Iñaki Ábalos ( Donostia, 1956) is a Spanish architect and author. Ábalos is a graduate of

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, and from 2013 to 2016 he was Professor in Residence and Chair of the Department of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. 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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, and names Kazuyo Sejima and Jacques Herzog among contemporaries producing interesting things.

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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Living people 1956 births 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 Architects from the Basque Country (autonomous community) {{Spain-architect-stub