Antón García-Abril
Ensamble Studio
Ensamble Studio is a cross-functional team founded in 2000 and led by architects Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa. Bridging art and science, their work innovates typologies, technologies and methodologies to build architectures, urban spaces and landscapes. From their early works –SGAE Headquarters, Hemeroscopium House or The Truffle in Spain– to their most recent –Ensamble Fabrica in Madrid and Ca'n Terra in Menorca, Spain–, every project makes space for experimentation aiming to advance their field. Currently, through their startup WoHo, they are invested in increasing the quality of architecture while making it more affordable by integrating offsite technologies, and more sustainable by carefully designing materials, systems and processes. Their work is extensively published in both printed and digital media, exhibited worldwide, and awarded internationally; most recently, with the 2022 American Academy of Arts and Letter Award in Architecture, and the Marcus Prize 2021, as a recognition to their innovative practice and its contribution to the field of architecture. As an extension to their practice, Antón and Débora are committed to sharing ideas and cultivating synergies between professional and academic worlds through teaching, lecturing and researching. They have been invited professors and lecturers at numerous universities and architecture forums; currently she is Design Critic in Architecture at Harvard GSD, and he is a Professor of Architecture at MIT in Cambridge, where they co-founded the POPlab –Prototypes of Prefabrication Laboratory– in 2012.