Catalogue / Fundació Mies van der Rohe / 2013 / Diane Gray (ed.) / English edition / Paperback with jacket / 170 x 240 mm / 288 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-936901-8-2 / The works nominated for the award and the runners-up are described and illustrated in this catalogue. The sequence of the layout systematically alternates between double page spreads with single images and a profusion of texts and images to create a regular rhythm of parallel readings throughout the book.
Catalogue / Fundació Mies van der Rohe / 2015 / Ivan Blasi, Anna Sala (eds.) / English edition / Two volumes in paperback with flaps, wrapped in one extra cover / 170 x 240 mm / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-941836-0-7 / Two volumes: 420 / 496 pages; 5+1 / 128 pages / This catalogue is made up of two separate books published consecutively, one of which includes 420 nominated works and the other the winners and runners-up. The books, designed to complement each other, are packed together in one edition that includes computer graphics, maps, data and the visual description of the projects. As a whole, the design has been used in the graphic communication of the Award and for the subsequent touring exhibition. / Original design by Ramon Prat developed in collaboration with Lucía Bedia and Claudia Parra.
Catalogue / Promopress / 2016 / Adrià S. Vidiella (ed.) / English, Spanish and French editions / Hardback / 210 x 240 mm / 320 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-15967-70-5 (english) / In this book a thousand short excerpts of text accompany numerous images of the projects . Starting from a fixed graticule, the columns of text adapt to the wide range of formats and sizes of the images, enhancing the layout. / Designed in collaboration with Claudia Parra.
Monography / Andrés Jaque / Fundació Mies van der Rohe / 2014 / English edition / Sewn binding / 195 x 280 mm / 40 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-936901-5-1 / This catalogue accompanied the installation created by architect Andrés Jaque at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona. The covers of a limited edition of the publication include a fragment of the former red curtains of the pavilion. Besides the complex insertion of this element in the design, the inner layout suggests a double or parallel reading of an historical-critical analysis of a descriptive text of the works on display.
Monography / Eduardo Arroyo / Actar / 2014 / Amadeu Santacana (ed.) / English and Spanish editions / Hardback / 125 x 170 mm / 448 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-1-940291-05-5 (english) / This hybrid publication compiles texts and a monograph on Madrid architect Eduardo Arroyo that trace his professional career, illustrated with examples of works constructed and designed, drawings, thoughts and short stories. In the format of a small bible, structured in chapters and divided in a thousand and one verses, the end object is striking for its outer appearance, in particular for the texture of its dust jacket. / Designed in collaboration with Claudia Parra.
Catalogue / Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), Lars Müller Publishers / 2015 / Diane Gray (ed.) / English edition / 165 x 240 mm / 208 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-3-03778-474-7 / To celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the European Prize for Urban Public Space, created by the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) and co-organised by several European architectural institutions. The design is conceived to enhance the legibility of the book over and above the lavish illustrations of the prized works. The graphic project shared with CCCB extends to an exhibition that has toured several countries in Europe and the United States and will be held every two years. / Designed in collaboration with Bet Puigbò.
Catalogue / Fundació Mies van der Rohe / 2017 / Ivan Blasi, Anna Sala (eds.) / English edition / Box containing two paperback-with-flaps volumes / 170 x 240 mm / ISBN: 978-84-941836-6-9 / Two volumes: The Compilation / 384 pages / BN; The Jury Selection / 176 pages / Colour / The structure of this extensive edition is arranged in two very physically different volumes. One of them, lightweight (offset paper) yet longer, is a compilation of the graphic material in the form of a sketchbook; the other, short yet heavy (coated paper) stands out for the photographs of the nominated and prize-winning works and is an elegant and sophisticated brochure. All 355 projects unfold in the pages of the first book, starting from extremely precise plans that are geographically scaled and oriented, shaping, as a whole, a visual map of European architecture. / Designed in collaboration with Claudia Parra.
Catalogue / Institute of advanced architecture of Catalunya (IaaC), FabLab Barcelona / 2018 / Tomás Díez (ed.) / English edition / Paperback / 150 x 210 mm / 224 pages / Color / ISBN: 978-84-948142-1-1 / «The book focuses on the power of human-centered technology to transform urban environments and our socioeconomic systems. It showcases the ideas of key thinkers from disciplines including science, design, architecture, urbanism, technology, and sociology, all offering insights from their theoretical experience on how to bring about systems change through the distribution of acces to tools and knowledge.» Tomàs Díez (excerpt from the back cover)
Catalogue / CoHousing Barcelona SCCL / 2019 / Ingo von Sundhal (ed.) / Catalan and Spanish editions / Paperback / 165 x 235 mm / 96 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-09-14428-0 (spanish) / A brief monograph on cooperative housing that includes contributions by specialists. Yellow and green are corporate colours and run throughout the catalogue. The volume is illustrated by Tomoko Sakamoto.
Binefa – Fusano – Subirà – Pérez Arnal / Barcelona / 2012 / Identity for a team dedicated to architectural practices based on ecology and sustainability.
Catalogue / Ajuntament de Barcelona, Actar / 2015 / Vicente Guallart, Ricard Gratacós, Carles Bárcena (eds.) / Catalan and English editions / Flexibound / 240 x 310 mm / 440 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-1-940291-72-7 (english) / Barcelona City Council has been publishing this series of ‘Plans and Projects for Barcelona’ for more than thirty years, under different political cycles. The various projects and theses on the condition of the city are described in terms of town planning, architecture and public space, of the present and of the future. The complex contents are visually and organically arranged, comprehensible at different scales thanks to a strict hierarchy and range of graphic styles that unite the book as a whole. / Designed in collaboration with Bet Puigbò.
Catalogue / Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona / 2018 / POCH (ed.) / Catalan, Spanish and English editions / Hardback (catalan) and flexibound (spanish and english) / 235 x 270 mm / 304 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-87881-22-0 (english) / This book is at once a compilation of projects and a celebration of twenty-five years of work dedicated to public space around Barcelona, forming a visual landscape and creating a space for reflection. Over and above the catalogued structure of its themes, the book provides keys for cross-readings adding tags to facilitate surfing the website.
Monografia / Indissoluble / 2015 / Celia Alba de la Torre (ed.) / Edició en castellà / 297 x 420 mm / 8 pàgs. / Negre + tinta directa / ISBN: ND / A short treatise designed as a large-format ephemeral fold-out that compiles a selection of exhibition installations and of projects by the architectural office. / Designed in collaboration with Claudia Parra. Photo: © Claudia Parra
Catalogue / Fundació Mies van der Rohe / 2019 / Ivan Blasi, Anna Sala (eds.) / English edition / Paperback with flaps / 170 x 240 mm / 448 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-9488-201-2 / The structure of this extensive book is arranged in thematic units that include the works nominated for the award and those who have won it. All 383 projects unfold in the pages of the book in the form of plans and blueprints that, with extreme formal rigour, are scaled and geographically oriented in order to create a visual map of European architecture.
Essay series / Universitat d’Alacant / 2019 / Enrique Nieto (ed.) / Spanish edition / Paperback / 115 x 200 mm / Colour / “a”: Arquitectura in-dependiente / José Maria Torres Nadal / 264 pages / ISBN: 978-84-9717-667-5; “b”: Algunos objetos de deseo / José Pérez de Lama, Remedios Zafra, Iván López Munuera, Ernesto Castro / / 120 pages / ISBN: 978-84-9717-666-8 / The Denise Scott Brown Collection is conceived as a compilation of heterogeneous academic essays. Chiefly designed as reading books, visually austere and typographically rigorous, the layout of their inner pages is enhanced by blank spaces to encourage footnotes. The poster-cum-dust jacket is at once a fragment that acts as a visual enticement and a separate souvenir.
Monography / Anna & Eugeni Bach / Fundació Mies van der Rohe / 2019 / Ivan Blasi (ed.) / English edition / Swiss binding / 195 x 280 mm / 96 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-948820-0-5 / This book is intended to evoke a fragment of the actual Mies Van der Rohe Pavilion in which the architects worked. The object exudes absence, whiteness and a vinyl texture, elements that are present in the spatial intervention, with a subtle irregularity that can also be discovered in the layout of the inner pages. The volume is illustrated with photographs by Adrià Goula.
Fundació Mies van der Rohe / 2015, 2017, 2019 / Each year the competition has created its own image and communication design, besides a number of other projects around the activity of the foundation. In 2017, a brand identity was designed to last for the future. That same year, a new trophy was created for the runners-up category: a miniature reproduction of the column of Mies Van der Rohe’s German Pavilion in Barcelona. On occasion of the previous competition, held in 2015, the exhibition was staged at the Oliva Artés space in Barcelona’s Poblenou district. Besides working on the award, over the years spread has collaborated with the foundation on exhibition design, including graphic material and specific monographic publications. / The finalists’ tropy was made by Indissoluble and Iberplata. Photo: © Adrián Pedrazas (exposició a Oliva Artés)
Monography / RCR Arquitectes / TOTO / 2019 / RCR Bunka (ed.) / Japanese-english bilingual edition / Paperback with fabric on spine and jacket / 190 x 250 mm / 400 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-4-88706-377-8 / An extensive and retrospective survey of the work of the Olot architects who won The Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2017. This book is a balance of sobriety, order and subtle hierarchy à la Japonaise, harmoniously combined with photographs, plans and watercolours, where the different types of paper distinguish each part. The volume includes photographs by Hisao Suzuki and illustrations by the authors.
Ajuntament de Barcelona / 2017-2021 / Barcelona has been hosting week a dedicated to architecture, and other related disciplines, since 2017. Over the course of the seven days, a range of activities are held at different spots in the city, both in public space and in emblematic official spaces.
Simon / 2016, 2018 / Image of the architectural award organised by Simon lighting company. The award chiefly recognises the quality of the atmospheres created in architectural spaces. The graphic design emerges from the presence of colour, conceived to recreate an effect of brightness. The first year the competition was held (2016) the trophy was also designed, thanks to the technical support of Indissoluble. / Photo: © Marc Escudé
Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya / 2018, 2019 / This is the graphic identity of the party held by the College of Architects of Catalonia once a year, on a day in spring. The first proposal for a logotype subsequently led to a typographic exercise also approached in a playful experimental spirit, further developed and completed in the second design.
National University of Singapore. Department of Architecture / Singapore / 2020 / Graphic project for the magazine that compiles the semester projects of the architectural studies and masters.
Catalogue / KOBUFUJI Architects (Yoshihide Kobanawa, Kaoru Fujii), Akira Ito (Social design studio-Toyo University) / 2020 / Stapled binding / 181 x 256 mm / 24 pages / Colour / Japanese edition / A document in the form of a notebook to publicise the project of transitional development of the Mashiko landscapes (in the prefecture of Tochigi), a Japanese town known for its traditional ceramics, its history and natural surroundings. This publication, intended to raise awareness of the need to preserve local landscapes and promote sustainable tourism, hopes to offer all inhabitants of the area a long-term view of the strategy.
Windmill / 2014-2020 / Visual identity for an engineering studio and consulting firm.