Borrego Cubero, Ángel
Bio
Ángel Borrego Cubero (1967, Spain). PhD Architect by the School of Architecture (ETSAM) of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), MArch by Princeton University (USA) where he was a Fulbright scholar, Ángel Borrego Cubero’s teaching career spans more than twenty years and he has taught architectural design at Princeton University, Pratt Institute in New York, the University of Alicante in Spain, at Keio University, Tokyo, the Hong Kong Design Institute – HKDI and, since 2001, at the School of Architecture of Madrid. He leads Office for Strategic Spaces (OSS), a Madrid-based architecture, art and urban research practice he founded in 1999. For `Factoria Cultural Matadero Madrid’, the Madrid Chamber of Architects awarded him the COAM Award 2015 with Special Mention. He also won the NAN Architecture and Construction Award to the Best Rehabilitation Project 2016 and he was selected for the Spanish Pavilion, a Golden Lion winner at the XV Biennale di Venezia in 2016. For his feature documentary ‘The Competition´, he won the First Prize of the COAM Award 2014 and the Architecture Dissemination Award of the XIII Spanish Biennial of Architecture 2016. And, for his pedagogical innovation project ` La Historia de la Escuela. Una historia oral de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (The ETSAM School of Architecture’s Oral History)´ he won the Research Prize of the XIII Spanish Biennial of Architecture 2016. In 2023, he has been selected by the Venice Biennale to make a documentary of the first College Architettura of the 18th Biennale of Architecture curated by Lesley Lokko. While trained as an architect, Ángel Borrego Cubero has built a production which connects architecture with topics beyond such as the contemporary urban condition, the relationship between private and public space, violence, surveillance and architectural fictions.
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