Jordi Garcés
Jordi Garcés (Barcelona, 1945) is an architect and teacher whose career has been closely tied to museums. While still a student at ETSAB he worked in the office of Martorell, Bohigas and Mackay, where he met Enric Sòria, and with Ricardo Bofill; he graduated in 1970. With Sòria he designed the Picasso Museum in Barcelona (1981–1987), the Navarra Museum of Art in Pamplona (1986–1990), the Museum of Science and the Cosmos in Tenerife (1989–1993), and the Rubió i Balaguer Agora at Pompeu Fabra University, awarded the City of Barcelona Prize in 1996.
After the partnership ended in 1996, Garcés kept working on cultural buildings: the new home of the Egyptian Museum of Barcelona (1998–2000), the Fundació Francisco Godia in Casa Garriga Nogués (2007–2008), and the extension of the Picasso Museum (2010–2011). He earned his doctorate in architecture from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 1987, was professor of architectural design at ETSAB from 1990 until he retired in 2015, and has been a visiting professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
After the partnership ended in 1996, Garcés kept working on cultural buildings: the new home of the Egyptian Museum of Barcelona (1998–2000), the Fundació Francisco Godia in Casa Garriga Nogués (2007–2008), and the extension of the Picasso Museum (2010–2011). He earned his doctorate in architecture from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 1987, was professor of architectural design at ETSAB from 1990 until he retired in 2015, and has been a visiting professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.