14 2016 Debate on the ways of communicating and projecting contemporary architecture Main participants were the two Spanish winners of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award 2015 Together with the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, the Roca Barcelona Gallery organized a panel discussion at which the winners of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2015, Barozzi/ Veiga, and Arquitectura-G firms exchanged opinions about how to approach projects. The extremely well-attended encounter was chaired by Ivan Blasi from the Fundació Mies van der Rohe. Barozzi/Veiga, winners of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture –Mies Van der Rohe 2015 for the Szczecin Philharmonic project in Poland, shared their conception of architecture with the public. Theirs is a vision which unites and prioritizes the fundamental values of materiality, space, relationship with the urban or natural environment, and proportion. Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga are the founders of the firm and make up a very distinctive team, sharing such a cohesive view of architecture that it is difficult to tell them apart. Arquitectura-G, for their part, winners of the Prize for various architects, which serves as a tool for learning and Emerging Architects for their Casa Luz in Cilleros, Cáceres, improvement. explained how they focus their work on building and teaching. They also explained that teamwork is the key to their success,The work of these two firms represents two different as individual personalities merge together to form an overallapproaches, and two very different, but at the same approach. In 2008, in order to contribute to a critical time, highly successful ways of projecting their work and discourse and debate around contemporary architecture communicating what they do. Their contributions helped they created Escritos-G, a compendium of conversations to provide an insight into the debate about contemporary about architecture amongst members of Architectura-G and architecture. Dialogues about the role of criticism in society today The series of dialogues contrasts the different points of view of architects with those of personalities from the worlds of culture, philosophy and journalism The Roca Barcelona Gallery inaugurated a new series of meetings in May entitled “Critical Intersections. Architecture and other points of view”, arranged and chaired by the architect and critic Fredy Massad. The aim of the sessions was to think aloud about the functions and obligations of criticism in society today. In order to do so, an architect is brought together to converse with a personality from the world of culture, philosophy or journalism. The first dialogue was between the critic and the Catalan Bioethics Committee, and Josep Lluis Mateo, art historian Daniel Giralt-Miracle and the architect and architect and professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of director of the Navarra School of Architecture, Miguel Technology (ETH) in Zurich. The discussion in this session Angel Alonso del Val. The dialogue revolved around revolved around the reasons for and the consequences of the value of criticism as a necessary tool in processes the weakening of critical thinking within a social context of creation, and more specifically, its role in the current governed by the quantitative power of likes (social media sociocultural context, marked by a renewal of discourses and its immediacy) and the sensationalist impact of the calling for a transformation of attitudes and ways of acting ephemeral. and producing. Further sessions will take place in September and October The second dialogue was between Victoria Camps, and will confront the cultural critic, Jordi Costa with the Emeritus Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at architect Jordi Gorostiza, and the journalist Rosa María the Autonomous University of Barcelona and member of Calaf with the architect Santiago Fajardo. 13