This coming Monday 25 April, Foros 2016 “Origen”, the cycle of lectures organized by the School of Architecture at UIC Barcelona, enters its final straight with a talk by Swiss architect Pascal Flammer, a student of Valerio Oligati, who, since founding his studio in 2005, has on several occasions been a finalist in the Swiss Art Award of the Swiss Ministry of Culture, winning it in 2006. This recognition of the studio’s work was revalidated in 2014 by the Philippe Rotthier European Prize for Architecture.

“Precarious Balance” is the title of Flammer’s talk about how, in his work, system, concept and composition are superposed, in some cases producing multiple levels of interpretation, and the way his work moves in the contradiction between simplicity and complexity, certainty and ambiguity, and logic and its apparent absence. For Pascal Flammer, architecture is about proposing a way of life, where the important thing is not so much the building or the architect as the values offered by each new intervention.

After working together with the renowned Swiss architect Valerio Oligati (1998-2005), and teaching at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, Flammer now lectures at the ETH in Zurich and, since 2005, has had his own studio.

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