Pascual García, Manuel

Manuel Pascual García is an Architect graduated from the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM).

He is a founding member of the collective Zuloark, through which he works across multiple environments and platforms.

Zuloark is an open architecture and urbanism practice founded in 2001 that operates through collaborative and fluid professional models, creating environments of shared responsibility in which project authorship is distributed among as many participants as possible. Zuloark functions as a distributed and decentralized workspace, currently maintaining open offices in Madrid, Berlin, A Coruña, and Bologna.

Its agenda is developed through a wide range of collaborative formats, including research, pedagogy, consultancy, action, and design. Its work connects architecture with environmental issues, civic innovation, open cultural management, contemporary humanities, and urban practices.

Among its most notable projects are collaborations with community-led initiatives such as El Campo de Cebada and Almendro3; the design of the Information Pavilion for DSS2016; the conceptualization of scenographic installations for Bilbao BBK Live and UVA Festival; the design of domestic rehabilitation projects; participation in citizen and social innovation platforms such as Ciudad-Escuela and Los Madriles; and interventions, design strategies, and urban actions at multiple scales, including Gran Vía – Gran Obra, developed during Madrid’s Noche en Blanco in 2010, and the participatory planning programme Yes Llanes.

Within the Zoohaus platform, Zuloark participates in the project Collective Intelligences, through which it has developed research initiatives and prototypes in cities across Europe, South America, Asia, and Africa. This work formed part of Uneven Growth, an exhibition project curated at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna.

Projects developed by Zuloark and related platforms such as El Campo de Cebada and Collective Intelligences have received international recognition through numerous awards, including the Golden Nica 2013, the XII Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism Award, the 2012 Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism Award, the Urbanism Prize at the IV Arquia Próxima Awards, the First Prize Arquia Próxima 2012, and the United Nations Best Practice distinction at the Dubai International Award in 2014.