Andrés Jaque
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Andrés Jaque is an architect
. His work explores the role architecture plays in the making of societies. He has been considered one of the most challenging contemporary European architects.
His work has been exposed at the Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum in Basel, the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM) and the Biennale di Venezia.
In 2004, he completed the construction of Casa Sacerdotal Diocesana de Plasencia. An interactive building designed to promote the public emergence of controversies among their users, mainly elder Catholic
priests. What Jaque called a Parliamentary Architecture. Considered one of the earliest examples of a low tech European architecture, the building has been widely published and object of a number of exhibitions all around the world.
In 2005, he developed, with the agreement of Peter Eisenman
, the 12 Actions to Make the Cidade da Cultura de Galicia Transparent. A project to make visible, and easy to understand for general public, the political implications of the construction of a singular building site. A work described by Bruno Latour
as a «beautiful mixture of art, politics and building-site».
Tupper Home, a system of tiny and colourful plastic dwellings, has been the smallest architectural project ever selected for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe Award.
He is also the author of other works like 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) and the House in Never Never Land (Ibiza
, 2009).
Architect
An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
. His work explores the role architecture plays in the making of societies. He has been considered one of the most challenging contemporary European architects.
Life and career
Andrés Jaque has been Tessenow Stipendiat and has taught and lectured in a number of universities around the world.His work has been exposed at the Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum in Basel, the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM) and the Biennale di Venezia.
In 2004, he completed the construction of Casa Sacerdotal Diocesana de Plasencia. An interactive building designed to promote the public emergence of controversies among their users, mainly elder Catholic
Catholic
The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...
priests. What Jaque called a Parliamentary Architecture. Considered one of the earliest examples of a low tech European architecture, the building has been widely published and object of a number of exhibitions all around the world.
In 2005, he developed, with the agreement of Peter Eisenman
Peter Eisenman
Peter Eisenman is an American architect. Eisenman's professional work is often referred to as formalist, deconstructive, late avant-garde, late or high modernist, etc...
, the 12 Actions to Make the Cidade da Cultura de Galicia Transparent. A project to make visible, and easy to understand for general public, the political implications of the construction of a singular building site. A work described by Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour is a French sociologist of science and anthropologist and an influential theorist in the field of Science and Technology Studies...
as a «beautiful mixture of art, politics and building-site».
Tupper Home, a system of tiny and colourful plastic dwellings, has been the smallest architectural project ever selected for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe Award.
He is also the author of other works like Teddy House (Vigo
Vigo
Vigo is a city and municipality in north-west Spain, in Galicia, situated on the ria of the same name on the Atlantic Ocean.-Population:...
, 2003), 2005), Mousse City, (Stavanger
Stavanger
Stavanger is a city and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.Stavanger municipality has a population of 126,469. There are 197,852 people living in the Stavanger conurbation, making Stavanger the fourth largest city, but the third largest urban area, in Norway...
, 2003), Peace Foam City (Ceuta
Ceuta
Ceuta is an autonomous city of Spain and an exclave located on the north coast of North Africa surrounded by Morocco. Separated from the Iberian peninsula by the Strait of Gibraltar, Ceuta lies on the border of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Ceuta along with the other Spanish...
, 2005), Skin Gardens (Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
, 2006), the Museo Postal de Bogotá (Bogotá
Bogotá
Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...
, 2007), Rolling House for the Rolling Society (Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
, 2009) and the House in Never Never Land (Ibiza
Ibiza
Ibiza or Eivissa is a Spanish island in the Mediterranean Sea 79 km off the coast of the city of Valencia in Spain. It is the third largest of the Balearic Islands, an autonomous community of Spain. With Formentera, it is one of the two Pine Islands or Pityuses. Its largest cities are Ibiza...
, 2009).
Office for Political Innovation
In 2003 together with a number of sociologist, economist and journalist he created the Office for Political Innovation, an urban lab focused on the development of a democratically centered architecture, considering objects as material actors of equalitarian societies.External links
- Andrés Jaque@Studio Banana
- The importance of remote control and other small things. Silvia Polito interviews Andrés Jaque
- Transparency Archi-Shot N.1. Video clip in which Andrés Jaque explains the use of political notions of transparency in his architectural work.
- Democracy in Space, interview to Andrés Jaque in A10
- "Dadme un cuarto de estar y moveré el mundo. Habitaciones, paisajes y experimentos de andar por casa" ("Give me a living room and I will move the Earth. Rooms, landscapes and daily life experiments"). Lecture by Andrés Jaque in Medialab-Prado (Madrid) on 29.05.2008
- Interview in El Pais
- 'Ciudad incubadora de diversidad' article by Andrés Jaque published in El País
- Isabel Repiso writes on Skin Gardens by Andrés Jaque in Público
- Félix Arránz talks with Andrés Jaque on the role of architects on the making of societies in PodCast Scalae
- Interview with Andrés Jaque, one of the most prominent Spanish young architects