El Croquis - 189. José María Sánchez García / Alfredo Payá / Toni Gironès

Toni Gironès, Toni Gironès Saderra (born in Badalona, 1965) is an architect who graduated from the Vallès School of Architecture (ETSAV) in 1992. He earned his doctorate in 2016 from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) with the thesis "Spontaneous Architectures: Reflections on Constants in Architecture: The Cap de Creus Peninsula, a Topography in Time."

He taught architectural design at ETSAV until 2005 and has since served as Head of Architectural Education at URV. He was also a professor and coordinator of the subjects Projects and Drawing I-II (2005–2011) and Projects and Urbanism II at the Reus School of Architecture – URV (2011–2012).

Since 1993, Gironès has worked as an independent architect. His work has received numerous accolades, including the Spanish Architecture Award in 2019 for the Climate Museum in Lleida, as well as recognition at the IX and VIII Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism for the Transmitter Space at the Dolmen of Seró and the 80 Social Housing Units in Salou, respectively. Among other honors, he has been awarded the Young Architects of Catalonia Award (1996), FAD Award (2007), Puig i Cadafalch Award (2011), Bonaplata Award for the Restoration of Historic Buildings (2011), and more. In 2013, the Swiss Architecture Museum (SAM) in Basel dedicated a monographic exhibition to his work, titled "Space and Matter: Life and Place."

He was a professor at ETSAV from 1993 to 2005 and later at the Reus School of Architecture at the Rovira i Virgili University (URV), where he also took on academic coordination and management roles. Between 2009 and 2012, he was a board member and professor at BIARCH – Barcelona Institute of Architecture.

Jose María Sánchez García was born in Don Benito (Badajoz) in 1975. He is an architect from the School of Architecture of Madrid (2002) and an associate professor of the same school.

In 2003, he received a scholarship from the Velázquez House, and in 2007-2008, the Academy of Spain in Rome.

At the international level, he has received awards like 1st prize of Architectural Review Emerging Architecture in 2009 (exhibition at the RIBA, London), was honoured as one of 10 emerging international studies by Architectural Record's Design Vanguard 2009 in New York, X Prize finalist Contractworld 2010 Hannover and was selected VII for Latin American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, among others.

At the national level, he has been selected for the XI Spanish Architecture Biennale, winning 1st prize in Young Architecture, a Special Mention Award in the FAD 2010 Architecture, and 1st prize in the Nan V Awards of Architecture and Construction 2011, among others.

He has participated in national and international conferences and lectures at the Barcelona Open Biarch at Lusíada University of Porto, in Izmir (Turkey), at the Schools of Architecture of Malaga, Sevilla, Zaragoza, Madrid, Segovia, and at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome.

He has also served as CISMEF09 international exhibition in Guangzhou, China, New York and Paris with exposure JAE Young Architects of Spain in Santiago Chile, Quito, Puerto Rico, Bogotá, Oran and Peru with 100% exposure Madrid at the RIBA in London, Athens and Moscow with the exhibition "Una ciudad llamada España" and with that of "35 + Exposición de Arquitectura Española" in Athens and Cyprus.

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.