Iñaki Ábalos ( Donostia,

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and author. Ábalos is a graduate of Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid, and from 2013 to 2016 he was Professor in Residence and Chair of the Department of Architecture at the

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. He had also taught at

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, the

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, and

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. Ábalos has stated that his favorite own design is Woermann Tower in

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Kazuyo Sejima is a Japanese architect and director of her own firm, Kazuyo Sejima & Associates. In 1995, she co-founded the firm SANAA (Sejima + Nishizawa & Associates). In 2010, Sejima was the second woman to receive the Pritzker Prize, which was awarded j ...

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Published works

*''The Good Life: A Guided Visit to the Houses of Modernity'', Gustavo Gili, 2001. *''Tower and Office, From Modernist Theory to Contemporary Practice'', MIT Press, 2003. *''Essays On Thermodynamics, Architecture and Beauty'' by Iñaki Ábalos (Author), Renata Snetkiewicz (Author), Lluis Ortega (Editor), 2015.Essays On Thermodynamics, Architecture and Beauty
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References

Living people Spanish expatriates in the United States People from San Sebastián 20th-century Spanish architects 21st-century Spanish architects Harvard Graduate School of Design faculty Columbia University faculty Princeton University faculty Cornell University faculty Technical University of Madrid alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Architects from the Basque Country (autonomous community) {{Spain-architect-stub