Burgos Ruiz, Francisco

Architect, ETS Arquitectura, UP Madrid [1985]. Ph.D Architect with honours, ETS Arquitectura, UP Madrid [2001]. Associate Professor, Department of Architectural Projects, ETS Arquitectura, UP Madrid [1992-2001]. Full Professor, Department of Architectural Projects, ETS Arquitectura, UP Madrid. 2001 – currently.
Lectures and Visiting Scholar: College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Arizona; College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley; Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Central Santiago de Chile; School of Architecture, University of Minnesota; Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad Pontificia Católica de Perú, Lima; Universidad de Los Andes, Lima; Universidad Pontificia, Medellín; ETS Arquitectura, UP Valencia.
Curator of the Ibero-American Architecture and Urbanism Biennial, in its editions of 2012 and 2014.
Publications: Landscapes in the City. Madrid Río: Geography, Infrastructure, and Public Space (2014); Madrid Río. A Project of Urban Transformation (2011); Mecánica Doméstica (2007); La arquitectura del aula (2007); El Lissitzky. Wolkenbügel (2005).; Crítica de Arquitectura Española del Siglo XX (2003); K.S. Melnikov (2001).

He founded Burgos & Garrido Arquitectos Asociados [BGA] with Ginés Garrido in 2002. BGA is a practice with experience in public space, urban design and footbridges. Among these, Madrid Rio project has been awarded with the XII Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design (2016) GSD Harvard.
BGA has also completed diverse housing projects and public facilities and has been awarded with more than forty prizes in national and international architecture competitions. Lately, they have won the competitions for the valorization of the archaeological site of the al-andalusian complex called La Arrixaca in Murcia, a new footbridge over the Miño river in Pontevedra, and the new La Paz Hospital, in Madrid.
BGA has been honored, among others, with the next awards: American Architecture Award (2017); XII Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design, Harvard University (2016); Hispania Nostra Award (2016); FAD Prize (2009, 2012); XIII Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial (2016); COAM Prize (2000, 2001, 2003, 2011, 2012, 2014), Ibero-American Architecture and Urbanism Biennial Award (2012); Green Good Design (2012); International Architecture Award (2012); Mies van der Rohe Prize [Finalist] (2012); A Plus Award (2012); VII European Landscape Awards (2012); Public Space European Award CCCB (2011); CICA Award (2011); COICCP Prize (2011); JEC Composites Award (2011); Obra Excelente Award (2000); XVI Prize Urbanismo, Arquitectura y Obra Pública. Madrid City Council (2000).