Álvaro Carrillo

Architect by the European University of Madrid (2013). He is currently working on his master's degree final project "El parlamento de la naturaleza" at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Researcher and teacher with a grant from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport in the academic year 2013-2014, he has been assistant professor of projects at the UEM (2013-2014), as well as professor and assistant professor of master and bachelor at the University of Technology Sydney, UTS, 2015- 2016. In 2018-2019 he directed the Arquitect@s forensic-hacker project course at the University of Alicante and has participated in numerous seminars and conferences in European Universities and institutions to explain his work; such as the Escuela Técnica Superior de Málaga, Granada, Universidad Camilo José Cela de Madrid, Universidad Europea de Madrid, University of Technology Sydney. He has been part of and collaborated with national and international teams. Together with the team formed by DRST, DRAWING STRATEGIES, they were winners of Europan 13, (2015) and together with Carmen Blanco, Jorge López and Fake industries, finalists in the Guggenheim Helsinki competition, (2016). In 2017 he founded the studio "Álvaro Carrillo arquitectos", based in Málaga. His projects have been exhibited in various museums and contemporary art galleries and have been published in international architecture magazines. His recent work has been nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Awards 2018, included in the Venice Biennale 2018. Among other awards, he has received the MatCoam Madrid 2019, the Malaga Architecture Award for Sustainability 2020 and was a finalist in the latest edition of Arquia Próxima. He is currently developing works in tropical environments, trying to turn these contexts into a laboratory of material and formal experimentation. This has been a turning point in his work since 2019.