Enric Ruiz-Geli
Enric Ruiz-Geli
SPAIN - Enric Ruiz-Geli, one of the founders of Barcelona-based office cloud9, studied architecture, stage design and scenography. As such he is not just an architect, but rather a visual artist who seeks to dissolve the boundaries between constructing, re-creating and experimenting with space or treating it as a theoretical adventure. Since his early projects, nature has always been present in some way or other, producing particularly attractive images and configurations.
Biography
Enric Ruiz-Geli at Villa Nurbs. Ruiz-Geli (b. Figueres, 1968) studied architecture at the Escola d'Arquitectura Superior de Barcelona and Mississippi State University; stage design at l'Institut del Teatre de Barcelona; scenography and architecture at the Ecole de la Villette in Paris.
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Enric Ruiz-Geli: Modernism looked at nature in terms of images with their colours, details and shapes… but we have another outlook. We try to work from the question 'what is the function of nature?' Basically, a tree is like a building. Can buildings work in harmony with nature like trees do? If what matters is the process, then think about a 1 cm2 seed going through its process of germination, growth, mutation and propagation… a positive, productive process. In this way, architecture can learn from nature – not from its outer image – but from its science, its activities and outcomes, and in terms of its 'performance laboratory'.
Architecture, Design, Theory
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