The XVI Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BEAU) has announced the winners of this edition, coinciding with the presentation of the exhibition at the Royal Artillery Factory of Seville. Under the motto Medium Term, it can be visited in this historic space of the Andalusian city until November 20.

Convened by the Ministry of Transport, Mobility, and Urban Agenda in collaboration with the Superior Council of the Colleges of Architects of Spain (CSCAE) and the Arquia Foundation, the XVI BEAU recognizes and rewards the most relevant works of Spanish architecture and urban planning of the last two years (2021-2022).

A total of 55 winners have been divided into three categories –Works, Research and Dissemination, and Final Year Projects–: 20 correspond to Works, 10 to the Research and Dissemination category, and 25 to Final Year Projects. The awards for these projects will be presented this afternoon in a ceremony, coinciding with the opening of the exhibition.

This edition is curated by the team of Sevillian architects María González García, Juan José López de la Cruz, and Ángel Martínez García-Posada, who have proposed an exhibition concept that demonstrates the double opportunity of architecture to respond to the challenges of the present and anticipate the future of our habitat and territory.


A specialized jury chaired by the general secretary of Urban Agenda and Housing of the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (MITMA), Iñaqui Carnicero, has highlighted these initiatives for their quality, innovation, sustainability, environmental efficiency, and social and cultural vocation.

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In the selection of proposals, the importance of the quality public housing project is highlighted, the sensitive work with pre-existing conditions, the good articulation of the single-family home in unique border conditions, the care in the design of the equipment, the attention to environmental aspects or the adequate understanding of large-scale projects. According to the jury, “These projects allow us to appreciate the valuable efforts of architectural professionals in Spain, who belong to different generations, and their active contribution to the future improvement of both public and private areas, as well as urban and territorial environments."

In this sense, the curators have highlighted that "many of the projects have known how to operate in already built areas, working in a sensitive way with material and social contexts to which they have given new valences while safeguarding local links."

The 20 awarded works are:

1. Cap Cotet

Authors: BAAS architecture. Jordi Badia, Jero Gutierrez + AIS
Location: Carrer Amèlia, 1, Premià de Dalt, Barcelona
Photo credits: Provided by the authors

2. The Dark Line

Authors: mICHELE&mIQUEL Michèle Orliac & Miquel Batlle + daVISION DESIGN Chung-Hsun WU
Location: Sandiaoling, Ruifang District, New Taipei City, Taiwan
Photo credits: LU Yu-Jui, miCHELE&mIQUEL

3. Conditioning of the port edge of Porto do Son

Authors: CREUSeCARRASCOarquitectos. Juan Creus, Covadonga Carrasco + r v r architects. Marcial Rodríguez, José Valladares, and Alberto Redondo.
Location: Avenida Galicia, Porto do Son, A Coruña
Photo credits: Luis Díaz Díaz / CREUSECARRASCO / r v r

4. Environmental restoration of the surroundings of the Rec Comtal in Vallbona. biodiversity viewpoints

Authors: Carles Enrich Studio
Location: Primer de Maig Square in Vallbona, Barcelona
Photo credits: Adrià Goula

5. Renovation of the Ciprián Traditional Shipyard

Authors: Fuertespenedo architects. Óscar Fuertes Dopico and Iago Fernández Penedo
Location: Lugar de Tavilo s/n, Concello de Outes, A Coruña
Photo credits: Ana Amado / Juan Rodríguez / NosoCoop

6. Public Library of Córdoba

Authors: Ángela García de Paredes, Ignacio G. Pedrosa
Location: Agriculture Gardens, Córdoba
Photo credits: Roland Halbe and Fernando Alda

7. 24 Public housing in Platja d'en Bossa

Authors: 08014 architecture. Adrià Guardiet Llotge, Sandra Torres Molina
Location: Avinguda Pere Matutes Noguera 72, Ibiza, Balearic Islands
Photo credits: Pol Viladoms

8. Renovation and expansion of the Fuentes de Andalucía Town Hall

Authors: Ignacio Laguillo Diaz
Location: Calle Fernando de Llera 3, Fuentes de Andalucía, Seville
Photo credits: Fernando Alda

9. Reggio School, El Encinar de los Reyes

Authors: Office for Political Innovation. Andres Jaque.
Location: Calle San Enrique de Ossó 48, Madrid
Photo credits: José Hevia

10. Blazon. Elements for industrial recovery

Authors: BURR. Elena Fuertes, Ramon Martinez, Alvaro Molins, Jorge Sobejano.
Location: Calle Blasón 5, Madrid
Photo credits: Maru Serrano

11. New Munch Museum

Authors: Herreros studio. Juan Herreros, Jens Richter
Location: Edvard Munchs Plass 1, Oslo, Norway
Photo credits: Provided by the authors

12. Renovation of the House of Culture as a Municipal Library and Theater

Authors: Alberto Martínez, Beatriz Matos, Nestor Montenegro, Antoni Gelabert
Location: Calle Martires 1, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid
Photo credits: Ana Matos and José Hevia

13. Nomade Olympus

Authors: María Langarita Sánchez, Víctor Navarro Ríos
Location: Praia da Rocha, Portimão, Portugal
Photo credits: Luis Díaz Díaz

14. 4 VPO in Garralda

Authors: Rodrigo Núñez Carrasco, Nazareth Gutiérrez Franco, Juan Carrascosa
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Location: Iberreka Street, Garralda, Navarra
Photo credits: Alberto Amores

15. Remodeling of the Plaza de España and its surroundings

Authors: Lorenzo Fernández-Ordoñez Hernández, Aránzazu La Casta Muñoa,
Fernando Porras-Isla Fernández Rodríguez de los Ríos
Location: Plaza de España and its surroundings, Madrid
Photo credits: Subliminal Image (Miguel de Guzmán and Rocío Romero)

16. Social Housing 1737

Authors: Harquitectes. David Lorente Ibáñez, Josep Ricart Ulldemolins, Xavier Ros
Majó, Roger Tudó Gali
Location: Plot B2.1 in the western sector, Gavà, Barcelona
Photo credits: Adrià Goula

17. Restoration of hermitages on the French Camino de Santiago through Aragon

Authors: Sebastián Arquitectos. Sergio Sebastian Franco
Location: Ruesta, Sigües, Huesca
Photo credits: Iñaki Bergera / Sebastián Arquitectos

18. Raw Rooms (Earth Houses), 43 social housing in Ibiza

Authors: Marta Peris, José Toral
Location: Calle María Teresa de León, 8-14, Ibiza, Balearic Islands
Photo credits: Jose Hevia

18. Social housing in Ibiza

  Authors: Juan Miguel Tizón, Pep Ripoll
  Location: Calle de Xarch 15, Eivissa
  Photo credits: José Hevia

20. Ham Farmhouse House

Authors: Jorge Vidal, Marcos Catalán
Location: Plot 3, Polygon 9, Valdepuercas, Garciaz, Cáceres
Photo credits: Eugeni Pons

The 10 winners in the field of research and dissemination are:

The architectures of the end of the world. Cosmotechniques and cosmopolitics for a future.
Authors.- Uriel Fogué Herreros.
Puente Editores.



Articles about architecture in local press.
Authors.- José Francisco García-Sánchez, Luis Navarro Jover, Nuria Prieto González,
Patricia Reus.
Diario de Almería, Prensa Ibérica, Quincemil, La Verdad.



Editorial work of the Collective Housing research group: Atlas of managed towns. Madrid 1956-1966 + CVI. Collective housing notebooks (010-016).
Authors.- Andrés Cánovas, Carmen Espegel, José María de Lapuerta, main researchers // Sálvora Feliz, Arturo Blanco, Javier de Andrés, researchers.
Asymmetric Editions // Department of Architectural Projects (ETSAM).



Mobile Theater.
Authors.- Fernando Quesada López.
Act.



The metamorphosis of the coast. Resilient landscapes and climate change.
Authors.- Miriam García García
Arquia Foundation.



ecosystems.zip. Exhibition New processes, new architectures.
Authors.- Sol Caride Ferreyra, Miguel Fernández-Galiano, Jorge Mañas Álvarez and Pedro Torres
García-Cantó (commissioners) Youth Institute (INJUVE) - Ministry of Social Affairs and Agenda 2030.



The gardens of the Alhambra.
Authors.- Juan Domingo Santos, María del Mar Villafranca Jiménez.
Comares.



Dance The City.
Authors.- Original idea: à la sauvette.
Team.- Héctor Suárez, Ernesto Ibáñez, Pablo Castillo, Pablo Delgado, Víctor García Alemán, Lila Suárez, Jorge Rubio.
Cabildo of Gran Canaria, CCA Gran Canaria.



The Gran Vía de Colón in Granada. Reconstruction of the project and work of an urban cove 1891-1931.
Authors.- Roser Martínez Ramos e Iruela.
University of Granada, Provincial Council of Granada.



Architecture and gender. A possible introduction
Authors.- María Novas Ferradás.
Melusine.


The 25 final-year projects are:

Uritia [re]natura: The Post-Industrial City. The reconversion of industrial estates.
Author.- Rubén Hidalgo Jiménez.
Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid.
New programs.

A pit, a walkway, a cube.
Author.- Jesús Mora Fernández.
Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid.
New programs.

Permeable History. The transfiguration of a cathedral.
Author.- Pablo Mayoral Sánchez.
Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid.
Local Roots.

The mine, the road, the house. Notes on the transformation of the landscape in the Tharsis and La Zarza Mining basin
Author.- Pablo Campillo Espejo.
Higher Technical School of Architecture of Granada.
Local Roots.

At the limits of the landscape. Music Pavilion in the Alameda de Osuna.
Author.- Maite Rodríguez González.
Higher Technical School of Architecture University of Navarra.
Precise Scales.

Navicula. Mare Domum.
Author.- Sandra Fernández Ruiz.
Toledo School of Architecture.
Local Roots.

Irresolute Fragment of an Obsolete Landscape.
Author.- María Campos Moreno.
Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid.
Precise Scales.

Pardon Á Ponte.
Author.- Álvaro Romero Sancho.
Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid.
Constructive Logics.

Water: strategies for a new paradigm from La Plana de Lleida to the city.
Author.- Alba Terés Ros.
Reus Higher Technical School of Architecture, Rovira i Virigli University.
Common actions.

Ruined landscape.
Author.- Amaya Saráchaga Lynch.
Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid.
Precise Scales.

Here, Malecon. Pools in the San Lázaro cove.
Author.- Berta Aguado Benito.
Toledo School of Architecture.
Common actions.

Neither Beginning nor End.
Author.- Iván Rando Campos.
Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid.
New Programs.

From Plane to Space. Geometric Reasons behind the Pop-up.
Author.- Noelia Acebes Fernández.
Higher Technical School of Architecture of Valladolid.
Precise Scales.

The Water under the Garden.
Author.- Isabel Mayoral Vallés.
Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid.
Constructive Logics.

barracks-O.
Author.- Isabel Delgado Crespo.
Toledo School of Architecture.
Constructive Logics.

Contemporary Circus in the Raval of Barcelona.
Author.- Alberto Pascual Bailo.
La Salle Higher Technical School of Architecture.
Common actions.

Temper(n)ature. A cultural artifact for a tempered landscape.
Author.- Irene Domínguez Serrano.
Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid.
Constructive Logics.

Les Promenades de Paris: Alphand and the creation of a Middle Landscape.
Author.- Diego Toribio Álvarez.
Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid.
Common actions.

1080 meters.
Author.- Jordi Olivella Cirici and André del Río Ares.
Vallès Higher Technical School of Architecture.
New programs.

Contemporaneity of the In Between concept in Architecture.
Author.- Victoria Suárez Romera.
Higher Technical School of Architecture of Seville.
Common actions.

Inhabiting the module. Collective housing in Santiago.
Author.- Uxía Mouriño Fernández.
Higher Technical School of Architecture of A Coruña.
Constructive Logics.

Domestic landscape.
Author.- Jairo Ramos Magdaleno.
Higher Technical School of Architecture of Valladolid.
Common actions.

The post-industrial colony. Re-inhabiting the Catalan textile colony.
Authors.- Uma Fernández Pérez, Patricia Parra Marcos.
Higher Technical School of Architecture of Vallés.
Local Roots.

Retired, elderly care infrastructure.
Author.- Manuel Pérez Bernat.
Higher Technical School of Architecture of Valencia.
New Programs.

hidden in the mining landscape of Aznalcóllar.
Author.- Celia Chacón Carretón.
Higher Technical School of Architecture of Seville.
Local Roots.
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XVI Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism.

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Real Fábrica de Artillería. Av. Eduardo Dato, 58, 41018 Seville, Spain.

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From September 22 to November 20 at the Royal Artillery Factory of Seville.
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Jordi Badia (Barcelona, 1961) graduated in architecture from the ETSAB (Barcelona School of Architecture) in 1989. Between 1989 and 1993 he practiced a professional partnership with Tonet Sunyer. In 1994 founded the BAAS architecture study, Jordi Badia combines his professional task of an architect with that of a professor at the Department of Architectural Projects at ETSAB since 2001 and at ESARQ-UIC since 2009. He also collaborates to the newspaper ARA since 2010 and is editor of the Hic Architecture since 2009. Along with Felix Arranz, he curated the Catalan and Balearic Pavilion at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale 2012.

The practice is currently working on various projects, including the town hall in Montroig del Camp, the headquarters of the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre and the new premises of the MUHBA (Museum of History of Barcelona) in Poblenou district, Barcelona. The office is also working on the citizens building in Palamós, the extensive rehabilitation of Alta Diagonal office building in Barcelona and the Radio and TV University in Katowice, Poland.

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Michèle & Miquel is an architecture urbanism and landscape atelier, based in Barcelona, Spain and Toulouse, Francia. It was founded in 1996 by Michèle Orliac and Miquel Batlle.

The team take part in the development of public spaces, urban facilities, strategic points, urban peculiar situations…etc. The philosophy of their work lies in the relationship between the city, architecture and nature, urban planning and landscape architecture and the articulation of different scales: from territorial scale to detail.

Throughout the professional life of the study, many projects have been developed in different topics such as Public spaces and urban facilities (Hortus wineries in Valflaunes, Wallon Marcadau refuge in the National Park of Pyrenees, or the canopies in Vieux Boucau); Director plan of public spaces (Director plan beach in VIEUX BOUCAU in the Atlantic Ocean).

Many projects have been recognized in national and international awards including:

By The Dark Line: AFEX Award 2023 (FR), BEAU XVI Award (ESP), Landezine International Landscape Award 2023, Arquin fad 2023 (ESP), IFLA ASIA PAC Excellence Award 2023, Architettura LOVERS il Premio 2023 (ITA), INT. design Grand Prix du Design paysage & territoires 2023, (CAN), WLA Merit Award Winner 2023, Taiwan Environment Lighting 2023, Building of the Year METALOCUS 2023 (ESP).
 
Award, The 7th Taiwan Landscape 2019.
First prize in the FAD 2017 award. International category with the project Le Jardin NIEL in TOULOUSE, France.
Selected in the international Mies van der Rohe 2017 award with the project Winery in Montpellier, France.
First prize in the FAD 2011 award, landscape and city category, with de project Aigües Park in Figueres, Spain.
First prize in the Trophées de l’aménagement Urbain award three times: at Pams Port Street in Vendres, France; at the ARLES SUR TECH square, France; and at the fairground in Treffort, France.
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CREUSeCARRASCO is an architecture studio based in A Coruña founded in 1994 by Juan Creus (Cée, 1966), doctor of architecture and tenured professor of projects at the ETSA of A Coruña, and Covadonga Carrasco (Ribadeo, 1965).

In 2021 they have been Mentioned by the CSCAE Spanish Architecture Award and the Galician Architecture Award for the Social Center in Cornido. Also Second Prize for the Juana de Vega Architecture Award for Casa Elías in Corcubión and, with a project about the Cans Festival, they participated again in the Venice Architecture Biennale with the Spanish Pavilion. They are creators of the recent MUV, Art Center of the María José Jove Foundation, the first 100% virtual museum in Spain. In 2016 they received the Galician Architecture Award and the BEAU Award (both for Casa Chao in Corcubión), also participating (with Remodeling of the Port of Malpica) in the Venice Architecture Biennale with the Spanish Pavilion, winner of the Golden Lion They have been nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award (2015 - Casa Chao) and won the Ar+d Emerging Architecture Award, granted by Architectural Review and the RIBA (2011 - Malpica). They were also Special Mention at the FAD Awards (2014 - Casa Chao) and Special Mention of the Jury at the BEAU (2011 - Malpica). They have won the ENOR Galicia Award (2007 – Lonja de Fisterra), COAG de Obra Nova (2011 – Casa Mercedes in A Coruña), Espazo Público (2011 - Malpica and 2000 – Plaza in Lugo) and Rehabilitation (2002 – Fundación Luís Seoane) , as well as the Juana de Vega Architecture Award (2018 – Casa C, 2015 – Casa Chao and 2013 – Casa en Redonda). In 2007 they were the participating Galician studio in the V Encontros Internacionais de Arquitectura. There are different monographic publications on his work, such as the books 1+1 (Uzina), Architecture 2000-2012 (TC), Remodeling of the Port of Malpica (OYS), Lonxa de Fisterra (Atlante) and Fundación Luis Seoane (Concello da Coruña).

Juan Creus is the creator and co-director of the magazine O monografías and author of books such as A Terra das Mil Belezas, Terra o Viaxe á Fin da Terra (also with Covadonga Carrasco), both collaborate in different magazines and forums related to the territory and the architecture. From his studio they publish the magazine RESINA. With his interventions they intend to reinvent the nearby landscape as a generic form.
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rvr arquitectos is an architecture studio founded by Alberto Redondo Porto, José Valladares Durán, Marcial Rodríguez Rodríguez with headquarters in Santiago de Compostela. The studio has extensive experience in outdoor environment work as well as in home design.

They have been awarded several times with prizes such as the Juana de Vega Prize for Interventions in Heritage 2017, the World Heritage Cities Prize or the V Enor Galicia Prize.
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Carles Enrich (Barcelona, 1980) graduated at the ETSAB in Barcelona in 2005. From the beginning of his career he has combined his professional work with research, and obtained a Master degree in Theory and Practice of Architectural Projects from the UPC where he is currently a PhD Candidate. His thesis deals with the temporary occupations in the public space in Barcelona.

Associate lecturer in Projects at the ETSAB since 2016. From 2008 to 2017, he taught Projects and Urban Design at the Reus School of Architecture and, in 2015, Projects at the ETSAV. He was also visiting professor in the Extra-Local workshop organised by Columbia GSAPP in 2019, has collaborated on international master’s degrees such as the BIARCH in 2012 and the master’s degree in Restoration at the UPC in 2014, and directed the Vertical Workshop at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture in 2018.

Carles Enrich’s aim of producing practice-based knowledge led him in 2013 to set up Carles Enrich Studio, where he develops projects that cover the entire habitable territory, from the domestic sphere to landscape. The quality and rigour of the practice’s built work are endorsed by consecutive nominations for the European Union Mies Award (2017, 2019) and the Lisbon Triennale Début Award 2016; the Spanish Architecture and Urban Design Biennale Awards in 2016 and 2018, the FAD Opinion Prize in 2016, and the AJAC Awards in 2012, 2016 and 2018. They were also recognised in the studio’s participation in the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2012, with the exhibition Context in “Architectural Rowers” in the Catalan Pavilion and, in 2016, as part of the exhibition Unfinished, which earned the Spanish Pavilion the Biennale’s Golden Lion.

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Fuertes-Penedo Arquitectos is an architecture, design, and research studio founded and directed by Oscar Fuertes Dopico and Iago Fernández Penedo. Its team offers a comprehensive architectural consulting service, from the creation of the idea to the development of the project and its construction. It is also specialized in location assistance and real estate consulting; construction management and project management; and advice on cultural and exhibition projects.

Oscar Fuertes Dopico (Ferrol, 1983) is an architect from the E.T.S.A.C. (2008) and completed the Erasmus program at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Switzerland (2006). Master in Architectural Rehabilitation, UDC (2009). Doctoring the Doctorate course at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London (2011). PhD Architect UDC (2015) with Extraordinary Prize with the thesis: “Ribera carpentry in Galicia. The recovery of its architectures,”, published by the Xunta de Galicia (2016) and winner of the XIV Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism Award (2018). Collaborator at Carlos Seoane Arquitecto (CSA) from 2009 to 2014. Participated in the creation, as coordinator and professor, of the international architecture course COMPOSTELAs, Fundación Compostela Arquitectura from 2010 to 2018. Since 2019, he has combined professional work with teaching as a Professor Associate in the Department of Architectural Projects, Urbanism, and Composition of the University of La Coruña.

Iago Fernández Penedo (Vigo, 1983) is an architect from the E.T.S.A.M. (2009). During the years 2001–03, he carried out his studies at the E.T.S.A.C., UDC. Postgraduate Specialist in Design and Technology of Industrial Housing, Madrid, ETSAM. (2010). International Wood Program, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland (2013). Master in Structural Engineering of Wood, Lugo, USC (2014). Collaborator at Alfonso Penela Arquitectos from 2009 to 2014 and as an intern from 2003 to 2008.
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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.

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Ángela García de Paredes Falla (Madrid, 1958) is architect from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid in 1982 and a doctor, Extraordinary Prize for doctoral thesis - dedicated to the work of her father, José María García de Paredes - from the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 2015, where she is a professor in the Department of Architectural Projects.

She began working as an architect collaborating, together with her husband Ignacio Pedrosa, in her father's studio which, after his death in 1990, became Paredes Pedrosa arquitectos Estudio de Arquitectura.

She is vice president of the Manuel de Falla Foundation, founded by her mother, and Academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando for the Architecture Section.

In 1990 he joined forces with Ignacio Pedrosa with whom he shares his professional and research activities, having obtained numerous first prizes in competitions and having built more than twenty buildings, and having been awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts 2014. In addition, his work has been exhibited at the Venice International Architecture Biennale in various editions.

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Ignacio García Pedrosa (Madrid, 1957) is architect from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, where he obtained his doctorate in 2015, receiving an extraordinary award for his thesis Auditorium, a typology of the 20th century.

Since 1995 he has been an associate professor of Architectural Projects at the ETSAM and has been a guest professor at various institutions such as the IUAV in Venice, the School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, etc.

In 1990 he joined forces with his wife, Ángela García de Paredes, to open the Paredes Pedrosa studio. In his professional career they have won first prizes in competitions and built more than twenty buildings, highlighting public works of a cultural nature and public housing.

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Estudi08014 is an architecture studio founded in 2014 in Barcelona by Adrià Guardiet (ETSAB, 2010) and Sandra Torres (ETSAB, 2009). Its members alternate professional practice, criticism and teaching. Its architecture, deliberately anti-specialized and trans-scalar, focuses on the creation of open systems and resource efficiency.

Estudi08014 has been recognized in different architectural competitions at local and international level and his work has been exhibited in different spaces and published on various platforms.
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Ignacio Laguillo is an architect by the School of Architecture of Seville since 1993. Between 1999 and 2019 he has worked associated with different professionals, having obtained various national and international awards for his built work, highlighting the FAD Architecture Award 2007 (Barcelona) for the Judicial Headquarters of Antequera (Malaga), the Bauwelt Prize 2005 (Munich) for the Indoor Swimming Pool of Lepe (Huelva), and finalists of different editions of the ENOR Awards, AIT Awards, Brick Awards or Philippe Rotthier European Prize for Architecture.

Part of his work has been exhibited at the Mostra Giovani Architetti Europei 2004 (Naples), the IX Bienal de Arquitectura y Urbanismo Española 2007 (Santander), as well as the XI Mostra Internazionale di Architettura Biennale di Venezia 2008.

Since 2020 he runs his firm, Laguillo Arquitectos, recently recognized with the 1st Prize of the International Competition for the new National Museum of Archaeology in Chung-Ju (Korea).
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Andrés Jaque, holds a Ph.D. in architecture. He is the founder of the Office for Political Innovation and 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.

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Burr. Burrs are rough edges, imperfections and remnants that appear in a process of alteration. Burr is an experimental architecture practice led by Elena Fuertes, Ramón Martínez, Álvaro Molins and Jorge Sobejano. Amanda Bouzada and Jesús Meseguer complete the team. Burr was before architecture firm "Taller de Casquería".

Winners of a Europan 13 first prize in Marl, Germany, won a selection at the 2017 FAD Awards and have been finalists for the Arquia Proxima Awards 2014 and 2016. Their work is part of the permanent collection of the Architekturmuseum: Pinakothek der Moderne from Munich. Finalists for the FAD 2019 awards.
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estudioHerreros. Architecture firm founded in 2014 by Juan Herreros, who transformed Herreros Arquitectos into estudioHerreros. The firm brings together the almost 40-year career of Juan Herreros, accompanied since 2014 by his partner Jens Richter, after serving as Director of the studio after 10 years of collaboration with Juan Herreros.

Established in Madrid, the studio is internationally recognized with awards, publications and exhibitions, and has offices in Madrid, New York and Mexico City, in which 20 architects of various nationalities collaborate. The studio has important achievements in the art world such as the Edward Munch Museum in Oslo currently under construction, the requalification of the exhibition areas of the Reina Sofía Museum, the contemporary art space SOLO in Madrid and a number of designs for art fairs, galleries, exhibitions, or artist studios such as that of Luis Gordillo.

In parallel to its professional practice, the studio's teaching, intellectual and media activities constitute an essential reference due to its connections between architecture, culture, research, art and social sciences.

estudioHerreros operates globally through a strategic positioning and a working method in accordance with a time defined by the complexity of architectural production processes, which nevertheless demand simplicity and efficiency, and the transdisciplinary nature of the agents involved in the project, which makes its well-known motto "Architecture in Dialogue" the basis of its projects around the world.

estudioHerreros' list of significant projects includes the Santiago intermodal station, the Ágora-Bogotá events centre in Colombia and the Tacubaya Strategic Plan in Mexico, along with projects in Spain, Korea, Panama, Uruguay, France, Morocco, etc.

His latest built projects include the Munch Museum and the Trosten Sauna in Oslo, the Ágora-Bogotá events centre, the new MALBA Museum in Escobar, Argentina and the Mistral Urban Complex in Marseille, all of which have won international competitions. Projects under construction include the High Speed ​​Station in Santiago de Compostela, the Adakar Collection of contemporary art space in Bilbao, the new SOLO headquarters in Madrid and the Gulia advanced neighbourhood in Romania. Finally, the series of mixed-programme complexes in the design phase in Madrid, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Bucharest, Guadalajara (Mexico) and Santo Domingo deserve special mention.

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Extudio is a architectural studio based in Madrid, founded and led by Néstor Montenegro. They are a transversal office dedicated to thought, creation and production of Architecture in several fields such as individual and collective housing, commercial and work spaces, public venues and city infrastructures, interior design and efimeral instalations.
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Matos Castillo Arquitectos is a architecture studio, based in Madrid, founded and led by Beatriz Matos Castaño and Alberto Martínez Castillo in 1985. They professional practice based mainly on architectural competitions as a means of combining research and design practice. They regularly participate in roundtables, workshops, summer courses, conferences, exhibitions, and have been part of numerous competition juries. They have also organized several cycles of conferences and exhibitions as curators.

Beatriz Matos Castaño is a PhD Architect with the thesis "Eduardo Chillida, Arquitecto", has been a design professor at the Universidad Europea de Madrid UEM (1997-2021) and at the ETSAM, UPM, (1989-2003). Alberto Martínez Castillo is a PhD Architect with the thesis "Max Bill: Variaciones sobre la búsqueda de la belleza" is a full professor of design at the ETSAM, UPM, (1987-2023) and has been a professor at CEU Arquitectura (2000-2001) and UEM (2010-2020).

They have received over fifty awards in architectural competitions and numerous awards and recognitions for their built work. Among the latter: the International Andrea Palladio Award 1993 (IV edition Vicenza, Italy), the II Exhibition of Young Spanish Architects Award 1992, several Madrid City Council Architecture Awards (1998, 2001, 2003), Community of Madrid Quality Awards (2000, 2003, 2005), COAM Awards (2000, 2005, 2021), and have been finalists on two occasions (1999, 2004) in the FAD Awards.
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Antonio Gelabert Amengual, is an Architect by the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona of the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya and Master in Advanced Architectural Projects by the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

He has developed the Doctorate with Mention Towards Excellence in Advanced Architectural Projects in the Department of Architectural Projects of the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (UPM).
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María Langarita (1979) is architect graduate from Universidad de Navarra, awarded with the Premio Nacional Fin de Carrera. She has been associate lecturer at the Architectural Projects Departament, at the Universidad de Navarra and at the ETSA Madrid, and as lecturer at the ETSAZ, Zaragoza, Spain. Víctor Navarro (1979) is architect graduate from the ETSA Madrid, he actually works as lecturer in Architectural Projects at the Universidad Europea de Madrid. They are both now developing their doctorate thesis. At the same time, Víctor Navarro together with Roberto González are co-founders of Urgente, defined as an aperiodic publication for the dissemination of documents that may be of current interest.

They work together since 2005. They have been prize winners in several competitions, among which the following could be highlighted: the renovation of the Nave 15 at Matadero Madrid to become the Red Bull Music Academy 2011, second prize at the international competition for the ARCO Actual Art Center in Madrid, first prize at the Intermediae/Prado international competition in Madrid, in an advanced stage of construction nowadays, and their work has been selected to be exhibited in different places and events like the XI BEAU Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Bienale (Comillas, Madrid, 2011), YAP Space Maxxi Roma (2011), XI Bienale Venezia (2008), FreshForward in Madrid (2007), 44 International Young Architects (travelling exhibition, Barcelona, 2007), and at the RojoMáquina Gallery, Madrid (2007). They also have been invited to a number of conferences and workshops, and they also have been jury in the Santo Domingo Bienale.

 

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Rodrigo Núñez Carrasco, architect from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (2003) and winner of the Fundación Caja de Arquitectos scholarship for the ten best academic records in Spain. In 2017 he finished his doctoral thesis entitled «The Scales of Time. Chronostrategies in the architecture of Rem Koolhaas”, which focuses on the study of temporal implications in architecture taking the work of Rem Koolhaas as a reference, and which obtained the Outstanding Cum Laude rating awarded by the panel made up of Rafael Moneo, Juan Calatrava, Beatriz Colomina, Javier Monclús and Federico Soriano.
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Porras Guadiana Arquitectura (PGA) is a consortium of architecture studios (constituted for each project as a joint venture) linked together since 2005 by the architects Arantxa La Casta , Lorenzo Fernández-Ordóñez and Fernando Porras-Isla.

It is made up of the following firms: Estudio Guadiana SL and Porras La Casta Arquitectos SCP.

PGA practices a collaborative ideology and relies on its association with different firms that contribute and enrich the development of the projects. His recent works include the Río Manzanares Master Plan and the Madrid Río project, which is the largest and most significant urban development operation in the Spanish capital. The project has received numerous national and international awards such as the Hispania Nostra 2016 and the Veronica Rudge Green Prize from Harvard University in 2015.

The team's approach is based on a sustainable perspective and covers the entire spectrum, from urban planning to the discipline of architecture, from design strategies to master plans, from the realization of large-scale projects to their smallest details. The philosophy of the firm is based on the sensitivity for the cultures and the meanings that we find in each place, in addition to the combination with the latest construction advances and techniques learned from vernacular architecture. With a methodology used for the last ten years, we strengthen the skills, enthusiasm and knowledge of our teams, clients and communities involved to create inspiring environments and rich shared knowledge.

 
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Nazareth Gutiérrez Franco has a degree in Architecture from the CEU San Pablo University and the Polytechnic University of Madrid since 2005. In 2007 she began at the Polytechnic University of Madrid to obtain a doctorate in ETSAM, Analysis, Theory and History of Architecture.

In 2005 she began her professional career at the Soriano y Asociados Arquitectos studio where she will work for three years. From 2008 to 2009 she works in London at the Chora Architecture & Urbanism studio. In 2015 to 2014 she works at Idom ACXT (Consulting, Engineering, architecture). Lastly, from 2009 to the present she is the director of the architecture studio NAZA Arquitectura y Diseño.
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Sergio Sebastián´s Architecture Office was founded by Sergio Sebastián Franco in 2006 and is based in Saragossa.

Sergio Sebastián Franco. Calatayud (1976). Architect ETSA Madrid.  2002. PhD Architect  ETSA Madrid. 2016. Architectural Design at the University of Zaragoza since 2009. Among his main works are the City of Justice in Zaragoza, or the Palace of Justice in Huesca, or the Master Plan for the rehabilitation of the Palace of the Audience of Zaragoza. Among the fields of art and architecture, they have been developing pieces of artistic lighting since 2004.

Currently, he is developing various studies for the recovery of the Camino De Santiago in Aragon and the enhancement of various dispersed and abandoned heritage in various nuclei to its He passed. He is also a contributing critic at Zenda Libros.

Selected in the Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2020. Gold Medal for the DOMUS Restauro e Conservazione Award (2014). Architecture Award with EÑE (2018 and 2016). Ricardo Magdalena Awards (2020, 2018, and 2013). Construlita Mexico Award (2019). Paysage Triennale di Milano Award (2019). Innomatnet Awards Award. New materials in Building Industrie (2014). Excellence Award in Historic Architectural Renovations in Build Magazine’s Architecture Awards (2015). Rethinking The Future International Awards Award (2018 and 2015). Blue Stone Awards Archi-World Award (2013). Special mention Europa Nostra Awards (2014). Selected in various editions of the European Landscape Biennial, the Spanish Architecture Biennial, the Urban CCCB Awards, or the CSCAE Architecture in Positive Awards. Finalist in the Arquia / Próxima awards, Piranesi Accademia Adrianea di Roma, ASCER, García Mercadal COAA, Prémio Jornal-Larus architecturas urban equipment Iberian, and LUMEC CLU Foundation Philips, SAIE Selection Contest´12 Archi-Europe.
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Ripoll Tizón is an architecture studio founded in 2002 by Pep Ripoll and Juan Miguel Tizón.

Pep Ripoll and Juan Miguel Tizón are architects from the Barcelona School of Architecture. Since 2002 they have shared a professional studio, combining the development of public and private promotion projects with participation in national and international architecture competitions.

They have won numerous awards in architecture competitions, among others, the first prizes for the rehabilitation of the Sa Vinyeta building in Menorca, the rehabilitation of the building of the Ministry of Health and Consumption and the Arquia-banking office, both in Palma, and several residential buildings of public promotion in Mallorca and Ibiza.

Their built work has received numerous awards, including the 2015 Gubbio Award for the best intervention in historic centers in Europe, the Ciutat de Palma Award in 2013 and 2019, the 2013 NAN Award for the best residential construction project, the APLUS 2013 Award for the best architecture project for housing, the 2011-13 Mallorca Architecture Award for the best residential work and the 2005-08 Menorca Architecture Award for the best work. They have been finalists in the 2013 FAD Awards, in the XII Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial 2013, in the 2013 and 2016 Ugo Rivolta European Architecture Prize, in the 2013 Barbara Cappochin International Architecture Biennial and in the 2014 Mallorca Architecture Awards -2016.

Their work has been selected and exhibited at the International Architecture Biennial of Argentina 2016, at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012, and widely disseminated in the main national and international architecture publications.
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Jorge Vidal Tomás architect, graduated from ‘Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona’ (ETSAB) in 2005.  He studied at the Academy of Architecture Mendrisio in 2004. During that time, he worked with Peter Zumthor Atelier and Valerio Olgiati Atelier.  Furthermore, he studied in Greece with Ella Zenghelis thanks to a scholarship awarded to him by the Mies Van der Rohe Foundation.  He is, at present, preparing his Ph.D. at ETSAB.

He is a professor of Studio Projects at ETSAB and director of the series of lectures known as Foros ESARQ at the Universidad Internacional de Cataluña.  He has taught as a guest speaker at many schools of architecture.  In addition to his academic commitments, he lectures extensively all over Spain and also abroad.  He writes regularly about architecture.

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Marcos Catalán & Marta Garcia Orte Studio are an architecture and design studio based in Barcelona. It was founded in 2006 by Marcos Catalán under the name "Marcos Catalan, Studio", and in 2017 it was associated with Marta García Orte. Currently, both run the studio. They have extensive experience spanning more than 15 years. His work has been recognized with numerous awards (Fad Awards, Girona Region Architecture Biennial, Saloni Awards, etc.) and has been widely disseminated in specialized magazines.

Marcos Catalán graduated in Design from the Elisava School in Barcelona in 1997. After collaborating in different architecture studios, in 2006 he founded “Marcos Catalan, Studio,” developing comprehensive architecture, interior design, and product design projects. Currently, he combines professional practice with teaching, teaching classes in different Master's degrees in Interior Design at Elisava. He has taught at various design schools in Catalonia and Spain and has been invited as a lecturer at the CEDIM University of Architecture and Design in Monterrey, Mexico.

Marta García Orte is a graduate in architecture from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Barcelona-ETSAB (Barcelona, 2005). She collaborated with different national and international architecture firms until, in 2010, she founded her own studio, developing comprehensive architecture projects. In parallel, she has completed the Master in Construction Management at La Salle Barcelona - ETSALS (Barcelona, 2007) and the Master in Architecture from the Barcelona Institute of Architecture - MBIArch (Barcelona, 2010). From 2012 to the present, he combines professional practice with teaching activity at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, teaching project subjects, university competitions, and temporary installations, winning the Urban Plunge and LlumBcn 2019 awards.
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Harquitectes is a team of architects which include David Llorente (ETSAV-UPC, 2000), Xavier Ros (ETSAV-UPC, 1998), Josep Ricart (ETSAV-UPC, 1999) and Roger Tudó (ETSAV-UPC, 1999). They combine professional practice and university teaching in national schools. Their work has been exhibited in many expositions and lectures both in Spain and abroad.

Awards.-

2018.- Premio ‘Detail Prize 2018’
2018.- Premio ‘XII Premios NAN’
2018.- Premiado en la ‘XIV BEAU’ Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo.
2018.- ‘Premio Ciudad de Barcelona 2017’
2018.- Premio ex aequo de ‘Arquitectura de Ladrillo Hispalyt XIV’
2017.- Premio ‘Mapei a la edificación sostenible’
2017.- Premio ‘BB Construmat 2017’
2017.- Premio AD 2017 Architects of the year
2016.- Premio ‘Mostra Arquitectura Vallès’
2016.- Premio ‘Wienerberger Brick Award 2016’.
2016.- Premiado en la ‘X BIAU’ Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo.
2016.- Premiado en la ‘XIII BEAU’ Biennal Espanyola d’Arquitectura i Urbanisme.
2016.- Premio de Arquitectura de Ladrillo Hispalyt XIII Edició.
2016.- Premio ‘Catalunya Construcció’ 2016.
2015.- 1r ‘Premio Ugo Rivolta’ 2015.
2015.- Premio FAD de la opinión 2015.
2015.- Premio ‘Catalunya Construcció’ 2015.
2014.- Premio ‘Archmarathon’ 2014.
2014.- Premio de Arquitectura de Cerámica ‘Fritz Höger Preis’ categoría de vivienda Winner Gold
2013.- 1er ‘Premio A+’ al Mejor Proyecto de Arquitectura Sostenible.
2013.- ‘Premio A+ Extraordinario al Estudio Joven más Prometedor’
2012.-  Sacyr Innovación Award for ICTA-ICP Building 1102.
2012.- AJAC 2012 Award for university dwellings in Sant Cugat dle Vallès.
2012.- Hise 2012 excelencia a la innovación Award, for 712 house.
2012.- FAD 2012 Award, 712 house.
2011.- ENOR Arquitectura Joven Award for 704 Gimnasium.

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peris+toral.arquitectes. Founded in 2005 by Marta Peris and Jose Manuel Toral, both graduated from ETSAB, peris+toral.arquitectes is an architecture practice based in Barcelona, which combines its professional activity with the academic one. They are currently working on different projects, both in housing and public space, while working as teachers in the  Faculty of Architecture in Barcelona (ETSAB) and IED.

Their work has been published in architecture books and magazines, nationally and internationally, and exhibited in UIA Tokyo 2011, París 2009 and the Venice Biennal 2000. Theoretically, the practice has published articles in architecture books and magazines, including Arquitectura COAM,  Ed. Fundamentos and  DC Papers are to highlight. Their work has been recognized with awards such as AJAC Joves Arquitectes 2011, FAD 2009 award finalists,  and Saloni d’Arquitect award finalists.

finalists2024  Winner RIBA International Prize
2024  Winner RIBA International Awards for Excellence
2024  Winner Global Galvanizing Award 
2024  Winner Construmat Awards Sustainability 
2023  Premio Especial Asturiana de Zinc - Premios ATEG 
2023  Premio Fassa Bartolo Prize Sustainable Architecture
2023  Obra destacada Mostra arquitectura de Barcelona
2022  Finalista Premio MIES VAN DER ROHE Award
2022  Premio ARQUITECTURA ESPAÑOLA CSCAE
2022  Winner Grand Prix du Design Platinium Winner
2022  Winner EDUWIK Architecture Excellence Awards
2022  Winner Gold Award BEST ARCHITECTS - Gold Award
2022  Winner Best Multi-family Housing Future House Awards
2022  Winner Wood Design & Building Award
2021  Winner. Premio Europeo di Architettura MATILDE BAFFA UGO RIVOLTA 2021. 85 Viviendas sociales en Cornellà
2021  Gold Award. BEST ARCHITECTS 22. 85 Viviendas sociales en Cornellà
2021  First Prize. Premios MAPEI a la Arquitectura Sostenible 2021. 85 Viviendas sociales en Cornellà
2021  Winner Jury's TOP PICK. BLT Built Design Awards - Social Housing. 85 Viviendas sociales en Cornellà
2021  Winner. THE PLAN AWARD 2021 - Social Housing. 85 Viviendas sociales en Cornellà
2021  Winner Best of best. ARCHITECTURE MASTERPRIZE AMP 2021 - Residential Multi Unit. 85 Viviendas sociales en Cornellà
2021  Winner ex-aequo. Premio CATALUNYA CONSTRUCCIÓ 2021 - Innovació a la construcció. 85 Viviendas sociales en Cornellà
2021  Winner. Premio A+ by DAIKIN  - Vivienda plurifamiliar. 85 Viviendas sociales en Cornellà
2021  Winner. XV Premios NAN Arquitectura y construcción 2021 - Residencial. 85 Viviendas sociales en Cornellà
2021  Winner. Premio de opinión, PREMIO FAD DE ARQUITECTURA. 85 Viviendas sociales en Cornellà
2021  Awarded. Arquitectura y Urbanismo, BEAU XV. 85 Viviendas sociales en Cornellà

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Published on: September 21, 2023
Cite: "The winners of the XVI Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism are made public" METALOCUS. Accessed
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