Website IUA

Our new site presents our work through carefully selected photographs, drawings and texts that together display our way of understanding and doing architecture.  We share a selection of the projects that we have undertaken over the last 12 years, organized into three principal blocks that dynamically reveal the evolution of our work:

 

The first block displays the projects that are currently underway and those that we have developed from 2019 to the present.

 

The second block presents three significant moments in the transition to the studio where we are now based, illustrating the conclusion of the first stage of our career and the beginning of the new one: The Emerging Voices award given by the Architectural League of New York in 2019, the publication of the monograph Ensayos. El proceso arquitectónico de 2008-2018 and the exhibition of the same name.

 

The third block summarizes the Archive 2008-2018, a careful selection of the most interesting and representative projects designed by Ignacio Urquiza and his team in the first studio.

 

We use this website as a tool for recording processes, as an ongoing logbook for our work that is in constant transformation: it includes the studio’s new projects and through them the evolution of our thinking and how we produce architecture.

The constantly changing and dynamic content ascribes equal importance to the three principal elements and tools we employ in our design process: drawing, image and text, organized into triptychs that permit a complex reading of the projects.

 

Drawing

As architects, we are devoted to drawing. We convey ideas, proposals and solutions through drawings, which when interpreted by different people come to take material form in works of architecture. Our interest in drawing is committed and meticulous: we use it to express the spatial relationships we explore with each project and its relationship with the user.

 

Image

A fundamental tool throughout our entire design process, we use images as a reference and source of inspiration, as a means of exploring what we have researched, and as a record of the development of our ideas.

 

Text

 

Words are the archive of knowledge and the foundation of our ideas.

 

Designed by Priscila Vanneuville and developed by the Laboratorio de Conciencia Digital, our new site presents our work through carefully selected photographs, drawings and texts that together display our way of understanding and doing architecture.