Enric Sòria
Enric Sòria (Barcelona, 1937) is an architect whose buildings helped shape the public face of Barcelona in the last quarter of the 20th century. He graduated from the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB) in 1970 and joined the office of Oriol Bohigas, where he met Jordi Garcés. The two worked together until 1996, on projects such as the conversion of the old Santa Llúcia asylum into the Museum of Science (1978–1980), the Hotel Plaza (1989–1992), and the Vall d'Hebron sports pavilion, which won the FAD Architecture Prize in 1991.
Later, working with Juan Ignacio Quintana from 2006, Sòria turned the 19th-century Born market into a cultural centre, completed in 2013 and awarded the City of Barcelona Prize for Architecture and Urban Planning in 2014. He is also the author of Conversaciones con José Antonio Coderch de Sentmenat (1979), a book of conversations with one of the masters of modern Catalan architecture, and has taught at ETSAB, the ELISAVA design school, the University of Navarra, and Ramon Llull University.
Later, working with Juan Ignacio Quintana from 2006, Sòria turned the 19th-century Born market into a cultural centre, completed in 2013 and awarded the City of Barcelona Prize for Architecture and Urban Planning in 2014. He is also the author of Conversaciones con José Antonio Coderch de Sentmenat (1979), a book of conversations with one of the masters of modern Catalan architecture, and has taught at ETSAB, the ELISAVA design school, the University of Navarra, and Ramon Llull University.