Ulargui Agurruza, Jesús

Jesús Ulargui has been a qualified architect since 1989 and earned his PhD in Architecture in 2004, both degrees from the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM), Polytechnic University of Madrid. His doctoral dissertation, From Richardson to Sullivan: Place, Plan and Section, received an award in the 5th Architecture Thesis Competition organized by the Caja de Arquitectos Foundation and was published in 2007 as volume 23 of the Arquia/Tesis collection. Since 1993, he has been teaching Architectural Design at ETSAM, initially as an Associate Professor and, since 2010, as a Tenured Professor. Throughout these years, he has taught at both undergraduate and graduate levels, particularly within the Master’s Program in Advanced Architectural Design (MPAA) of the Department of Architectural Design. He has also participated as a lecturer and jury member at various Spanish, European, and Asian universities. He currently coordinates the teaching unit Grupo 4!, where his research focuses on the origins and early development of architectural education. Since graduating in 1989, his professional career has combined academic research—with numerous articles published in journals and books—with architectural practice, which has received extensive national and international recognition. Until 2012, as co-founder of UP Arquitectos, he designed and completed projects including the Ibiza Conference Centre, the Pontevedra Museum of Fine Arts, the EPSA Office Building in Málaga, the restoration of the Former Seminary of the University of Comillas, the rehabilitation of the Logroño City Walls, and the Palace of Justice of La Rioja, among many others. These commissions were awarded through first prizes in public architectural competitions. In 2012, he founded Ulargui Arquitectos, an architectural practice focused on international design competitions. Since then, the office has received numerous awards in countries including Switzerland, Germany, Finland, Hungary, and China. His work has been widely published in architectural journals and exhibited at several Architecture Biennials, earning numerous distinctions, including the Luis Moreno Mansilla Award in 2017.