Eugeni Bach
Eugeni Bach earned his architecture degree from ETSAB UPC, where he is also an associate professor. Additional teaching roles include associate professor at ETSALS URL and visiting professor at Washington University in St Louis. He has participated in different workshops, lectures, juries, and other academic venues at the University of Antwerp, HafenCity University Hamburg, AA Summer School London, Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the École d’Architecture de la ville & des territoires Paris-Est.
Bach is the co-founder of Anna & Eugeni Bach, an architecture studio that works in public and private projects, from housing, public buildings, urban design, and art installations. His research includes projects and installations that deal with the perception of space. He is also the director of the XV Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial and curator of the exhibition “Human Traces” in the Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland.
His 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 his 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 EU Mies van der Rohe Award, and the nominee for the Iakov Chernikhov International Prize for Young Architects in 2015 and the International FAD Award in 2014.
Select Exhibitions and Presentations
“In search of well-tempered architecture,“ Slovenian Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale, 2023.
"Economy of Means,” Lisbon Architecture Triennale, 2019-20.
“Elective Affinities,” various locations across Spain, 2015.
Select Awards and Grants
2024 — International Topscape Award for the Firal d'Olot
2023 — Selected for XVI Spanish Architecture & Urbanism Biennial
2019 — FAD Award in Ephemeral Interventions
2018 — Finalist, Spanish Architecture & Urbanism Biennial