NEW GENERATIONS. LUIS URCULO

To not miss any components, today we present another of the interviews conducted by Itinerant Office in their project New Generations. It is the turn of Luis Urculo, architect based in Madrid largely concerned by everything that architecture surrounds.

Renault Twizy, is a new electric car for the city. The project was exhibited in Matadero and also in diverse spot of the city of Madrid. Image courtesy of Luis Urculo.

Luia Urculo was born in Madrid in 1978. In 2004 he founds Motocross and in 2006 he establishes his own studio. He develops a work of small and indefinite architecture in an opened format.

“I no longer know what architecture is and what an architect should do”.

Always interested in all that is peripheral to architecture, the processes, developments and approaches that can be manipulated, sampled and translated into other scales, adapting to the composition of the project, creating new scenes/ experiences / expectations not contemplated previously.

He realizes projects of diverse format among others for Philippe Starck, Absolut, Renault, Zara, Fabrica, Davidelfin, Mansilla & Tuñón, La Casa Encendida, Matadero, Rolling Stone, X Bienal of Architecture and Urbanism, etc … where the barriers of the graphical language / architecture / design are questioned as something unique. They work as a whole.

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desing the album EP Home for Bing Ji Ling and Lovemonk Records. limited edition only 500 copies. Image courtesy of Luis Urculo.

Bartlebloom (1801-1883). Each room of the palace was a book page, or an object of its collection of landscapes. Image courtesy of Luis Urculo.

Singing Birds / Dancing trees. Instalation at MNCARS (Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid). Photography © Selector Marx

Wall paints, drawings on glass/blackboards, lampshades... for the paradise hotel by the Dune du Pyla for Philippe Starck in the Bassin d'Arcachon. Photography © Phillipe Garcia.

Exhibición para la X BiExhibition design for X Biennial of Architecture & Urbanism in Madrid. Arquerias Nuevos Ministerios.

Exhibition design for X Biennial of Architecture & Urbanism in Santander. Santillana del Mar, Santander. Photography © Jorge Lopez Conde.

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LUIS ÚRCULO

Luis Úrculo, (Madrid 1978). Licensed in the ETSAM Technical School of Senior Architecture, Madrid (December, 2006), Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and Institute of Design in Chicago. In 2004 he founds Motocross and in 2006 he establishes his own studio.

He develops a work of small and indefinite architecture in an opened format. '“I no longer know what architecture is and what an architect should do”. Always interested in all that is peripheral to architecture, the processes, developments and approaches that can be manipulated, sampled and translated into other scales, adapting to the composition of the project, creating new scenes/ experiences / expectations not contemplated previously.

He realizes projects of diverse format among others for Philippe Starck, Sybilla, Davidelfin, AbsolutLab, Zara, Mansilla & Tuñón, La Casa Encendida, Matadero, Rolling Stone, X Bienal of Architecture and Urbanism, etc … where the barriers of the graphical language / architecture / design are questioned as something unique. They work as a whole.

He also works as a teacher with Jaime Hayón for Master of European Design Labs in Istituo Europeo di Design, Madrid.

Works exhibited in the XIth Venice Biennial – Spanish pavilion, Gallery Dama Aflita (Porto), Montevideo Biennial, Fabrica Features (Lisbon), Basel2010, CutLog Art Fair FIAC10 (Paris), Transculturelles des Abattoirs (Casablanca), National Glyptoteque (Athens), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), selected in FreshMadrid! cycle of young architects (exhibiting in Madrid, Bogota, New York and Barcelona), Ink01 (International Illustration Meeting), Arquia/Próxima (Valencia), Re-Fresh Matadero (Madrid), Latin-American Biennial show of Design – Matadero (Madrid), Exhibition JAE (Madrid, New York, Brussels, Stockholm), Galleria Da Cozinha (Porto), COAM Foundation of Madrid in the cycle of Recent Work, selected for PhotoEspaña04 (June2004), Proyecta 04 and Sala Pradillo. Lectures in Madrid, Barcelona, Galicia, Grenoble and Buenos Aires.