Ignacio Grávalos Lacambra, Patrizia Di Monte. GRÁVALOSDIMONTE Arquitectos

GRÁVALOSDIMONTE Arquitectos is a studio based in Zaragoza, founded in 1998 by Ignacio Grávalos Lacambra and Patrizia Di Monte.

Patricia Di Monte, an architect from the I.U.A.V. in Venice, received a scholarship from the Italian Ministry of Culture for Master's and Doctoral studies at the UPC and the Centre for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona. She teaches in the Master's program in New Urban Design at NABA in Milan and in the Master's program in Design for Public Spaces at IED in Rome.

Ignacio Grávalos, an architect from the ETSAB in Barcelona, ​​holds a Master's degree in Research and Advanced Training in Architecture and a PhD in Architecture. He is a tenured professor of Graphic Expression, Projects VIII, and Final Degree Projects at the ETSA USJ. They founded gravalosdimonte arquitectos in 1998 in Zaragoza.

They are the intellectual authors of several pilot projects, including ©estonoesunsolar, an experimental program for the regeneration of 60 urban voids transformed into public spaces, adopted as a best practice in more than 200 cities worldwide. Their projects have been recognized for their innovative and experimental nature, and for promoting urban regeneration and sustainable architecture.

They combine their professional activity with teaching, as visiting professors at numerous European universities and lecturers at international forums, and with research, as Project Partners for the Horizon 2020 Generative Commons Project. In 2020, they were nominated for the Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.

International Awards:

-Eurocties - Planning for People
-'11; IQU Innovation and Urban Quality 10
-Saie Selection 12 - Urban Regeneration and Development
-Biennale Spazio Pubblico 13 - Social City
-Winning Best Urban Solution LLGA Awards 13: Cities Pilot the Future
-3rd Prize SMART Future Minds 2010 Awards
-Research Mention XI BEAU
-Landscape Architecture FAD Awards 2011
-Ri.U.So., City to City FAD Award 12
-Finalist III MINI Design Awards - BMW Group
-Finalist in several editions of the European Landscape Biennial

His work has been published internationally in leading cultural and architectural journals and exhibited at, among other international cultural institutions, the MAXXI in Rome, the DAZ in Berlin, the NAI in Rotterdam, the Cité de l'Architecture in Paris, the AZ in Vienna, and Nuevos Ministerios in Madrid. They have been invited to several editions of the Biennale di Architettura di Venezia, Padiglione Italia, 2016 Taking Care, 2018 Arcipelago Italia, 2021 Resilent Communities.