Anna Bach

Anna Bach earned her degrees in architecture from the Helsinki University of Technology and the ETSA Barcelona. She was an associate professor at EINA, University of Design and Arts in Barcelona 2008-2022 and is a visiting professor of architecture at Washington University in St Louis. She has held workshops, lectures, juries and other academic venues in the University of Antwerp, HafenCity University Hamburg, AA Summer School London, Universidad Autónoma de Lisboa, Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and ETH Zurich.

She is co-founder of Anna & Eugeni Bach, an architecture studio that works on public and private projects including housing, public buildings, urban design, and art installations. Her research includes studies on gradual growth through addition in the work of Alison and Peter Smithson and via projects and installations that deal with the perception of space. She is also director of the XV Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial and curator of the exhibition “Human Traces” in the Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland.

Her work has been exhibited, among others, in the Slovenian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2023, the Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2019-2020, the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2016 (Golden Lion), in the solo exhibition “Elective Affinities” in different Spanish locations in 2015, and at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine de Paris, 2009. Highlights from her awards and recognitions include the International Topscape Award for the Firal d’Olot in 2024, the FAD Award and Opinion FAD Award in Ephemeral Interventions 2019, finalist and selected at the Spanish Architecture Biennial in 2018 and 2016, nominee for the E.U. Mies van der Rohe Award, and nominee for the Iakov Chernikhov International Prize for Young Architects in 2015 and the International FAD Award in 2014.