Archives Universum: Flores & Prats documents the Barcelona practice of Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores through a dual photographic and written narrative, capturing work in progress at the moment of its making rather than in the polished retrospect of a monograph.
About This Book
This inaugural edition of Archives Universum grew from a sustained interest in how architectural life and work coexist in a studio. Rather than presenting finished buildings, the publication captures Flores & Prats at a particular moment in their practice — projects mid-process, thinking still in motion. The format is deliberately dual: photographs construct their own visual argument, while texts by the architects provide explanation and context. It is a journal of practice as much as a record of projects, and a rare document of how design and constructive work intersect with academic activity in one of Barcelona's more considered contemporary offices. Essential reading for those interested in architectural process, studio culture, and the spaces where ideas take form.
Key Features
- 146 pages of documentary photography and architects' texts tracing projects in progress
- Features Flores & Prats, founded by Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores
- First edition of the Archives Universum journal series
- Published by C2c Editorial, 1998
What You'll Discover
- How a dual narrative structure — photographic and written — can describe architectural work in ways a conventional monograph cannot
- The working culture of Flores & Prats, where design practice, construction, and academic activity are held together rather than separated
- A methodology for documenting studios that foregrounds process and the intermixing of life and work over resolved outcomes
- The particular character of Barcelona architectural practice in the late 1990s, seen from the inside of one of its studios
About the Author
Flores & Prats is an architectural practice in Barcelona founded by Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores in 1998. The two combine design and constructive practice with academic activity.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 146
- Dimensions: 240 x 170 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9788412162530
- Publisher: C2c Editorial
- Publication Date: 1998
Perfect For: Architects and students interested in studio culture, architectural process documentation, and the work of Flores & Prats