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MADC & Partners SLP is an architectural firm based in Madrid, Spain, founded in 2000 by Miguel Ángel Díaz Camacho and Almudena Antolín Moreno. The firm focuses on a variety of projects, with its core activities being sustainability, urban design and management, architecture, energy, academic writing, teaching, and research.

Miguel Angel Díaz Camacho (founding partner) holds a PhD in Architecture and holds a PhD in Architecture (UPM, ETSA Madrid). He is the studio's director and principal designer. He is also a university professor (ETSA UNAV), researcher, writer, and architectural critic. He also serves on the Scientific Committee of the Association for Sustainability and Architecture (ASA) and is certified as a Passivhaus Designer. He is the author of, among other books, the books "Paragraphs of Architecture. Core(oh)graphy" (2016) and "Architecture and Climate Change" (2018).

Almudena Antolín Moreno (founding partner) holds a degree in Business Administration with a double degree in Human Resources and Marketing (UCM, Complutense University, Madrid). She is the studio's manager and commercial director and is also responsible for the design and production of models in the architectural studio.

MADC & Partners SLP presents itself as a firm based on knowledge, creativity, and commitment: attitude as a prerequisite and necessary condition for any professional activity. Aware of the growing importance of knowledge and specialization, MADC & Partners SLP establishes its work through written reflection, teaching, and research: a way of understanding architecture as one of the most important expressions of culture. Creativity and innovation are fundamental elements of its work: only ideas can change the world. Creativity requires the appropriate framework, and that is why MADC takes special care in designing its own lifestyle, workspace, and even the composition of its team: a learning ecosystem based on hybrid and multidisciplinary profiles from which each project is approached as a glocal challenge: global + local. Its social and environmental commitment connects its daily work with the current reality of the planet, working through various non-profit associations on topics such as climate change, renewable energy, urban ecology, and zero-waste architecture.

The studio has also won numerous awards in recent years:

Idea competitions:

- 2022 First Prize. Renovation of the Pío XII Educational Center, Parla, Madrid.
- 2020 First Prize. Renovation of the historic building at Castellana 19, Madrid. With RLA Arquitectos.
- 2019 First Prize. Public Library in Villaverde, Madrid City Hall.
- 2014 First Prize, Jury and Public Prize. "Noble Materials" (article). Argentine Architecture Biennial BIA-AR 2014.
- 2012 MADRID THINK TANK, "Zero Waste Economy" concept selected by COAM for the development of a platform for returnable components.
- 2006 Second Prize. Renovation of Domingo Gascón Square, Teruel (Spain). With Antonio Puerta and Arturo Peris.
2006 First Prize. Two viewing platforms, cafeteria, and restroom, "Cerro de los Perdigones," Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid.
2005 First Prize. 18 Terraced Houses in Parla, Madrid. With Antonio Puerta and Arturo Peris.
2005 Runner-up Prize. Renovation of the Plaza Mayor in Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid. With Antonio Puerta and Arturo Peris.
2004 Runner-up Prize. Competition for 211 VPP Housing Units in the slum area of ​​Padre Ayala, Ciudad Real. With Gonzalo Ortega.
2001 First Prize. National Competition for the Nautical Club and Marina, Bueu, Pontevedra. With Jorge Valseca.

Awards for constructed works:

2025 Selected work, CSCAE ARCHITECTURE Awards. Higher Council of the Colleges of Architects of Spain. Project: Library of a Thousand Suns (Madrid).
.- 2025 MATCOAM Awards, Sustainability Category. Official College of Architects of Madrid. Project: Library of a Thousand Suns (Madrid).
.- 2025 Finalist, MINI Awards, Madrid Design Festival. Project: Library of a Thousand Suns (Madrid).
.- 2025 Runner-up. AMAD Award for the best wooden construction in Spain during 2024. Project: Library of a Thousand Suns (Madrid).
.- 2024 First Prize. Rebuild 2024. Project: Renovation of the historic building at Castellana 19 (Madrid). With RLA Arquitectos.
.- 2009 Selected Project. Ademo Foundation, International Exhibition and Catalogue "Madrid 100% Architecture", COAM. With Jorge Valseca.

ah asociados. Architecture studio based in Pamplona, Navarra, co-founded in 1989 by Miguel Ángel Alonso del Val and Rufino J. Hernández Minguillón.

Miguel Ángel Alonso del Val. Urban Architect (1979) and Doctor of Architecture (1983) with Extraordinary Awards from the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra. Fulbright Scholar and Master of Science in Architecture & Building Design from Columbia University, he has served as Associate Professor at the School of Architecture of Madrid and has received the Jorge Montes Award (2009) and the Luis Barragán Award (2011). Visiting Professor at Spanish, European, and American universities, he is currently Full Professor of Architectural Projects, and has served as Coordinator of the Doctoral Program in Applied Creativity and Director of the School of Architecture at the University of Navarra.

Rufino J. Hernández Minguillón. Urban Architect (1982) and Doctor of Architecture (1991) from the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra. Researcher on “New Techniques in Lightweight Construction” at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1988), Master in Building and Specialist in Building Systems, Organization and Construction Technology (1993). Adjunct Professor (ETSAUN) and Associate Professor of Construction at the School of Architecture of San Sebastián, University of the Basque Country. He has been Deputy Director of the “Master in Building” program (1991–96) and Editor-in-Chief of the Revista de Edificación – RE of ETSAUN, Pamplona (1995–01). Researcher in the fields of lightweight and responsive active enclosures, industrialized construction, and thermo-energy performance of building envelopes; collaborator for the CSCAE in the development of the Spanish Building Code (CTE), in the areas of safety and habitability.

Their works have been finalists for the COAVN Awards, VI BEAU, Spanish Architects Exhibition, Veteco, Murcia, FAD, Construmat, and Saloni; and awarded the SEDIGAS Award 2002, PAD Award 2003, APCE Award 2005, COAVN Award 2007, and NaN Awards 2009 and 2011. Their recent work has been compiled in a monograph, exhibited at the Venice Biennale (2008 and 2012) and featured in various international publications, as well as in the guides Arquitectura de España 1929/1996, Arquitectura Española 1920/2000, GAN SXX, and the Phaidon World Atlas of Architecture.