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SUMMARY:Stones and Beams
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DESCRIPTION:Antón García-Abril\, architect\, Ensamble Studio\, Madrid  
 www.ensamble.info\nThe work of ENSAMBLE STUDIO belongs to two realities\, 
 opposite and complementary\, that trace a nonlinear discourse through his 
 work.\nThe world of nature in which the specific conditions of the territo
 ry including\, besides the physical conditions of the site\, the cultural\
 , historical\, artistic conditions. What is given by nature and by the sit
 e.\nThese structures are dense\, heavy and linked to the local.\nThe world
  of the laboratory\, in which there are no prerequisites\, besides the one
 s marked by reality. The creation\, the synthesis and engineering create a
 n architecture that transcends the site.\nThese structures are tense\, lig
 ht\, and linked to the global.\nThe projects fall between these two extrem
 es\, creating a balance between them\, creating a sincere and consistent b
 ody of work.\n\n\nAntón García-Abril\, (Madrid\, 1969) is a European PhD
  Architect and associate professor in the School of Architecture of the Po
 lytechnic University of Madrid (E.T.S.A.M.-U.P.M.). He received the Spanis
 h Academy Research Prize in Rome in 1996. In 2000 he establishes ENSAMBLE 
 STUDIO leading a team in search for architectural application of conceptua
 l and structural experimentation. He has been invited professor at the M.I
 .T. in 2011\, the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University in 2010 
 and Cornell University in 2008 among other universities in America and Eur
 ope. He writes about architecture in El Culturalmagazine from El Mundo new
 spaper\, and has been part of important prize juries like the BBVA Foundat
 ion's “Frontiers of Knowledge Prize”\, given to Steven Holl in 2009. H
 is office has been awarded with important prizes like The Rice Design Alli
 ance Prize to emerging architects in 2009 or the Architectural Record Desi
 gn Vanguard Prize in 2005\, and has been recently selected by SANAA to par
 ticipate in the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2010. There is a constant 
 research work in his projects which are exposed structures that explore th
 e essence of materials to create space. The Music Studies Center and the S
 GAE Central Office in Santiago de Compostela\, the Martemar House in Malag
 a\, theHemeroscopium House in Madrid and more recently The Truffle in Cost
 a da Morte (Spain)\, have been internationally published. In 2009\, he fou
 nded the Positive City Foundation to research the urban phenomenon. He tra
 vels worldwide\, lecturing and teaching at different universities and inst
 itutions\, the most recent ones being the Akademie der Bildenden Künste S
 tuttgart\, Kunstakademie of Düsseldorf\, AA London\, Instituto Cervantes 
 Chicago\, Bienne Forum de l'architecture and Bauhaus University Weimar.
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