Bet Capdeferro
Co-Founder, Bosch Capdeferro Architecture
Biography
Ramon Bosch and Bet Capdeferro are graduate architects from Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona - UPC-BarcelonaTECH since 2000 and 1999 respectively. Bet Capdeferro attended Master in Landscape Architecture from Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya.
In 2003 they founded bosch.capdeferro arquitectura in their home town of Girona from where they work on projects of different scales and typologies, focusing on the relationship between humankind and environment.
Their professional activity has always interplayed with their teaching experience at ETSAB – UPC BarcelonaTech, ETH – Zürich, EPS – Universitat de Girona and Cornell University in New York, supporting the development of design and construction processes from the fields of theory and research.
They conceive the project as a concave and inclusive experience, capable of harmoniously integrating process the diversity of agents and facts that configure it through an open.
Their work was shown between 2010 and 2012 in several European cities as part of the exhibition
Sensitive Matter: Young Catalan Architects.
In 2011 they receive the Emerging Architect Special Mention of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award.
In 2012 they are selected to participate in the XIII Venice Architecture Biennale - “Common Ground” as members of the exhibition Vogadors - Architectural Rowers, Catalan and Balearic Threads - “Hard Materiality for a Permeable Architecture”.
In 2015 they receive the FAD Architecture Award.
In 2016 they are awarded in the category Heritage and Transformation of the XIII Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism - “Alternativas”, as well as in the X Iberianamerican Architecture and Urbanism Biennial Awards. Their work has also been part of the exhibition Unfinished for the Spanish Pavilion, winner of the Golden Lion at the XV Venice Architecture Biennale - “Reporting from the Front”.
In 2018 they are awarded in the XIV Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism – “Más habitar, más humanizar”.
In 2021 they receive an award in the XV BSpanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism – “España vacía, España llena”.