Peris+Toral Arquitectes, from its Barcelona office, focuses its approach on exploring new ways of living and building to address the challenges posed by climate and housing emergencies, under a line of thought that places the individual at the centre of the action and the architect as a social agent.

Marta Peris and José Toral suggest scenarios in which the user takes over the role of inhabiting and aspire to rethink the standards of the programme in order to respond to the forms of inhabiting that society requires at any given moment.

Marta Peris holds a PhD in architecture and is a lecturer at the ETSAB. She presented her doctoral thesis in 2016, entitled La casa japonesa a través del cine de Yasujiro Ozu, published in 2019 under the name La casa de Ozu. José Toral is an associate professor in the Department of Architectural Projects at the ETSAB UPC, specialising in the study of public space and urban projects.

His work has been recognized with the Spanish Architecture Award CSCAE 2022, and finalists of the EU Mies Award 2022 and 2024, his works have been exhibited at the Cité de l’Architecture de Paris 2022, Best architecture exhibition Spain-Korea Seoul 2021, at the Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2016, at the UIA Tokyo 2011, among others. Both his works and his writings have been widely published in national and international magazines and media.