Research Award at the XIII Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism ( XIII BEAU, Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo) “Historia de la Escuela” (The School History) a research conducted by Ángel Borrego Cubero within the Research Group Emergent Practices of the Architectural Design Dept. of the School of Architecture from Madrid – ETSAM. Authors: Ángel Borrego Cubero (coordinator) Juan Herreros, Emilio Tuñón, Jacobo García-Germán, Lina Toro, David Archilla, Alberto Pieltaín, José María Sánchez, Juan Paulo Alarcón Carreño (scholarship MPAA). Collaborators on behalf of Office for Strategic Spaces: María Ángeles Peñalver Izaguirre, Simona Rota.
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Publication in AMC Le Moniteur
AMC – Le Moniteur (FR) #249/ March 2016, features our project “Factoría Cultural Matadero Madrid” on pages 96-99.
Angel Borrego Cubero appointed Leading Professor at Master of Architectural Communication
Angel Borrego Cubero has been appointed a Leading Professor of Audiovisual Project, carried within the Master of Architectural Communication (MACA) of the ETSAM – UPM, which starts in February 2016.
4th Prize at design competition Espacio Mahou
The entry “Mensaje en una botella” (Message in a bottle) by Office for Strategic Spaces won the 4th Prize in the competition for the upcoming Espacio Mahou, organized by Mahou San Miguel with the collaboration of the Architects’ Association from Madrid (COAM). Out of 160 entries, 5 offices only were selected as finalists to go to the second stage of the competition, Office for Strategic Spaces – OSS being one of the five.
Credits. A project by Office for Strategic Spaces/ Author: Ángel Borrego Cubero/ Architecture Team: Ana Isabel Alonso, Pablo Fernández Cueto, Belén Relloso/ Consultants: Xavier Aguilo – BAC (structure), Alex Ivancic- Aiguasol (sustainability)
Jesús Cerezo – Envolventes Arquitectónicas (glass)
Factoria Cultural, a nominee at the European Architecture Prize Mies van der Rohe
The Cultural Factory Matadero Madrid, whose design and construction have been achieved by Angel Borrego Cubero along with his Office for Strategic Spaces, was nominated to the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe 2015.
Key speaker at Master in Architectural Advanced Projects
On September 30th, 2014, at 10.30 AM, Angel Borrego Cubero’s lecture “External Affairs” will open the 6th edition of the Master in Architectural Advanced Projects at the School of Architecture ETSAM, Madrid.
Angel Borrego Cubero, Director of workshop at TEC Monterrey
Next week (September 22nd – 26th 2014) we are going to take part at the Innovative Week of the TEC Monterrey – Campus Guadalajara, in Mexico. Angel Borrego Cubero will lead the Taller Vertical “@Campus2030” organized by the School of Architecture. On this occasion there will be a private screening of “The Competition” addressed to the TEC’s students.
The Competition won the First Prize at Madrid Architects’ Association Awards
Angel Borrego Cubero was awarded the 1st Prize COAM’14 (Madrid Architects Association) for the documentary “The Competition”: “(..) The great interest of this documentary work lies not only in the fact it gives information about the procedures and tools of architecture competitions, but it also builds a complex, and uncomfortable, cinematic story that encourages reflection and discussion, on the real interest of the architecture “star-system”, as well as the suitability of this type of competition to satisfy the real needs of society (Emilio Tuñón, Jury report of the COAM’14 Awards)
Angel Borrego for New York Times
New York Times, July 28th: “For New York Architecture, What’s Local Is Global” is Angel Borrego Cubero’s intervention in Room for Debate. Read it here.
Lay out for exhibition at the MUSAC
On June 21st 2014, it in León at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Castille and Leon (MUSAC) will open the exhibition “Apocryphal Colony. Images of Coloniality in Spain”. The exhibition is curated by Juan Guardiola and designed by Angel Borrego Cubero (Office for Strategic Spaces). In 2006, Guardiola as a curator and Borrego Cubero as a designer, already collaborated for the ground breaking exhibition “Filipiniana” held at the Center Conde Duque in Madrid.
“Apocryphal Colony. Images of Coloniality in Spain” is a group exhibition inviting us to examine, analyse and rethink the different images that Hispanic (post)colonialism has generated from the 15th century to the present, featuring over 350 works by 120 Spanish and international artists, both contemporary and historical. The exhibition questions the visual meaning of images, and reflects, specifically, on how colonial images are constructed, disseminated and interpreted. Colonialism, in simple terms, is a political, economic and cultural system designed to enable one territory to profit from another. Even if the occupation is purely military at first, the exploitation extends to many other spheres as time goes by. In other words, colonialism uses social sciences such as history, scientific disciplines such as anthropology, religious dogmas such as the gospel, or even artistic styles such as orientalism, to legitimise its discourse of domination. Starting from these concepts, “Apocryphal Colony” is presented as a space for rethinking the processes and cultural practices of the Hispanic colonial imaginary in the symbolic space of territory” (www.musac.es)
Curatorship: Juan Guardiola; Coordination: Koré Escobar, Carlos Ordás; Documentation: Araceli Corbo, Ana Madrid; Design: Ángel Borrego Cubero