Barozzi Veiga
“A Sentimental Monumentality” is what Fabrizio Barozzi (*1976) and Alberto Veiga (*1973) called their mighty exposed concrete column on the central axis of the Arsenale at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016. This title well describes their entire oeuvre, especially the Graubünden Museum of Fine Arts in Chur. The award-winning duo gained international acclaim with the Szczecin Philharmonic Hall in 2014. The architects’ success lies in their clear, poetic architectural language blending Razionalismo (Barozzi is Italian and studied in Venice) and Spanish minimalism (Veiga is Galician and studied in Navarre). After meeting at the firm of Vázquez Consuegra in Seville, they founded their own office in Barcelona in 2004.
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