Monapart sponsors the Second José Luis Echeverría Project Award

Monapart Barcelona is launching a collaboration programme with the Second Year Projects course at the La Salle School of Architecture for the second consecutive year and is awarding the José Luis Echeverría Prize.

In early 2012, we launched for the second consecutive year the partnership programme between Monapart Barcelona and the second-year design studio of La Salle School of Architecture. We did it with more ambition than on the first occasion and with an even greater commitment to allowing students to have contact with real problems, from real clients, real homeowners or tenants.

The students were tasked with resolving various contemporary family situations: converting an apartment into tourist accommodation for daily rental, housing a family with two children in a rental property that was going to be refurbished, or designing a home in which a divorced father with a new partner would live intermittently with his pre-teenage children. The aim was to test their ability to understand and propose.

We believe they had a good time, we believe they learned, and we think it is interesting and useful for all parties involved: students, teachers, the company and clients, so this year we are doing it again.