"Llacuna" by ARQUITECTURA-G wins the FAD Prize for Architecture 2022

Arquitectura-G is a studio of architecture founded in 2006 based in Barcelona, by Jonathan Arnabat, Jordi Ayala-Bril, Aitor Fuentes and Igor Urdampilleta, mainly dedicated to construction and teaching. They understand their work as a team, where individualities are dissolved in an addition of ways of doing. Material aspect is fundamental for the them, seing it as a field of research. Currently the office includes small projects and starts a new stage to approach larger projects.

In 2008 created ESCRITOS-G as learning tool and to improve the business, with the desire to create a critical discourse and trigger discussion about contemporary architecture. It is a serie of conversations about architecture held between members of ARCHITECTURE-G, the philosopher Ekhi Lopetegi and several young architects whose work has sparked interest in the profession, society and the media.

In 2011 launched INDOORS a section focused on reformulation and internal reorganization of urban housing adapted to living contemporary culture.

Pedro Domingos, was born in Lisbon in 1967. Degree in architecture from the Faculty of Architecture of UTL, Lisbon in 1992. Collaborated with exclusivity with the architect João Luís Carrilho da Graça, between 1988 and 1997.

Constituted the partnership with Inês Lobo, between 1997 and 2002, where he developed several competitions, projects and works. Has is own studio since 2002. Taught at the University of Lusiada, between 1999 and 2007 and at University of Évora, between 2006 and 2012. Since 1997 his work is published and represented in various national and international exhibitions.

Has been appointed and distinguished in several juris and awards: Shortlist do Prémio Mies Van Der Rohe em 2017, finalista do FAD de Arquitectura em 2016, Finalista do Premio Nacional de Reabilitação Urbana em 2016, Prémio FAD de Arquitectura em 2013.

Olga Subirós is an architect and curator of exhibition projects that provide an integrative approach to 21st century culture and the profound transformations of the digital era and the systemic crisis.

Her projects always seek the interaction of the public, whom she places at the centre of her work, introducing new and unexpected forms of experience in transmedia environments.

Olga Subirós currently teaches on the Master's Degree in Data and Design at Elisava, Barcelona School of Design and Engineering, on the Master's Degree in Design and Production of Spaces CCCB-UPC and is a PhD candidate in Architecture and Design at RMIT.

In 2006 she founded Program Collective with Mona Kim (Paris), Todd Palmer (Chicago), and Simon Taylor (London), a multidisciplinary studio operating internationally in the fields of architecture, art, design, publishing and cultural analysis.

Subirós' proposal AIR/ARIA/AIRE won the competition for Catalonia's participation in the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale 2021 with an investigation into air pollution in urban areas, calling for changes in the model of the city, since air is a common good on which our survival depends.

Together with José Luis de Vicente, he was the curator of Big Bang Data, an exhibition on the datafication of the world presented at venues such as the Singapore ArtScience Museum and the MIT Museum, the contents of which were adapted and expanded for each centre. Subirós won the international competition for the Data Square exhibition at the EPFL-ArtLab in Lausanne, which runs until 2020.

He has designed the exhibition on the creative process of chef Ferran Adrià and the restaurant El Bulli held at Somerset House in London, the Museum of Science in Boston and the Fundación Telefónica in Madrid. Subirós has also curated the exhibition ¿Are you ready for TV? curated by Chus Martínez at MACBA, and more than a dozen exhibition projects at the CCCB in Barcelona.

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.