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Laia Celma

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Laia Celma

Biography

Laia Celma is an architect and co-founder of The Fautory, a collaborative architectural platform with ongoing projects in Chile, Barcelona, and New York.

She worked at Foreign Office Architects from 2004 to 2008, and at Snøhetta from 2010 to 2016, where she developed the design of the Environmental Science Museum in Guadalajara, Mexico, the Far Rockaway Library in New York, and the Queen’s University Performance Centre, in Canada, among other projects. In 2010, she was awarded the FAD “Professional en Incubacio” award, in Barcelona, Spain.

Celma taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 2008 to 2010 and has been an invited critic at the Cooper Union, Columbia University, Cornell University, and ETSAB in Barcelona.

She studied at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in Barcelona and the Technical University in Delft, The Netherlands.

Collected Works

Exterior photo of the performance center by the waterfront at dusk, with two visitors about to walk inside.
Conceptual design of an ultra-modern museum pavilion with a reflecting pool and visitors walking about.
Concept design of an ultra-modern building exterior. Visitors are walking through hallway and looking up at the red-tiled accented skylight.
Concept design of an ultra-modern building exterior with visitors walking through courtyard.
Overhead view concept design of a building's layout against a pale green background.
Minimalist-style illustration of a modern house against a purple and pink ombre sky.
Side-by-side concept designs of an outdoor plaza, accompanied by the text "Ring around the Rosie."
Illustration of a modern house with a woman inside in a jungle at night. Three people are sitting in lawn chairs outside while observing aforementioned house.
Minimalist-style illustration of a building on a solid white slope against a pastel gradient blue and yellow sky.
Black and white birds-eye-view illustration of a building and landscape design.
Conceptual design of an ultra-modern glass library exterior set in an urban city with pedestrians walking at cross walk.
Interior design of a modern-style performance hall's rows of green seats from stage view.
Computer-generated design against a white background of a building in six different angles.