Arquitectos Ayala is an architecture practice founded by Gerardo Ayala Hernández and Mª Concepción Calvo Campos in 1970 who were joined as partners by Mateo and Marcos Ayala in 2000.
The work of Arquitectos Ayala has focused on public projects and unique buildings, housing, restoration projects, urban planning etc. All these projects and works are the result of first-place awards in both public and private, national and international competitions. This experience has led to the creation of a practice with a large number of employees and a great working capacity.
The practice has been working for over 50 years, from an understanding of the profession as a commitment to architecture, i.e. with space as the working material with its expressive, emotive and suggestive potential, as the motor of the social and technical solutions, trying to meet the clients’ needs through function, and not form.
Arquitectos Ayala has won more than 50 awards in architectural competitions. Some of their most notable projects include the Central Theatre of Seville (1992), the TVE Headquarters in Seville (1992), the Nou Teatre Municipal in Xátiva (2001), the RFEF Sports City in Madrid (2004), the Getafe Fairgrounds (2004), the Palace of Justice in Almería (2010), the Pamplona Airport (2010), the City of Justice of Cádiz (2012-), the Banco Popular Data Center in Madrid (2013), the Banco Santander Headquarters in Madrid (2017), the New Headquarters of Red Eléctrica de España in Madrid (2019-), and the BCC-Grupo Cajamar Financial Center in Almería (2024).
In the academic field, they have taught at various universities and have been invited to give courses, seminars, and lectures at several Schools of Architecture and Architects' Associations internationally (Germany, Austria, Colombia, Italy, Portugal, etc.). In 2004, the studio was commissioned to design the Spanish Pavilion for the IX Venice Architecture Biennale, with Gerardo Ayala as the Curator. In 2012, the work of Arquitectos Ayala was featured in a major retrospective exhibition, ‘Arquitectos Ayala Recorridos/Percosi,’ at the Spanish Academy in Rome and the Ordine degli Architetti di Roma.
