FRPO (2008) is an architecture office based in Madrid, founded in 2008 and directed by Fernando Rodriguez and Pablo Oriol, internationally recognized with the awards FAD Awards (2024), COAM (2023) Architectural Review Emerging Architects (London, 2019), Architectural Record Design Vanguard (New York, 2012), Europe 40 under 40 (Chicago, 2009) and Bauwelt Preis (Berlin, 2007), among others, and his work has been a finalist and selected in the XVI Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (2023), in the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (2022), FAD Awards (2021 and 2019), the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2016 (Golden Lion), the Enor Awards 2011, the Mies van der Rohe Awards 2015, IX, XII and XV Spanish Biennials of Architecture and Urbanism (2007, 2013, 2021), V and the 9th Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (2006 and 2014); and the Madrid City Council Public Works Awards (2007), the Archizinc Award (2007), and the Camuñas Foundation Awards for Young Architects (2007).
FRPO’s work has been widely published, and its proposals have been disseminated through articles, lectures, and frequent exhibitions, both nationally and internationally.
Trained as architects at the ETSAM in Madrid, at the IIT in Chicago and the TU Berlin, Pablo Oriol and Fernando Rodriguez are professors in the Department of Architectural Design at the ETSAM UPM, as well as regular guests at various national and foreign universities.
Fernando Rodríguez holds a PhD in Architecture since 2015. He studied architecture at UPM ETSAM in Madrid and at the Technische Universität Berlin between 1995 and 2003. He has collaborated in MVRDV and has been invited as critic with Kees Christiaanse at the TU Berlin. He worked as a project architect for Abalos & Herreros in 2004. He is a lecturer at the Architectural Design Department of UPM ETSAM and at the IE University.
Pablo Oriol studied architecture at UPM ETSAM and the IIT College of Architecture in Chicago, between 1995 and 2005. He was Cultural Activities Curator for the General Department of Architecture of the Ministry of Public Works for the ETSAM and the Cervantes Institute between 1999 and 2002. He was part of the redaction team of the magazine Arquitectura Viva in 2006. He is a PhD candidate and lecturer at the Architectural Design Department of UPM ETSAM and at the IE University.
In 2005, Fernando Rodriguez and Pablo Oriol were founding partners of Nolaster Oficina de Arquitectura, where they developed their professional activity until 2007. In 2008, they established FRPO as a natural evolution of their previous professional experiences.
FRPO’s work has been widely published, and its proposals have been disseminated through articles, lectures, and frequent exhibitions, both nationally and internationally.
Trained as architects at the ETSAM in Madrid, at the IIT in Chicago and the TU Berlin, Pablo Oriol and Fernando Rodriguez are professors in the Department of Architectural Design at the ETSAM UPM, as well as regular guests at various national and foreign universities.
Fernando Rodríguez holds a PhD in Architecture since 2015. He studied architecture at UPM ETSAM in Madrid and at the Technische Universität Berlin between 1995 and 2003. He has collaborated in MVRDV and has been invited as critic with Kees Christiaanse at the TU Berlin. He worked as a project architect for Abalos & Herreros in 2004. He is a lecturer at the Architectural Design Department of UPM ETSAM and at the IE University.
Pablo Oriol studied architecture at UPM ETSAM and the IIT College of Architecture in Chicago, between 1995 and 2005. He was Cultural Activities Curator for the General Department of Architecture of the Ministry of Public Works for the ETSAM and the Cervantes Institute between 1999 and 2002. He was part of the redaction team of the magazine Arquitectura Viva in 2006. He is a PhD candidate and lecturer at the Architectural Design Department of UPM ETSAM and at the IE University.
In 2005, Fernando Rodriguez and Pablo Oriol were founding partners of Nolaster Oficina de Arquitectura, where they developed their professional activity until 2007. In 2008, they established FRPO as a natural evolution of their previous professional experiences.
