Primitivo González, Noa González, Ara González. Estudio primitivo González

Estudio primitivo González | Estudio González Arquitectos is an architecture studio founded 45 years ago by Primitivo González, whose experience and leadership have been joined since 2014 by Noa González and Ara González.

Primitivo González (1951). Architect from the University of Barcelona (1977–78) with more than forty years of experience and Doctor of Architecture from the University of Valladolid (1987). In 1978, he founded his own studio in Valladolid. Throughout his extensive career, he has received a total of forty-seven architecture awards or distinctions in various project competitions, eleven design awards or distinctions, and forty-two awards or distinctions for completed works.

In the field of research, he began in 1976 and 1977 working in the Construction Industrialization Seminar at the School of Architecture of Barcelona under the direction of Professor Ignacio Paricio. Later, he developed ethnographic research focused on pre-industrial ceramics and vernacular architecture. In 1986, he received the Marqués de Lozoya National Research Award (Folk Arts section), granted by the Ministry of Culture.

Between 1971 and 1979, he carried out activities in the field of visual arts, with works selected in thirty exhibitions, four painting awards, and six sculpture awards, in addition to six solo exhibitions.

González Arquitectos (2014). In 2014, Primitivo González Arquitectos was restructured as González Arquitectos with the incorporation of Noa and Ara González, forming a studio based on the experience accumulated over the previous years but embracing a more flexible, diverse, debated, and interwoven approach to projects. A young and renewed vision joins experience to face today’s challenges.

The motivation driving the studio’s practice is the awareness that each new building contributes to the construction of collective heritage. They pursue architecture of quality, in all the meanings of the term: architecture that builds the city, that respects the environment, and, above all, that dignifies people.

In the pursuit of that dignity lie the most immutable aspects of architecture. They strive to produce human-scale architecture—comfortable, functional, and serving its purpose in the best possible way—while generating collective identity. An architecture that endures.

Programmatically, the studio specializes in four main areas: workspaces, healthcare architecture, distinctive residential projects, and educational architecture. Nevertheless, beyond programs, they seek opportunities to create flexible and resilient architectures capable of responding to both present and future needs.

Geographically, the studio originated in Valladolid but, in its latest stage, has expanded its scope to the national and international scene, developing projects for both public and private clients, widely recognized for their quality. Among their recent works are the Salem Town Hall in Germany (Castilla y León Architecture Award 2020–21 and finalist in the Spanish Architecture Biennial 2021) and the rehabilitation of a pavilion for the Courts of Alcalá de Henares (COAM Award 2021).

The studio currently has ongoing or under-construction projects in Barcelona, Mallorca, Toledo, Málaga, and several cities across Castilla y León.