

(San Sebastián, 1956)
The Madrid firm of Iñaki Ábalos and Renata Sentkiewicz designed this temple that has been distinguished with the 2019 FAD International Award. Serving a Christian community, it marks the southern entrance into the New Bund urban development of southe
A las afueras de Madrid, en la última parcela de una urbanización situada en una ladera junto a un encinar protegido del cauce del río Guadarrama, se ensaya una casa compacta, un prisma ortogonal de planta rectangular de 12x 8 metros, nacido como pro
Con el fin de rematar el eje que articula el nuevo ensanche de Salburúa y dialogar con el gran humedal a sus pies, se propone la construcción de cuatro torres bioclimáticas cuyo diseño aproveche al máximo la energía solar. Para ello se proveen de mur
Situado en el dinámico barrio de Design District, el edificio, envuelto en una combinación de celosías de aluminio, desdobla su programa para responder a dos escalas diferentes: por un lado, el cuerpo horizontal iluminado cenitalmente cierra el eje p
En el último recodo de la ciudad, allí donde ésta arrojaba los servicios e instalaciones más contaminantes, se ha pretendido crear uno de los espacios públicos naturales más amplios de Barcelona, instalando al tiempo servicios de suministro energétic
From the diagonal promenade that crosses the park of Olof Palme and amongst the tree tops, rises the new library of Usera. The project (winner in a restricted competition held in 1995) took on the image of a tower, the classical form identified with
At last we can enjoy a book by one of the most active Madrid architects of the generation born in the 1970s. We welcome what could be a renewed interest in architectural essays, and the optimism triggered by the book’s coinciding with the consolidati
Harquitectes is a collective that represents well a way of doing in today’s context. A small collective with a clear focus on an issue at once broad and narrow, and that we could sum up in two words: matter and air. Their work includes an interesting
In the new, thermodynamically-tuned practice of Iñaki Ábalos and Renata Sentkiewicz, the aloof, prismatic volumes of the Ábalos + Herreros era, heirs of Alejandro de la Sota in their technical directness and formal austerity, have evolved into buildi
Iñaki Ábalos and Renata Sentkiewicz like to make clear that their work together did not begin in 2006 – when Ábalos & Herreros split –, but during Sentkiewicz’s previous phase at the studio. It is thus easy for them to acknowledge how much they owe t
Sometimes they ask us how the concept of thermodynamics is brought into our design process and why we are so reluctant to show the operational ‘kitchen’ of these processes, probably because the sustainable cliché seems to ask for diagrams with arrows
To rethink materiality through thermodynamics it is essential to concentrate on the so-called ‘architectural interiors.’ In the convective air conditioning model, the interior meant the arrival of a huge and trivial collection of ‘products,’ commerci
The expression ‘experience of art’ clearly refers to contemplation occurring under certain circumstances of ‘disposition’ before the object. This disposition can be the result of an individual initiative (going to the Prado Museum to contemplate Van
Iñaki Ábalos graduated in 1978 from the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM), which in those years harbored two different traditions represented by two influential faculty members, Alejandro de la Sota and Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza. Sota’s disc
0. Preamble. Mies malgré lui. The current proliferation of the skyscraper with its mono-functional configuration (divided between dwellings and office space) and its ring encircled tectonic and circulation core offers an urban milieu without attribu
En un mundo marcado por la competencia global, la apuesta por la identidad determina los nuevos rascacielos en su fructífero devenir desde lo tectónico a lo termodinámico.
Los arquitectos modernos pensaron el rascacielos asociado a la organización del trabajo, a las oficinas. De hecho, el rascacielos prototípico de la modernidad es la expresión misma de dicha organización; la forma optimizada de archivar y conectar tra
Comenzaremos por el final: Madrid ha perdido la posibilidad de configurar un sistema de zonas verdes integrado que incremente el valor ambiental y de uso de los espacios disponibles. Madrid no ha logrado salvaguardar una estructura coherente apoyada
Iñaki Ábalos
Barcelona 2015
Actar Publishers - 480 Pages
Iñaki Ábalos Daniel Ibáñez
Cambridge 2012
Harvard GSD - 152 Pages
Iñaki Ábalos El ideal pintoresco en la arquitectura y el paisajismo contemporáneos
Iñaki Ábalos Josep Llinàs Moisés Puente
Barcelona 2010
Fundación Caja de Arquitectos - 549 Pages
Iñaki Ábalos
Madrid 2018
Ediciones Asimétricas - 128 Pages