O.F. Architects. Architecture studio formerly known as TallerDe2, founded in 2008 by Arantza Ozaeta and Álvaro Martín Fidalgo established in Madrid, Spain. Both architects conceive their work as a collaborative practice, bringing together work teams with members whose diverse backgrounds contribute to achieving high-quality projects with responsible results for a happy life. His interests focus on the exploration of architecture as a vehicle for urban regeneration, intergenerational care and socio-environmental challenges, developing initiatives in collaboration with private, municipal and territorial agents in permanent commitment to innovative practice.
O.F. Architects has won and built national and international competitions, and its work has been recognized on multiple occasions, including the German Bauwelt-Preis Award (2013), for the best first work built; the COAM-Luis Moreno Mansilla Award (2013), for the best work carried out abroad; the FAD Prize for Thought and Criticism (2016), in collaboration with the HipoTesis publishing house; the Europe 40under40 recognition (2017) by the European Centre. His work has also been selected and exhibited at the Spanish Architecture Biennial (2013-2021), the FAD Internacional (2014) and the FAD Arquitectura (2020). Also in the international exhibitions «Archipaper. Drawings from the plane» (2018), «Architetus Omnibus?» (2015) or "Export Spanish Architecture Abroad" (2015). They have curated the lecture series Argumento#1 “Sampling-Contexts” at the ETSAM where they are also editors of the book of the same name that was recognized with the COAM-Diffusion Award (2021).
Arantza Ozaeta and Álvaro Martín Fidalgo combine professional practice with academic and research work, developing their teaching activities at the AA-Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, the ETH in Zurich, the Hochschule Coburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany and in the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid-ETSAM, where they are currently professors in the Department of Architectural Projects.
O.F. Architects has won and built national and international competitions, and its work has been recognized on multiple occasions, including the German Bauwelt-Preis Award (2013), for the best first work built; the COAM-Luis Moreno Mansilla Award (2013), for the best work carried out abroad; the FAD Prize for Thought and Criticism (2016), in collaboration with the HipoTesis publishing house; the Europe 40under40 recognition (2017) by the European Centre. His work has also been selected and exhibited at the Spanish Architecture Biennial (2013-2021), the FAD Internacional (2014) and the FAD Arquitectura (2020). Also in the international exhibitions «Archipaper. Drawings from the plane» (2018), «Architetus Omnibus?» (2015) or "Export Spanish Architecture Abroad" (2015). They have curated the lecture series Argumento#1 “Sampling-Contexts” at the ETSAM where they are also editors of the book of the same name that was recognized with the COAM-Diffusion Award (2021).
Arantza Ozaeta and Álvaro Martín Fidalgo combine professional practice with academic and research work, developing their teaching activities at the AA-Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, the ETH in Zurich, the Hochschule Coburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany and in the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid-ETSAM, where they are currently professors in the Department of Architectural Projects.
