Sobretaula d’Arquitectes with el Colegio Territorial de Arquitectos de Valencia

Last Friday, February 6, the Colegio Territorial de Arquitectos de Valencia visited our studio on the occasion of the launch of a new initiative titled SOBRETAULA d’arquitectes, a series of meetings that proposes opening architecture studios across the province as spaces for conversation, exchange, and shared reflection.

The first session of this new format took place at the studio of Fran Silvestre Arquitectos, located in Espai Alfaro, the former workshop of sculptor Andreu Alfaro in Godella. The gathering brought together architects and young professionals in a close, informal atmosphere, over coffee, to gain first-hand insight into the studio’s day-to-day reality and the professional moment it is currently experiencing.

SOBRETAULA d’arquitectes is conceived as a series of monthly meetings, held on the first Friday of each month, with the aim of creating spaces for collective conversation around contemporary architectural practice. Through these visits, the initiative seeks to showcase the diversity of ways of practicing the profession in Valencia, focusing on internal processes, work organization, and the real dynamics of everyday life within architectural studios.
During the session, the team at Fran Silvestre Arquitectos shared how an internationally oriented studio is structured and evolves, addressing their approach to residential, cultural, corporate, and public projects, at both small and large scales, in different contexts and locations around the world.
This first meeting marks the beginning of an initiative that is committed to strengthening the young architectural community, fostering a more conscious and plural view of the profession, and creating direct links between studios and architects in training.

An afternoon of open conversation, shared learning, and architecture experienced from the inside, inaugurating a cycle that promises to become a key meeting point for Valencian architecture.