Enrique Jerez Abajo is an Architect graduated from Universidad de Navarra with Honours, Postgraduate in Restoration of Architecture from Universidad de Navarra, PhD Architect from Universidad de Valladolid, and Assistant Professor of Architectural Design at IE University, Madrid-Segovia. His work tries to link practice, research, and teaching.

He has worked at Otxotorena Arquitectos, Estudio Cano Lasso, Mangado y Asociados, and BSA. His practice includes domestic and public architecture, interior design, or landscape interventions. In 2020 he was awarded with the Europe 40under40 Award by The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, a prize that recognises young European architects. Some of his projects have been winning or awarded in different competitions. His built work has been awarded and exhibited in the Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial (2021, 2018), the Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos Vasco-Navarro Awards (2022, 2019, 2013), the Castilla y León Architecture Awards (2024, 2022, 2018, 2011), the Arquia/Próxima Awards for young Spanish architects (2012), or the COACYLE/ Burgos Awards (2023, 2021, 2019, 2016, 2011). Among the publications, AITIM, Arquitectura Viva, Casas Internacional, Cercha, Conarquitectura, Diseño Interior, El País, ON Diseño, TectónicaBlog, or ViA arquitectura.

His PhD thesis is titled THE LEGACY FROM THE EPHEMERAL. 1937-2010, Designed and Built Architecture of Spanish Pavilions at International Exhibitions. His line of research is focused on the strategies that take part in the architectural design’s process, based on modern and contemporary Spanish architecture, and in particular on exhibition pavilions and domestic architecture. Author of the books Paisaje y Artificio. El Mausoleo para Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente en Burgos. Miguel Fisac, Pablo Serrano, and Miradas Compartidas. 3 Citas Domésticas en torno a la Arquitectura. He has been guest editor of ZARCH journal. Author of articles on books and journals (En Blanco, Future Arquitecturas, Ra, ZARCH…), lectures, talks, and papers at national and international congresses. Research award in the XV Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial (2021).

He has been an Associate Professor of Architectural Design at Universidad de Zaragoza (2015-23), and an Adjunct Professor of Architectural Design at Universidad de Valladolid (2012-17). Guest lecturer at ETSA Navarra, ETSA Sevilla, Universidade da Beira Interior (Covilhà, Portugal), IUAV di Venezia (Italy), College of Design Al Ghurair University (Dubai, UAE), BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg (Germany), TU Delft (The Netherlands), and Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy).

Rebeca Piedra Dueñas (Burgos, Spain, 1992) studied Architecture at ETSA Navarra and ETSA Valladolid, graduating from the latter in 2017. Since 2012 she has been working in several architecture offices, getting a grant for her academic record in 2016. She has participated in national and international competitions and some of her projects have been displayed and published.

1. We understand architecture as the [re]building of our environment, in an objective and a subjective way, to found new places that improve people’s lives.

2. We work with reality: we give a real response to real questions and problems, for real people, in real places and with means and times in accordance to reality.

3. We understand architecture as a way of life; as our own way of looking, interpreting and building the world in which we live.

4. Our works is based on the three pillars that are necessary to get coherence and depth: building, researching and teaching.

5. We conceive architecture as the materialization of time by means of the construction of new natural and necessary environments: matter, time, nature and need are our battlefield, and the ‘magic’ of architecture emerges from its suitable cultivation.

6. Architecture is a joint result of logic and poetics, of reason and intuition.

7. An architect must predict the future and assume new roles. Architecture must be daughter of its time and at the same time aspire to timelessness, it must position in the present and look to the future without losing the references to the past.

8. We bet on creativity, simplicity, naturalness, austerity, economy of resources, the respect for the environment, rigour, precision and constructive refinement.

9. Architecture must listen to its context on the whole, so that it can dialogue properly with its natural, urban, rural or energy environment, as well as with the society, the culture, the economy, the politics, etc.

10. Architecture builds ideas and, therefore, goes beyond construction; it must exist a narration that goes beyond matter and nature.

11. In this present world, we must be global and local at the same time.

12. We admire popular architecture because it has survived throughout time as a result of logic and common sense, simplicity and adaptation to the environment wherever it is.

13. We believe in natural and noiseless architecture that does not create problems, but solves them.

14. We admire what improves with the passing of time.

15. We feel thrilled with beauty and everything that has been made with dedication and care.

PRIZE XV Burgos Architecture Awards 2021-2022 (June 2023).
MIRADAS COMPARTIDAS. 3 CITAS DOMÉSTICAS EN TORNO A LA ARQUITECTURA (Book – Research, with Amparo Bernal)

SECOND PRIZE XV Burgos Architecture Awards 2021-2022 (June 2023).
KARMEN Kitchen & Bar

PRIZE XII Castilla y León Architecture Awards 2020-2021 (May 2022).
COBO ESTRATOS RESTAURANT

PRIZE XII Castilla y León Architecture Awards 2020-2021 (May 2022).
MIRADAS COMPARTIDAS. 3 CITAS DOMÉSTICAS EN TORNO A LA ARQUITECTURA (Book – Research, with Amparo Bernal)

FINALIST COAVN Architecture Awards 2022 (March 2022).
ARQUITECTURA COMO NATURALEZA. DE LA GEOGRAFÍA A LA ANATOMÍA (Book – Research, with Javier Pérez Herreras, Javier de Esteban, Ignacio Olite, Roberto Erviti)

SHORTLISTED XV Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial 2018-2020: “XV BEAU. España vacía, España llena. Estrategias de conciliación” (June-July 2021).
COBO ESTRATOS RESTAURANT

PRIZE XV Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial 2018-2020: “XV BEAU. España vacía, España llena. Estrategias de conciliación” (June-July 2021).
“ARQUITECTURA EXPUESTA. TRÁNSITOS ARTÍSTICOS DE LA REPRESENTACIÓN FOTOGRÁFICA DE LA ARQUITECTURA” (Article – Research, with Iñaki Bergera)

PRIZE Europe 40under40 Architecture and Design Award 2020 (March 2021).
Awarded by The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design to 40 European architects under 40 years old. DOMÍNGUEZ HOUSE – SURVEILLANCE PAVILIONS FOR CASTILLA Y LEÓN CULTURAL HERITAGE – COBO ESTRATOS RESTAURANT

SECOND PRIZE XIII Burgos Architecture Awards 2016-2018 (May 2019).
YOGLAR. SCHOOL FOR EARLY MUSIC AND PIANO EDUCATION

PRIZE XIII Burgos Architecture Awards 2016-2018 (May 2019).
PAISAJE Y ARTIFICIO. EL MAUSOLEO PARA FÉLIX RODRÍGUEZ DE LA FUENTE EN BURGOS. MIGUEL FISAC, PABLO SERRANO

PRIZE XIII Burgos Architecture Awards 2016-2018 (May 2019).
SURVEILLANCE PAVILIONS FOR CASTILLA Y LEÓN CULTURAL HERITAGE

FINALIST COAVN Architecture Awards 2019 (April 2019).
SURVEILLANCE PAVILIONS FOR CASTILLA Y LEÓN CULTURAL HERITAGE

FINALIST XIV Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial 2016-2017: “XIV BEAU. Más habitar, más humanizar” (July 2018).
SURVEILLANCE PAVILIONS FOR CASTILLA Y LEÓN CULTURAL HERITAGE

FINALIST X Castilla y León Architecture Awards 2016-2017 (May 2018).
PI HOUSE

SECOND PRIZE XII Burgos Architecture Awards 2013-2015 (April 2016).
2in1 HOUSE

FINALIST COAVN Architecture Awards 2013 (March 2013).
D.E. HOUSE

SHORTLISTED Arquia/Próxima 2010-2011 Awards for Young Spanish Architects (April 2012).
DOMÍNGUEZ HOUSE

SECOND PRIZE VIII Castilla y León Architecture Awards 2008-2010 (May 2011).
DOMÍNGUEZ HOUSE

FINALIST X Burgos Architecture Awards 2009-2010 (March 2011).
BRICK HOUSE IN PINO DE BUREBA

SECOND PRIZE X Burgos Architecture Awards 2009-2010 (March 2011).
CM28 HOUSE

FIRST PRIZE Development of the guidelines for the Valles Pasiegos Cultural Landscape in Burgos province (Burgos, June 2021). With Rebeca Piedra and Estudio Bher.

FIRST PRIZE Competition for Municipal Sports Centre in Boecillo (Valladolid, May 2021). With Rebeca Piedra and Noro Estudio.

FINALIST Competition for 400 Dwellings, Cultural Center y Shopping Centre in “Salesianos” (Pamplona, April 2014). With Koldo Fdez. Gaztelu and Pereda Pérez Arquitectos (Carlos Pereda Iglesias + Óscar Pérez Silanes). 3^rd proposal among 69 entries.

SECOND PRIZE Competition for the restoration of Errementari y Serotegi Houses in Zeráin for a Cultural Centre – Herriko Etxea (Guipúzcoa, November 2011). With Koldo Fdez. Gaztelu. Among 43 entries.

FIRST PRIZE Competition “120 Años Diario de Burgos”: design and assembly of the installation LA CIUDAD DE LAS CABEZAS LEYENTES (Burgos, 1 April 2011). With Diana Hernando, Jairo Rodríguez and Beatriz Sendín (Cultural Group LENIAM). Among 119 entries.

FIRST PRIZE Competiton for Plaza de los Fueros in Elizondo (Navarra, August 2009). With Koldo Fdez. Gaztelu and Corina Blanco. Among 44 entries.

SHORTLISTED Competition for the extensión of COACM headquarters in Albacete (July 2007). With Koldo Fdez. Gaztelu, José Mª Gastaldo and Hugo Mónica.

SHORTLISTED Competition ViA arquitectura PFC.04 for Final Projects (Alicante, December 2005).

SECOND PRIZE Competition for the urban remodelling of the railway strip in Tudela (Navarra, December 2002).

JEREZ, Enrique: “Los pabellones de exposición como plataforma internacional para la arquitectura y el arte españoles a mediados del siglo XX”.
LECTURE at “SEMINARIO DEL DOTTORATO IN ARCHITETTURA – TEORIE E PROGETTO. Correspondenze Arte-Architettura fra Italia e Spagna del dopoguerra ad oggi”.
Organized by Renato Bocchi, with the collaboration of the Research Group from Universidad de Valladolid “ESPACIAR. Categorías espaciales en arquitectura y otras disciplinas artísticas” and the Real Academia de España en Roma.
Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma (Italy), 16 June 2021.

JEREZ, Enrique; F. GAZTELU, Koldo: “Construir, habitar, pensar”.
LECTURE online at “20 UNDER 40. CONSTRUIR, HABITAR, PENSAR”.
Organization: ETSA Universidad de Navarra.
Coordinators: Víctor Larripa, Mario Galiana.
ETSA Universidad de Navarra (online), Pamplona, 19 June 2020.

JEREZ, Enrique: “Paisajes domésticos”.
LECTURE at “ENCUENTROS CON… EMERGENTES”.
Organization: ETSA Universidad de Sevilla, Subdirección de Cultura y Proyección Social.
Coordinator: F. Javier López Rivera.
ETSA Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, 12 March 2020.

JEREZ, Enrique: “Arquitecturas de lo doméstico. Casas para el habitar contemporáneo”.
LECTURE at “VII FORO DE ARQUITECTURA CONTEMPORÁNEA ESPAÑOLA”. Arquitecturas de lo Doméstico. Casas para el Habitar Contemporáneo.
With Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos (Madrid), Pereda Pérez Arquitectos (Pamplona) and LABPAP UVa (Valladolid).
Organization: Vicerrectorado de Estudiantes de la Universidad de Valladolid, ETSA de la Universidad de Valladolid, Asociación para la Defensa de los Derechos de los Estudiantes (ADDE).
Coordinator: Eduardo Carazo.
ETSA Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, 7 March 2019.

JEREZ, Enrique; F. GAZTELU, Koldo: “Firmitas”.
LECTURE at “IMAGINA LA VIVIENDA. Creemos juntos la vivienda del futuro / IRUDIKATU ETXEBIZITZA. Sor dezagun etorkizuneko etxebizitza”.
With H Arquitectes (Barcelona) and Antonio Abellán (Murcia).
Organized by Basque Living, Habic and Diputación Foral de Guipúzcoa.
Tabakalera / Centro Internacional de Cultura Contemporánea, San Sebastián, 6 March 2018.

JEREZ, Enrique: “Micro-intervenciones en el paisaje: los pabellones de vigilancia para Bienes de Interés Cultural en Castilla y León”.
LECTURE organized by Asociación para el Desarrollo de Tierra de Lara.
Quintanilla de las Viñas, Burgos, 9 December 2017.

JEREZ, Enrique: “Vivienda unifamiliar en Simancas, Valladolid”.
LECTURE at “LA VIVIENDA UNIFAMILIAR. ARQUITECTURA RECIENTE EN CASTILLA Y LÉON: [RE]CREANDO EL PATRIMONIO”.
With José Manuel Sanz (Madrid) and Juan Francisco Lorenzo (Soria).
Organized by COACYLE on the occasion of its 25 Anniversary.
COACYLE/ Burgos, Burgos, 19 October 2017.

JEREZ, Enrique; F. GAZTELU, Koldo: “Pabellones de vigilancia para BICs”.
LECTURE at “PATRIMONIO EN USO. SEMINARIO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN ARQUITECTURA”.
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de la Purísima Concepción, Casa de Cervantes, Valladolid, 4 May 2017.

JEREZ, Enrique: “Tresxdos viviendas”.
LECTURE at “V FORO DE ARQUITECTURA CONTEMPORÁNEA ESPAÑOLA”. Tresxdos Viviendas.
With Estudio Entresitio (Madrid) and Óscar Miguel Ares (Valladolid).
Organization: Vicerrectorado de Estudiantes y Extensión Universitaria de la Universidad de Valladolid, Asociación para la Defensa de los Derechos de los Estudiantes (ADDE).
Coordinator: Eduardo Carazo.
ETSA Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, 17-18 November 2016.

JEREZ, Enrique: Master Class: “Cultural forts: a new life for Castilian castles”.
LECTURE as lecturer at “CULTURAL HERITAGE & MANAGEMENT VENTURE LAB, AHMEDABAD, INDIA”.
Organization: Casa de la India, Ayuntamiento de Ahmedabad, Ayuntamiento de Valladolid, Universidad de Ahmedabad, Universidad de Valladolid.
Aula Triste del Palacio de Santa Cruz, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, 16-21 May 2016.

JEREZ, Enrique; F. GAZTELU, Koldo: “2 casas y sus circunstancias”.
LECTURE at “CASA JOVEN. SEMINARIO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN ARQUITECTURA”.
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de la Purísima Concepción, Casa de Cervantes, Valladolid, 5 May 2016.

JEREZ, Enrique: “Desayuno con diseño”.
TALK at “DESAYUNO CON DISEÑO”, on the occasion of the World Design Day.
Organized by Grado Propio en Arquitectura de Interiores de la Universidad de Burgos.
Burgos, 26 April 2016.

JEREZ, Enrique; F. GAZTELU, Koldo: “Domesticity at war: arquitectura en tiempos revueltos”.
LECTURE at “NÚCLEO DE ARQUITETURA. UNIVERSIDADE DA BEIRA INTERIOR”.
Organized by NAUBI – Núcleo de Arquitetura UBI.
Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhà (Portugal), 13 April 2016.

JEREZ, Enrique; F. GAZTELU, Koldo: “Para montar un museo. El Hombre y los Ingenios”.
TALK at “I ENCUENTRO DE MUSEOS ETNOGRÁFICOS Y ESPACIOS EXPOSITIVOS EN LA PROVINCIA DE BURGOS”.
Organized by Diputación Provincial de Burgos.
Auditorio Municipal Príncipe Felipe, Villadiego, Burgos, 8 April 2016.

JEREZ, Enrique: “¿Conocemos la arquitectura moderna?”
TALK at “CONMEMORACIÓN DÍA MUNDIAL DE LA ARQUITECTURA 2014”.
Organized by Fundación DOCOMOMO Ibérico, Consejo Superior de los Colegios de Arquitectos de España (CSCAE) and Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Castilla y León Este (COACYLE).
C.E.S. Salesianos Padre Aramburu, Burgos, 6 October 2014.

JEREZ, Enrique: “Casas 2009-2014”.
LECTURE organized by Universidad de Burgos, Fundación Universidad de Burgos and Grado Propio en Arquitectura de Interiores de la Universidad de Burgos.
Escuela Politécnica Superior Universidad de Burgos, Burgos, 10 April 2014.

JEREZ, Enrique: “La arquitectura moderna y contemporánea: ¿nuestra arquitectura?”
TALK at “CONMEMORACIÓN DÍA MUNDIAL DE LA ARQUITECTURA 2013”.
Organized by Fundación DOCOMOMO Ibérico, Consejo Superior de los Colegios de Arquitectos de España (CSCAE) and Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Castilla y León Este (COACYLE).
Instituto de Educación Secundaria Conde Diego Porcelos, Burgos, 18 October 2013. 

JEREZ, Enrique: “Continente y contenido. Los pabellones de España como espacios expositivos”.
LECTURE as GUEST LECTURER at ESCUELA UNIVERSITARIA DE DISEÑO E INNOVACIÓN (ESNE), UNIVERSIDAD CAMILO JOSÉ CELA. Carrera Oficial de Grado en Diseño de Interiores.
ESNE Universidad Camilo José Cela, Madrid, 22 May 2013.

JEREZ, Enrique: “Una breve introducción a la arquitectura moderna. El Colegio de la Sagrada Familia en Burgos”.
TALK at “CONMEMORACIÓN DÍA MUNDIAL DE LA ARQUITECTURA 2012”.
Organized by Fundación DOCOMOMO Ibérico, Consejo Superior de los Colegios de Arquitectos de España (CSCAE) and Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Castilla y León Este (COACYLE).
Colegio de la Sagrada Familia, Burgos, 1 October 2012.