About Us
Francisco Burgos and Ginés Garrido founded the studio Burgos & Garrido Architects [BGA] in 2002 in Madrid.
BGA is an architecture, landscape and urban planning firm that aims to explore the relationship between architecture and its social and urban context. Consequently, the office has an eminently public profile, focusing on the design and execution of projects with a strong social commitment and environmental sustainability. The study has an open structure and collaborative methods that allow the development of interdisciplinary projects.
With a trajectory marked by urban regeneration and ecosystem integration, among its most outstanding projects is the Madrid Rio park, internationally recognized with the XII Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design at Harvard University. BGA's work also encompasses collective housing projects, many of them awarded by the FAD and the Spanish Architecture Biennial. In recent years, the studio has expanded its field of action to the design of bridges and the rehabilitation of large infrastructures such as the New La Paz University Hospital. Internationally, he has completed projects in Russia, Holland, Slovenia, Peru, Switzerland and Australia, participating in numerous competitions and consolidating himself as a reference in contemporary architecture.
At the same time, and not separately, both partners combine their study with committed academic work at the Higher Technical School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (ETSAM), having been guest professors at internationally recognized universities such as “UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design”, “Ecole d'Architecture Athenaeum” in Lausanne or “GSD Harvard University”.
Awards
European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage, 2017. [Europa Nostra Awards]
Hispania Nostra Awards for the Conservation of Cultural and Natural Heritage. 2015 | 2016 | 2017
[Madrid Río]
Official Association of Architects of Madrid, 2016 [COAM]
COAM Awards
[Social Housing in Carabanchel - Selected]
Official Association of Architects of Madrid, 2014 [COAM]
COAM Awards
[32 Social Housing Units in Valdebebas]
Official Association of Architects of Madrid, 2012 [COAM]
COAM Awards
[Social Housing for Young People in Las Retamas]
Team
Ginés Garrido Colmenero
Founding Partner | Director
Architect and Doctor of Architect cum laude from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid [ETSAM, UPM]. A teacher at this same school since 1991, he currently heads his own Teaching Unit in the Department of Architectural Projects. In addition, he has been a visiting professor at several international universities such as the Graduate School of Design Harvard University, Ecole d'Architecture Athenaeum in Lausanne and Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.
In other research topics, he has written and published several articles on urban design and landscape interventions and has directed a large number of public space and environmental sustainability projects, such as the Madrid Rio Park and the Tejo River Recovery in Toledo.
Francisco Burgos Ruiz
Founding Partner | Director
Architect from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid [ETSAM, UPM], Doctor of Architect cum laude and Professor at the same school since 1992. He has also been a visiting professor at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, School of Architecture, University of Minnesota and the University of Los Andes, among others.
He has developed and directed multiple residential projects, such as social housing in Carabanchel and the residential and office complex in Valdebebas, putting into practice his broad notion of collective housing. Each of these projects is designed from a perspective of social inclusion, with the firm purpose of improving the quality of life of its inhabitants.
Contact
Communication: pr@burgos-garrido.com
Work: cv@burgos-garrido.com
We offer the possibility of carrying out curricular and extracurricular internships through university agreements. Interested students must have completed at least the first three years of their degree.
