Claudina Relat Goberna (Manresa, 1983) is a Catalan architect and urban planner whose practice moves between the poetic sensitivity of dwelling and the technical urgency of sustainability. After graduating in 2008 from the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Relat founded her own studio, Claudina Relat Arquitectura, in 2009, based in Manresa. From there she undertakes residential, territorial and rehabilitation projects guided by efficiency, formal simplicity and a deliberate emotional depth.
From 2019 to 2022 she served in public office in the field of urban planning —as a councillor of the Manresa City Council— an experience that enabled her to combine architectural practice with urban and community action. In parallel, she has held positions within the Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya – Demarcació de les Comarques Centrals (COAC Comarques Centrals), eventually becoming its president, from where she drives an agenda aligned with the challenges of the 2030 Agenda: heritage rehabilitation, inclusive public spaces and architectures with a low ecological footprint.
Relat’s architectural language is defined by formal clarity, an acute sensibility to landscape, light understood as primary matter, and a decisive commitment to the energy envelope as a vehicle for wellbeing. Her practice converges around three essential axes: the emotion of space, technical precision and community engagement. Housing, for her, is inhabited landscape, revisited memory, a possible refuge. Her recent work demonstrates that architecture can serve as an instrument for social, ecological and aesthetic transformation without relinquishing the human scale or the rhythm of everyday life.
Relat has also taken part in conferences and forums dedicated to sustainable architecture, feminist urbanism and the role of new technologies in contemporary architectural practice.
With this profile, Claudina Relat Goberna emerges as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary Catalan architecture, particularly for her ability to weave territory, community and future into every project she undertakes.