Maroto Ramos, Javier

Javier Maroto has been an architect since 1981 and teaches Architectural Design at the intersection of landscape and architecture as a Full Professor at the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM), Department of Architectural Design (DPA), Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), Spain. He teaches and directs seminars and postgraduate courses on the histories, theories, and contemporary practices of architecture beyond construction, exploring the relationships between urbanism and landscape. Since December 2016, he has served as Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme at the DPA, ETSAM-UPM.

He is a co-founder and active member of the UPM research group New Techniques, Architecture, City (NuTAC), which explores contemporary collective housing case studies through the use of innovative design tools applied to sustainable social housing and urban development. Within this framework, he has developed numerous research projects funded by European programmes and by Spain’s National R&D&I Plan, contributing to the advancement of innovative tools for contemporary urban housing design.

His research focuses on the study of territory and architecture in relation to contemporary urbanism, examining urban growth processes through the analysis of emerging residential systems.

He has taught as a Visiting Professor and Guest Academic at numerous universities and schools of architecture across Europe, Asia, and the United States. Notable institutions include the Universities of Frankfurt and Berlin in Germany; Milan and Venice in Italy; Lund University in Sweden; the Chinese University of Hong Kong; the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD); and the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). He has also served as Ruth & Norman Moore Visiting Professor at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis. In Spain, he maintains strong academic links with the Universities of Valencia, Alicante, and Navarra. He has also been a permanent faculty member of the Villard d’Honnecourt International Doctoral Programme in Architecture at IUAV University of Venice.

He has written and published extensively on architecture and architectural research. His work has appeared in more than forty publications and seven specialized books, while his projects have been featured in over eighty international publications. Among these are the monographs Mercado de la Vila Joiosa (Soto Maroto Arquitectos, Outer Ediciones) and Monoespacios: Javier Maroto y Álvaro Soto / SotoMaroto (¡EA! Ediciones de Arquitectura). Several of his projects have also been published in leading architectural journals such as El Croquis and AV Monographs.

Throughout his academic and professional career in architecture, landscape, and design, he has received more than sixty awards in national and international competitions. His distinctions include Architecture Awards from the Community of Madrid and multiple COAM Architecture Awards, as well as the FAD Award for Architecture and Design. His work has also been selected on several occasions for the Spanish Architecture Biennial and for the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, notably in 2008 and 2014.

Together with Álvaro Soto, he founded the architecture and landscape design practices Solid Arquitectura and Maremoto Paisajes, through which they develop projects in architecture, urbanism, and landscape from a holistic perspective, seeking to establish meaningful connections between architecture, the city, and the territory.