VII BIAU: Lecture by José María Sánchez García

Jose María Sánchez García was born in Don Benito (Badajoz) in 1975. He is an architect from the School of Architecture of Madrid (2002) and an associate professor of the same school.

In 2003, he received a scholarship from the Velázquez House, and in 2007-2008, the Academy of Spain in Rome.

At the international level, he has received awards like 1st prize of Architectural Review Emerging Architecture in 2009 (exhibition at the RIBA, London), was honoured as one of 10 emerging international studies by Architectural Record's Design Vanguard 2009 in New York, X Prize finalist Contractworld 2010 Hannover and was selected VII for Latin American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, among others.

At the national level, he has been selected for the XI Spanish Architecture Biennale, winning 1st prize in Young Architecture, a Special Mention Award in the FAD 2010 Architecture, and 1st prize in the Nan V Awards of Architecture and Construction 2011, among others.

He has participated in national and international conferences and lectures at the Barcelona Open Biarch at Lusíada University of Porto, in Izmir (Turkey), at the Schools of Architecture of Malaga, Sevilla, Zaragoza, Madrid, Segovia, and at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome.

He has also served as CISMEF09 international exhibition in Guangzhou, China, New York and Paris with exposure JAE Young Architects of Spain in Santiago Chile, Quito, Puerto Rico, Bogotá, Oran and Peru with 100% exposure Madrid at the RIBA in London, Athens and Moscow with the exhibition "Una ciudad llamada España" and with that of "35 + Exposición de Arquitectura Española" in Athens and Cyprus.