Pascual García, Manuel

Manuel Pascual García is an architect (UPM) and associate professor in the Department of Architectural Design at ETSAM since 2017, where he co-directs the Ecopolitical Architectures Studio. He is a PhD candidate in the Architectural Communication Programme (DOCA-UPM) and a member of the TRANS Research Group.

He is the founder of Zuloark (2001), an open architecture and urbanism office focused on liquid, collaborative models that build environments of shared responsibility, from which he has always developed, in collaboration, design, research, and urban innovation projects such as El Campo de Cebada, Inteligencias Colectivas, Casa Tejida, and Infinito Delicias, as well as initiatives in mediation and civic innovation such as Ciudad-Escuela, Los Madriles, Sendas Ocultas, and Compromiso con el Clima.

His work has been awarded the First Prize for Europe at the 2023 Holcim Awards for Infinito Delicias, the Golden Nica (Ars Electronica, 2013), the Arquia Próxima Award (2012), an award at the Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BEAU XII), and the UN Best Practice Award (Dubai, 2014). His projects have been exhibited at venues such as MoMA in New York, the MAK in Vienna, the Venice Biennale, and the Lisbon Triennale.

His practice, teaching, and research address soft architectures and urbanism, urban ecology, and social innovation through Arquitecturas Blandengues, exploring spatial practices focused on governance, care, and mediation between different agents, scales, and forms of nature, while proposing an expanded role for the architect.