CSCAE ARQUITECTURA Awards 2026

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.

Enric Miralles Moya (Barcelona 1955 - Sant Feliu de Codines 2000) studied at the Barcelona School of Architecture, ETSAB, graduating in 1978. From 1973 to 1983 he collaborated with Albert Viaplana and Helio Piñón, and in 1984 he founded the Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós studio, from this stage one of his most poetic works stands out, such as the Igualada Cemetery. In 1993 he began the EMBT study with his wife and partner Benedetta Tagliabue.

Considered an architect of great inventiveness, he defined himself as the enfant terrible of Spanish architecture. He was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at Columbia University for the 1980-81 academic year. Two years later, he presented his doctoral thesis "Things seen to the left and the right, (without glasses)."

Since 1985 he was professor at ETSAB (Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona), holding the Chair of Architecture since 1996. In 1990 he began as Director and Professor of the Master Class at Städelschule of Frankfurt and beginning in 1992 served as the "Kenzo Tange Chair” professor at the GSD of Harvard University. Moreover, he was visiting professor and lecturer at several universities in the United States (Columbia, Princeton, Harvard, Yale), Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, and a member of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland.

As an architect of many works, his projects include, the Igualada Cemetery in Spain (1995) and the rehabilitation of Utrecht City Hall in Holland (2000). He was also active as an interior designer, with projects including The Hipostila shelving system(1989) in collaboration with Lluis Clotet and Oscar Tusquets Blanca for Bd Ediciones de Diseño, Lungomare Bench for Escofet,(2000), Vacante bench for Sellex (1991), and many other furnishing designs which were not put in production.

He has received numerous awards, including the National Prize of Spanish Architecture 1995, FAD Prize (Fomento Artes Decorativas) 1985 and 2000, The European ITALSTAD (Italy) 1991. Leone d’Oro Prize at the Biennale di Venezia 1996. His work has been published internationally in the most distinguished reviews, El Croquis N.100 101, Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue 1996-2000. GG. Miralles Tagliabue Time Architecture 1999. Electa, Documenti di Architettutra. Benedetta Tagliabue. Enric Miralles: Opere e Progetti. 1996. In 1999 he was named an Honorary member of The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland. In 2002 he received posthumously the Gold Medal from the Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya.

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT is an international acknowledged architecture studio formed by Enric Miralles (1955-2000) and Benedetta Tagliabue in 1994.

The studio has experience in public spaces and buildings in both Europe and China working for State and Local Governments as well as Corporate and private clients.

EMBT’s mature approach to architecture, interior design, facility planning includes experience with educational, commercial, industrial and residential buildings, restoration of buildings as well as special purpose landscape architecture.

Each project evolves from the specific client requirements and innovation emerges through the design process. This approach is combined with strong technical and management skills to provide cost effective and personal service.

The studio maintains a highly personal level of service throughout the design process and offer strong technical and structural solutions through close collaboration with engineering offices.

The majority of the EMBT projects are commissioned by public clients with special emphasis on urban space and the coherence between the built environment and the public space. Each project brings with it a new client and special cost constraints. To achieve the desired solution, EMBT believe that the design process must be a collaborative effort between the client and the designer.

EMBT ensures that clients take an active role in defining their needs, bringing client and solution together, and is backed by a support team with a capability of responding rapidly to projects demands.

The studio put great emphasis on each individual projects context, history and culture and aims to enhance these aspects through their unique design process.

Benedetta Tagliabue was born in Milan (June 24, 1963) and graduated from the University of Venice in 1989. In 1991 she joined Enric Miralles’ studio eventually becoming a partner. Her work with Miralles, whom she married, includes several high-profile buildings and projects in Barcelona: Parque Diagonal Mar (1997-2002), Head Office Gas Natural (1999-2006) and the Market and Quarter Santa Caterina (1996-2005), as well as projects across Europe, including the School of Music in Hamburg (1997-2000) and the City Hall in Utrecht (1996-2000).

In 1998 the partnership won the competition to design the new Scottish Parliament building. Despite Miralles’ premature death in 2000, Tagliabue took leadership of the team as joint Project Director and the Parliament was completed in 2004, winning several awards.

She won the competition for the new design of Hafencity Harbor in Hamburg, Germany, a subway train station in Naples, and the Spanish Pavilion for Expo Shanghai 2010 among others.

Today under the direction of Benedetta Tagliabue the Miralles-Tagliabue-EMBT studio works with architectural projects, open spaces, urbanism, rehabilitation and exhibitions, trying to conserve the spirit of the Spanish and Italian artisan architectural studio tradition which espouses collaboration rather than specialization.

Their architectural philosophy is dedicating special attention to context.

Benedetta has written for several architectural magazines and has taught at, amongst other places, the University of Architecture ETSAB in Barcelona. She has lectured at many international architectural Forums as, for example, the RIBA, the Architectural Association and Bartlett School in, London, the Berlage Institut in Amsterdam, and in the USA, China and South America.

Alfredo Payá Benedito was born in Alicante, Spain, on 19th March 1961. 1988, Architect by the Technical Superior School of Architecture of Madrid, Spain. Established in Alicante since 1988. 1988-89. 1991-00 Projects teacher in the technical superior school of architecture of Valencia, Spain. Projects teacher in the Technical Superior School of Architecture of Alicante, Spain. Guest teacher in several universities and a habitual lecturer in different institutions.

His complete work has been reviewed in different publications and national and international exhibitions. At the beginning of 2006, Alfredo Payá founded the noname29 office, where he develops his work at present. Nowadays projects lecturer at the Catalonia International University.

Founded in 2006 in Palma de Mallorca, TEd’A arquitectes focuses on proximity architecture, attentive to context, local materials, and traditional building techniques. Among their notable projects are the School in Son Ferriol (2010), the Nursery and Primary School in Sa Ràpita (2014), the House in Bunyola (2014), the House in Montuïri (2016), and the House in Artà (2018).

The practice has received several awards, including the FAD Architecture Award (2018) for the House in Artà, the FAD Opinion Award (2018), the Arquitectura Plus Award (2018), and the XIII Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (2016). They were finalists for the Mies van der Rohe Award (2019) and participants in the Venice Architecture Biennale (2016). Their work has been featured in El Croquis, Arquitectura Viva, Detail, and A+U.