Cristina Gamboa Masdevall (ES) is a chartered architect and teacher. She studied at ETSAB and the University of Stuttgart. She currently teaches at the Architectural Association (MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design – Projective Cities) and at ETSAB (PIII_IV Contemporary Collective Housing).

Carles Baiges Camprubí (ES) is an architect from ETSAB and holds a master’s degree in Urban Sociology from Universiteit van Amsterdam.

They are both founding members of the cooperative of architects Lacol and members of La Borda cooperative housing. Lacol has received several recognitions, including the Emerging category of the EU Mies van der Rohe Awards 2022, and has been selected for architecture biennials in Venice (2016, 2021), Buenos Aires (2017), and San Sebastián (2019). La Borda has won the European Collective Housing Award, the European Responsible Housing Awards, and the World Habitat Award.

@lacolarq / www.lacol.coop