The Barcelona architecture studio Flowers & Meadows presents, for the first time in France, Emotional Heritagea retrospective exhibition of his work. The installation, which from June 4 to January 17, 2027 can be visited in the space arc en rêve center of architecture from Bordeaux, reflects on the concept of emotional heritage through his projects, focusing on an architecture that understands buildings as living repositories, with emotions and memories.
The exhibition, which has the support of the Ramon Llull Institute, recreates the environment of Flores & Prats and invites visitors to delve into their methods through drawings, models and process materials. Unfinished documents, doubts and reflections are part of the route, conceived as a starting point for an open debate on concepts such as the creative reuse of existing buildings, social housing, the right to inherit or neighborhood participation.
For Eva Prats i Ricardo Floresbuildings are not static objects but actors in everyday life, capable of preserving and renewing the social and emotional relationships that are built over time: “When a building closes and is abandoned, it lives on in the memory of those who have lived there. The abandoned building retains the civic and moral values incorporated through use and the passage of time, as well as the stories of the people who have occupied the site over the years. These occupations have created an invisible constellation of social relations that extend the influence of the building to the world around it.” This look translates into a practice that rejects demolition and commits to reading and activating the layers of history that define each place.
The exhibition will be opened with a conference by the two architects, followed by a conversation with the journalist Emmanuelle Bornein an evening that aims to reinforce the open and interactive nature of the project.
Emotional Heritage it not only presents a consolidated trajectory, but also proposes a way of understanding architecture as continuity: a discipline capable of connecting past, present and future through built memory.
Founded in 1998 by Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats, the architecture studio Flores & Prats combines architectural design, project management and intense teaching activity. After their time in Enric Miralles’ studio, the two architects developed an approach in which research is inseparable from the responsibility to design and build. His work pays special attention to the way buildings are interpreted and experienced by the public, considering this as an essential part of his research practice.
His projects, mostly commissioned through open competitions, explore topics such as the rehabilitation and reuse of abandoned or dilapidated buildings, social housing and its ability to foster community bonds, as well as urban public spaces designed with the participation of residents. The studio has also developed mobile or portable projects, experimented with film as an architectural documentation tool and conceived original formats such as edible architecture menus, presented in exhibitions in Barcelona and Copenhagen.
