ANTÓN GARCÍA-ABRIL
Architect, Ph.D. in Architecture, and Full Professor at MIT’s School of Architecture and Urbanism. Founder of ENSAMBLE STUDIO.
Antón García-Abril es un arquitecto con licencia europea y está registrado como arquitecto en la Commonwealth de Massachusetts.
Fundó Ensamble Studio en el año 2000 y cofundó WoHo en 2020. A lo largo de su carrera, se ha dedicado a innovar en tipologías, tecnologías y metodologías, avanzando en los campos de la arquitectura y la construcción con obras reconocidas internacionalmente. Junto a su socia Debora Mesa, ha redefinido progresivamente el papel del arquitecto, ampliando sus competencias más allá del diseño para incluir las de promotor, contratista, fabricante e inventor.
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Antón García-Abril is a European Licensed Architect and a registered architect in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He established Ensamble Studio in 2000 and has co-founded WoHo in 2020. He has dedicated his career to innovating typologies, technologies, and methodologies, advancing the fields of architecture and construction through works that are internationally recognized. Together with his partner Debora Mesa, he has progressively redefined the role of the architect, adding to his design competencies those from the developer, the contractor, the fabricator and the inventor. García-Abril is full-professor at the School of Architecture and Planning of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 2012, where he co-founded the POPlab that same year. He received the Spanish Academy Research Prize in Rome in 1996 holds a doctorate degree from the Polytechnic University of Madrid.