Andrés Jaque is a Spanish

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, writer and curator. In 2016, he was awarded with the 10th Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts., in 2024 he won the

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, and in 2014, the Silver Lion to the Best Project at the 14th

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. His work explores architecture as a cosmopolitical practice. In 2003, he founded the Office for Political Innovation, a trandisciplinary agency working in the intersection of design, research and environmental activism. Andrés Jaque is the Dean of

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Life and career

Jaque is the author of award-winning architectural projects, including the Reggio School (El Encinar de los Reyes, 2020), the Babin Yar Museum of Memory and Oblivion in Kyiv, the Ocean Space for Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art (

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, 2018), ''Casa Sacerdotal Diocesana de Plasencia''; 2004. Teddy House (

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2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

), Mousse City, (

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, 2003); Peace Foam City (

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, 2005); Skin Gardens (

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2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

); the Museo Postal de Bogotá (

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2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

), Rolling House for the Rolling Society (Barcelona,

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

); the House in Never Never Land (

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, 2009); the ESCARAVOX, (

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, 2012), Hänsel and Gretel's Arenas (

, 2013), COSMO PS1 in

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, Rómola (

, 2018) and RunRunRun (

, 2019). He has also developed a number of architectural experiments meant to interrogate architecture's political agency. The ''12 Actions to Make

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Transparent'', 2010, a project devoted to make public the political implications of the construction of the singular building site Cidade da Cultura in

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. A series of actions described by

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as a «''beautiful mixture of art, politics and building-site''». His 2012 intervention in the Barcelona Pavilion, ‘PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society’ made visible all the processes involved in the daily fabrication of the pavilion as an ordinary reality. Buckets, flags, chairs, old faded curtains, the salt that keeps the ponds pristine or the result of failed experiments carried out at the pavilion, were kept at the so far unnoticed basement. This work is part of the collection of the

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, and it is at shown as part of its permanent exhibition. His work 'IKEA Disobedients' (Madrid, New York 2012) was the first architectural performance to be included in the MoMA's collection. He has also participated in the performance art biennial Performa 21 with his work
Being Silica
' (2021). Andrés Jaque holds a PhD degree in architecture, has been Tessenow Stipendiat, Graham Foundation Grantee, and is Professor of Architecture and the Dean of

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and previously he has been Visiting Professor at Princeton University School of Architecture and the

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. He is the Chief Curator of the 13th Shanghai Art Biennale, titled ‘Bodies of Water’, and co-curator of Manifesta 12 in Palermo, ‘The Planetary Garden. Cultivating Coexistence’. In 2024, Jaque was part of the multidisciplinary advisory committee for the inaugural Ammodo Architecture Awards.

Books

Andrés Jaque and the Office for Political Innovation have made major contributions to conceptualize the implications of

political ecology Political ecology is the study of the relationships between political, economic and social factors with environmental issues and changes. Political ecology differs from apolitical ecological studies by politicizing environmental issues and pheno ...

and post-foundational politics for contemporary architectural and urban practices. They are the authors of: *’Superpowers of Scale’. Columbia Press. 2020 *'Mies y la gata Niebla. Ensayos sobre arquitectura y cosmopolítica'. Puente Editores. 2018 *’More-Than-Human’ With M. Otero and L. Pietroiusti. Idea Books. 2020 *'PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society'. Fundació Mies van der Rohe 2013. *‘Andrés Jaque. Everyday Politics’. EA! Ediciones. 2011. *‘Dulces Arenas Cotidianas’. Lugadero. 2013. *'Calculable-Transmaterial'. ARQ. 2017. *'Different Kinds of Water Pouring Into A Swimming Pool'. RedCat CalArts. 2014 Jaque has made regular contributions to both specialized and general media. With significant publications in leading architectural magazines such as El Croquis,

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, Perspecta Yale, Thresholds Journal MIT, Log, Volume and Beyond; and regular works for broader audiences, including Babelia, the cultural supplement of

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, and La SER radio station where Jaque holds a regular participation on architectural and urban concerns. From 2013 to 2016 he published the periodic column "Cuarto de estar en la galaxia" in

Senanal.

Film

*’Sales Oddity. Milano 2 and the politics of direct-to-home TV-urbanism’ Silver Lion to the Best Project, 2014 Venice Biennale. Milano. 2014 *’Intimate Strangers. The archiurbanisms of hook-up locative media’. London. 2016 *’Pornified Homes’. Oslo. 2018 *’The Transscalar Architecture of Covid 19’ Andrés Jaque and Iván L. Munuera. 2020 ‘The Transscalar Architecture of Covid 19’ Andrés Jaque and Iván L. Munuera. 2020
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References

External links

Hans Ulrich Obrist interviews Andrés JaqueChristopher Hawthorne profiles Andrés Jaque for Architect"Architecture as Rendered Society" Andrés Jaque's lecture at Princeton SoA

IKEA Disobedients at the MoMA CollectionBaraona, Ethel "The Value of the Onfra Ordinary" (Domus. Milano 2013)"Architecture as Rendered Socitety. Andrés Jaque in conversation with Ignacio González Galán" (Volume #33 Interiors. Rotterdam 2012)"Andrés Jaque. Everyday Politics". (EA! Editions. 2012)
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20130131131507/http://www.lugadero.com/unodecien-dulces-arenas-cotidianas/ Jaque, Andrés "Dulces arenas cotidianas" (Lugadero. 2013)br>Jaque, Andrés "Collective Experiments. Video-interviews and Tele-conversations in the time of the technical codes" (El Croquis N.148) Jaque, Andrés "Collective Experiments. Interiors, Views and Multiverses" (El Croquis N.149) Jaque, Andrés "15M. Yes We Camp. Urbanism as Controversy" (Domus. Milano 2011)Jaque, Andrés "Janet Rodríguez's Parliament" (Beyond. Rotterdam 2009)Jaque, Andrés "Different Kinds of Water Pouring Into a Swimming Pool" (RedCat CalArts. 2014)Jaque, Andrés "Calculable-Transmaterial" (ARQ. 2017)
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