A fun couple of architects who interact with architecture

It is the time to travel and everyone takes out their photograph camera to come up with images or memories of those trips.

Valencia, Spain. Photograph © Anna Devis and Daniel Rueda.

The couple of architects formed by Anna Devís who is also an illustrator-designer and Daniel Rueda who is an acting architect, do more. They have fun set-up images interacting with architecture and with what they have in the background. These two Valencians combine their passion for traveling, with their corresponding outstanding talents and their intelligent look when it comes to make compositions whose photos to do twice, surpassing the simple photographic play.

The images are compared in their Instagram accounts and are the result of their travels around the world. The compositions are elaborated with care, in some cases choosing even the smallest detail to generate interesting transports, and in any case looking always to have fun but also to construct a message.

The snapshots of Devis and Rueda transmit places, interacting with spaces. They are fixed in partial canvases and not so much in complete visions of the architectures they photograph. Thanks to its smart inns, the city is transformed, becoming everyday exceptional and where architecture makes us dream.

If you want to know more about the talent of Anna Devís Benet you can find more here. If you want to see Daniel Rueda's response to architecture with his own projects, you can go to his website.

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Munich, Germany. Photograph © Anna Devis and Daniel Rueda.

That moment when you realize you are chewing black bubblegum, in front of a black dotted wall, while wearing a black polka dots dress…! Who has not this happened?. Valencia, Spain. Photograph © Anna Devis and Daniel Rueda.

Drop a line!. Valencia, Spain. Photograph © Anna Devis and Daniel Rueda.

Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Valencia Spain. Photograph © Anna Devis and Daniel Rueda.

Superkilen, Denmark. Photograph © Anna Devis and Daniel Rueda.

Copenhagen, Denmark. Photograph © Anna Devis and Daniel Rueda.

Pavilhão De Portugal. Photograph © Anna Devis and Daniel Rueda.

Park Crescent, London, UK. Photograph © Anna Devis and Daniel Rueda.

Riccione, Italy. Photograph © Anna Devis and Daniel Rueda.

City of Arts and Sciences. Valencia, Spain. Photograph © Anna Devis and Daniel Rueda.

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JOSÉ JUAN BARBA

José Juan Barba (1964) architect from ETSA Madrid in 1991. Special Mention in the National Finishing University Education Awards 1991. PhD in Architecture ETSAM, 2004. He founded his professional practice in Madrid in 1992 (www.josejuanbarba.com). He has been an architecture critic and editor-in-chief of METALOCUS magazine since 1999, and he advised different NGOs until 1997. He has been a lecturer (in Design, Theory and Criticism, and Urban planning) and guest lecturer at different national and international universities (Roma TRE, Polytechnic Milan, ETSA Madrid, ETSA Barcelona, UNAM Mexico, Univ. Iberoamericana Mexico, University of Thessaly Volos, FA de Montevideo, Washington, Medellin, IE School, U.Alicante, Univ. Europea Madrid, UCJC Madrid, ESARQ-U.I.C. Barcelona,...).

Maître de Conférences IUG-UPMF Grenoble 2013-14. Full assistant Professor, since 2003 up to now at the University of Alcalá School of Architecture, Madrid, Spain. And Jury in competitions as Quaderns editorial magazine (2011), Mies van der Rohe Awards, (2010-2024), Europan13 (2015). He has been invited to participate in the Biennale di Venezia 2016 as part "Spaces of Exception / Spazi d'Eccezione".

He has published several books, the last in 2016, "#positions" and in 2015 "Inventions: New York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi " and collaborations on "Spaces of Exception / Spazi d'Eccezione", "La Mansana de la discordia" (2015), "Arquitectura Contemporánea de Japón: Nuevos territorios" (2015)...

Awards.-

- Award. RENOVATION OF SEGURA RIVER ENVIRONMENT, Murcia, Sapin, 2010.
- First Prize, RENOVATION GRAN VÍA, “Delirious Gran Vía”, Madrid, Spain, 2010.
- First Prize, “PANAYIOTI MIXELI Award”. SADAS-PEA, for the Spreading of Knowledge of Architecture Athens, 2005.
- First Prize, “SANTIAGO AMÓN Award," for the Spreading of Knowledge of Architecture. 2000.
- Award, “PIERRE VAGO Award." ICAC -International Committee of Art Critics. London, 2005.
- First Prize, C.O.A.M. Madrid, 2000. Shortlisted, World Architecture Festival. Centro de Investigación e Interpretación de los Ríos. Tera, Esla y Orbigo, Barcelona, 2008.
- First Prize. FAD AWARD 07 Ephemeral Interventions. “M.C.ESCHER”. Arquin-Fad. Barcelona, Sapin 2007.

Anna Devís Benet

Anna Devís Benet. 25. Architect and currently student at Master of Design and Illustration

Daniel Rueda

Daniel Rueda. Recently graduated architect from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) after finishing his final thesis project rated with honors under the mentorship of Eduardo de Miguel and Vicente Corell. While studying he has also worked in the culture department as well as a student representative on the project department. Along with teachers and UPV colleagues, he used to participate in the radio show Mangrovia run by Victoria Bonet as creative, designer and occasional speaker. To complete his education he has also attended the Master in Architecture and Design (MArch) directed by Fran Silvestre at UEM (Universidad Europea de Madrid).

Self taught photographer with a very cinematic approach to video, Daniel started to take solo architecture photo-shootings after working as an assistant photographer for Mariela Apollonio. He kept growing as an architect while completing an internship in Areaarquitectura.design office until he started working with Fran Silvestre Arquitectos.

Lately he has been working with different advertising agencies and brands in the field of publicity as his Instagram alter ego Dr. Cuerda. Through his photography he has been able to collaborate with internationally acclaimed brands such as Netflix, Coca-Cola, Herschel Supply co., Hewlett-Packard, Olympus or Smart among many others.

Published on: July 29, 2017

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