Architettura e Design

Tuñón y Albornoz Arquitectos is an architecture firm based in Madrid, dedicated to the encounter of the practice of design and construction with theory and teaching. Directed by Emilio Tuñón and Carlos Martínez de Albornoz, Tuñón y Albornoz Arquitectos emerged as a natural evolution of Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos following the death of the architect Luis M. Mansilla in 2012. For the most part, the work of Tuñón y Albornoz Arquitectos has resulted from winning national and international competitions, and it has been recognized with the following awards: Fuera de Serie Award (2023), Architecture in Extremadura Award (2021), XV BEAU Award – Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (2021), AMO Award (2021), New Bauhaus Award (2021) COAM Luis M. Mansilla Award (2021), Architecture Masterprize (2020), FAD Award (2019), COAM Award (2019), Architizer A+ Award (2019), Eduardo Torroja Award (2018), FAD Architecture Award (2017), First Prize ENOR Awards (2017), BigMat National Award (2017), CSCAE Spanish Architecture Award (2017), American Architecture Award, AAP (2017), XIII BEAU Award for Heritage and Transformation (2016), X BIAU Award – Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (2016), Spanish Architecture Award (2016), COAM First Prize (2016). Emilio Tuñón (Madrid, 1959) is an architect who earned his degree from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM) in 1981, and he earned his PhD from ETSAM in 2000. In 1993, together with Luis M. Mansilla and Luis Rojo, he founded the research cooperative CIRCO, awarded with the FAD Prize in 2007 and the BIAU in 2002. His work in research was recognized with the Francqui Chair in Brussels in 2015. In 1992, he cofounded Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos with Luis M. Mansilla (1959-2012), and in 2012 he cofounded Tuñón y Albornoz Arquitectos. He is a professor in the Architectural Design department at ETSAM. He has taught as the Jean Labatut Professor at the Princeton School of Architecture (2008-2010) and the Eliot Noyes Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (2006), and he has been a visiting professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (2005) and the Frankfurt Städelschule (1997-1998). Emilio Tuñón has been recognized with the following awards: National Award for Architecture (2022), RIBA International Fellowship (2019), Community of Madrid Award (2018), Francqui Chair (2015), Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (2014), Mies van der Rohe Award (2007) and European Union Prize (2007). Carlos Martínez de Albornoz (Huesca, 1978) is an architect who earned his degree from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM) in 2004. He completed part of his degree at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London (2000-2001), where he also collaborated with David Chipperfield Architects. In 2004 he joined the studio Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos, and in 2012 he co-founded Tuñón y Albornoz Arquitectos with Emilio Tuñón, as a natural transition from Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos. Carlos Martinez de Albornoz has been teaching since 2005. He has been a guest professor at the Barrié de la Maza Foundation in Vigo (2005), at the School of Architecture of Barcelona – ETSAB (2009), at the Casa Encendida in Madrid for the VII Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (2011), and at the Faculty of Architecture at Hasselt University in Belgium (2015).