Soto Aguirre, Álvaro

Álvaro Soto Aguirre is an architect (1981) and Associate Professor in the Department of Architectural Design at the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid). His teaching and research focus on architectural design, with particular emphasis on regenerative design and the relationships between architecture, landscape, and the city from a multispecies perspective.

His research addresses contemporary processes of urban and territorial transformation through an ecological and multispecies lens. It focuses on residential systems, urbanization dynamics, and the interactions between cities, landscapes, and environmental infrastructures, investigating the capacity of architectural design to contribute to the regeneration of ecosystems and inhabited environments.

Soto has served as a visiting professor, researcher, and lecturer at numerous universities and schools of architecture across Europe, Asia, and the United States, including the University of Cambridge (Robinson College), the universities of Berlin, Frankfurt, Milan, Venice, and Lund, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Rhode Island School of Design.

He is the author of numerous publications on architecture, urbanism, and landscape. His work has been featured in leading international journals and monographs, including El Croquis, AV Proyectos, AV Monografías, Bauwelt, Baumeister, and Frame.

Soto was awarded a fellowship at the Spanish Royal Academy in Rome and has received several national and international architecture awards. He was also selected through his architectural practice, Solid Arquitectura, for the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2008 and 2014.