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 introducedThe presentation at the Roca Madrid Gallery was moderatedcreative director of Urbanista and Rodrigo García in the first months of the year at the Roca Galleries inby the architect Jane Duncan, RIBA president until 2017 andGonzález, co-founder of skipping Rocks Lab. They were Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon and London, in the presence ofmember of the committee of rocagallery.com. Duncan wasaccompanied by Susanna von Eyben, interior designer leading international architects and designers. accompanied by the interior designer and architect Teresaand circular expert at White Arkitekter Brodie Neill, as The key mission of rocagallery.com is to create a platformSapey, collaborator of the platform. In this case, Lluiswell as founder of Made in Ratio. At this last event, the where to learn, provide value and visibility to different opinionsComerón, president of the Higher Council of Architects’different problems caused by climate change were set and share knowledge on the best practices in architecture,Associations of Spain, thanked Roca for its commitment toforth, highlighting the protests held in London and design and innovation. the sector: “Roca’s activity is extremely necessary in oureverything related to this effect, in order to provide sector, we need visibility and an impetus for dialogue andvisibility to this problem of global consequences. In the first presentation event, held at the Roca Barcelonareflection. Everything is changing and we need to be part ofThe events also had an exceptional VIP row, made up of: Gallery, the architects Fermín Vázquez, Lucia Ferrater, Mireiathat change, accept it and direct it.” Ethel Baraona, cofounder of the studio dpr-barcelona; Luzarraga and Areti Markopoulou, collaborators of thePedro Gadanho, director of the Museum of Art, ArchitectureJosep Ferrando, architect; Rafael Gómez Moriana, platform, met to present and support this initiative. The event& Technology, led the presentation event at the Roca Lisboamember of the international committee of Architecture carried on with a debate on the effects of digitization. “RocaGallery. Gadanho highlighted that “at a time in which debatesCritics; Brian Gallagher, editor of BGuided Magazine and analyzes the environment, acquiring a knowledge that putsare disappearing from the world of architecture, because thethe architects Miguel Barahona and Edgar González. All the brand at the forefront; for this reason, it carries outresources are not there and the printed publications areof them, collaborators of the platform, concluded that initiatives like this one, joining the time of digitization,” Fermíndisappearing, a project of this nature led by a company fullythis kind of democratizing platforms allow the expansion Vázquez commented on the brand and its initiatives. Likewise,open to creating a platform for intellectual debate is a uniqueof knowledge. Areti Markopoulou pointed out that “Roca’s project is aand exceptional feat.” source of information where we can find quality in one single website, something that provides great value to theFinally, the presentation event held at the Roca London architectural sector.” Gallery was attended by Lucy Bullivant, founder and Roca Barcelona Gallery 16