Thought by Hand: The Architecture of Flores & Prats documents the Barcelona studio's distinctive method of fusing craft with academic rigour — a practice philosophy that insists design thinking and making are inseparable acts.
About This Book
Founded in Barcelona in 1998 by Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats, Flores & Prats has built a reputation on a practice that refuses to separate intellectual inquiry from the physical act of building. This volume brings together photography and critical analysis of the studio's most significant projects, tracing the through-line of a design ethos where craft and academia are not competing values but constitutive ones. For architects and students interested in how a contemporary European practice sustains a genuinely humanist approach to architecture — one grounded in responsibility to making and to building — this is essential documentation of a studio working at the intersection of theory and construction.
Key Features
- 448 pages of project photography and analytical writing on the Flores & Prats body of work
- Notable projects include the Museum of the Mills, Campus Microsoft Italia, and the New Theater Sala Beckett
- Published by Arquine, 1998
What You'll Discover
- How Flores & Prats articulate a practice philosophy in which the responsibility to make and to build is the central ethical commitment
- The relationship between craft and academic thinking as it plays out across a diverse range of built projects
- An in-depth look at the Sala Beckett — the studio's celebrated adaptive reuse of a former cooperative building in Barcelona
- How the studio's approach to the Museum of the Mills and Campus Microsoft Italia translates a consistent ethos across different programmes and scales
About the Author
Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats established Flores & Prats in Barcelona in 1998. The studio operates at the intersection of architectural practice and academia, maintaining a commitment to craft and the physical act of building as foundational to its design process.
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 448
- Dimensions: 210 x 300 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9786077784753
- Publisher: Arquine
- Publication Date: 1998
Perfect For: Architects and students drawn to European practice culture, researchers in craft-based design methodology, and anyone studying the Sala Beckett or the work of Flores & Prats specifically.