Spain GSD Inaugural Lecture Fall 2017

SpainGSD has the pleasure to announce the first lecture of the 2017/2018 academic year. On November 8, Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa founders of ENSAMBLE STUDIO will discuss their new works at the Graduate School of Design. Their office is a cross-functional team with a solid research background on the lookout for new approaches to architectonical space, building technologies and urban strategies. Their built projects are exposed structures that explore the essence of materials to create space. The Music Studies Center and the SGAE Central Office in Santiago de Compostela, the Martemar House in Malaga, the Hemeroscopium House in Madrid, The Truffle in Costa da Morte (Spain) and more recently the Reader’s House in Madrid and the Telcel Theater in Mexico City have been internationally published.

Ensamble Studio has been awarded with important prizes like The Rice Design Alliance Prize to emerging architects in 2009 or the Architectural Record Design Vanguard Prize in 2005, and was selected by SANAA to participate in the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2010. In 2012 Antón García-Abril was the curator of the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale presenting “Spainlab” and in 2013 Antón was elected an International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) for his services to international architecture and received the Iakov Chernikhov International Prize for young Architects around the World. Beside their professional career, Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa keep a strong involvement with the academic community through teaching and research. They founded 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).