Roger Paez – Actar Publishers

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Architect ETSAB, Barcelona (Hons.); MS AAD Columbia University, New York (GSAPP Honor Award for Excellence in Design); PhD UPC, Barcelona (Excel·lent Cum Laude); Certified PhD (AQU, 2020); AAI 1st Sexennium (AQU, 2021). His Doctoral Dissertation “Operative Cartography. Mapping Agency in Architectural Design, 1982-2012”, directed by Iñaki Abalos (Harvard GSD) and Jaime Coll (ETSAB UPC) was awarded the highest distinction.
Following professional experience in the studios of Alison+Peter Smithson (London) and Enric Miralles (Barcelona), he founded A i B arquitectes, a studio devoted to contemporary architectural practice with a critical edge, based in Barcelona. He has designed the Marine Zoo of Barcelona, the Hospital Clínic extension, and the Mas d’Enric Penitentiary, selected for the FAD Prize 2013 and finalist to Catalunya Construcció 2013 Award.
He has maintained an intense commitment to research, academic and cultural pursuits. He served as a member of the editorial board of Quaderns d’arquitectura i urbanisme, awarded the Jean Tschumi Prize (2005). He is director of the Design for City Making Research Lab at ELISAVA (UVic-UCC) since 2022, and director of the Master in Ephemeral Architecture and Temporary Spaces (MEATS) since 2015. He serves as architectural design professor at ETSALS (URL) since 2000.
He has been visiting professor, guest lecturer and jury member in universities worldwide, including Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, IIT, Sci-ARC, UIUC and USC in the USA; ETSAB, ETSAV, BAC, IaaC (all in Barcelona), TU Berlin, EPFL (Lausanne), ETSAM (Madrid), PoliMi (Milano), DiARC (Naples), ENA (Paris), UdP (Porto), EKA (Tallinn), UMA (Umeå), IUAV (Venice) and ETH (Zürich) in Europe. He publishes regularly both peer-reviewed articles and books, notably Operative Mapping: Maps as Design Tools (Actar, 2019) and Plug-ins: Design for City Making in Barcelona (Actar, 2022).
He works at the intersection of design, architecture, and the city, focusing on temporality, experimentation, and social impact. His main research interests include temporary space design, public space, operative mapping, game-based formats, and the articulation between artistic and architectural practices.

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Plug-ins

Ezio Manzini, Albert Fuster, Roger PaezThis book’s central argument is that plug-ins, situated design outcomes that aim to enrich the complex system of the city and expand its potentialities.

Ezio Manzini, Albert Fuster, Roger Paez This book showcases some of the projects developed by Elisava’s Design for City Making Research Lab, a research institute that investigates the role of design in the material and social construction of our habitats, focusing on spatiality, temporality, interactions, meaning, citizen engagement and social impact. Projects by students, professors and researchers, in collaboration with multiple partners including the public administration, NGOs, industry and academy, articulate the concept of design as plug-ins as the core idea of this book. This notion of plug-ins results from a renewed approach to how design can be a key agent in city making. Given that the city is a system of relationships, design for city making means understanding, reinforcing and articulating this network. We posit plug-ins as situated design outcomes that aim to enrich the complex system of the city and expand its potentialities. This book’s central argument is that

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Operative Mapping

Roger PaezThe book’s fundamental aim is to offer a methodological contribution to the design disciplines, both in conceptual and instrumental terms.

Maps as Design Tools Roger Paez The book's fundamental aim is to offer a methodological contribution to the design disciplines, both in conceptual and instrumental terms. When added to the resources of contemporary design, operative mapping overcomes the analytical and strictly instrumental approaches of maps, opening up the possibility of working both pragmatically and critically by acknowledging the need for an effective transformation of the milieu based on an understanding of pre-existing conditions. The approach is pragmatic, not only discussing the present but, above all, generating a toolbox to help expand on the objectives, methodologies and formats of design in the immediate future. The book joins together a review of the theoretical body of work on mapping from the social sciences with case studies from the past 30 years in architecture, planning, and landscape design in the interest of linking past practices with future ones.

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Critical Prison Design (ENG ED.)

Roger PaezThe newly built Mas d’Enric penitentiary sparks a series of reflections on architecture’s role in the problematic subject of prison design.

Mas d’Enric Penitentiary by AiB arquitectes + Estudi PSP Arquitectura Roger Paez The newly built Mas d’Enric penitentiary sparks a series of reflections on architecture’s role in the problematic subject of prison design. The prison is an uncomfortable institution and its architecture is often subjugated to technocratic criteria. This servility forces the prison out of the socio-cultural realm where it belongs, thus erasing it from public discourse. “Mas d’Enric” is a new penitentiary that overturns preconceptions and posits architecture as a medium to critically rethink contemporary prison buildings. The discussion is enriched by contributions from a number of influential architects and architectural theorists, and is complemented by original work in film, photography, literature, sculpture and visual arts. Buy Catalan edition EBOOK VERSION

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Presó i Projecte (CAT ED.)

Roger PaezThe newly built Mas d’Enric penitentiary sparks a series of reflections on architecture’s role in the problematic subject of prison design.

Centre Penitenciari Mas d'Enric: AiB arquitectes + Estudi PSP Arquitectura Roger Paez The newly built Mas d’Enric penitentiary sparks a series of reflections on architecture’s role in the problematic subject of prison design. The prison is an uncomfortable institution and its architecture is often subjugated to technocratic criteria. This servility forces the prison out of the socio-cultural realm where it belongs, thus erasing it from public discourse. “Mas d’Enric” is a new penitentiary that overturns preconceptions and posits architecture as a medium to critically rethink contemporary prison buildings. The discussion is enriched by contributions from a number of influential architects and architectural theorists, and is complemented by original work in film, photography, literature, sculpture and visual arts. Buy English edition

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Uncharted

Juan Elvira, David Goodman, Pablo Oriol, Roger Paez, Fernando Rodríguez, Lina ToroThe book has a two-fold objective: to explore new avenues of thought in design teaching, and to do so through research that deals with new architectural landscapes that are linked to tourism.

The New Landscape of Tourism Juan Elvira, David Goodman, Pablo Oriol, Roger Paez, Fernando Rodríguez, Lina Toro An IE University Undergraduate School academic experiment emphasizing the importance of architectural design strategies in the process of reformulating the tourist offering within the framework of an open debate about new models for development. The book has a two-fold objective: to explore new avenues of thought in design teaching, and to do so through research that deals with new architectural landscapes that are linked to tourism. Publishing the Undergraduate Final Projects from IE University’s Undergraduate Architecture program responds to the desire to highlight the importance of design strategies in the process of reformulating the tourist offering within the framework of an open debate about new models for development. The infrastructural nature of architectural design imbues the architect’s creative capacity with the healthy ambition of transforming the territory into new landscapes for touristic opportunities. EBOOK VERSION

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