With the news that little-known Catalan studio RCR Arquitectes has won this year's Pritzker Prize, here's a look at some of the firm's most important projects.
Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta all studied at the School of Architecture in Vallès, and set up their practice in their home town of Olot, Catalonia, in 1988.
Their work ranges from public and private spaces to cultural venues and educational institutions, each designed to closely relate to the environment of its site.
The three architects started working locally, designing an athletics track for the town in 2000 before creating their own office in an old foundry there eight years later. RCR Arquitectes' other projects in Olot include a private house and a restaurant. Many more of the studio's projects over the past 10 years have also been located in Spain's Girona province, ranging from a winery to a kindergarten and a public theatre.

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Later the firm began building slightly further afield ? completing an art centre and a museum in France in 2014.
Often collaborating with other architects, the trio uses materials like recycled steel and plastic. The Pritzker jury described their projects as "beautiful and poetic".
"Each building designed by these architects is special and is uncompromising of its time and place," said the jury citation. "Their works are always the fruit o...