News: New docu-series about Professor Isasi’s classes

Justo Isasi, Professor at Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid: “We architects think in lines, that is, musicians think in notes, painters in colors and those who who write think in arguments. But we, almost inevitably, have to think of lines. So this lesson is mostly about Intelligence and Imagination. And for that, we have to make lines … ”

This is the first episode of a series of 6 videos titled “Pensar a rayas/ Thinking in lines”. It is an initiative by Angel Borrego Cubero and produced voluntarily and non-profit by OSS in collaboration with ETSAM. The series will be disseminated with the collaboration of Plataforma Arquitectura and Archdaily.

 

News: Selected for the 15.Biennale di Venezia

Factoría Cultural Matadero Madrid, designed by Ángel Borrego Cubero /Office for Strategic Spaces, has been selected to be part of the Spanish Pavilion at the 15 Biennale di Venezia – Architecture (May 28 – Nov 27, 2016). The pavilion, curated in this edition by Iñaqui Carnicero and Carlos Quintans, is titled “Unfinished” and gathers 55 selected architecture works, 7 photography series and 12 entries to the call for ideas.

News: We won the Award COAM’15 with Special Mention

Ángel Borrego Cubero has been awarded the COAM Award’15 with Special Mention for his work Factoría Cultural, an creative industries hub at Matadero Madrid. The Awards COAM are annually given by the Architects’ Association from Madrid to the best architecture achievements in the region of Madrid. See here the awarded works.

Exhibiting at LABoral Gijón

Exhibition “Learning from the Cuencas”, 27.09.2013 – 23.02.2014 at theLABoral in Gijón: Office for Strategic Spaces takes part with the project : “ADMINISTRATIVE LANDSCAPE. Form Follows Norm” (Manifesto + video installation). Curators: Nacho Ruiz Allén & Sara López Arraiza (zon-e arquitectos); Artists: Óscar de Ávila, Basurama, Edu Comelles, Cómo crear historias, Antonio Corral Fernández, Bárbara Fluxá, Fran Meana, Marcos Martínez Merino, Mind Revolution, Office for Strategic Spaces (OSS), Recetas Urbanas, Daniel Romero.
Photos: OSS, Marcos Morilla

Lecture at Princeton

On the 6th of March, at 6 PM, Angel Borrego Cubero is going to lecture at Princeton School of Architecture in Betts Auditorium. The 12/13 Lecture Series at SoA are staging a series of public conversations around alternative practices in architecture through the work of 85 distinguished alumni from the last 25 years. Angel will share the stage with Alex Haw (Atmos Studio Limited, London), Jörg Stollman (Urbaninform; CUD Chair for Urban Design and Architecture, TU Berlin), Jürgen Mayer ( J. Mayer H. Architects) and Merritt Bucholz (Bucholz McEvoy Architects Ltd). The series can be viewed with live streaming

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