12 2015 Chinese Barcelona City Council chose the Roca Barcelona Galleryto host a meeting with a delegation of architects and professionals planners from the China Building Center, a platform which serves as a meeting point for professionals from the two meet at the Roca fields. The event was attended by representatives from the Catalan Institute of Architects (COAC), Construmat, Santa & Cole, the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona Gallery Barcelona (ETSAB), the Institute of Advanced Architectureof Catalonia (IAAC) and Roca. Our Barcelona Gallery was also chosen to host a Organizations from the world networking session attended by the Executive Committee of Hong Kong’s Business of Design Week (BODW), Asia’s of Asian architecture and most important event in the fields of design, innovation and branding, which this year, and for the first time, design visited the premises to had Barcelona as a partnering city. During the session,attended by the senior management of leading design meet with Barcelona-based companies such as Castañer, Cricursa, Simon Holding, companies and institutions Lamp Lighting and Santa & Cole, architect Carles Ferrater gave a guided tour of the building. from the sectors Peng Lixiao, Chairman, Urban Environment Design, Beijing A series of debates on architecture, design and sustainable development The four events took the form of dialogues between experts on the issues arising from the practice of architecture and design The Roca Barcelona Gallery organised the series The series kicked off with the debate between Nathaniel of debates Development by Design: Dialogues in Corum, from Architecture for Humanity, and Carmen Architecture, Equity and Development, which broughtMendoza, Co-Director of the ESARQ-UIC’s Master. together experts in the field of development cooperationThe other three events included the participation of and lecturers in the Master of International CooperationEsteban León, UN-HABITAT technical advisor, lecturer in Sustainable Emergency Architecture from ESARQ-UICHug March; Susanna Oliver, from the World Vision (the Higher Technical Architecture School – InternationalProjects Department, and architect Emilio Hormias; and University of Catalonia). During the series, which welcomedTeddy Cruz, from the Center for Urban Ecologies, and the support of the We Are Water Foundation for the thirdarchitecture critic Fredy Massad. event, participants discussed the problems of architecture and design in the field of the development and sustainable construction of cities. The Development by Designseries of talks Roca Gallery Women architects meet at the Roca Madrid Gallery to analyse their place in the sector Martha Thorne, Executive Director of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, and Ariadna Cantis,architect and town planner, were the organisers of the Spaces for Women Architects series Between the months of October 2014 and April 2015,Martha Thorne, Executive Director of the Pritzker Architecture the Roca Madrid Gallery hosted the Spaces for WomenPrize and Vice Dean of External Relations of Madrid’s IE Architects series of events organised by Roca andSchool of Architecture and Design, and Ariadna Cantis, featuring prestigious professionals such as Benedettaarchitect and architecture and planning curator, organised Tagliabue, Anupama Kundoo, Amparo Lasén and Reyes the series and were responsible for leading the debates. Gallegos. The four sessions took a close look at the current state of architecture in Spain and helped draw up a route map to show the changes required to boost the profile of women in the field. Speakers at the 4thsession of the Spaces for Women Architectsseries 23