Vogadors is a clear commitment to the future through a selection of nine works by the most important young architects from Catalonia and the Balearic Islands. They all share a similar sensitivity, and their work is based on different approach to architecture in response to the growing demands of society for dealing with people’s real needs, which is poles apart from spectacular, media-focused architecture. In developing the project, the team of curators has been inspired by the Mediterranean Sea that both separates and unites Catalonia and the Balearic Islands. 
 
• Collage House, by Bosch.Capdeferro Arquitectures 
• House in Bunyola, by Francisco Cifuentes 
• Nursery school in Pratdip, by Núria Salvadó and David Tapias 
• House for three sisters, by Blancafort Reus Arquitectura 
• La Seca, by Meritxell Inaraja 
• Can Ribas, by Jaime J. Ferrer Forés 
• Swimming pool, changing rooms and sports hall in Jesús, by Arquitecturia 
• Josep Sureda Secondary School extension in Blanes, by SMS Arquitectos 
• Amposta Art and Design College, by David Sebastian and Gerard Puig 
A text by Jorge Oteiza that is inspired by the Mediterranean, which both separates and unites Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, encapsulates the philosophy of Vogadors: 
 
“Whoever goes forward creating something new, does so like a vogador, 
moving forward, yet rowing backwards, 
looking towards the past, towards what exists, 
to reinvent its essence.” 
 
The display documents architecture that is sober and constructed out of very simple materials, yet endowed with enormous technical and intellectual sophistication, and imbued with a solid ethical and social basis, capable of building with a conscious permeability with its surroundings, people and life, without renouncing the more abstract and plastic values of emotion. 
The aim is to show that this type of architecture is not only an automatic response to an economic crisis, but that it is also a cultural and aesthetic trend that connects an entire intellectual, technical and social tradition of architecture in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, which has been maintained even when the international context demanded more formal and expressive approaches. It also connects with international trends in which one could already see the excesses of some styles of architectures in recent years. Now its appropriateness is recognized due to the context of contemporary sensitivity, the result of the current economic and environmental situation. 
This is a project that aims to foster international debate on this trend and integrate Catalonia and the Balearic Islands as one of the cultural and intellectual production centres of a markedly contemporary architecture.