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Bea Goller is an Architect based in Barcelona, Spain and presently working as such. From 2006 to 2008 she has acted as collaborator with RCR (Aranda Pigem Vilalta) Arquitectes in several big-scale projects in Barcelona and surrounding areas. In the past she has been visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and has taught at the ELISAVA Design School, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, at the Metropolis Master of Architecture and Urban Culture, including the Mies Van der Rohe Masterclass in two editions (2000 and 2002, together with Wiel Arets and Kazuyo Sejima), has initiated the Master Program of Ephemeral Architecture, first held at the ELISAVA Design School of Barcelona and later at the ETSAB (School of Architecture of Barcelona). Since 1993, she has been a tutor and faculty member of the Metropolis Program of Architecture and Urban Culture at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and the Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB), having taught the Seminar “Prepositions / Propositions” during the year 2000.
She graduated from the ETSAB in the year 1989, and while she had initiated Doctoral Studies at the same School (following diverse post at Architecture Offices both in Spain and in the US), she initiated her own Architectural practice (together with Yago Conde) on that same year and through 1994. Projects during this period include the Archeological Museum in Gijón, Spain, and the Olympic Villa Elementary School as well as the Fontana Mix Fountain and Urban arrangement for the Barcelona Waterfront. Simultaneously and during the years 1988-1992, she acted as Curator and Designer for the Catalan Institute of Architects (COAC – the Architecture Professional Association of Catalonia), for many solo Exhibits on the work of well-known Architects such as Jean Nouvel and Herzog & de Meuron. She designed not only the Exhibits’ layout but edited the Catalogues and designed an Exhibit and Installation of her own: International Property for the Barcelona 1996 UIA (International Union of Architects) Congress, as well as another Exhibit on my work at the Lehigh Center at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1997. She has completed the jardDNA Installation in Girona, Spain, which awarded honourable mention at the COAC Awards in 2005.
Among other several awards she has received: First prize for an Urban Competition in Barcelona with the project entitled Fontana Mix (non-built), which leaded to a later project and exhibit with the name Fontana[re]Mix (2004), and an Honourable Mention of the Evolo Skyscraper 06 Competition in New York with the Project Venus BCN Skyscraper. She has also been contributing editor for Quaderns Magazine, has edited a book on Louis Kahn and the book by Yago Conde Architecture of Indeterminacy (Barcelona: Actar, 2000), and her own work has been futher published on the book Metropolis (Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 2005), at the AA Files, Quaderns d’Arquitectura, ON, and Mediagramm Karlsruhe, and Tecniques et Architecture and L’Arca and Arquitectura y Paisaje, among others. Other exhibits on the work she has done have been presented in the Galerie Philomene Magers and Galerie Max Hetzler, in Cologne, Germany, and at COAC Barcelona and COAC Girona, in Spain. Please see more info on her web site: www.congoritme.net
