Abalos+Sentkiewicz AS+ is an international architecture office settled in Madrid (Spain), Cambridge (USA) and Shanghai (China), directed by Iñaki Ábalos and Renata Sentkiewicz. Iñaki Ábalos and Renata Sentkiewicz have taught in prestigious university centres such as GSD-Harvard University, Architectural Association, Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, ETSAM, combining the academic, professional and research activity. Iñaki Ábalos has been Chair of the Department of Architecture at GSD Harvard University and RIBA International Fellowship 2009 (Royal Institute of British Architects). He is currently Chaired Professor at ETSAM.
The projects and built work of Abalos+Sentkiewicz AS+ are internationally recognized, have been subject of 18 individual exhibitions and many collective exhibitions in the most prestigious centres: GSD Harvard, AA-London, Pavillon de l’arsenale-Paris, MoMA-NYC (5 built works in three different exhibitions: Light construction, ON Site, Groundswell), Chicago Architecture Biennial, Biennale di Architettura di Venezia, etc.
This prestige also reflects in the 40 awards received (25 of them first prizes) in architecture competitions. Another 46 awards have been given to different research and design activities, 19 of them to Built Works. Their professional work has been collected in 11 monographs and their theoretical work has been compiled through 12 books. Critic William Curtis has chosen one work of the firm, the Pavilion in the Retiro Park, as one of the three best works built in Spain during the last 30 years.
Team
Collaborators (ES): Carlos Pascual / Carlos Barranco / Alicia de Luis / Clara Corrales / Silvia Muñoz / Jaime Barreiro / José de Andrés / Cecilia López-Cortijo / Elena Inoriza / Beatriz Sanz / Chenchen Gao / Andrea Vallés / Tania González / Sofía Lens / Teresa Casbas / Natalia Deus / Eduardo López / Laura Florentín / Jerónimo van Schendel / Isabel Ramos / Héctor Muñoz / Eva Castiñeira / Francisco Castelví / Alejandra Salvador / Adrián Úbeda / Álvaro Maján / Rocío Rein / Emiliano Domingo / Alessandra Raffo / Juan Enríquez / Lucía Redondo / Elena Vallejo / Ana Fernández / Marina Bicca / Elena Díaz-Santos / Thomas Gazzetta / Alejandro Brito / Carmen Forés / Miguel Díaz / Jesús Medina / Fabio Mantuano / Rodrigo Rieiro / José Rodríguez / Deborah López / Tullia Monachesi /
Collaborators (US): Sofía Blanco / Caio Barboza / Alexander Jacobson / Milou Teeling / Gabriel Muñoz / José Ramón Sierra / José Mayoral / Alex Trimmer / Timothy Brennan / Weilun Tsui / Xiaokai Huang / Chenxing Li / Juan Pablo Corral/
Collaborators (SHA): Simin Tao / He Meiting / Hao Chen / Chenchen Hu /Linxue Li / Hongde Yin / Yang Liu / Jinjin Wang, Runer Ni / Yongqian Jiang / Keng Li/
Collaborators (2006-2011): Alfonso Miguel / Víctor Garzón / Laura Torres / Jorge Álvarez-Builla / Elena Cuerda / Paz Zapico / Fernando Sánchez/ Iskra Sergeeva / Lucía López / Ismael Martín / Juan Manuel Jerez / Nissim Haguenauer / Carlos Gor / Margaux Eyssette / Alejandro Valdivieso / Alice Covatta / Adrià Clapés / Elena Cardiel / Giulia Carboni / Andrés Besomi/ Mario del Castillo
Consultants
The office has a group of widely experimented collaborators: the most prestigious in every field. In each case this team is reinforced with experts or local architects guarantying the maximum adaptation to the local uniqueness and maintaining the characteristic quality of the firm.