After offering viewpoints from faraway places such as Chile and Japan, the focus of the last BIArch Open Lecture of the Fall 2009 Cycle was on Europe –and Catalonia in particular. Toni Gironés won the Young Catalan Architects Prize in 1996, was nominated for the International Francesco Borromini Prize in 2001 and the FAD Prize in 2007. He has taught at universities in Spain, Argentina, Morocco, Italy and Switzerland, and is currentlly the head of Architectural Studies at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, as well as a member of the BIArch Board of Directors. With this final Open Lecture, BIArch not only ended its inaugural public event series on a high note, but also to managed to build on the Institute’s identity and confirm its vocation of combined practice and reflection, local footing with a global scope.