Renowned Spanish architect Antón García-Abril will officially open the 'Young Architects of Spain' exhibition with his lecture 'Recent work.'

Antón García-Abril, (Madrid, 1969) is Ph.D. Architect, full-professor at the School of Architecture and Planning of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), currently developing a second doctoral thesis 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 also been an associate professor at the School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (E.T.S.A.M.-U.P.M.) for a decade, an invited professor at the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University in 2010 and Cornell University in 2008, and a visiting critic and lecturer in different universities and institutions in America and Europe.

In 2000 he establishes 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 technologies and urban strategies. Their built projects are exposed structures that explore the essence of materials to create space.

Their office was 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.

Don't miss the related exhibition: YAS: Young Architects of Spain at Ryerson University.

Venue

Architecture Bldg, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON M5B 2M2

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