CSCAE announces the 21 finalists for the ARCHITECTURE Awards

21 finalists, out of 650 projects submitted, are competing for the CSCAE ARCHITECTURE Awards. In total, six awards will be presented in recognition of different values and three special distinctions: the Spanish Architecture Award, the Spanish Urbanism Award, and the Permanence Award.

The prize-giving ceremony of the first edition of the ARQUITECTURA Awards will be held in the auditorium of the CaixaForum Madrid on 13 July at 7.30 pm. The event will conclude with a cocktail party in the Royal Botanical Gardens, thus highlighting the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Landscape of Light.

The winning works will be announced at the awards ceremony, which will take place on Wednesday 13 July at 7.30 p.m. at CaixaForum Madrid. The event will end with a cocktail party in the Royal Botanical Gardens, thus highlighting the Landscape of Light, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This event will bring to a close the first edition of the ARQUITECTURA Awards, a recognition of the work of all professional architects, or those related to architecture, who contribute to creating a fairer and more egalitarian society.

The winners will receive the award sculpture, the 'TOITS' design, the work of architects Jesús de Los Ojos Moral, Jairo Rodríguez Andrés, Manuel Fernández Catalina, and Ana Muñoz López, which will be made from Obsidiana COMPAC, the brand's most sustainable material in which pioneering technologies have been implemented and whose mineral charge consists of 100% recycled and recyclable glass. This material is Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Bronze, guaranteeing that it complies with the premises of the circular economy. It has also been recognized for its maximum sustainability and efficient design by the FX International Interior Design 2021 and Sustainability Award 2020.

The finalists are:

Agrociudad Gagarine Truillot.
Miquel Àngel Lacasta i Codorniu, Carmen Santana Serra, Marc Chalamanch i Amat.

Renovation of the Gamazo Warehouses in the Port of Santander.
Eduardo Fernández-Abascal Teira, Florentina Muruzabal Sitges, Gabriel Eduardo Fernández-Abascal González-Valdés.

Inhabiting the countryside.
Bartolomé Ramis Frontera, Barbara Vich Arrom.

Last Chance for a Slow Dance.
Beñat Saratxaga Couceiro, Gentzane Goikuria Irigoyen.

Espai Santa Eulàlia.
Carles Enrich i Gimenez

Bon dia, Carme!
Eduard Callis i Freixas, Guillen Frederic Moliner i Milhau.

Helga de Alvear Museum of Contemporary Art.
Emilio Manuel Tuñón Alvarez.

Euskalduna Palace / Euskalduna Jauregi.
Federico Soriano Peláez, Maria Dolores Palacios Díaz.

Sinagoga square in the historic centre of Onda.
Fernando Navarro Carmona, Pascual Herrero Vicent, María Amparo Sebastiá Esteve, Eduardo José Solaz Fuster, Francisco Leiva Ivorra, Juan Miguel Gil García.

Berbés Uvigo.
Elisabeth Abalo Díaz, Gonzalo Alonso Nuñez.

Aulario 3 at the University of Alicante.
Javier García-Solera Vera.

School in Llubi.
David Tapias i Monné, Francisco J. Cifuentes Utrero, Sebastián Martorell Mateo.

JIDA Collection 8 (Texts on Architecture, Teaching and Innovation).
Daniel García-Escudera, Berta Bardí-Milà.

Social housing in Cornellà.
Marta Peris Eugenio, José Manuel Toral Fernández.

Refurbishment of the public spaces of the Horizonte Esplanade.
Maria Fandiño Iglesias.

Altamira National Museum and Research Centre 1994-2001.
Juan Navarro Baldeweg.

Block 6x6.
Ramon Bosch i Pagès, Elisabet Capdeferro i Pla.

"SEEING THEM COMING. Lives, Memories, Actions.
Sara Maria De Giles Dubois, Jose Morales Sanchez.

UCI-COVID building, at Parc Sanitari Pere Virgili.
Patricio Martínez González, Maximià Torruella i Castel, Luis Miguel Gotor Navarra.

Son Caulelles geriatric home.
Santiago Vives i Sanfeliu, Tomás Montis Sastre, Adria Clapes Nicolau.

Guide for incorporating the gender perspective in urban actions. Valencian Community.
Eva M. Alvarez Isidro, Carlos J. Gómez Alfonso, Universitat Politècnica de València, Direcció General d'Urbanisme.

Renovation of the Gamazo Warehouses in the Port of Santander. Eduardo Fernández-Abascal Teira, Florentina Muruzabal Sitges, Gabriel Eduardo Fernández-Abascal González-Valdés.

Inhabiting the countryside. Bartolomé Ramis Frontera, Barbara Vich Arrom.

Last Chance for a Slow Dance. Beñat Saratxaga Couceiro, Gentzane Goikuria Irigoyen.

Espai Santa Eulàlia. Carles Enrich i Gimenez

Bon dia, Carme! Eduard Callis i Freixas, Guillen Frederic Moliner i Milhau.

Helga de Alvear Museum of Contemporary Art. Emilio Manuel Tuñón Alvarez.

Euskalduna Palace / Euskalduna Jauregi. Federico Soriano Peláez, Maria Dolores Palacios Díaz.

Sinagoga square in the historic centre of Onda. Fernando Navarro Carmona, Pascual Herrero Vicent, María Amparo Sebastiá Esteve, Eduardo José Solaz Fuster, Francisco Leiva Ivorra, Juan Miguel Gil García.

Berbés Uvigo. Elisabeth Abalo Díaz, Gonzalo Alonso Nuñez.

Aulario 3 at the University of Alicante. Javier García-Solera Vera.

School in Llubi. David Tapias i Monné, Francisco J. Cifuentes Utrero, Sebastián Martorell Mateo.

JIDA Collection 8 (Texts on Architecture, Teaching and Innovation). Daniel García-Escudera, Berta Bardí-Milà.

Social housing in Cornellà. Marta Peris Eugenio, José Manuel Toral Fernández.

Refurbishment of the public spaces of the Horizonte Esplanade. Maria Fandiño Iglesias.

Altamira National Museum and Research Centre 1994-2001. Juan Navarro Baldeweg.

Block 6x6. Ramon Bosch i Pagès, Elisabet Capdeferro i Pla.

"SEEING THEM COMING. Lives, Memories, Actions. Sara Maria De Giles Dubois, Jose Morales Sanchez.

UCI-COVID building, at Parc Sanitari Pere Virgili. Patricio Martínez González, Maximià Torruella i Castel, Luis Miguel Gotor Navarra.

Son Caulelles geriatric home. Santiago Vives i Sanfeliu, Tomás Montis Sastre, Adria Clapes Nicolau.

Guide for incorporating the gender perspective in urban actions. Valencian Community. Eva M. Alvarez Isidro, Carlos J. Gómez Alfonso, Universitat Politècnica de València, Direcció General d'Urbanisme.

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GFA2 Arquitectos, is an urban and architectural practice. Lead by Gabriel and Guillermo Fernandez-Abascal with bases in London, Sydney and Santander approaching design from a theoretical and intellectual background.

Eduardo Fernández-Abascal, Floren Muruzábal. Fernández-Abascal and Muruzábal

Fernández-Abascal & Muruzábal, is a study located in Mijares, Cantabria, directed by Eduardo Fernández-Abascal and Floren Muruzábal, who since 1981 has been working professionally attentive to the context in which he develops his projects.

Beñat Saratxaga, Gentzane Goikuria. Behark

Behark was founded by architects Beñat Saratxaga and Gentzane Goikuria in 2009.

After approximately a decade of working in large architectural firms in the Basque Country, where they have the opportunity to collaborate with architects such as Carlos Ferrater or coop himmelb(l)au, Beñat Saratxaga, and Gentzane Goikuria created in 2009, the Behark platform to develop a silent architecture, which based on analysis and observation, is oriented to meet the objectives set for each project in the most efficient and relevant way possible, proposing only what is necessary to achieve it.

In addition to numerous new construction projects for both public and private developers, including some award-winning works, such as the farmhouse for a family of farmers and veterinarians in Gorbeialdea (Egurtek award 2014), the work of behark studio is characterized by its dedication to the transformation of the built, rehabilitation and urban regeneration, especially in degraded neighborhoods or not equipped with buildings or infrastructure adequate to current standards, favoring citizen participation in the design (and enjoyment) of public space.

In this sense, it is worth mentioning the experience acquired in the drafting of several technical studies for the formulation of Preferential Rehabilitation Areas carried out for the Bilbao Urban Rehabilitation Society in different neighborhoods of the city, which included the technical study of around 350 residential buildings. Thanks to the experience accumulated in the elaboration of such studies, behark has been carrying out in recent times several singular interventions of transformation and efficient rehabilitation of residential buildings, among which the one carried out in the building located in Cuesta de Olabeaga 14, and the transformation of the building Dique 2A Berria de Olabeaga, finalist of the COAVVN 2019 architecture awards, stand out.

To facilitate the transformation strategies of the built Behark has devised several unique systems, such as Parkez, a modular system for the extension of sidewalks and urban regeneration, or Habit a system for the transformation of residential buildings to withstand the standard, currently under development.

CARLES ENRICH

Carles Enrich (Barcelona, 1980) graduated at the ETSAB in Barcelona in 2005. From the beginning of his career he has combined his professional work with research, and obtained a Master degree in Theory and Practice of Architectural Projects from the UPC where he is currently a PhD Candidate. His thesis deals with the temporary occupations in the public space in Barcelona.

Associate lecturer in Projects at the ETSAB since 2016. From 2008 to 2017, he taught Projects and Urban Design at the Reus School of Architecture and, in 2015, Projects at the ETSAV. He was also visiting professor in the Extra-Local workshop organised by Columbia GSAPP in 2019, has collaborated on international master’s degrees such as the BIARCH in 2012 and the master’s degree in Restoration at the UPC in 2014, and directed the Vertical Workshop at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture in 2018.

Carles Enrich’s aim of producing practice-based knowledge led him in 2013 to set up Carles Enrich Studio, where he develops projects that cover the entire habitable territory, from the domestic sphere to landscape. The quality and rigour of the practice’s built work are endorsed by consecutive nominations for the European Union Mies Award (2017, 2019) and the Lisbon Triennale Début Award 2016; the Spanish Architecture and Urban Design Biennale Awards in 2016 and 2018, the FAD Opinion Prize in 2016, and the AJAC Awards in 2012, 2016 and 2018. They were also recognised in the studio’s participation in the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2012, with the exhibition Context in “Architectural Rowers” in the Catalan Pavilion and, in 2016, as part of the exhibition Unfinished, which earned the Spanish Pavilion the Biennale’s Golden Lion.

Guillem Moliner - Eduard Callís. unparelld’arquitectes

unparelld’arquitectes is an architectural firm led by Eduard Callís and Guillem Moliner based in Olot. The office's work has been exhibited in different European cities and has been awarded by the Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (2018), Palmarés Technal (2018), Girona Architecture Prize (2017/2016/2004), AJAC Award (2016/2012), Darc Awards (2016), shortlisted at the AR Emerging Awards (2016), European Award for Urban Public Space (2016), Lamp Lighting Solutions Awards (2017/2015) or FAD Architecture and Interior Design Awards (2017/2014), among others.

Eduard Callís is a PhD in architecture from Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) with the thesis “The Architecture of Spanish Dams”, a professor at the ETSAB Barcelona School of Architecture (UPC), previously at Girona and ETSAV, and a member of the HABITAR research group.

Guillem Moliner is an architect who graduated from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and is a professor of interior design at Olot Art and Design School.

Pasqual Herrero Vicent, Eduardo Jose Solaz Fuster, Mª Amparo Sebastiá Esteve, Fernando Navarro Carmona, Víctor Muñoz Macián. el fabricante de espheras

el fabricante de espheras, coop. v. is a young and polyvalent architecture practice focused both towards architecture design and architectural communication and investigation. They have received the COACV 2013-2014 and ceramics ASCER awards, amongst others.

el fabricante de espheras, coop. v. is an architecture office founded in Valencia in 2009 dedicated to the development of architecture, urban planning, landscape and design projects. In 2016, it was established as an associated work cooperative, forming a multidisciplinary team made up of young professionals with experience and specialized training that complements and intensifies the capacities in the different project processes. Respect for tradition, the environment and heritage culture are the hallmarks of each of the projects.

The study has received various awards for its work on Heritage, especially for the recovery of the Renaissance cloister of the Palau-Castell de Betxí (Castelló). Similarly, the urban regeneration process elCASC has been awarded several times for its innovative and supportive nature. In 2018, the Pla Xàtiva public participation process, linked to the Special Plan for the Protection of the Historic Center of Xàtiva, received the Housing, Mobility and Urban Planning Award with a gender perspective from the Generalitat Valenciana. More recently, the project for the Plaza de la Sinagoga in the historic center of Onda, carried out together with Grupo Aranea and Cel-Ras Arquitectura, received the Housing, Mobility and Urban Planning Award with a gender perspective 2021 from the Generalitat Valenciana, the European Award of Intervention in the Architectural Heritage AADIPA 2021 in intervention in outdoor spaces and the Accessibility Award of the European Week of Sustainable Mobility in the Valencian Community 2021.

Juan Miguel Gil, José Luis Doménech, Víctor Masip. Cel-Ras Arquitectura

Cel-Ras Arquitectura is an architectural firm formed by a team of professionals who draw from different disciplines, who are passionate about what they do and give the best of themselves every day.

Cel-Ras Arquitectura was founded in 2007 by Juan Miguel Gil, José Luis Doménech and Víctor Masip in Onda, Castellón. Since its inception, the studio has offered architectural services different from the traditional way of practicing the profession, with collaboration between technicians and agile project management.

Marta García Chico, Francisco Leiva Ivorra. Grupo Aranea

Aranea is a multidisciplinary group formed in 1998 by Marta García Chico, Agronomist Engineer, Master in Landscape and Francisco Leiva Ivorra, Architect, established in Alicante, a sunny city open to the Mediterranean Sea.

Aranea is currently composed of architects, engineers, landscape architects, artists, a biologist and a sociologist. The studio has a special sensitivity to reinterpret geographical contexts and take on programmatic challenges.

Aranea has been awarded in national and international competitions, including 1st Prize Saline Joniche Anthropic Park in Reggio Calabria, Italy 2012, 1st Prize Revitalization of the slopes of the Vinalopó River in Elche 2009, 1st Prize Urban Environment Observatory of Alicante 2009, 1st Prize 111 VPO for the Patronato Vivienda de Alicante 2007, EUROPAN 8 sites in Ceuta and Sintra 2005, 1st Prize Instituto IES Rafal 2003, 1st Prize Centro de Talasoterapia de Gijón 2002, 1st Prize Biblioteca de San Vicente del Raspeig 2001 and 1st Prize Exaequo Fachada Marítima de Calpe 1999.

Their work has been recognized with prestigious awards such as the "Barbara Cappochin" 2015, the European Prize for Urban Public Space 2014, the FAD City and Landscape Award 2014, Holcim Award Gold 2014, Iconic Award 2015, The International Architecture Award 2014, Design Vanguard 2013, Selected European Mies Van der Rohe Award 2013, AR House Award 2013, Nominated Mies van der Rohe Award 2011, the FAD Architecture Award 2010 and the FOPA Award 2005.

Ramon Bosch - Bet Capdeferro. bosh.capdeferro arquitectures

Ramon Bosch and Bet Capdeferro are graduate architects of Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB). Bet Capdeferro followed the Masters in Landscape Architecture from the Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya.

In 2003 they founded the office bosch.capdeferro arquitectures in the town of Girona.

Their professional activity has progressed in parallel to teaching at several universities as Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona - UPC BarcelonaTech, ETH - Zürich, Escola Politècnica Superior de la Universitat de Girona and currently at Cornell University - New York, supporting from the fields of theory and research the development of design and construction processes.

They received in 2011 the Emerging Architect Special Mention of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe. They were awarded with the Young Catalan Architects Prize in 2002 and Girona's Architectural Award in 2010, 2012 and 2014. In 2011 they received the Interior Design Ascer Ceramics Awards. Their work has also been recognized at the FAD Awards, ENOR Awards, and selected in two editions of the European Landscape Biennial.

Tomás Montis Sastre

Tomás Montis Sastre (Palma de Mallorca, 1985) graduated as an architect from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Salle in 2010. Since 2015, he began his professional career forming the Montis Sastre Arquitectura studio in his hometown, after having collaborated in several national (Barcelona) and international (Belgium) studios.

Much of his professional work is based on the development of competitions and public architecture, having won various awards and recognitions, including the First Prize in the competition for the construction of a nursing home in Pórtol (Mallorca) or the First Prize for the construction of the first teaching building for scientific swimming pools in Europe, in addition to other awards and mentions in various competitions.

He has also won the 2017-2018-2019 Mallorca Architecture Awards for the refurbishment of the Farinera de Can Suau, Llubí.

Passionate about Mediterranean architecture, both popular and contemporary, he considers it as a basic reference when conceptualizing his architecture.

ACN. Adrià Clapés i Nicolau

ACN is a young architecture studio based in Mallorca. With experience in the contemporary interpretation of Mediterranean vernacular architecture.

Adrià Clapés i Nicolau is the architect and founder. Graduated in architecture with and Master's degree in Theory and Practice of Architectural Design at the Escuela Politécnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona, UPC, in 2012. In his master's thesis, he analyzed density as a form of urban growth. He is starting his Ph.D. in Interactive Architecture as a consequence of the application of communication technologies.

He has worked at Toyo Ito architects, Miralles Tagliabue - EMBT, and Ábalos Sentkiewitz Arquitects on several projects in Europe, Mexico, and China.

He is co-founder of IS ARCH, a platform to disseminate the work of young architects, and is a member of the GISME Group (Interdisciplinary Reflection Group and Math Solutions for Entities).

He has received architectural prizes and awards: first prize for the construction of the Pòrtol geriatric residence in Marratxí (executed project, 2021); first prize for the construction of the Archaeological Museum of Calvià, among others. He also won first prize in the 13th Competition about environmental and sustainable projects for Polytechnic University in Catalonia, with the project Power generation system reusing dissipated heat energy in the underground.

Their work focuses on different scales: new housing, renovation of old houses, public or private facilities, exhibition installations, and ephemeral architecture projects.

They work with a tailor-made team for each project, weaving a network of collaboration with the best specialists in each of the disciplines required. Landscape architects, designers, interior designers, historians, structural engineers, engineers, builders, craftsmen, carpenters, photographers, artists...

Santi Vives Sanfeliu. Santi Vives Arquitectura

Santi Vives Sanfeliu. Architect at the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB) since 1973.

From 1977 to 1996, he was a member of the Bosch-Tarrús-Vives arquitectes studio, associated with architects Jordi Bosch and Joan Tarrús. Until 1996 they worked together on numerous projects, including the Faculty of Arts at the University of Girona, the Faculty of Translation and Interpretation in Bellaterra, the Regional Museum of La Garrotxa in Olot, the La Mercè Cultural Centre in Girona, the Primary Health Care Centre on Passeig Maragall in Barcelona and the Passeig de la Muralla in Girona.

In 1996 he formed a partnership with the architect Conxita Balcells with whom, until 1998, he carried out several well-known projects, such as a primary school in Palau de Plegamans, a finalist for the FAD prize for architecture in 2002.

In 1998 he founded a new independent studio in which he worked alone and in collaboration with other architects.

At the same time, since 1975 he has been teaching as a professor of projects and coordinating the Sòcrates exchange programs at the ETSAB and other universities.

Carlos Gómez, Eva Álvarez. Gómez+Álvarez Architects

Carlos Gómez y Eva Álvarez. We are both architects at Polytechnic University of Valencia and teachers at the same University. We also run our office ‘Carlos Gómez + Eva Álvarez, architects’ since 1991. We are married and we have three kids.

From the very beginning, we thought our academic work should be centred on the students´ learning; our professional one should rely on positive action. We also wanted to take care of our family unit. And we manage to simultaneously tackle all these work spheres during these years.

Though it has not been planned, this personal position has shown us clear ways to drive our activity. And now, when looking back, we guess this is our strongest value: we are involved in a different way of looking at architecture, urban design and academics. Nowadays, this interaction is called gender approach to urbanism and architecture, a topic we are totally according to the same thinking line, we also are interested in photographs as a tool for analysing and writing (and reading) as a way to understand, amongst other things.

From this point of view, we understand our time as a whole where work -paid and not paid- plays an important role since unexpected crosscuts are produced in all directions, enriching our professional approach. We call it a "work timeline".

Tomeu Ramis, Aixa del Rey, Bàrbara Vich. Flexoarquitectura

FLEXOARQUITECTURA is a studio based in Barcelona interested in the capacity of any project to make sense within a particular cultural context utilising the resources – both conceptual and narrative- and the constrictions -technical, economical and material- as the opportunities from which to build the project’s strategies.

FLEXOARQUITECTURA was founded in 2002 by Tomeu Ramis, Aixa del Rey and Bàrbara Vich and from 2017 is run by Tomeu Ramis and Aixa del Rey.

Barbara Vich Arrom

Barbara Vich Arrom. (1974) Barbara Vic Arrom. (1974) Architect from the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona (UPC). Postgraduate in Sustainability and Architecture, EscolaSert (COAC).

She was co-founder of FLEXOarquitectura and partner between 2002 and 2016. Her work has received several awards and recognitions, including: Nominated for the «Mies van der Rohe Award 2013», «Iakov Chernikhov award 2012»; 1st prize in the «Ciutat de Palma Awards 201», «Architecture Awards of Mallorca 07-10», «Architecture Awards of Menorca 05-08», «AJAC IX Awards 2014», selected «FAD Awards 2011», «Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism XI”, “Saloni Awards 2010”, and exhibited at the “Venice Architecture Biennale in 2012 and 2016”.

Since 2017 she has combined professional practice in her own office, developing architecture and design projects, with teaching at ESDAP Catalunya.

Elizabeth Abalo Díaz, Gonzalo Alonso Núñez. abalo alonso arquitectos

Elizabeth Abalo Díaz. Architect ETSA University of Navarra 1996. Master in refurbishment Consorcio de Santiago 1999. Superior Course of Urban Planning EGAP 2001. Doctorate courses UDC 2001. Associate Professor, Master in Sanitary and Welfare Architecture. UDC 2011/12. Associate Professor, CESUGA University College.

Gonzalo Alonso Núñez. Architect ETSA University of Navarra 1997. Master in refurbishment Consorcio de Santiago 1999. Doctorate courses UDC 2001. Tutor PFC CESUGA University College Dublin 2008/11. Associate Professor, Master in Health and Welfare Architecture. UDC 2011/12, Associate Professor, CESUGA University College 2017/2019. Associate Professor, University of Virginia 2019.

José Morales, Juan González Mariscal, Sara de Giles Dubois. MGM Arquitectos

MGM Arquitectos, Morales Giles Mariscal Arquitectos, is an architecture studio founded by José Morales and Juan González Mariscal in 1987. In 1998 Sara de Giles Dubois joined the studio as a new partner. It was in 2004 when the firm acquired the name Morales de Giles Arquitectos SL.

The firm's work has been carried out mainly on the basis of important awards in conceptual competitions. The projects have been developed looking for quality solutions at each stage, a strong coherence between all aspects of the project and a particular attention to details obtained through absolute control of materials and technological solutions.

Their works have been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2000, 2002 and 2006; at the ON-SITE: New Architecture in Spain exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA); and in the biennial of Spanish architecture in 1997, 1999, 2001, 2007 and 2009.

As for prizes, they have been awarded numerous prizes, among which are: The International Spanish Architecture Prize 2017, The Spanish Architecture Prize 2013, finalist in the Mies van der Rohe Prize in 2001 and 2009, first prize in the AIT Awards 2012 and 2014, Awarded in 2016 in the XIII Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism as well as in the X Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism.

José Morales is a Professor in the Department of Architectural Projects at the University of Seville since 2004. He founded the architecture studio MGM Morales, Giles, Mariscal in 1987.

He has been a visiting professor at various universities, including: Technnische Universitat de Berlín (Germany), Universidad Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona (Spain), Escola da Cidade. Sao Paulo. (Brazil), School of Architecture of Nancy (France), University of Montevideo, (Uruguay), University of Navarra ETSA of Pamplona (Spain); Ecole d ’architecture de Paris Val de Seine (France), University of Applied Sciences Hochschule de Bochum (Germany).

He has been curator of the XIV Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism together with Sara de Giles.

Sara de Giles Dubois is a PhD architect and Professor of Architectural Projects at the ETSA in Seville since 1998. Since then she has shared an architecture studio with José Morales, as a main partner, at MGM Arquitectos.

She has been a visiting professor and lecturer at various universities, including: International University of Catalonia, Barcelona, ENSA Paris Val de Seine (France). Escola da Cidade. Sao Paulo. (Brazil), Ryerson University, Toronto (Canada), University of Montevideo, (Uruguay), University of Applied Sciences Hochschule de Bochum (Germany), USAT de Chiclayo (Peru), School of Architecture of Cuenca (Ecuador).

She has been curator of the XIV Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism together with José Morales.

Arquitectos Tuñón

Emilio Tuñón Álvarez (1959) is an architect by ETSAM since 1981, PhD in Architecture since 2000 and Professor of Architectural Projects of the School of Architecture of Madrid since 2016. In 2014 he has been awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts by The Mies van der Rohe Prize 2007, the European Union 2007 Contemporary Architecture Prize, the Spanish National Architecture Prize 2003 and the FAD Awards 2001, 2007 and 2011.

Currently, Emilio Tuñón is Professor of the Department of Architectural Projects of the School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM) and has worked as a guest professor at numerous universities: Jean Labatout Professor at the Princeton University School of Architecture, Eliot Noyes Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture Design by Harvard, visiting professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and the Städelschule in Frankfurt.

Since 2007 Emilio Tuñón is the patron of the Arquia Foundation, awarded the gold medal of CSCAE in 2015.

Tuñón Arquitectos has been a winner in various public architectural competitions: First prize in the contest for the Masterplan of Kalaja and Turres Port, Albania (2014). First prize in the Down Town District Residental Tower contest in Dubai (2013). First prize in the contest for the Neubau Gastro-pavillon at the ETH in Zürich (2013). First prize in the competition for the Wine Dome in Valbuena de Duero (2012). First prize in the contest for the Museum Territorio de Migraciones in Algeciras (2008). First prize in the contest for the Museum of Visigothic Art in the Vega Baja de Toledo (2010). First prize in the competition for the Energy Summit in the City of the Environment of Soria (2008). First prize in the competition for the International Congress Center of the City of Madrid (2007). First prize in the contest for the Helga de Alvear Foundation in Cáceres (2005). First prize in the competition for the new building for the City Council of Lalín (2004). First prize in the competition for the remodeling of the Valbuena area in Logroño (2003). First prize in the competition for the Museum of Royal Collections (2002). First prize in the competition for the Museum of Cantabria (2002). First prize in the contest for Architectural Set dedicated to the Sanfermines (2001). First prize in the contest for the Center of Contemporary Art of Brescia (2000). First prize in the competition for the Museum of Fine Arts in Castellón (1997). First prize in the competition for the Auditorium of the city of León (1996). First prize in the contest for the Cultural Center of the Community of Madrid in the old factory "El Aguila" (1995).

Its projects and articles have been published by numerous national and international indexed journals, and his work is collected in numerous monographs, among which should be highlighted those published by AV Projects 65 in 2014 and the magazine El Croquis 161 in 2012, Mansilla + Tuñón Architects published by Edil Stampa in 2012, AV Monographs 144 in 2011, Mansilla + Tuñón published by Electa in 2007, Sketch 115-116 (II) in 2003, magazine 2G 27 in 2003.

In 1993, Emilio Tuñón founded together with Luis Moreno Mansilla and Luis Rojo the cooperative of minds CIRCO, creating a publication of the same name, which has been awarded with the prize of the III Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Engineering, the COAM prize and the Special prize of the critic FAD 2007.

Marta Peris, Jose Manuel Toral. peris+toral

peris+toral.arquitectes. Founded in 2005 by Marta Peris and Jose Manuel Toral, both graduated from ETSAB, peris+toral.arquitectes is an architecture practice based in Barcelona, which combines its professional activity with the academic one. They are currently working on different projects, both in housing and public space, while working as teachers in the Faculty of Architecture in Barcelona (ETSAB) and IED.

Their work has been published in architecture books and magazines, nationally and internationally, and exhibited in UIA Tokyo 2011, París 2009 and the Venice Biennal 2000. Theoretically, the practice has published articles in architecture books and magazines, including Arquitectura COAM, Ed. Fundamentos and DC Papers are to highlight. Their work has been recognized with awards such as AJAC Joves Arquitectes 2011, FAD 2009 award finalists, and Saloni d’Arquitect award finalists.

finalists2024 Winner RIBA International Prize
2024 Winner RIBA International Awards for Excellence
2024 Winner Global Galvanizing Award
2024 Winner Construmat Awards Sustainability
2023 Premio Especial Asturiana de Zinc - Premios ATEG
2023 Premio Fassa Bartolo Prize Sustainable Architecture
2023 Obra destacada Mostra arquitectura de Barcelona
2022 Finalista Premio MIES VAN DER ROHE Award
2022 Premio ARQUITECTURA ESPAÑOLA CSCAE
2022 Winner Grand Prix du Design Platinium Winner
2022 Winner EDUWIK Architecture Excellence Awards
2022 Winner Gold Award BEST ARCHITECTS - Gold Award
2022 Winner Best Multi-family Housing Future House Awards
2022 Winner Wood Design & Building Award
2021 Winner. Premio Europeo di Architettura MATILDE BAFFA UGO RIVOLTA 2021. 85 Viviendas sociales en Cornellà
2021 Gold Award. BEST ARCHITECTS 22. 85 Viviendas sociales en Cornellà
2021 First Prize. Premios MAPEI a la Arquitectura Sostenible 2021. 85 Viviendas sociales en Cornellà
2021 Winner Jury's TOP PICK. BLT Built Design Awards - Social Housing. 85 Viviendas sociales en Cornellà
2021 Winner. THE PLAN AWARD 2021 - Social Housing. 85 Viviendas sociales en Cornellà
2021 Winner Best of best. ARCHITECTURE MASTERPRIZE AMP 2021 - Residential Multi Unit. 85 Viviendas sociales en Cornellà
2021 Winner ex-aequo. Premio CATALUNYA CONSTRUCCIÓ 2021 - Innovació a la construcció. 85 Viviendas sociales en Cornellà
2021 Winner. Premio A+ by DAIKIN - Vivienda plurifamiliar. 85 Viviendas sociales en Cornellà
2021 Winner. XV Premios NAN Arquitectura y construcción 2021 - Residencial. 85 Viviendas sociales en Cornellà
2021 Winner. Premio de opinión, PREMIO FAD DE ARQUITECTURA. 85 Viviendas sociales en Cornellà
2021 Awarded. Arquitectura y Urbanismo, BEAU XV. 85 Viviendas sociales en Cornellà

Marc Chalamanch, Miquel Lacasta, Carmen Santana. Archikubik

ARCHIKUBIK, ecosystem of architecture, urbanism and urban landscape, established in 2001 by Marc Chalamanch, Miquel Lacasta y Carmen Santana, is composed by an international and multi-disciplinary team that works in an atmosphere of R&D in @kubik space, in Barcelona.

Its process of urban and architectural work is framed within the constant development of synergies and exchanges between public space and private participative space, with the purpose of rethinking our cities from the concept of the e-polis, the polis of the information society, as a place for learning, debate, diversity, respect and exchange. Conceiving, giving the chance to inhabitants to become eco-citizens within communities, through architecture, to make public space an opportunity to rephrase our territories and our cities in the era of social networks. In order to conciliate this, our projects are based on the scale 1/ ♥, a system that is capable of going further to be included within a transversal ecosystem, with the aim of articulating a global vision in a territorial scale, the one from the city, the neighborhood and the human scale, all of it incorporated to the time vector.

Their research is centered in the wide interpretation of ‘’green’’ as a tool for creation, as an infrastructure for the territory, with the objective of creating an organoleptic environment, open and sensitive. The productive landscape as a horizon for reflection. Moving forward in a process of urban network acupuncture, all the projects and scales represent a chance to start strategies and tactics that allow to go further than the conventional codes that belong to last centuries’ industrial world. The investigation of new typologies to approach the constant transformations of society is part of our DNA.

The last recognitions are: prix Futures Possibles for the ZAC Rouget de Lisle and International FAD Award for the housing project in Ivry-sur-Seine (under construction). Also, we are finalists for the last phase of the international competition Reinventer.paris with a third use building in Clichy-Batignolles and finalists for the Ascer Award for ceramic buildings with the Parking Saint-Roch in Montpellier. Archikubik has been twice selected for the Venice Biennale with the Parking Saint-Roch in Montpellier for the Catalan Pavilion and the Diposit del Rei Martí in Barcelona for the Spanish Pavilion.

Published on: June 21, 2022

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