what’s news Roca Gallery The presentations of rocagallery.com bring together renowned architects and designers The new digital platform was introduced in Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon and London The new digital platform rocagallery.com has been introducedby the architect Jane Duncan, RIBA president until 2017 andand circular expert at White Arkitekter Brodie Neill, as in the first months of the year at the Roca Galleries inmember of the committee of rocagallery.com. Duncan waswell as founder of Made in Ratio. At this last event, the Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon and London, in the presence ofaccompanied by the interior designer and architect Teresadifferent problems caused by climate change were set leading international architects and designers.Sapey, collaborator of the platform. In this case, Lluisforth, highlighting the protests held in London and The key mission of rocagallery.com is to create a platformComerón, president of the Higher Council of Architects’everything related to this effect, in order to provide where to learn, provide value and visibility to different opinionsAssociations of Spain, thanked Roca for its commitment tovisibility to this problem of global consequences. and share knowledge on the best practices in architecture,the sector: “Roca’s activity is extremely necessary in ourThe events also had an exceptional VIP row, made up of: design and innovation. sector, we need visibility and an impetus for dialogue andEthel Baraona, cofounder of the studio dpr-barcelona; reflection. Everything is changing and we need to be part ofJosep Ferrando, architect; Rafael Gómez Moriana, In the first presentation event, held at the Roca Barcelonathat change, accept it and direct it.”member of the international committee of Architecture Gallery, the architects Fermín Vázquez, Lucia Ferrater, MireiaPedro Gadanho, director of the Museum of Art, ArchitectureCritics; Brian Gallagher, editor of BGuided Magazine and Luzarraga and Areti Markopoulou, collaborators of the& Technology, led the presentation event at the Roca Lisboathe architects Miguel Barahona and Edgar González. All platform, met to present and support this initiative. The eventGallery. Gadanho highlighted that “at a time in which debatesof them, collaborators of the platform, concluded that carried on with a debate on the effects of digitization. “Rocaare disappearing from the world of architecture, because thethis kind of democratizing platforms allow the expansion analyzes the environment, acquiring a knowledge that putsresources are not there and the printed publications areof knowledge. the brand at the forefront; for this reason, it carries outdisappearing, a project of this nature led by a company fully initiatives like this one, joining the time of digitization,” Fermínopen to creating a platform for intellectual debate is a unique Vázquez commented on the brand and its initiatives. Likewise,and exceptional feat.” Areti Markopoulou pointed out that “Roca’s project is a source of information where we can find quality in one singleFinally, the presentation event held at the Roca London website, something that provides great value to theGallery was attended by Lucy Bullivant, founder and architectural sector.” creative director of Urbanista and Rodrigo García The presentation at the Roca Madrid Gallery was moderatedGonzález, co-founder of skipping Rocks Lab. They were accompanied by Susanna von Eyben, interior designer Roca Barcelona Gallery 16