Studio Banana interviews Andrés Jaque, one of the most prominent Spanish young architects. Andrés Jaque directs the architecture studio Andrés Jaque Arquitectos and the think-tank Office for Political Innovation.
He explores the role art and architecture play in the making of societies. Andrés Jaque studied architecture at the ETSAM school in Madrid, winning the Tessenow Stipendiat from the Alfred Toepfer Foundation of Hamburg in 1998. He has taught and lectured in a number of universities around the world.
His work has been exhibited amongst other places at the 7th Biennale di Venezia. His most renowned architectural work is the Casa Sacerdotal Diocesana de Plasencia. An interactive building designed to promote the public emergence of controversies among their users, mainly elder Catholic priests.
In 2003 together with a number of sociologists, economists and journalists he created the Office For Political Innovation, a think tank focused on the development of a democratically centered architecture, considering objects as material actors of equalitarian societies.
In 2005 he developed, in association with Peter Eisenman the 12 Actions to Make the Cidade da Cultura de Galicia Transparent. A project to make visible, and easy to understand for general public, the political implications of the construction of a singular building site. A work described by Bruno Latour as a «beautiful mixture of art, politics and building-site».
Interview by Studio Banana TV. Translation by Andy Marlow.
Andrés Jaque official site
Oficina de Innovación Política
Andrés Jaque on Wikipedia
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