Since beginning her professional journey in 1992, Glòria Duran Torrellas has built a singular career that moves naturally between Barcelona and the intimate landscape of l’Empordà, a territory that has become one of her essential geographies. Educated at the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona, she belongs to a generation that learned to listen to architecture before drawing it; to understand light, materiality and the silent weight of places as a legacy that deserves to be interpreted with respect. Since then, her studio has worked with a serene coherence, guided by the conviction that rehabilitation is an act of humility and, at the same time, a way of restoring life.
Alongside new-build projects, Glòria Duran has developed a solid expertise in the restoration and transformation of traditional masías in l’Empordà, a territory to which she is deeply connected and which she knows with the precision of those who move slowly through it. In these interventions, her architecture acts as a subtle yet firm thread: preserving what is essential, reinventing what is necessary and proposing spaces where simplicity becomes synonymous with beauty. Her projects reveal a meticulous balance between tradition and contemporaneity, between the austerity of authentic materials and the sophistication of a timeless gaze.
In 2012, the studio welcomed interior designer Pol Rigau, who studied Interior Design at EINA School in Barcelona. Since then, his presence has been decisive in the evolution of the practice, contributing a sensitive and contemporary perspective that engages in dialogue with architecture from within. His work has become a key element of the studio, reinforcing coherence between space, materiality and ways of inhabiting.
Glòria Duran’s architecture does not seek prominence, but harmony. In each project there is a quiet desire for permanence, a commitment to craftsmanship and a deep respect for the stories embedded in stone. This is her work: an exercise in sensitivity and precision that turns rehabilitation into a poetic act; a dialogue between past and future in which each house recovers its voice and each space once again offers a place to inhabit with calm.