MOARQS is an architecture studio founded and led by architect Ignacio Montaldo in Buenos Aires City (1975). He graduated from the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Buenos Aires (F.A.D.U. U.B.A.) in 2003, he began his independent professional activities in 2001 and established his office in Buenos Aires in 2004.
The office works with a flexible and dynamic structure. It has developed works and projects on different subjects and scales, participating in numerous project competitions and obtaining several prizes, among which It stands out: first place in the contest for the remodelling of the Plaza de Mayo in 2006; the first prize, in the national contest for Ecumenical Landmarks and the Colomichico Archaeological Park Visitor Center in the northwest of the province of Neuquén, in 2011.
The office participated in the Argentine exhibition at the Biennial of Architecture of San Pablo in 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2011, and in the Argentina exhibition at the Venice Biennial in 2008 and 2012. In 2007, moarqs won the first prize in the Urban Interventions category of the Biennial prize for works built by the College of Architects of the Province of Buenos Aires and in 2008, the first mention of honour in the Latin American Biennial of Quito in the landscape architecture category.
Ignacio Montaldo is an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Architecture Design and Urbanism at the University of Buenos Aires and an invited Professor at the architecture school Torcuato Di Tella University. He has taught at the University of General San Martin and the University of Palermo. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Gran Colombia in 2017. He has a Doctorate from the University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Architecture Design and Urbanism with a thesis project titled: “Towers in Buenos Aires, Form, Tectonicity and Structure”. Between 2018 and 2021 He was LABDA Director, The Architecture Documents Laboratory, (www.labda.com.ar) a documentation centre established at the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism of the Universidad Nacional de San Martín. From 2022 he is the Director of Architecture Docs Collection: (www.docsarq.com).
