Santiago Parramón (1962), qualified as architect at the UPC in Barcelona, is founder-director of the office Parramon & Associates and later of the architectural atelier RTA-Office.
Graduate P.A.D. by ESADE - Business School, Barcelona, in 1990, Parramón founded EDE Infografics that same year, assembling a team of architects and computer experts with a clear aim -finding new ways to design.
Parramón was a pioneer in Spain introducing the well-known hardware “Silicon Graphics Computer Systems” as well as the TDI software, thus being able to work, model, and create space in three dimensions. Parramón cooperated, among others, with Rafael Moneo’s office in the simulation of the "Illa Diagonal Winterthur" of Barcelona and with Juan Navarro Baldeweg in the “Conference Centre of Salamanca” where the "IMAGINA" prize was obtained.
Santiago Parramón obtained a Master degree in “Architectures of complex scales” at the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelonain 1994, and is currently developing his doctoral thesis "Architecture in Real time" inside the program "New instruments in the Architecture", in the Architecture School of Barcelona".
Parramón has lectured and provided conferences in different schools and universities of architecture throughout the United States (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; Ball State University, Indiana, USA), France (Institut Nacional de l’Audiovisuel, París), and China (Tongji University, Shanghai; OCT-LOFT, Shenzhen). Additionally Santiago was an invited lecturer in the "Program for Management Development" in ESADE - Business School to explain his "Global - local" thesis.
The work and philosophy of Parramon’s architecture has been published in different articles at national and international prestigious architectural magazines and books such as “L'Architettura” (Rome), Architectural Design (London) and World Architecture Review (Shenzhen).
In 2007, Parramón founded RTA-Office (Shanghai Real Time Architecture Design Consulting Co.LTD) to work globally in architecture and design.
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HKDI_International Archietctural Design Competition for the Hong Kong Design Institute, Hong Kong
2006-01-01
Our building, just as in the natural environment, is generated from a combination of bits of peninsular coast, in which, akin to an occupation and analogously with the “urbi”, the program will be set out. Between these, we will build bridges. With the aim of engendering relationships and intensifying communication. Lastly, we will inject knowledge into this configuration. A whole amalgam of routes, corridors and arteries will come from this, like a neuronal network, and will organise the entire flow of an interchange of knowledge.
Our building seeks to be a reflection of the collective awareness and feeling of this land as a space of people and contrasts. Let the building generate an event: a centre of urban institutional attraction.
As opposed to the forcefulness of the geometry of the immediate environment, the suavity of the object.
As opposed to the fragmentary, irregular impulses that the city dweller must assimilate, the integral nature of our scheme. As opposed to the rapid bombardment of stimuli, produced in the flowing of the individual through the metropolis, calmness. As opposed to noise, silence.
