Since they won the 2015 Mies van der Rohe Award for the Mieczysław Karłowicz Philharmonic Hall in Szczecin, Barozzi Veiga – set up in Barcelona in 2004 by Fabrizio Barozzi (Rovereto, Italy, 1976) and Alberto Veiga (Santiago de Compostela, 1973) – has joined the club of Spanish practices enjoying an international reach. The three works featured here, all located abroad, present the evolution of a language marked by bold and serene geometries, manipulation of scale and light, and a purposeful desire to reconcile each building’s autonomy with the specificities of the context, in what the authors have coined ‘sentimental monumentality.’

Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, Lausanne

Tanzhaus in Zürich

Music School in Brunico