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This Thursday afternoon sees the opening of “Arquitectures Empeltades/Grafting Architecture”, the project that represents Catalonia at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale within the Eventi Collaterali. The project, promoted by the Institut Ramon Llull, is curated by Josep Torrents and Alegre, with Guillem Carabí Bescós and Jordi Ribas Boldúm as assistant curators. It brings together a total of 16 works that set out to show the change in paradigm that is taking place in contemporary Catalan architecture, exemplifying a way of doing that knows how to update a living tradition, projecting it into the future.

2007-2009, Jordi Badia BAAS Arquitectura, in Barcelona

2011, Vora arquitectura: Pere Buil and Toni Riba, in Barcelona

2003-2011, David Closes, in Santpedor 

2006-2013, Josep Miàs Arquitectes (Josep Miàs), in Arenys de Munt

2002-in process, Enric Batlle, Joan Roig and Teresa Galí, in the Garraf Natural Park

The Institut Ramon Llull will be present for the second time at the Biennale Architettura 2014 within the Eventi Collaterali with a project curated by Josep Torrents i Alegre: Grafting Architecture. Catalonia at Venice. This proposal, chosen by a jury through a public competition held by the Institut Ramon Llull, seeks to show the paradigm shift taking place in contemporary Catalan architecture, presenting examples of a way of going about things that is able to update a living tradition, projecting it towards the future. Grafting Architecture. Catalonia at Venice will open on June 5th at the Cantieri Navali, Calle Quintavalle, Castello, 40.