A space of changes and dualities, SOLO Space by estudio Herreros

Juan Herreros. PhD Architect, Chair Professor and Director of the Thesis Program at the Madrid School of Architecture, as well as a Visiting Professor at Columbia University in New York. He has previously taught at EPFL in Lausanne, Architectural Association in London, SOA at Princeton and ITT in Chicago. Throughout the years he has held numerous lectures, courses and international seminars as well as research workshops.

In 1984, he founded, together with Iñaki Abalos, the office Abalos&Herreros, in 1992 the Multimedia International League LMI and in 2006 he founded his current office, Herreros Arquitectos through which he pursues his professional, teaching and pedagogical activity. His work has been widely published and awarded ( COAM Award; the award of Urbanism and Architecture of the City Council of Madrid; he has been selected for the Spanish Architecture Biennale, finalist for Mies Van der Rohe Award, finalist in FAD awards, and winner of the Solutia Design Award).

His work has been displayed in collective exhibitions such as the ones promoted by the MOMA and individual exhibitions (AA London, IIT Chicago...). Two of them stand out, “Grand Tour”, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and ICO in Madrid. Amongst his books the most notable are Tower&Office (with I. Ábalos, MIT Press), Isla Ciudad (Actar), Palacios de la Diversión (Mairea), PTb-Cedric Price (Ministerio de Fomento-COAM), Vivienda SXXI (Casa Encendida-Actar) along several monographic compilations of his work.

His recent work has been published by the architect’s council of Tarragona (AT#18) and Summa magazine of Buenos Aires. HerrerosArquitectos is currently working on projects in Spain, Norway, USA, Panamá, Mexico and Uruguay. Juan Herreros has received the International Fellowship of the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects), the Medal of Fine Arts from the city of San Lorenzo de El Escorial and has been nominated for the 2010 Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

estudioHerreros. Architecture firm founded in 2014 by Juan Herreros, who transformed Herreros Arquitectos into estudioHerreros. The firm brings together the almost 40-year career of Juan Herreros, accompanied since 2014 by his partner Jens Richter, after serving as Director of the studio after 10 years of collaboration with Juan Herreros.

Established in Madrid, the studio is internationally recognized with awards, publications and exhibitions, and has offices in Madrid, New York and Mexico City, in which 20 architects of various nationalities collaborate. The studio has important achievements in the art world such as the Edward Munch Museum in Oslo currently under construction, the requalification of the exhibition areas of the Reina Sofía Museum, the contemporary art space SOLO in Madrid and a number of designs for art fairs, galleries, exhibitions, or artist studios such as that of Luis Gordillo.

In parallel to its professional practice, the studio's teaching, intellectual and media activities constitute an essential reference due to its connections between architecture, culture, research, art and social sciences.

estudioHerreros operates globally through a strategic positioning and a working method in accordance with a time defined by the complexity of architectural production processes, which nevertheless demand simplicity and efficiency, and the transdisciplinary nature of the agents involved in the project, which makes its well-known motto "Architecture in Dialogue" the basis of its projects around the world.

estudioHerreros' list of significant projects includes the Santiago intermodal station, the Ágora-Bogotá events centre in Colombia and the Tacubaya Strategic Plan in Mexico, along with projects in Spain, Korea, Panama, Uruguay, France, Morocco, etc.

His latest built projects include the Munch Museum and the Trosten Sauna in Oslo, the Ágora-Bogotá events centre, the new MALBA Museum in Escobar, Argentina and the Mistral Urban Complex in Marseille, all of which have won international competitions. Projects under construction include the High Speed ​​Station in Santiago de Compostela, the Adakar Collection of contemporary art space in Bilbao, the new SOLO headquarters in Madrid and the Gulia advanced neighbourhood in Romania. Finally, the series of mixed-programme complexes in the design phase in Madrid, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Bucharest, Guadalajara (Mexico) and Santo Domingo deserve special mention.