Sancho Osinaga, Juan Carlos

Juan Carlos Sancho Osinaga (San Sebastián, 23 December 1957–) is a Spanish architect associated with fellow architect Sol Madridejos, with whom he has shared an architectural practice since its foundation more than twenty years ago.

As a Full Professor of Architectural Design at the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM), he promotes through his teaching an understanding of architectural space based on the qualities that shape it and on spatial approaches derived from the conceptual world of the visual arts, such as void, tone, and fold. These ideas are influenced by the work of Richard Serra and, above all, Eduardo Chillida.

His Chapel for Manolo Sanchís is a notable example of this line of research and resonates with one of the most innovative philosophical and artistic voices of the 1980s: Gilles Deleuze. The project explores the spatial potential of the fold as a generative system capable of producing a coherent and unified architectural space.

This work, together with other significant projects published in leading architectural journals such as El Croquis, has positioned his practice among a generation of architects who have helped establish contemporary Spanish architecture as one of the most highly regarded on the international scene.