José Ignacio Linazasoro Rodríguez, Ricardo Sánchez González. Linazasoro & Sánchez Arquitectura

Linazasoro&Sánchez Arquitectura. In July 2011, José Ignacio Linazasoro Rodríguez and Ricardo Sánchez González started the society Linazasoro&Sánchez Arquitectura SLP, based in Madrid. Since October 2011, they have worked together as Professors at the School of Architecture of Madrid.

José Ignacio Linazasoro Rodríguez was born in 1947 in San Sebastián. Linazasoro studied at the Schools of Architecture of Pamplona and Barcelona. He qualified as an architect at the School of Architecture of Barcelona in 1972 and obtained his PhD there in 1980.

Throughout his long professional career, he has combined independent architectural practice — with works widely recognised both in Spain and abroad — with teaching, the dissemination of architectural thought and participation in exhibitions. He taught at the School of Architecture of San Sebastián (1977–82), and later became Professor of Architectural Projects at the Schools of Architecture of Valladolid (1982–88) and Madrid, where he has held a chair since 1988.

Linazasoro has also been invited as a visiting professor to several schools of architecture, including Pamplona, Venice, Milan, Cesena, Bari, Lima and Lausanne. In addition, he has delivered lectures on his work in Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Prague, Budapest, Mexico City, Puerto Rico and the United States. Since 1987, he has been a corresponding member of Architecture at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. He lives in Madrid.

His work began to be published in the 1970s following the Hondarribia Ikastola project, designed in collaboration with Miguel Garay. During the 1980s, he completed notable works such as the reconstruction of the Church of Santa Cruz in Medina de Rioseco. In the 1990s, his project for the Central Library of the UNED received numerous awards and publications.

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, he designed the Church of San Lorenzo in Valdemaqueda (Madrid) and the Escuelas Pías University Centre in Madrid, one of his most widely published and awarded works. Later, he designed the Cathedral Square in Reims and the Congress Centre in Troyes (France). In 2011, he began collaborating with the architect Ricardo Sánchez, with whom he has completed projects including the Segovia University Campus (2011) and the remodelling of Puerta del Sol in Madrid (2023).

He has received numerous national and international awards for his work, including the COAM Award, the Moreno Mansilla Award, the COACYLE Award, the Iberfad Award, the International Brick Award, the Piranesi Prix de Rome, the Gutiérrez Soto Award and the Honorary Membership of the College of Architects of Cádiz, among others.

Author of theoretical texts such as La memoria del orden, Linazasoro has also published monographs on his work in Spain, France and Italy.

Ricardo Sánchez González was born in 1978 in Madrid (Spain). Sánchez is an architect from the School of Architecture of  Madrid, 2003 and a Professor at the  School of Architecture of Madrid since 2011. He lives in Madrid.