize for Interiorism - La Llauna School in Badalona
1991 Italstad for Europe Prize, Europe Biennial of Architecture - Cemetery Park of Igualada
1992 City of Barcelona Prize, Barcelona Town Council - Olympic Archery Range buildings, Barcelona
1992 FAD Prize for Architecture, Barcelona - Cemetery Park of Igualada
1995 Spanish Architecture Award for the boarding school in Morella^[4]
1999 Dragados Prize - Cemetery Park of Igualada
2001 College of Valencian Architects Prize for Exterior Spaces - Juan Aparicio waterfront in Torrevieja
2002 Decade Prize 1992–2002. Oscar Tusquets Blanca Foundation - Paseo Icària roofing, Barcelona
2004 XIII Prize “Vila de Pedreguer” to Urban and Architectural Merit, Pedreguer Council - Life Work Award
2005 ArqCatMón (Catalan Architecture in the World), College of Architects of Catalunya - Cube Tower, Mexico
2007 First Prize of the IX Biennal of Spanish Architecture. College of Spanish Architects - Cube Tower, Mexico
2016 Richard Neutra Award for Professional Excellence from the Cal Poly Pomona Department of Architecture
2016 Berkeley-Rupp Architecture Professorship and Prize from the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design^[5]
2017 International Award Woman in Architecture, ARVHA, Paris. Association for Research on the City and Habitat^[6]

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Bibliography

DOCUMENTOS DE ARQUITECTURA núm. 60, Colegio de Arquitectos de Almería, 2006.
CARME PINÓS, AN ARCHITECTURE OF OVERLAY of Ana María Torres, Monacelli Press, 2004, New York.
CARME PINÓS, SOME PROJECTS (SINCE 1991) Ed. Actar,1998, Barcelona.
THE ARCHITECTURE OF ENRIC MIRALLES AND CARME PINÓS, Sites Lumen Books, 1990, New York.
International archive of women in architecture
Carme Pinós EDLP
Toy, Maggie; Pran, Peter, eds. (2001). The Architect: Women in Contemporary Architecture (Paperback) (Second ed.). Watson-Guptill Publications. pp. 144–147 (of 184). ISBN 0-8230-1652-8.
El Croquis 30+49 / 50 Omnibus Volume. Enric Miralles / Carme Pinos: obra construita / built works 1983–1994. Madrid: El Croquis, 1995.
2006 RAIA national conference - biography Archived 2007-02-02 at the Wayback Machine