University of Navarra architect, with an Extraordinary End of Degree Award. He furthered his studies as a scholarship holder at the Spanish Academy of History, Archaeology and Fine Arts in Rome, and as a visiting scholar at the School of Architecture of Princeton University.
He has won several awards and honours, including the III Spanish Architecture Biennial for the Azpilagaña Health Centre in Pamplona, the V Spanish Architecture Biennial for 8 Viviendas de Realojo at the Carmen neighbourhood of Valencia and the VII Biennial of Spanish Architecture for the extension of the Palau de la Música in Valencia. The "El Musical" Cultural Centre was a finalist in the 2004 FAD Awards and was selected to represent the Spanish flag at the Venice Architecture Biennial.
He has taught architectural projects at University of Navarra, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. In 1994 he moved to Valencia where he has carried out his professional and teaching activity as a teacher of Architectural Projects at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. His work has been reflected in numerous magazines and publications among which we could mention El Croquis, A&V, Arquitectura Viva, Architectural Record, Architcture d'Aujourd'hui, Techniques&Architecture y Detail.
Architect by the Madrid Escuela Superior de Arquitectura in 1974. He has been a guest professor at the institutes of technology of Zurich and Lausanne, at the Universities of Harvard, Cornell and Columbia and at the Pamplona School of Architecture. He has held the Kenzo Tange Chair at the GSD of Harvard. Since 2004, he has been an honorary professor at the University of Seville and holds the White Chair at the School of Architecture. Together with Antonio Cruz, he began his professional activity in 1971. Some of their most well-known projects and works: Extension of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Spanish Pavilion at the 2000 Expo in Hannover, the Cartuja Stadium in Seville, the extension of the SBB Railway Station in Basel, the Public Library in Seville, the Stadium of the Community of Madrid, the Bus Station in Huelva, the Santa Justa Railway Station in Seville and the Residential Building in Calle Doña María Coronel, also in Seville.
Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz have received the Spanish National Architecture Award, among others, the City of Seville Award, the City of Madrid Award, the 92 International Brunel Award, the Construmat Award and the C.E.O.E. Foundation Award; they have been finalists on two occasions for the Mies van der Rohe Prize. Among their latest awards, the 2008 Andalusia Architecture Award, for the Basel Railway Station. In 1997, they received the Gold Medal of Andalusia for their professional career.
Cruz y Ortiz's work has been widely published in the main specialised publications and several monographic publications have been issued on their work (Tanais Ediciones, Princeton Architectural Press, Birkhäuser, A&V and Gustavo Gili). Exhibitions on their work have also been held in Zurich (E.T.H.), in Bern (Amthaus), in Lausanne (EPFL), in Bolzano (Ordine degli Architetti), in Boston (Harvard, Graduate School of Design), in Berlin (Aedes East Gallery), and in Seville and Granada (Junta de Andalucía).
Topic: 'Two times its surface and three times its volume’
The idea is to design two small weekend cabins next to a lake, two small shelters that only have to meet one condition: one of them must have twice the surface area and three times the volume of the other.
The nice views of the lake and the perfect orientation coincide and the altitude would be approximately 500 meters.
The construction technique can be freely chosen.
Both the design of the pieces and the relationship established between them will be the parameters to take into account when judging the exercise.
Only the Motto will be clearly indicated in all documents.
The Jury's decision will be final.
Proposals submitted by means other than the Internet or received after the call has been closed will not be accepted.
Submissions must be made individually. To ensure the anonymity of the participant before the jury, the files sent must omit personal data.
The Foundation reserves the right to reproduce and/or exhibit all or part of the proposals submitted to the contest.
