Moneo Brock Studio is an architecture firm characterized by the intensity of its design focus. The Studio's principals, Belén Moneo (Madrid, 1963) and Jeff Brock (Virginia, 1963), formed their professional partnership in 1993 in New York City after receiving their Masters of Architecture from Columbia University's GSAPP in 1991.
Over the course of its 22-year history, the team has completed architectural projects ranging in scale from large public buildings to high-end domestic interiors and has designed furniture, packaging and bathroom fixtures for industrial production. Moneo and Brock are primarily design architects, with broad experience collaborating with larger firms and consultants in the production and coordination of architectural designs from conceptualization through construction completion. Maintaining ties with New York, the firm opened its principal office in Madrid, Spain, in 2002, where it remains today. They are currently working on international projects in the Dominican Republic and Mexico.
Belén Moneo studied at Harvard University, where she completed her diplomas in Art History and Visual Arts, graduating Magna Cum Laude in 1988. In 1991 she obtained a Master of Architecture from GSAPP, the University of Architecture, Urbanism and Restoration at Columbia University in New York. She began her academic career as a professor at Columbia University, teaching undergraduate students of the New York / Paris Program there in the periods (1998-2001) and (2010-2011). Since 2014 she has been a professor of Architectural Analysis at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, and was also the coordinator of conferences and cultural activities at ETSAM in 2017-19.
Jeff Brock (Virginia, 1963) is an architect and co-founder of Moneo Brock. Jeff formed Moneo Brock with Belén Moneo in 1993 in New York, when they first collaborated professionally to renovate a loft in Tribeca. Maintaining ties to New York, the studio opened its main office in Madrid in 2002 and currently develops projects in Spain, the United States, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic.
Moneo and Brock have lectured extensively on their work in Europe, Japan, the United States, China, Turkey, Panama, Guatemala, and Peru, and their work has been widely published in international media.
