Andrés Jaque is a Spanish architect, writer and curator. In 2016, he was awarded with the 10th Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts.,[1] in 2024 he won the UNESCO Global Award for Sustainable Architecture,[2] and in 2014, the Silver Lion to the Best Project at the 14th Venice Biennale. His work explores architecture as a cosmopolitical practice.[3] In 2003, he founded the Office for Political Innovation,[4] a trandisciplinary agency working in the intersection of design, research and environmental activism.[5]

Andrés Jaque
Born
Madrid, Spain
Alma materEscuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (M.Arch., 1997), (Ph.D., 2016)
OccupationArchitect
Awards
  • 2016 Frederick Kiesler Architecture and Art Prize
  • 2014 Silver Lion to the Best Research Project of the 14 Mostra Internazionale di Architettura
  • Biennale di Venezia, 2021 FAD Award
  • 2007 Dionisio Hernández Gil Award
PracticeOffice for Political Innovation, OFFPOLINN
Projects
  • Reggio School in El Encinar de los Reyes
  • TBA21 Ocean Space in Venice
  • Babin Yar Museum of Memory and Oblivion in Kyiv
  • Casa Sacerdotal Diocesana in Plasencia
  • Rambla Climate-House in Molina de Segura
  • House in Never Never Land in Ibiza
  • RunRunRun in Madrid
  • Escaravox in Matadero-Madrid
  • COSMO MoMA PS1
Priests House in Plasencia. 2004
'IKEA Disobedients'. Architectural archive, installation and performance on non familiar domestic urbanisms. MoMA Collection. 2012.
House in Never Never Land. Cala Vadella, San José (Ibiza).

Andrés Jaque is the Dean of Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.[6]

Life and career

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Jaque is the author of award-winning architectural projects, including the Reggio School (El Encinar de los Reyes, 2020), the Babin Yar Museum of Memory and Oblivion in Kyiv, the Ocean Space for Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art (Venice, 2018), Casa Sacerdotal Diocesana de Plasencia; 2004. Teddy House (Vigo, 2003, 2005), Mousse City, (Stavanger, 2003); Peace Foam City (Ceuta, 2005); Skin Gardens (Barcelona 2006); the Museo Postal de Bogotá (Bogotá, 2007), Rolling House for the Rolling Society (Barcelona, 2009); the House in Never Never Land (Ibiza, 2009); the ESCARAVOX, (Madrid, 2012), Hänsel and Gretel's Arenas (Madrid, 2013), COSMO PS1 in New York, Rómola (Madrid, 2018) and RunRunRun (Madrid, 2019).

He has also developed a number of architectural experiments meant to interrogate architecture's political agency. The 12 Actions to Make Peter Eisenman Transparent, 2010,[7] a project devoted to make public the political implications of the construction of the singular building site Cidade da Cultura in Santiago de Compostela. A series of actions described by Bruno Latour as a «beautiful mixture of art, politics and building-site».[8]

His 2012 intervention in the Barcelona Pavilion, ‘PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society’[9] made visible all the processes involved in the daily fabrication of the pavilion as an ordinary reality. Buckets, flags, chairs, old faded curtains, the salt that keeps the ponds pristine or the result of failed experiments carried out at the pavilion, were kept at the so far unnoticed basement. This work is part of the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, and it is at shown as part of its permanent exhibition.

His work 'IKEA Disobedients' (Madrid, New York 2012) was the first architectural performance to be included in the MoMA's collection.[10] He has also participated in the performance art biennial Performa 21 with his work Being Silica (2021).

Andrés Jaque holds a PhD degree in architecture, has been Tessenow Stipendiat, Graham Foundation Grantee, and is Professor of Architecture and the Dean of Columbia University GSAPP and previously he has been Visiting Professor at Princeton University School of Architecture and the Cooper Union.

He is the Chief Curator of the 13th Shanghai Art Biennale, titled ‘Bodies of Water’, and co-curator of Manifesta 12 in Palermo, ‘The Planetary Garden. Cultivating Coexistence’.

Books

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Andrés Jaque and the Office for Political Innovation have made major contributions to conceptualize the implications of political ecology and post-foundational politics for contemporary architectural and urban practices. They are the authors of:

  • ’Superpowers of Scale’. Columbia Press. 2020 [11]
  • 'Mies y la gata Niebla. Ensayos sobre arquitectura y cosmopolítica'. Puente Editores. 2018 [12]
  • ’More-Than-Human’ With M. Otero and L. Pietroiusti. Idea Books. 2020 [13]
  • 'PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society'. Fundació Mies van der Rohe 2013.[14]
  • ‘Andrés Jaque. Everyday Politics’. EA! Ediciones. 2011.[15]
  • ‘Dulces Arenas Cotidianas’. Lugadero. 2013.[16]
  • 'Calculable-Transmaterial'. ARQ. 2017.[17]
  • 'Different Kinds of Water Pouring Into A Swimming Pool'. RedCat CalArts. 2014 [18]

Jaque has made regular contributions to both specialized and general media. With significant publications in leading architectural magazines such as El Croquis,[19][20] Domus,[21] Perspecta Yale, Thresholds Journal MIT, Log, Volume and Beyond;[22] and regular works for broader audiences, including Babelia, the cultural supplement of El País,[23][24][25] and La SER radio station where Jaque holds a regular participation on architectural and urban concerns. From 2013 to 2016 he published the periodic column "Cuarto de estar en la galaxia" in El País Senanal.

Film

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  • ’Sales Oddity. Milano 2 and the politics of direct-to-home TV-urbanism’ Silver Lion to the Best Project, 2014 Venice Biennale. Milano. 2014 [26]
  • ’Intimate Strangers. The archiurbanisms of hook-up locative media’. London. 2016 [27]
  • ’Pornified Homes’. Oslo. 2018 [28]
  • ’The Transscalar Architecture of Covid 19’ Andrés Jaque and Iván L. Munuera. 2020 [29]

References

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  1. ^ ""Andrés Jaque Awarded with the 10th Frederich Kiesler Prize"". Archived from the original on 2016-08-07. Retrieved 2016-07-02.
  2. ^ ""Les 5 lauréats du Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2024 dévoilés"". Archived from the original on 2024-04-20. Retrieved 2024-04-20.
  3. ^ "Yaneva, Albena (2017) What is cosmopolitical design?".
  4. ^ "Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation". Official website. Retrieved 2019-04-25.
  5. ^ "Architecture as Rendered Socitety. Andrés Jaque in conversation with Ignacio González Galán" (Volume #33 Interiors. Rotterdam 2012)
  6. ^ Russell, James S. (18 August 2022). "Columbia names Andrés Jaque Dean for the Architecture School". The New York Times. Retrieved 2022-08-20.
  7. ^ "12 acciones para transparentar la Cidade da Cultura de Galicia de Peter Eisenman”. Pp.26-29 Pasajes de arquitectura y crítica. n.66 Madrid. Marzo
  8. ^ 12 acciones para trasparentar la ciudad de la cultura de Peter Eisenman” Pp.124-137 UR Arquitectura. Buenos Aires, 2007
  9. ^ Barahona, Ethel. "The Value of the Infraordinary" (Domus. Milano 2013)
  10. ^ IKEA Disobedients. At the MoMA Collection
  11. ^ ‘Superpowers of Scale’. Columbia Press
  12. ^ 'Mies y la gata Niebla. Ensayos sobre arquitectura y cosmopolítica'. Puente Editores. 2028
  13. ^ ’More-Than-Human’ With M. Otero and L. Pietroiusti. Idea Books. 2020
  14. ^ 'PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society'. Fundació Mies van der Rohe 2013
  15. ^ ‘Andrés Jaque. Everyday Politics’. EA! Ediciones. 2011
  16. ^ ‘Dulces Arenas Cotidianas’. Lugadero. 2013 Archived January 31, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  17. ^ 'Calculable-Transmaterial'. ARQ. 2017 Archived September 6, 2017, at the Wayback Machine
  18. ^ 'Different Kinds of Water Pouring Into a Swimming Pool'. RedCat CalArts. 2014 Archived September 6, 2017, at the Wayback Machine
  19. ^ ""Collective Experiments. Video-visits and Tele-conversations in the Times of the Technical Codes" (El Croquis. El Escorial 2011)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2013-02-24.
  20. ^ ""Collective Experiments. Interiors, Views and Mutiverses" (El Croquis. El Escorial 2012)". Archived from the original on 2012-07-18. Retrieved 2013-02-24.
  21. ^ “15M. Yes we Camp. Urbanism as Controversy” (Domus. Milano 2011)
  22. ^ “Janet Rodriguez's Parliament” (Beyond. Values and Symptoms. N.2. Rotterdam 2009) Archived December 3, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  23. ^ “Ecoaldeas frente a la ciudad eléctrica” (Babelia. El País. 06.08.2011)
  24. ^ “El arquitecto no es un creador solitario” (Babelia. El País. 25.04.2009)
  25. ^ “¿Ciudad contemporánea? Consulte su locutorio” (Babelia. El País. 13.09.2008)
  26. ^ ‘Sales Oddity. Milano 2 and the politics of direct-to-home TV-urbanism’ (Silver Lion to the Best Project, 2014 Venice Biennale) Milano. 2014
  27. ^ ’Intimate Strangers. The archiurbanisms of hook-up locative media’. London (trailer)
  28. ^ ‘Pornified Homes’. Oslo. 2018
  29. ^ ‘The Transscalar Architecture of Covid 19’ Andrés Jaque and Iván L. Munuera. 2020
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