Carme Pigem
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Carme Pigem Barceló (born Olot, 8 April 1962{{cn|date=March 2025}}) is a Spanish architect, a member of the Pritzker Prize-winning architectural firm RCR Arquitectes, together with Ramón Vilalta and Rafael Aranda.
Biography
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Aranda, Pigem, and Vilalta grew up in Olot, which is located in the Catalonian region of Spain. Between 1977 and 1979, they studied at the School of Fine arts of Olot, and in 1987 graduated in architecture at ETSA Vallés. After graduating in 1987, they returned to Olot and {{Cite book |last=RCR Arquitectes |title=El Croquis. 162: RCR Arquitectes: 2007 – 2012; [abstracción poética = poetic abstraction] / [ed. y directores: Fernando Márquez Cecilia ...] |date=2012 |publisher=El Croquis ed |isbn=978-84-88386-72-4 |editor-last=Márquez Cecilia |editor-first=Fernando |location=Madrid}}founded RCR Arquitectes together with Ramón Vilalta and Rafael Aranda.{{cite news|title=RCR KOLEKTIV U ORIS KUĆI ARHITEKTURE Njihovi projekti očaravaju bajkovitim konceptima|url=http://www.jutarnji.hr/rcr-kolektiv-u-oris-kuci-arhitekture-njihovi-projekti-ocaravaju-svojim-spojem-bajkovitih-koncepata-i-suvremenih-materijala/1450878/|accessdate=16 December 2015|publisher=Jutarnji|date=4 November 2015|location=Zagreb, Croatia|language=Croatian}}
Between 1992 and 1999 she worked as professor of Architectural Projects at ETSA Vallés and was a member of the board of examiners for the final examinations from 1995 to 2004. From 1997 to 2003 she was professor of Architectural Projects at the ETSAB and a member of the board of examiners in 2003. Since 2005 she has been a visiting professor in the Department of Architecture at the Zurich Institute of Technology (ETHZ), Switzerland.{{cite web|title=Carme Pigem 1962|url=https://undiaunaarquitecta.wordpress.com/2015/11/15/carme-pigem-1962/|publisher=Una Día|accessdate=16 December 2015|language=Spanish|date=15 November 2015}}
She was awarded the 2017 Pritzker Prize together with Ramón Vilalta and Rafael Aranda.{{Cite web|url=http://www.pritzkerprize.com/2017/announcement|title=Announcement: Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta {{!}} The Pritzker Architecture Prize|website=www.pritzkerprize.com|language=en|access-date=1 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170302034151/http://www.pritzkerprize.com/2017/announcement#|archive-date=2 March 2017|url-status=dead}}
In June 2020, she and other architects, as well as chefs, Nobel laureates in Economics and leaders of international organizations, signed the appeal in favour of the purple economy (“Towards a cultural renaissance of the economy”), published in Corriere della Sera,{{cite web|language=it|url=https://www.corriere.it/cultura/20_giugno_07/per-rinascimento-culturale-dell-economia-dcacbef2-a803-11ea-b900-84da2a1f22a9.shtml|title=Per un rinascimento culturale dell'economia|date=7 June 2020|accessdate=22 June 2020|work=Corriere della Sera}} El País{{cite web|language=es|url=https://elpais.com/cultura/2020-06-07/por-un-renacimiento-cultural-de-la-economia-el-manifiesto-de-una-veintena-de-intelectuales-para-una-nueva-epoca.html|title=Por un renacimiento cultural de la economía|date=7 June 2020|accessdate=22 June 2020|work=El País}} and Le Monde.{{cite web|language=fr|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2020/06/07/en-depit-de-son-importance-croissante-le-culturel-n-a-pas-suffisamment-ete-pense-comme-un-ecosysteme_6042057_3232.html|title=En dépit de son importance croissante, le culturel n'a pas suffisamment été pensé comme un écosystème|date=7 June 2020|accessdate=22 June 2020|work=Le Monde}}{{Cite book |last=Adriá |first=Miquel |title=RCR : obra sobre papel: series, esbozos, obra |last2=Giralt-Miracle |first2=Daniel |publisher=Ciudad de México: Arquine |isbn=978-607-9489-37-3}}{{Cite book |last=Ortega |first=Estel |title=RCR - dream and nature: Catalonia in Venice |last2=Aranda |first2=Rafael |last3=Pigem Barceló |first3=Carme |last4=Vilalta Pujol |first4=Ramón |date=2018 |publisher=Actar |others=RCR Arquitectes |isbn=978-1-948765-02-2 |editor-last=Núñez |editor-first=Pati |location=New York Barcelona}}
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