Carlos Rubio Carvajal, architect
Born in Barcelona, 1950.
Degree in Architecture at the School of Architecture in Madrid, ETSAM 1977.
Associate Professor of the Department of Architectural Design at ETSAM since 1978.
Member of the Board of Governors and President of the Department of Culture of the Official
College of Architects in Madrid COAM 1985-1986.
Representative of Professors at the School of Architecture in Madrid, ETSAM, 1991-1992.
Member of the Board of Governors of COAM September 1998 - January 1999.
Advisor at the Department of Education of COAM Cultural Foundation 1999-2000.
Member of the Board of Proffesors at the School of Architecture, in Francisco de Vitoria University, since 2008.
Guest Professor at the Polytechnic of Turin 1998.
Guest Architect at the Cagliari University, 2011.
Enrique Alvarez-Sala Walther, architect
Born in Madrid, 1952.
Degree in Architecture at the School of Architecture in Madrid, ETSAM 1977.
Associate Professor of the Department of Construction at ETSAM since 1983.
Representative of Associate Professors at the School of Architecture in Madrid, ETSAM
1995-1996/2003-2004.
Housing Advisor at the COAM Cultural Foundation 1999-2000.
Guest Architect at the Cagliari University 2011.
Director of the Master in Advanced Techniques for Construction at the European University in Madrid, 2010, 2011 and 2012.
Carlos Rubio Carvajal and Enrique Alvarez-Sala Walther are partners since 1980
Both together have obtained, the International Urban Design and Landscape Award (CICA) in the XIII Biennale of Architecture in Buenos Aires 2011, the COAM Distinction to the Work of Architects 2009 and 2011, COAM Architecture Prize 1989, the Madrid City Hall Award for their work in 1992 and 2006, the Basque Navarro College Award of Architects 1999, the Architecture Award of the City of Alcalá de Henares 2003, Asprima Awards 2006, 2009 and 2010 and the Prize for Contemporary Architecture in Castilla-La Mancha 2006, among many others.
Some of their recent projects include the PwC Tower in the former Real Madrid Sports City, the Indra Headquarters in Torrejón de Ardoz and the “Madrid Río” project, the great urban intervention in the banks of the Manzanares River after the underground burial of the M30 highway, along with MRIO Architects.
They are currently developing a skyscraper of 400 meters high in Saudi Arabia, the new Cebada Market in downtown Madrid, (won in an International Architecture Competition), the Mahou-Vicente Calderon Urban Plan in Madrid, the detailed modification of the General Plan of Madrid,Ventas, for Madrid Metro, and the “Carriles” Sector urban plan in Alcobendas, among others.
They have also been selected for numerous national and international exhibitions, such as the Venice Architecture Biennale 2004 or the traveling exhibition “35 + Building Democracy: Social Spanish Architecture “. Their work has been published in the most prestigious national and international publications, such as (Domus, Casabella, Baumeister, The Architectural Review, The Sketch, Arquitectura Viva, On Design, Detail ...).
