Liebman Villavecchia Architects
Cervantes Institute is collaborating with the Architecture Foundation in promoting the lecture by the firm Liebman Villavecchia Arquitectos, which will take place at the Barbican Centre.
Eileen Liebman and Fernando Villavecchia founded Liebman Villavecchia Arquitectos in 1987 in Barcelona. The studio has maintained a strong focus on the design of private residences, often developed through the adaptation of existing structures.
Their lecture will be followed by a conversation with Stephen Bates (Sergison Bates Architects), with whom they collaborated on the design of Casa Voltes in Cadaqués. Edited by Stephen Bates and Fernando Villavecchia, the book LINEAGE AND LEGACY. A Certain Modernism in Cadaqués was published in 2021.
Stephen Bates is a founding partner of Sergison Bates architects. He is actively involved in all projects from the London and Brussels offices, coordinating with clients and collaborators and leading the creative direction of the practice. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1989 and gained professional experience in London, Copenhagen, and Barcelona. Stephen has taught throughout his professional career, first at the Architectural Association in London and later as Visiting Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), the Higher Technical School of Architecture (ESARQ), the International University of Catalonia (UIC/ETSAB) in Barcelona, the Oslo School of Architecture, the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, and the University of Antwerp. Since 2009 he has been Professor of Urbanism and Housing at the Technical University of Munich.