Architect and Founding member of RCR Arquitectes
Carme Pigem Barceló is a Spanish architect and founding member of RCR Arquitectes, established in 1988 in Olot, Spain, together with Rafael Aranda Quiles and Ramon Vilalta Pujol. Born in Olot in 1962, she studied architecture at the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura del Vallès (ETSAV-UPC), where she met her future collaborators, and together they began working under the name RCR Arquitectes after graduating. In 2017, the studio was jointly awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize, recognising its collaborative approach and distinctive architectural language rooted in landscape, materiality, and light. Alongside Aranda and Vilalta, she has developed an extensive body of work that includes projects such as the Tossols-Basil Athletics Track and the Sant Antoni–Joan Oliver Library in Barcelona. The trio has also been active in architectural education, teaching at ETSAV-UPC and ETSAB-UPC, and since 2008 they have directed international workshops on transversal disciplines at their studio in Olot.
