Picharchitects/Pich-Guilera

The office was founded by Felipe Pich-Aguilera Baurier, architect (graduated in 1984 by the School of Architecture of Barcelona ETSAB-UPC) and Teresa Batlle Pagès, architect (graduated in 1989 by the School of Architecture of Barcelona ETSAB-UPC).

Felipe Pich-Aguilera,

-Specialty in Construction by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.
-Doctor architect with the Doctoral Tesis “Main social-economic factors that impact in the architecture, the case of Catalan Modernism and their time.” Doctor’s courses in the Faculty of Economy of the University Ramón Llull.
-Founder Member of the Superior School of Architecture of the International University of Catalonia ESARQ/UIC. 4 Project Lecturer Grade since 2009.
-Director of the Department of Industrialization and Environment (CISM).
-Founder Member of the grouping “AuS” (Architecture and Sustainability) grouping integrated in the School of Catalonia Architects.
-President of GBC-Spain (Spanish institution representing international institutions "International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environement and WGBC)

Since 1996, Felipe gives courses and conferences in workshops and masters in Schools of Architecture and institutions related to sustainability in constructive process and respect for environment in Catalonia, Spain and worldwide.


Teresa Batlle Pagès, arquitecte.

Specialty in Installations and sustainability by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia

-Founder Members of the Superior School of Architecture of the International University of Catalonia ESARQ/UIC coordinator of the teaching plan 2nd Cycle (1997-1999). Coordinator of the Professional Council (1996-1999).
-Founder Member of the grouping “AuS” (Architecture and Sustainability) grouping integrated in the School of Catalonia Architects.
-Founder member and participant of the managerial board of the Architecture and Sustainability Association (ASA), promoted by Consejo Superior de los Colegios de Arquitectos de España (CSCAE)
-Coordinator since 1997 of round tables and debates about architect’s role on innovation of the constructive process in order to obtain a better balance between architecture and environment

One of the characteristics that define our agency is our bet for sustainable architecture and respect for environment, and also investigation into new constructive systems based on industrialization. In that sense, the agency participates in many classes, masters and organized debates, round tables and activities.

The respect for the environment as a value that has to be managed became a social consensus. Architecture has to search for new alternatives that propose a more stimulating relation with nature and an honest application of natural resources. This can give us objective guide lines to approach planning and construction technology from a really contemporary point of view.

• To approach the project from a knowledge of the building mechanisms and planning
• The dialogue between multidisciplinary teams during the development of the project.
• The industrialisation of the construction process as a way of increasing quality and comfort and of reducing costs.
• New architectural forms as a result of the aspiration of the environment and not of an individual expression.

Felipe Pich-Aguilera Baurier and Teresa Batlle Pagés. Architects

The prizes of the office in the past 5 years

2010 First Prize for Sustainable Construction in Castilla and Leon with the "Agri-Food Science and Technology Park Lleida City. "
2010 Nan Awards IV. Award for Best Integration of Energy in Architecture with the "Hospital Sant Joan de Reus.
2010 Aplus First Award for Sustainable Architecture with the "Agrifood Technology Science Center Building-Gardeny "
2009 Award for the most innovative rehabilitation work with the "Agri-Food Science and Technology Park City Lleida". Catalunya Construction Awards.
2009 Selected office building project 22@-c.avila between Catalan architecture to the "Palais de Chaillot-Paris" exhibition.
2008 First Prize “Premios Endesa” for the best sustainable housing promotion. Promotion “Kyoto Houses”, Private promotion PMP
2008 National Selection in the Spain Pavilion of Zaragoza’s Fair to represent Spain for the exhibition “Arquitectura Kyoto”
2006 Prize to the professional trajectory in the protection and improves to the environment in the sustainability of the construction. Prize granted by the Council of environment and house of the Generalitat of Catalonia.
2006 First prize of Sustainable Architecture "Call Center of Facilities of Toledo II" Toledo
Forum Civitas Nova, Prize of House and Urbanism 2006 in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain