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WORKSHOPS OF ARTS & ARCHITECTURE IN MADRIDA

01. INTRO

02. SERVICES02.01 WAAM MEET SPANISH CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE02.02 WAAM SUMMER WORKSHOP02.03 WAAM EXPERTS02.04 WAAM HANDS-ON02.05 WAAM INTERNSHIPS02.06 WAASPAIN

03. STUDIOS

04. WHO WE ARE

05. CONTACT

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INDEX

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WAAM-Workshops of Arts and Architecture in Madrid

Spain has a millennial tradition of architecture and urbanism that can still be found in dozens of cities and villages across the country. From the Romans to the Muslims, from the Middle Ages to Baroque and Modernism, our pe-ninsula has been a crossroad for people that left their footprints by constructing magni! cent cities, buildings and districts, some of which can be still enjoyed.

The Modern Movement also had a presence in Spain, with a ! rst generation of architects that, before the Spanish Civil War, imported the early stages of the new architecture that was being born in Europe in the 20´s. After the Civil War, the Modern Movement also made its way in Franco´s regime through a generation of young architects that had to provide the post-war growing capitals with modern ideas of social housing and urban planning, making the social shift from rural to urban, that Spanish society had needed since the late XIXth century, possible.

That generation of Spanish practicing architects in the 50´s and 60´s also set the basis for the modern architecture schools that eventually instructed the generation that picked up after Franco´s death and the beginning of the “Transición”, a process that led Spain to become a fully European and modern country, with standards of living and wealth like any other western nation. That process culminated in the year 1992, where the Barcelona Olympics and the Seville Universal Exhibition fully validated Spain as a world-class country.

From the 90´s onward Spanish architects started to build abroad and many foreign architects started to build their works in Spain, a phenomenon that epitomized the so called “Guggenheim E" ect” that Frank Ghery´s museum in Bilbao had. The appearance of the “Starchitects” in our country, along with an economic boom in the late 90´s, led to one of the most fruitful moments in Spanish architecture, where both foreign and local architects had the chance to accomplish extremely important commissions. This decade culminated in the year 2006 with a world recognition by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, that organized the “On Site: New Architecture in Spain” as a tribute to what had been happening in Spain in the last decade.

Immediately after that international homage, a massive recession struck worldwide, specially a" ecting the so called construction bubble in Spain that was in part responsible for such an amount of public buildings being built around the country. Since then, the recession has forced the architectural discipline to restructure in Spain, creating a new consideration of some of the classical paradigms under which the profession had been functioning.

WAAM, Workshops of Arts and Architecture in Madrid, is proud to represent the multifaceted panorama of Spanish contemporary architecture; from boutique studios to practices operating on three continents, from Chairs of Design to architects that have barely ! nished their bachelors and from consolidated world-wide published designers to the new batch of collectives. Our growing family of professionals will show you, ! rst-hand, some of the ! nest architec-ture made in our country within the last decade.

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INTRO

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WAAM, Workshops of Arts and Architecture in Madrid, is an academic platform for the teaching and di" usion of ar-chitecture. Our goal is to provide universities worldwide with access to the most talented and prestigious Spanish architects and professors and to establish academic links among them.

We design tailor-made academic services that include studio visits, seminars by experts, workshops and visits to buildings and sites with the authors of the projects.

If your university is interested in getting to know ! rsthand some of the ! nest Spanish contemporary architecture, in doing hands-on workshops with renowned professors or in receiving classes dealing with arts and architecture, contact us so we can meet and prepare a custom o" er that adapts to your needs and expectations.

At WAAM we intend to design tailor-made academic programs that suit the universities needs and expectations, such as:

WAAM Meet Spanish Contemporary Architecture: A series of visits to some of the most relevant examples of architecture delivered in the Madrid region in the last decade, accompanied by the architect.

WAAM Summer Workshop: During summer 2014 WAAM will host a summer camp where your students will be able to have an outstanding academic hands-on experience, sharing life with top practitioners in a unique Spanish environment.

WAAM Experts: A series of seminars and theoretical classes on arts and architecture delivered by prestigious academics and researchers. The classes will have a face to face and an online format.

WAAM Hands-On: Workshops with practicing architects that will include the making of architectonical and artistic products through Design Studio like courses.

WAAM Internships: Taking advantage of our network of architects and designers, WAAM can o" er your stu-dents internships in prestigious spanish ! rms.

WAASPAIN: WAAM is currently growing across our country, allowing students to get to know not only the Madrid region but also the complexity and richness of Spanish contemporary architecture, in its entirety, directly from its architects

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SERVICES

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WAAM MEET SPANISH CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE is a course consisting of visits to some of the most relevant examples of architecture built in Madrid in the last decade. This visits are accompanied by the architect.

Each site visit will consist of a half -day activity including the following:

- Studio visit to the architecture ! rm- Talk about the works of the studio, given by a ! rm member - Site visit guided by a member of the architecture ! rm- Round trip transportation by minibus to the site- Accompaniment by a WAAM member

Your university can select the buildings and o# ces that you ! nd most interesting for your students and then, to-gether, we will design a speci! c calendar of visits according to your projected schedule of study in Spain. From a single to several visits, WAAM can provide you with everything you need to o" er your students the best aca-demic experience possible.

In the section 03. STUDIOS, you can ! nd the list of our growing family of a# liated ! rms.

WAAM MEET SPANISH CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE

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WAAM SUMMER WORKSHOP will consist in one-week workshops in a unique spot in the heart of rural Spain.

A selected group of students and young architects from all over the world, will be sharing life and work hands on with top international practitioners.

Each workshop will have an international renowned architect as a leader, plus three group directors. Students will be creating architectonichal and artistic products in the most creative and collaborative atmosphere.

The charming and secluded environment of the chosen setting, sheltered by a pine forest, makes it the perfect site to complete the academic experience with nature in its purest state.

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WAAM EXPERTS is a network of experts in the ! elds of arts and architecture that can deliver face to face and online seminars on speci! c issues that will be of the interest of students worldwide.

Your university will be able to select the topics and the professors that suit the needs of your students, and organize an academic agenda of classes and seminars provided by scholars from prestigious universities.

From monographic classes about Spanish contemporary architects to experts in European Art, our network of aca-demics will suit your expectations of deeply getting to know Spanish and European culture and history.

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WAAM HANDS-ON o" ers the possibility to your students of doing a tailor made hands-on workshop under the gui-dance and leadership of our a# liated architects, who are also teaching in many architecture schools worldwide.

The premises of WAAM, located in the Barrio de Justicia, in heart of Madrid, is suitable to develop working sessions and seminars of reduced groups of up to 25 students. Our working area is part of the architectural ! rm J1 Arqui-tectos, an award-winning young architecture ! rm whose daily activity will be shared with the students, creating a valuable real life experience for your students.

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WAAM INTERNSHIPS o" ers our clients the possibility of doing internships with prestigious Spanish architecture stu-dios, taking advantage of our wide network of a# liated ! rms and partners.

As a perfect complement to your Study Abroad Program, your students will have the opportunity to be part of some of the most interesting and cutting edge o# ces in the Spanish architectonic panorama

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WAAM is currently growing across our country, allowing students to get to know not only the Madrid region but also the complexity and richness of Spanish contemporary architecture, in its entirety, directly from its architects.

WAAM will be very soon WAAB in Barcelona and WAAS in Sevilla, o" ering your students to see not only the iconic historical architecture that those regions have to o" er, but also the one performed in the last decade.

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WAASPAIN

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STUDIOS

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ACXT-IDOMwww.acxt.net

ACXT-IDOM was set up as an association of professionals. More than four hundred people work at ACXT today, more than half of them being architects. Engineers are also involved: civil, mechanical, electrical, agricultural..., biologists, experts in acoustics, illumination, telecommunications, costs, building site organization, graphic designers or IT te-chnicians. Due to the problems caused by specialization and the development of technology, we seek solutions that integrate them right from the beginning, in the project conception stage. Knowledge is shared and participation and collaboration is encouraged.

ACXT-IDOM is structured, at a ! rst physical level, around a series of o# ces located all over the world: Barcelona, Bilbao, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Mexico, Pamplona, Santiago, Sao Paulo, Seville, Valencia, Vitoria, Zaragoza…Its con-cept of a network of associated professionals allows it to grow and expand without the reservations caused by size and geographical dispersion.

The London magazine Building Design, in its 2013 annual ranking BD World Architecture top 100, placed ACXT-IDOM in position 50 of the most important ! rms worldwide by number of architects.

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Aranguren & Gallegos graduated from the ETSA in Madrid in 1983, María José Aranguren was second in his class and José González Gallegos ! rst. Jose was awarded the “Final Year Extraordinary Prize”.

They both obtained a Doctorate from the ETSA in Madrid with the quali! cation of Outstanding “Cum Laude” in 1987, where they lecture in Architectural Projects. They have been lecturing since 1984.

In 2004, José González Gallegos was named head of the project department by the technical university of Madrid (ETSAM) where he has been lecturing since 1984.

They were responsible for Architectural Projects and Compositional Elements in the Architectural Section in the San Pablo Study Centre (CEU) from 1988 until 2002.

Among other professional duties, they were appointed by the Spanish Government, Directors and Commissioners of the Spain Pavilion at the 8th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale 2002 and were the ar-chitects responsible for the Summit of the Spanish Presidency of the European Union held in Madrid, from 17 to 19 May 2002.

ARANGUREN & GALLEGOSwww.arangurengallegos.com

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ARTURO FRANCOwww.arturofranco.es

La Coruña 1972. Majored in architecture in the ETSAM (Polytechnic School of Madrid) and graduated in 1998 with honours. Since then, he has combined architectural critique, teaching and his private professional practice, all with the same enthusiasm. He has been the architecture critic for the ABC daily for over ten years and during that time has analyzed the panorama of contemporary architecture for numerous national and international publications as well as directed radio programs, debates, conferences and seminars with respects to the present and future of the profession. Since 2008 he has been the editor of the magazine of the O# cial College of Architects of Madrid, a publication that has ninety years of history and beginning the Fundamentals era. (First prize of Biennal Architecture and Urbanism BIAU 2012) .

He is currently an associate professor of architectural analysis and critique in the Polytechnic School of Madrid and a guest professor for special projects at other universities. He has taught and lectured regarding his works in the Spanish cities of Madrid, Toledo, La Coruña, Logroño, Alicante, Barcelona , Valencia , Pamplona, Zaragoza, Las Palmas, Sevilla, Alcalá de Henerares, Córdoba and the foreign cities of Paris, Lisbon, Brussels, Quito, Santiago de los Caballeros, Santo Domingo, Funchal ; Montevideo, Guimaraes and Buenos Aires.

His work as an architect has been recognized through his ! rst prize award by FAD (Foment de las Arts Decoratives), the city of Madrid, by the College of Architects of Madrid and the College of Architects of Galicia, by the Ministry of Development, and as a ! nalist in the Natural Stone, the Arquia, FAD, ENOR, Saloni, Construmat, BAM and Swiss Architecture Awards.

His most prominent works, which among them include the various interventions in the old slaughterhouse of Ma-drid, have helped him to be selected as one of the most successful young architects of Spain by the newspaper El País, the Fundación Caja de Arquitectos, the Ministry of Development (JAE), Architectural Digest and by 2G, as well as being among the selection of twenty$! ve international architects under the age of ! fty by the Swiss University of Mendrisio.

His work and texts have been widely published in internationally recognized journals such as Domus, Arquitectura Ibérica, Diseño Interior, Detail, 2G, Arquitectura Viva, Architectural Digest, A+T, Tectónica, Summa+, A+U, China Ar-chitecture and Design, Bauwelt, Architectum and Wallpaper, among others.

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BASURAMAwww.basurama.org

BASURAMA is a non-pro! t organization wich has been functioning for more than 10 years, driven by action with local communities, and artistic and conceptual intervention, both in Spain and abroad.

BASURAMA was created at the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM) in the year 2001. From then on, they have based their interventions in the creative re-use of waste produced by modern society: materials, spaces and even people. BASURAMA has an uncommon approach through a di" erent perspective, giving these new resources valua-ble and useful characteristics in order to catalyze social transformation in the constructed environment.

Their work is based in three key areas:- Consumption society and its waste generation processes,- Research, innovation and design,- City and built environment

BASURAMA observes, thinks and generates debate about massive waste generation phenomena, both virtual and real, in order to promote new considerations and di" erent approaches to these valuable resources.

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Arturo Blanco y Alegría Colón created BmasC arquitectos in 1998 with their headquarters in Ávila. Their work is de-veloped in three complimentary environments: profession, investigation and teaching.

Arturo, as a professor at ETSAM at the Politecnic University of Madrid and Alegría as a professor at the school of en-gineering and architecture at the University of Zaragoza.

They have participated in di" erent competitions, receiving more than 20 awards. On 3 occasions their work has been awarded the Premio de Aruitectura de Castilla y León (2002, 2004 and 2009), being ! nalists in another 4 com-petitions, 3rd in the IV Premio de Arquitectura ATEG 2004, ! nalist in the III Premio de Arquitectura Enor 2007, I Pre-mio de Arquitectura ARQAno 2008 and in the I Premio de Arquitectura Vivir con mader-FAD 2008. They also received the Design Vanguard 2006 for the publication Architectural Record of the American Institute of Architects of New York for their professional career.

Their works have been recognized in di" erent books, monographs and specialist magazines from Europe, America and Asia, having given conferences at di" erent universities and professional forums in Spain and the USA.

BmasC www.bmasc.es

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CH+QSwww.chqs.net

CH+QS arquitectos, was founded in 1995 by Josemaría de Churtichaga and Cayetana de la Quadra-Salcedo.

Since its founding, CH+QS has placed ! rst in various architecture competitions.

Their main constructed projects are: Cultural Center in Villa del Prado (1999), Town Hall of Villanueva de la Cañada (2000), Residence in Campanet, Mallorca (2002), Municipal library in Villanueva de la Cañada (2003), Residence in Gerona (2003), Cooperative of 27 residences in Madrid (2004), Covered Pools in Villanueva de la Cañada (2004), Cul-tural Center in Collado Villalba (2005), Sports Center in Boadilla, Madrid (2007), Lowrise residences in Madrid (2008), O# ces at HubMadrid (2010), Cineteca at Matadero de Arganzuela (2011), Remodeling of Plaza Mayor of Almazán 2011 and HubUP o# ces (2012). Currently they are working on the Center of New Technologies in Villaverde, Madrid.

Their work was awarded Premio Archdaily “Best Building of the Year” 2012, Premio COAM 2012, Premio a+ 2012, Premio Ascer 2012, Premio Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño, Premio Enor 2005 and 2007, el premio BigMat 2007 and el Premio de Calidad de la Comunidad de Madrid 2003 and was selected in 2004 for Premios Mies Van der Rohe.

Their work has been published in numerous specialized national and international magazines and displayed in various shows (JAE, Bienal de Montevideo, Obra reciente COAM, …). Their work has also been published in va-rious books and reviewed by the critic Frampton in his book “Modern Architecture” (4ª edicion) like ”…among the more accomplished civil structures to be completed in Spain is a public library in Villanueva de la Cañada…by Churtichaga&Quadra-Salcedo”

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Ignacio Borrego (ETSA Madrid 2000), Nestor Montenegro (ETSA Madrid 2002) and Lina Toro (UPB Medellin 2001) formed DOSMASUNO in 2002.

They have been awarded prizes in more than 30 national and international competitions, some of the most impor-tant being: Social Services Center in Mostoles, 67 dwellings in Colmenar Viejo, University Central Library and Mu-seum in Alcala de Henares, Madrid, 102 dwellings for the EMVS in Madrid, 17 dwellings for the EMVS in Madrid, all of them under di" erent phases of construction.

They are currently teaching at ETSA Madrid, UE Madrid, IE Segovia and UAX. They have also been visiting lecturers in various universities around Europe and South America.

Their work and articles have been presented in diverse publications of architecture, conferences and collective ex-hibitions, such as the XI and XII Biennale di Arquitectura di Venezia, JAE (Young Architects from Spain), the III and IV Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura.

They are currently directors of the magazine Arquitectos, issued by the CSCAE (National Architects Association in Spain)

DOSmasUNOarquitectoswww.dosmasunoarquitectos.com

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ECOSISTEMA URBANOwww.ecosistemaurbano.com

Belinda Tato and Jose Luis Vallejo are architects and founding members of ECOSISTEMA URBANO, a Madrid based group of architects and urban designers operating within the ! elds of urbanism, architecture, engineering and so-ciology. They de! ne their approach as urban social design by which they understand the design of environments, spaces and dynamics in order to improve self-organization of citizens, social interaction within communities and their relationship with the environment.

Their most recent projects include the new building for the Reggio Children Foundation in Reggio Emilia (Italy), an experimental urban playground in Dordrecht (Netherland), the “Ecopolis Plaza” a waste to resources building on the outskirts of Madrid and the project dreamhamar for Hamar (Norway) a network design project for the future design of the city’s main public space.

Since 2000, they have received more than 35 national and international awards in architecture design competitions and during the last four years their work has been covered by more than 100 media from 30 countries, and their projects have been exhibited at multiple galleries, museums and institutions.In parallel, ecosistema urbano is running a platform that develops social networks and manages online channels around the subject of creative urban sustainability (ecosistemaurbano.com). Ecosistema develops social software, exploring the new possibilities technology o" ers to empower people and improve social connectivity and interac-tion.

Besides running their practice, they are usually engaged in teaching at di" erent educational institutions worldwide (currently at Harvard GSD).

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ENSAMBLEwww.ensamble.info

Antón García-Abril, (Madrid, 1969) is a European PhD Architect, full-time professor at the School of Architecture and Planning of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), and he is currently developing a second doctoral the-sis about “Stressed Mass” at the School of Civil Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Barcelona. He received the Spanish Academy Research Prize in Rome in 1996. He has been associate professor at the School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (E.T.S.A.M.-U.P.M.) for a decade, invited professor at the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University in 2010 and Cornell University in 2008, and visiting critic and lecturer in di" erent uni-versities and institutions in America and Europe.

In 2000 he established ENSAMBLE STUDIO leading, together with his partner Débora Mesa, a cross-functional team with a solid research background on the lookout for new approaches to architectonical space, building technolo-gies and urban strategies.

Their completed projects are exposed structures that explore the essence of materials to create space. The Music Studies Center and the SGAE Central O# ce in Santiago de Compostela, the Martemar House in Malaga, the Heme-roscopium House in Madrid, The Tru% e in Costa da Morte (Spain) and more recently the Reader’s House in Madrid and the Cervantes Theater in Mexico City have been internationally published.

Their o# ce has been awarded with important prizes like The Rice Design Alliance Prize to emerging architects in 2009 and the Architectural Record Design Vanguard Prize in 2005, and was selected by SANAA to participate in the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2010. This year Antón has been elected an International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) for his services to international architecture, and has been curator of the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale presenting “Spainlab”.

He co-founded with Débora Mesa the Positive City Foundation in 2009, with the aim of forwarding their views on urban development, and they are in the process of setting up a research laboratory at MIT, the POPLab (Prototypes of Prefabrication Laboratory).

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ESTUDIO ENTRESITIO is a partnership formed by Maria Hurtado de Mendoza and Cesar Jimenez de Tejada in 1993. Jose Maria Hurtado de Mendoz joined the o# ce and partnership in 2003, after working in Rafael Moneo’s o# ce for four years.

Maria and Cesar teach at Madrid’s School of Architecture ETSAM and Maria is currently, and in the fall semester of 2011 visiting critic at Cornell University AAP the fall semester of 2011 and nowadays.

Maria and Jose Maria were both awarded with the Rome’s Prize in the Spanish Academy. Cesar received a Master of “Advanced Architectural Design” at Columbia University with a Fulbright scholarship.

ESTUDIO ENTRESITIO has won several competitions that have allowed them to build a number of projects during the decade 2000-2010, amongst which health care centers and social housing dwellings are the main topics. Their work has been published in many journals in Europe, Asia and America, and been selected as “Design Van-guard” by the Architectural Record magazine in 2007. It has also been shown in several international exhibitions and main ! nished projects have been recognized with prizes and honorable mentions in more than 25 awards.

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María Langarita (1979) graduated in architecture at the Universidad de Navarra, and she was awarded with the Premio Nacional Fin de Carrera. She has been associate lecturer at the Architectural Projects Departament, at the Universidad de Navarra, the ETSA Madrid and the ETSA USJ, Zaragoza, Spain. Víctor Navarro (1979) graduated in architecture at the ETSA Madrid, he currently works as lecturer in Architectural Projects at the Universidad Europea de Madrid. They are now working towards their doctorate thesis. At the same time, Víctor Navarro together with Roberto González is co-founder of Urgente, de! ned as an aperiodic publication for the dissemination of documents that may be of current interest.

Langarita and Navarro have worked together since 2005. They have been recognized with the FAD Prize in 2012, the AR+d Emerging Architecture Award for their work at Red Bull Music Academy at Matadero Madrid, and also with AD + Heineken Award to the New Talent 2013. They have been prize winners in several competitions, among which the following could be highlighted: ! rst prize at the Intermediae/Prado international competition and the Center for Profesional Activities in Madrid in 2007, and second prize at the international competition for the ARCO Actual Art Center in Madrid in 2006.

Their work has been selected to be exhibited in di" erent places and events like Arquia Próxima 2012, 2011, XI BEAU Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennale (2012), Maxxi (Rome, 2011), XI Venice Biennale (Venice, 2008), Fres-hForward (Madrid, 2007), 44 International Young Architects (2007), and at the Rojo Máquina Gallery (Madrid, 2007). They also have been invited to a number of conferences and workshops, and they were jury at the IX Santo Domingo Architecture International Biennale in 2008

LANGARITA-NAVARROwww.langarita-navarro.com

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LEON11 is a physical platform of net-working, a space which makes learning and professional development of each of the members possible, individually and collectively, boosting them by means of synergies and complementary views.

LEON11’s working structure is not predetermined. On the contrary, the methodology is tested constantly and re-invented in each project in a climate of creative tension, con! guring di" erent teams of experts. The heterogeneity and the multiple ways of understanding the profession makes them behave like the 7 samurais, growing from 8 to 21. Their production is made out of suggestive proposals, as an answer to competition wordings or as personal entrepreneurship’s. Some are born from the inside, like Suziedades, Poliedro or Manu-facturas, La Leonera or Me-cedorama -transforming the physical space into a render farm, a place to teach, a rocking chair factory or a studio to record cooking recipes- and others grow under the framework of bigger networks like Inteligencias Colectivas & Zoohaus.

Nonetheless, this is only one of the possible de! nitions of LEON11. There would be at least twenty more, one by each member.

LEON11www.leon11.com

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MI5www.mi5arquitectos.com

Mi5 Arquitectos is a team based between Madrid and London, formed by Manuel Collado Arpia and Nacho Martín Asunción. It has been de! ned in a new century, as a suggestive and innovative practice between the lines of cons-truction and investigation. Among their principle works is the restoration of the old Fuenlabrada Town Hall, the youth resource center in Rivas-VaciaMadrid and Teruel-zilla!

They have been professors of projects in Universities like Universidad de Alicante and Camilo Jose Cela (Madrid) and currently in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) and Unit Masters in Architectural Association (London). Their teaching extends to fashion design at IED Moda Lab (Madrid).

Nacho Martín will obtain his PhD in 2013 and Manuel Collado is currently preparing to defend his thesis.

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NIETO SOBEJANO ARQUITECTOS is an architectural o# ce established in Madrid, Spain, 1984. The partnership beca-me a limited company in 1999, with Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano as founders and partners and it expan-ded to Germany in 2004, with a second o# ce in Berlin. Their international reputation has been recognized in recent years through publications, lectures, exhibitions and awards. Among the most outstanding architecture prizes, they have won the HANNES MEYER PREIS 2012 (Germany), the EUROPEAN MUSEUM OF THE YEAR AWARD 2012, the PI-RANESI PRIX DE ROME 2011 (Italy), the AGA KHAN AWARD FOR ARCHITECURE 2010, the BDA NIKE PRIZE 2010 (Ger-many) the SPANISH NATIONAL PRIZE FOR RESTAURATION 2007, as well as several ! nalists nominations in the MIES VAN DER ROHE Awards, 2008, 2012. The o# ce most prominent projects include museum and cultural buildings, au-ditoriums and congress centers, o# ce and commercial uses, and intervention in historical sites. In the last years they have built or have in progress: museums Córdoba (Spain), Graz (Austria) San Sebastián, (Spain) and Halle (Germany), auditorium and congress centers in Mérida and Zaragoza (Spain) and a historical building extension in the UNESCO protected center of Graz (Austria). Currently they are involved in new projects in the historical center of Delhi (India) and Marrakech (Morocco), as well as in di" erent international competitions and/or proposals in di" erent countries.

FUENSANTA NIETO and ENRIQUE SOBEJANO are graduated Architects at the ETSAM, Madrid (Spain) and the GSAP, Columbia University, New York (USA) (1983). They are respectively Professors at the School of Architecture of UEM, Madrid (Spain) and the Universität der Künste -UdK-, Berlin (Germany) as well as founding partners of Nieto Sobe-jano Arquitectos. Both have been visiting critics and lecturers at various international universities and institutions. From 1986 to 1991 they were directors of the architectural journal ARQUITECTURA edited by Colegio O! cial de Arquitectos de Madrid. Their work has been widely published in international magazines and books and has been exhibited at the Biennale di Venezia (2000, 2002, 2006, 2012) an at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, (2006).

NIETO Y SOBEJANO www.nietosobejano.com

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PKMN [pac-man] is an architecture o# ce and collective based in Madrid [Spain] founded in 2006.

They work on:

- Architecture & Design: they do research on city construction based on ! elds such as industrialization and typolo-gy, work on consolidated urban environments re& ecting local identities and heritage as contemporary issues and implement tools for territory and public space re-activation.

- Social Innov-action: they develop an action and pedagogical ideal called “City creates City”, creating strategies and participation dynamics to enhance personal capacities and identities, test new processes based on acting and action to empower every individual as a potential agent able to perform changes on his/her environment, and to generate economic, social, environmental and cultural added value.

- Pedagogy & Research: they investigate and build up new methodologies and learning formats based on direct ex-perience and experiments; they create connections with local identities on every educational process, they manage so as to produce added value in the context of re& ection and work.

PKMNwww.pkmn.es

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RUBIO & ALVAREZ-SALAwww.rubioalvarezsala.com

Carlos Rubio Carvajal and Enrique Alvarez-Sala Walther are partners since 1980. Both together have obtained, the International Urban Design and Landscape Award (CICA) in the XIII Biennale of Architecture in Buenos Aires 2011, the COAM Distinction to the Work of Architects 2009 and 2011, COAM Architecture Prize 1989, the Madrid City Hall Award for their work in 1992 and 2006, the Basque Navarro College Award of Architects 1999, the Architecture Award of the City of Alcalá de Henares 2003, Asprima Awards 2006, 2009 and 2010 and the Prize for Contemporary Architecture in Castilla-La Mancha 2006, among many others.

Some of their recent projects include the PwC Tower in the former Real Madrid Sports City, the Indra Headquarters in Torrejón de Ardoz and the “Madrid Río” project, the great urban intervention in the banks of the Manzanares River after the underground burial of the M30 highway, along with MRIO Architects.

They are currently developing a skyscraper of 400 meters high in Saudi Arabia, the new Cebada Market in downtown Madrid, (won in an International Architecture Competition), the Mahou-Vicente Calderon Urban Plan in Madrid, the detailed modi! cation of the General Plan of Madrid,Ventas, for Madrid Metro, and the “Carriles” Sector urban plan in Alcobendas, among others.

They have also been selected for numerous national and international exhibitions, such as the Venice Architecture Biennale 2004 or the traveling exhibition “35 + Building Democracy: Social Spanish Architecture “. Their work has been published in the most prestigious national and international publications, such as (Domus, Casabella, Bau-meister, The Architectural Review, The Sketch, Arquitectura Viva, On Design, Detail ...).

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TODO POR LA PRAXISwww.todoporlapraxis.es

The group TODO POR LA PRAXIS is formed by a multidisciplinary team. The “battle! eld” of their work, is inscribed mainly into public space’s issues, by developing projects with procedural character and performing actions and interventions of temporary nature. They can categorize their work into ! ve basic lines: urban acupuncture, urban self-managed voids or plots, public equipment, mobile artifacts and visibility strategies.

In TODO POR LA PRAXIS, they understand that work has to be posed on an open source philosophy. They propose architecture of guerrilla through self construction as a methodology that involves direct responsibility in all phases of the project, that encourages appropriation, participation and empowerment of the citizenship, where self-mana-gement processes are being promoted.

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Ignacio Vicens y Hualde is the chair of Architectural Projects at the Universidad Politécnica of Madrid. He was awar-ded the Extraordinario de Doctorado by the same university in 1986.

He has been guest speaker and professor at Harvard, Pennsylvania, London (AA, Architectural Association), Paris (UP 8), Rome (La Sapienza), Navarra, Montevideo (U. de la República), Budapest (Politécnica), Mexico (Panamericana y de las Américas), Guatemala (del Istmo), Athens (Politécnica) and Palermo.

His work has been published in monographs, books and magazines all over the world and exhibited in 8 Spanish architecture biennals and 3 latinamerican.

He has received many architecture awards as well as awards for his tireless work in investigation.

Among his many works a large number of single family homes stand out, for example Casa Vallejo-Nájera, the Casa Rodríguez-Fraile, Casa Navarro Rubio, Casa Huete, Casa en las Encinas, Casa Díaz, Casa Magarzo, Casa Lerner, Casa Reuss, Casa Javier López, Casa Ugalde. He also stands out in the ! eld of religious architecture with recognized works such as the Iglesia Parroquial de la SantísimaTrinidad in Villalba, Iglesia Parroquial Santa Mónica in Rivas-Vaciama-drid, the Edi! cio Parroquial anexo a la Iglesia de Santa Quiteria and el Crematorio Municipal de Alcázar. He comple-tes his list with a large number of public buildings such as the Facultad de Periodismo de la Universidad de Navarra and the Residencia de Ancianos de Alcazar de San Juan

VICENS+RAMOSwww.vicens-ramos.com

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ZULOARKwww.zuloark.com

ZULOARK is meant to be a proximity development area; they count on the knowledge and the experience of each individual member so they can teach each other how to do things they didn’t know before. This way they can achie-ve higher levels of complexity and points of view by developing strategies able to canalize all these voices. Members of Zuloark are variable and instable in time, they believe that they all work for the team and learn from the team.

ZULOARK is an architectural infrastructure linked to the construction of open networks, thought to match with the necessity of evolving economic and entrepreneurial models.

Since 2001, ZULOARK has been diversifying its professional activity on many levels. ZULOARK has won di" erent architectural competitions and has collaborated as an independent studio with well renowned architects. They also have focus on developing teaching projects, having been invited professors at USJ Zaragoza architecture university and regularly collaborating with PEI group of Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá. ZULOARK also works in organization and project management, developing urban action through investigative and participative strategies in urban envi-ronments. They collaborated with other studios, individuals and neighbors in the “El Campo de Cebada”, ! nalist pro-ject in Urban Public Space European awards. They have also been involved in designing and constructing furniture and urban installations project such as Gran Vía/Gran Obra and their second lives for Madrid 2010 White Night being the ! nalist project in XI Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial.

ZULOARK has also dealt with web source, developing di" erent pages and digital platforms involving graphic design and editorial projects, since 2007, together with other collectives, they have been part of the meta-studio ZOOHAUS networking platform, collaborating in the IC - Inteleligencias Colectivas (Collective Intelligences) project, ! rst prize in “arquia/próxima” 2012 competition held by Fundación Caja de Arquitectos, the host of other awarded project in VIII Iberoamerican Architecture and Urbanism Biennial called IC Palomino, named after the town in Colombia where it is being rhythmically constructed.

ZULOARK is materialized in every achieved project and it is rede! ned while it grows.ZULOARK never equals ZU-LOARK. It’s a living structure thought and constructed as a critical object.

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WAAM sta" is formed by a group of architects, designers and teachers that has been deeply involved for the last decade in both the education and the practice of architecture. Our members currently teach in some of the most prestigious Spanish schools of architecture and are involved in the academic arena of our country, and also have a vast experience in the coordination and management of international programs speci! cally designed for American universities.

GUZMAN DE YARZA BLACHE

Guzmán de Yarza Blache received his Bachelor in Architecture from the University of Navarra in 2002. Upon gradua-tion, he began working at the o# ce of Andres Perea Architecture in Madrid, after which he founded J1 Architects with three other partners, a Madrid-based o# ce that currently undertakes projects and supervises construction works in Spain. J1 Architects received the Ricardo Magdalena Award for the best building in Zaragoza built in 2007 with the Iglesias General Motors Building, that also received the 3rd honorable mention of the Garcia Mercadal Award given by the Professional Association of Architects of Aragon (Colegio O! cial de Arquitectos de Aragón).

His works have been published in specialized media such us DEZEEN, Architizer , Design Boom and many others.

Guzman simultaneously develops a career as a visual artist as well as architect, a combination that enriches both practices and allows unexpected cross relations. His work has been exhibited at the Reina So! a National Museum within Les Rencontres Internationales de Video, the Contemporary Art Museum of Vigo (MARCO), the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris, the Centro de Arte Recoleta de Buenos Aires, the National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Mos-cow, the International Triennale of Prague and at several national and international exhibitions.

Guzmán currently teaches undergraduate studies at the USJ School of Architecture in Zaragoza and also at the IE School of Architecture and Design in Segovia and Madrid, where he is also Director of the Master in Work Space De-sign, an international post professional program conceived in partnership with the Royal College of Arts in London that intends to educate professionals in the design of innovative and future work environments.

Guzmán is also a Phd candidate at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, where he is in the re-search period of his thesis “José de Yarza García, European links in Spanish Peripheral modernity” directed by Chair of Design Ignacio Vicens y Hualde and José Laborda and with a presentation date of July 2014.

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CORY HUNTER SMITH

With nearly 15 years of international education and teaching experience, Cory holds a Bachelors degree in Educa-tion and Spanish from St. Lawrence University, New York, a Masters degree in Education from Fitchburg State Colle-ge, Boston, Massachusetts and a Masters degree in Spanish from Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus.Cory worked as a Spanish teacher in Milton, Massachusetts and held the position of co-chair of the Foreign Langua-ge in the Elementary School instructional review team. She coordinated a Spanish community service trip to Costa Rica to serve underprivileged families as well as a Spanish exchange to Madrid and served as a visiting teacher in Shanghai, Beijing and Xian, China collaborating with village schools and migrant worker schools to share American ideas and methods.

Cory worked as Senior Programs Coordinator, Programs Coordinator and Budget Analyst in Madrid in the ! eld of international programs where she led program development collaborating with universities to create culturally rich and innovative programs, successfully planned, developed, managed and implemented program logistics: housing, academics, excursions and study visits, headed MBA programs and scheduling of short intensive academic pro-grams including company visits, cultural excursions and seminars and exercised knowledge and leadership exper-tise in the international education environment, international processes, experimental learning and cross-cultural competencies in order to serve students and sta" alike.

SARA ARROYO CONDE

Graduated with honors Cum Laude in Architecture in 2002, at Navarra University – Spain, where she obtained the top score in the graduation project.

After completing a Master in Restoration and Rehabilitation by the same University, Sara moved to Madrid to work in the Cano Lasso studio, taking part in numerous key projects. In 2004, she moved to the BSA Company, as Project Leader, acting as top manager of the newly opened branch in Madrid, undertaking di" erent projects in all of Spain.In 2008 she started a new company together with Fernando Arroyo, arroyoARQUITECTOS, with o# ces in Madrid and Burgos (Spain), focused on a variety of construction projects.

Since 2010, she combines professional work and research, as part of the PhD and Master Program called “Analysis, Theory and History of Architecture” at the “Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura” in the Polytechnic University of Madrid.

In 2012 she began her career as a teacher in the “Interior Design Master” at the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Madrid, lecturing in “Postgraduate in History of Interior Design and Furniture”

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JESÚS GÓMEZ ORTUÑO

Jesús obtained his bachelor in architecture at the Universidad de Navarra in Spain in the year 1998. He immediately moved to Madrid where he worked for seven years at the o# ce of architecture Vicens+Ramos, where he was Project Leader in such projects as the Coliseum of the Three Cultures, the Santa Lucia Insurance Headquarters in Madrid or the Villalba and Rivas Churches.

Jesus has been awarded internationally with the “Bently Award” to the Best Urban Development and Architecture in Spain for the “Las Torrentas” Master Plan in Murcia, and is also co-founder of J1 Architects in Madrid, where he has received the Ricardo Magdalena Award for the best building in Zaragoza built in 2007 with the Iglesias General Mo-tors Building, that also received the 3rd honorable mention of the Garcia Mercadal Award given by the Professional Association of Architects of Aragon (Colegio O! cial de Arquitectos de Aragón).

TíBOR MARTIN MARKOWITZ �“T�”

Spanish architect, interested in diversity within the world of architecture and art. Educated in the United States and Spain, and partner with the ! rm Architecture GRAS Markovits, and creating his own independent architecture and design studio, T arquitectos.

Bachelor in America in architecture and art history, decides to move to his native Madrid where he began working with renowned Vicens + Ramos study. He also acquired his Spanish professional license in Spain, under the universi-ty San Pablo CEU. After ! ve years he decided to become independent and began to work professionally with GRAS on several projects as well as with MVRDV.

Throughout his career as an architect he has always tried to integrate the arts, being present in several exhibitions, using various techniques such as video, photography or sculpture. Being such a way to continue creating an inde-pendent manner, as he has practiced his profession as architect.

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