Andrés Jaque is a Spanish architect, scholar, writer and curator. In 2016, he was awarded with the 10th Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts., in 2024 he won the UNESCO Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, and in 2014, the Silver Lion to the Best Project at the 14th Venice Biennale. His work explores architecture as a cosmopolitical practice. In 2003, he founded the Office for Political Innovation, a transdisciplinary agency working in the intersection of design, research and environmental activism."Architecture as Rendered Socitety. Andrés Jaque in conversation with Ignacio González Galán" (Volume #33 Interiors. Rotterdam 2012)
Andrés Jaque is the Dean of Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
Life and career 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), Shading Devices and Gathering Space for MasdarPrototype for Communal Meeting Place for Masdar. (2017). AV Proyectos: Dossier Andrés Jaque, 80, 18–19. (Abu Dabhi, 2015); Weizmann SquareWatts Combina. Integral transformation of Weizmann Square. (2017). AV Proyectos: Dossier Andrés Jaque, 80, 20–21. (Holon, 2014), COSMO PS1 (New York,2015), 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,"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 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».12 acciones para trasparentar la ciudad de la cultura de Peter Eisenman” Pp.124–137 UR Arquitectura. Buenos Aires, 2007
His 2012 intervention in the Barcelona Pavilion, ‘PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society’Barahona, Ethel. "The Value of the Infraordinary" (Domus. Milano 2013) 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.IKEA Disobedients. At the MoMA Collection 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’.
In 2024, Jaque was part of the multidisciplinary advisory committee for the inaugural Ammodo Architecture Awards.
Books 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 ‘Superpowers of Scale’. Columbia Press 'Mies y la gata Niebla. Ensayos sobre arquitectura y cosmopolítica'. Puente Editores. 2018 'Mies y la gata Niebla. Ensayos sobre arquitectura y cosmopolítica'. Puente Editores. 2028 ’More-Than-Human’ With M. Otero and L. Pietroiusti. Idea Books. 2020 ’More-Than-Human’ With M. Otero and L. Pietroiusti. Idea Books. 2020 'PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society'. Fundació Mies van der Rohe 2013.'PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society'. Fundació Mies van der Rohe 2013 ‘Andrés Jaque. Everyday Politics’. EA! Ediciones. 2011. ‘Dulces Arenas Cotidianas’. Lugadero. 2013.‘Dulces Arenas Cotidianas’. Lugadero. 2013 'Calculable-Transmaterial'. ARQ. 2017.'Calculable-Transmaterial'. ARQ. 2017 'Different Kinds of Water Pouring Into A Swimming Pool'. RedCat CalArts. 2014 'Different Kinds of Water Pouring Into a Swimming Pool'. RedCat CalArts. 2014
Jaque has made regular contributions to both specialized and general media. With significant publications in leading architectural magazines such as El Croquis, Domus,“15M. Yes we Camp. Urbanism as Controversy” (Domus. Milano 2011) Perspecta Yale, Thresholds Journal MIT, Log, Volume and Beyond;“Janet Rodriguez's Parliament” (Beyond. Values and Symptoms. N.2. Rotterdam 2009) and regular works for broader audiences, including Babelia, the cultural supplement of El País,“Ecoaldeas frente a la ciudad eléctrica” (Babelia. El País. 06.08.2011)“El arquitecto no es un creador solitario” (Babelia. El País. 25.04.2009)“¿Ciudad contemporánea? Consulte su locutorio” (Babelia. El País. 13.09.2008) 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 ’Sales Oddity. Milano 2 and the politics of direct-to-home TV-urbanism’ Silver Lion to the Best Project, 2014 Venice Biennale. Milano. 2014 ‘Sales Oddity. Milano 2 and the politics of direct-to-home TV-urbanism’ (Silver Lion to the Best Project, 2014 Venice Biennale) Milano. 2014 ’Intimate Strangers. The archiurbanisms of hook-up locative media’. London. 2016 ’Intimate Strangers. The archiurbanisms of hook-up locative media’. London (trailer) ’Pornified Homes’. Oslo. 2018 ‘Pornified Homes’. Oslo. 2018 ’The Transscalar Architecture of Covid 19’ Andrés Jaque and Iván L. Munuera. 2020 ‘The Transscalar Architecture of Covid 19’ Andrés Jaque and Iván L. Munuera. 2020
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Hans Ulrich Obrist interviews Andrés Jaque Christopher Hawthorne profiles Andrés Jaque for Architect "Architecture as Rendered Society" Andrés Jaque's lecture at Princeton SoA IKEA Disobedients at the MoMA Collection Baraona, Ethel "The Value of the Onfra Ordinary" (Domus. Milano 2013) "Architecture as Rendered Socitety. Andrés Jaque in conversation with Ignacio González Galán" (Volume #33 Interiors. Rotterdam 2012)
Jaque, Andrés "Eco-Ordinary. Codes for Quotidian Architectural Practices" (Lampreave Editions. 2011) Jaque, Andrés "Dulces arenas cotidianas" (Lugadero. 2013) Jaque, Andrés "Collective Experiments. Video-interviews and Tele-conversations in the time of the technical codes" (El Croquis N.148) Jaque, Andrés "Collective Experiments. Interiors, Views and Multiverses" (El Croquis N.149) Jaque, Andrés "15M. Yes We Camp. Urbanism as Controversy" (Domus. Milano 2011) Jaque, Andrés "Janet Rodríguez's Parliament" (Beyond. Rotterdam 2009) Jaque, Andrés "Different Kinds of Water Pouring Into a Swimming Pool" (RedCat CalArts. 2014) Jaque, Andrés "Calculable-Transmaterial" (ARQ. 2017)