Blanco Herrero, Arturo

Arturo Blanco graduated as an Architect from the School of Architecture of Valladolid (ETSA Valladolid) in 1995. He subsequently pursued studies in Philosophy at the University of Valladolid and the National University of Distance Education (UNED), as well as doctoral studies at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM). In 2015, he earned his PhD in Architecture with the dissertation Laminar Flow. The Igualada Cemetery and Elastic Processes in the Architecture of Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós, defended in the Department of Architectural Design (DPA) at the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM). In 2017, he obtained national accreditation as both Assistant Professor and Associate Professor.

He began his teaching career in 2005 at the School of Architecture and Technology (ESAYT) of Camilo José Cela University (UCJC). Since 2010, he has served as an Associate Professor of Architectural Design in the Department of Architectural Design at ETSAM and has collaborated as a lecturer in the Master’s Programme in Advanced Architectural Design (MPAA) since 2009. He has also been invited to teach at various European and American universities.

As a researcher, he was a member of the TRLab Teaching Innovation Group at UPM and is currently a member of the Collective Housing Research Group (GIVCO) at the same university.

He was co-founder of BmaC Arquitectos from 1998 until its dissolution in 2012, during which the practice received more than thirty awards and distinctions in architectural competitions. In 2006, the office received the Design Vanguard Award from Architectural Record (New York), recognizing it among the world’s most promising emerging architectural practices. BmaC Arquitectos also received the Castilla y León Architecture Award on three occasions (2002, 2006, and 2009) and was a finalist in five additional editions. Other distinctions include Third Prize in the IV ATEG Awards (2004), finalist recognition in the III ENOR Architecture Awards (2007), the I AERQno Awards (2008), and the first edition of the Living with Wood FAD Architecture Awards (2008).

Since 2014, he has been co-founder of ABLM Arquitectos, a practice that has received several prestigious awards, including the Architizer A+Awards (2018), the Architecture MasterPrize (2018), and finalist recognition at the XIV Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism.