Iñaqui Carnicero. 1973 Born in Madrid, Spain. Doctor of Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid UPM 2015, unanimously awarded “Cum Laude” and received the professional title from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid ETSAM in 1998.
2000-2011 Associate Professor of Projects at the E.T.S.Arquitectura of Madrid. 2000 Guest at the Venice Biennale. 2002 Honorable Mention Luigi Cosenza Prize. 2003 Honorable Mention C.O.A.M. Awards. 2008 JAE Exhibition. Young Spanish Architects. 2008 Scholarship of Fine Arts from the Royal Spanish Academy in Rome. 2009 Finalist in the Architectural Digest Awards. 2010 Selected for the BSI University of Mendrisio Awards. 2010 Finalist FAD Awards. 2011 Design Vanguard Award 2011. Architectural Record. 2011 Emerging Architecture Awards. Architectural Review. 2011 First Prize Hauser award 2012. 2011 Developing Doctoral Thesis: “Louis Kahn vs Robert Venturi: Learning from the scale of Rome”.
In addition to his professional work as an architect, he has developed activity in the fields of teaching, research and curating, responding to housing, urban and revitalization issues of the existing architectural fabric.
He has been a visiting professor at various international universities, including Cornell University, Columbia, Yale and MIT. His work has been internationally recognized with awards such as the Golden Lion at the 2016 Venice Biennale, the AIA New York Housing Design Award 2015, the Hauser Award 2012, the Design Vanguard 2011, the FAD Architecture Award 2012, and the COAM Award 2012.
From June 2020 until his appointment as Secretary General of the Urban Agenda and Housing in February 2023, he held the General Directorate of the Urban Agenda and Architecture.
During his time at the previous Ministry, he promoted the drafting of the first state law on the quality of Architecture, which was approved in June 2022 in the Senate without any votes against.
It has also worked to improve the public building stock through the design of an innovative building rehabilitation programme included in the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR), called PIREP (Plan to Promote the Rehabilitation of Public Buildings), and endowed with 1,080 million euros. This programme, in line with the Law on the Quality of Architecture, in addition to promoting improvements in the energy efficiency of buildings, emphasises the importance of addressing the rehabilitation of public buildings from a comprehensive perspective.
In addition, it has continued with the development and implementation of the Urban Agenda, including an investment in the PRTR that has allowed the financing of 117 pilot projects of Local Action Plans of the Urban Agenda.
Iñaqui Carnicero has contributed to the dissemination of Spanish architecture in the national and international context, defining the framework themes of the last 5 editions of the Architecture Biennials promoted by this ministry: the Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BEAU), the Ibero-American Biennial (BIAU) and the Spanish participation in the Venice Biennale. He has also opted for the formula of the ideas competition as a mechanism for selecting the commissioners of these exhibitions.
In his role as "National Contact Point" of the New European Bauhaus (NEB), he has promoted debate meetings and dissemination days between the different institutions, associations and professionals who are working on this initiative, in addition to promoting the first Spanish pavilion at the NEB festival in Brussels in 2022.
