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Andrés Jaque Architects
Galería de Robles, 10 · 28004 Madrid
ph.fax +34 91 4476058
Andrés Jaque Architects, in association with the transdisciplinary tiny lab Office for Political Innovation, explores the role architecture plays in the making of societies. Its production and research has been published in magazines like EL CROQUIS, DOMUS, ABITARE, 2G, A10, Bauwelt, Arquitectura Viva, Le Moniteur d’Architecture, Pasajes de Arquitectura, and exposed at the Schweizerisches Architektur Museum in Basilea, the Hellerau Festspielhaus in Dresden, La Casa Encendida in Madrid, the Instituto Valenciano de Arte moderno IVAM en Valencia, la 7 Mostra di Architetturade la Bienale di Venezia, la Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine (Paris), the Bienal de Arquitectura Iberoamericana 2004 (Lima) or the VII and X Bienal Española de Arquitectura. The office was distinguished with the Dionisio Hernández Gil Prize for the Casa Sacerdotal Diocesana de Plasencia, Teddy House received the Grande Area Award. The office has also been finalist of the European Award Mies van der Rohe with the Tupper Home. Tupper Home and Casa Sacerdotal Diocesana de Plasencia have also been finalist of the Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo Prize.
Andrés Jaque [1971], directs Andrés Jaque Arquitectos and the Office for Political Innovation. He has been Tessenow Stipendiat 1998 in Hamburg, visiting teacher in a number of international universities and has lectured and taken part in round tables extensively throughout the world including ETH in Zurich, Istituto Politecnico in Milano, the CIVA in Brussels, the Sociedad Central de Arquitectos in Buenos Aires, Columbia University or the Museo Nacional in Bogota.