The 5 winners of the MATCOAM Awards have been announced

Office for Political Innovation (OFFPOLINN) es un estudio de arquitectura internacional, con sede en Nueva York y Madrid, que trabaja en la intersección del diseño, la investigación y las prácticas ambientales críticas. La oficina desarrolla proyectos que transcurren a través de escalas y medios, con el objetivo de integrar la inclusividad en el entorno construido.

Actualmente, la oficina trabaja en proyectos para Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary, CA2M, Real Madrid, Colegio Reggio y Grupo La Musa; y entre sus clientes se incluyen Lafayette Anticipations, Victoria & Albert Museum, Museum of Modern Art MoMA, Art Institute of Chicago, Fundación Cisneros, Empresa Municipal de la Vivienda y Suelo de Madrid, Matadero-Madrid, Obispado de Plasencia, Feria ARCO, London Design Museum, Power Station of Art (Shanghai), Fundació Mies van der Rohe y MAK Vienna.

En 2016, OFFPOLINN recibió el Premio Frederick Kiesler de Arquitectura y Artes de la Ciudad de Viena. El estudio también ha sido galardonado con el LEÓN DE PLATA al Mejor Proyecto de Investigación en la 14.ª Bienal de Venecia y con el Premio Dionisio Hernández Gil.

La obra de OFFPOLINN forma parte de las colecciones del MoMA y del Instituto de Arte de Chicago, entre muchas otras, y ha sido objeto de exposiciones individuales en el MoMA, el MoMA PS1, el MAK de Viena, la Universidad de Princeton, el Centro de Arte Contemporáneo RED CAT Cal Arts de Los Ángeles, la Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine de París y Tabacalera de Madrid. También se ha exhibido en el Instituto de Arte de Chicago, el Zentrum für Kunst und Medien ZKM (Karlsruhe), el Museo de Diseño de Londres, la Whitechapel Gallery (Londres), el Z33 (Hasselt), el Museo Suizo de Arquitectura (Basilea), las trienales de arquitectura de Lisboa y Oslo, y las bienales de arquitectura de Venecia, Chicago, Gwanju, São Paulo, Santiago de Chile y Seúl.

Andrés Jaque, holds a Ph.D. in architecture. He is the founder of the Office for Political Innovation, an international architectural practice, based in New York and Madrid, working at the intersection of design, research, and critical environmental practices.. He is also the Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, New York.

In 2014 he received the Silver Lion at the 14th Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, Biennale di Venezia.

He is the author of award-winning projects such as Plasencia Clergy House (Dionisio Hernández Gil Prize), House in Never Never Land (Mies Van der Rohe European Union Award's finalist), TUPPER HOME (X Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo), or ESCARAVOX (COAM Award 2013). He has also developed architectural performances as well as installations that question political frameworks through architectural practice; including IKEA Disobedients (MoMA Collection, 2011); PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society (Mies Barcelona Pavilion, 2012) or Superpowers of Ten (Lisbon Triennale, 2014).

Andrés Jaque is a Professor of Advanced Design at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) and Visiting Professor at Princeton University's School of Architecture.

Ángela García de Paredes (1958) and Ignacio García Pedrosa (1957) are architects from the Architecture School of Madrid, where they teach. Invited professors in other Spanish and foreign universities for teaching, critics and speakers. They founded Paredes Pedrosa Studio in 1990, after collaborating with José María García de Paredes for several years.

They are authors of, among other works, the Valdemaqueda Town Hall, Valle Inclán Theatre in Madrid, the Archaeological Museum of Almería, Peñíscola Auditorium, La Olmeda Roman Ville, Ceuta Library or the Lugo Auditorium. Their work has been recognized with the 2007 Spanish Architecture National Award, ar+d Award, Europan II and IV, Europa Nostra, Madrid Architecture Award, Mansilla Award, Gold Medal International Prize for Sustainable Architecture, Mediterranean Sustainable Architecture Award and 'Golden Medal for the Merit in Fine Arts' 2014, given by the Culture and Sports Spanish Ministery. Their work has been exhibited in many national and international architecture biennials.

Amann, Cánovas, Maruri, architecture firm established by: Atxu Amann Alcocer, Andrés Cánovas Alcaraz and Nicolás Maruri Mendoza.

Atxu Amann Alcocer. Madrid 1961. Architect by the ETSA of Madrid. Doctorate from ETSAM with outstanding Cum Llaude, 2007. Urban Planning Technician from the Urban Studies Center of I.E.A.L. (M.A.P.) Scholar of the Technische Hoschule of Darmstadt (Germany) in CAAD. Director of the magazine Arquitectos. Director of the Postgraduate courses in Editorial Design for the European Social Fund. Professor in the postgraduate courses of Editorial Graphic Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Madrid. Professor of the Department of Architectural Graphic Ideation of ETSAM

Andrés Cánovas Alcaraz. Cartagena 1958. Architect by the School of Architecture of Madrid. Prometheus Scholarship at Tecniche Hoschule. Darmstatd. Germany. Director of the "Monographs of Architects" Collection. Director of the "Monographs of Buildings" Collection, Director of the "Crítica de Arquitectura" Collection, Director and editor of the magazine Arquitectos, 1987-2006, Professor of the CSDM of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University, European Design Institute, Coordinator of several postgraduate courses in Graphic Design Editorial in the Faculty of Fine Arts, the European Institute of Design and the European Social Fund. Faculty of Fine Arts, UCM, Professor of the Master of Aesthetics and Theory of Arts of the Autonomous University, Professor of Design Master of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Salamanca, Professor of the Master of Intervention in the Heritage of the ETSAM Professor of the Tourism Master of the UPC of Barcelona.

He has been secretary of the Final Project Project Tribunal at ESTAM. UPM. Deputy Director of the Spanish Architecture Biennial. Director of the Summer Course at the University of Almería. Visiting Professor at the Universities of Salamanca, San Sebastián, La Coruña, Seville, Navarra, Valencia, Polytechnic of Cartagena, SEK of Segovia, Alfonso X, Advanced Architecture Institute of Barcelona, ​​Polytechnic University of Catalonia, London AA, Montpellier, Rome Tre , Calgliari, Toulouse, Javeriana from Bogotá, Chicago IIT and Arizona CAPLA. He is a professor of Projects of the ETSAM Academic Coordinator of the MCH of the ETSAM. UPM and Director of the Projects area. Professor of the subject "Sociology of Housing".

Nicolás Maruri Mendoza. Madrid 1961. Architect by the School of Architecture of Madrid. Doctorate from ETSAM with outstanding Cum Llaude, 2007. Prometheus Scholarship at Tecniche Hoschule Darmstatd. Germany. Master's Degree in Building from Columbia University. NY. He is a professor in the Projects Department of ETSAM. He has been: Secretary of the Court of the ETSAM End-of-Degree Project and Visiting Professor at the University of Arizona. He has given conferences in London AA, San Sebastian, SEK of Segovia.

Fermín Vázquez Huarte-Mendicoa (Madrid, 1961) architect since 1988. He studied at ETSAM (Madrid) and ETSAB (Barcelona). He leads b720 Fermín Vázquez Architects, which he set up with Ana Bassat in 1997, with offices in Barcelona, Madrid, São Paulo and Porto Alegre.

b720 is an international studio. It works globally, with offices in Brazil and Spain, on projects located in a dozen different countries.

The work of the studio, which has been shown in several events and museums, such as the Biennal of Venice, the Cité of París and MoMA of NY, has been awarded nationally and internationally with several prizes, among them are two RIBA Awards, a World Architecture Festival award, four awards ASPRIMA-SIMA, the Emporis Skyscraper Award and the European Public Urban Space award.

Among his best-known projects are the Agbar Tower -with Jean Nouvel Architectures-, Lérida's airport, the Plaza del Torico in Teruel, La Mola Conference Centre in Barcelona, the City of Justice of Barcelona and the building for the America Cup in Valencia -both with David Chipperfield Architects- and the Gran Casino Costa Brava in Lloret de Mar. Currently working, among other projects, on the new Mercat dels Encants in Barcelona, the new international airport of Cuzco in Perú, the regeneration of the Waterfront of Cais Mauá of Porto Alegre, a new neighbourhood for 70.000 residents in Brasilia and in several high buildings in São Paulo.

He usually combines professional practice with teaching. He has been a teacher at ETSAB, l'École d'Architecture et Paysage de Burdeos, and Universidad Europea de Madrid, and he has given courses and conferences at large universities and institutions all over the world.

Together, they work on projects of varying scales. Primarily using drawing as a tool to shape their ideas, they explore new ways of creating community through buildings and spaces that find opportunities within limitations. They approach each project with enthusiasm, care, and curiosity, always striving for lasting beauty.

In recent years, they have received numerous accolades, including the Dezeen award for best emerging architecture studio of 2022. They were also included in the AD100 list in 2021 and were finalists for the AR Emerging Architecture Awards organized by The Architectural Review in 2020, as well as for the Swiss Architectural Award in 2024.

AYLLÓN . PARADELA . DE ANDRÉS arquitectos is an architecture studio with current headquarters in Madrid, directed by three associate architects: Javier Alejo Hernández Ayllón, Verónica Paradela Pernas and Javier de Andrés de Vicente. Its work is based on the premise that any project can be materialized through abstraction, essentiality, constructive rigour and attention to the context, always permeating all its interventions in the place where they are framed, combining tradition and vanguard. Its work has deserved the recognition of several awards - both for work built and in public and private competitions -, ranging from the domestic scale to the urban sphere, through the conservation and rehabilitation of the built heritage.

AWARDS

- 2021_First Prize Public Competition (Department of Sustainability and Environment of the Consell de Mallorca). Reform of different areas of the Raixa public estate, such as the Mountain Refuge and Training Center-Escola de Margers in the Sierra de Tramontana, Bunyola, Palma de Mallorca. Three Strategies.
- 2019_First Prize Public Contest (Ministry of Development). Setting up the Archaeological Site of the Arrabal Andalusí de La Arrixaca and the Garden of San Esteban (Murcia). In collaboration with BURGOS and GARRIDO architects. Haha
- 2019_First Prize Public Contest (Ministry of Development). Interpretation Center of the Royal Walls of Ceuta. Resilient
- 2019_First Prize Public Competition (Official College of Architects of C. Valenciana and Ayunt. De Gandía) 41 homes for young people in cooperative regime. Gandia Farmhouse
- 2018_ First Prize Ideas Competition (COAM / AEDAS Homes). In collaboration with Xesta Rasilla architects. Design of the show office for real estate developments of AEDAS Homes. Origin. Prototype of a prefabricated wooden pavilion for Sales Offices.
- 2017_ COAM 2017 Award (Official College of Architects of Madrid), Spain. In collaboration with Ángela Juarranz. Mirasierra House.