Architects of Madrid: Paredes Pedrosa Studio
The studio is formed by the architects Ángela García de Paredes and Ignacio Pedrosa
Brief biographical sketch
Ángela García de Paredes and Ignacio Pedrosa start their careers in the studio of the father of the first, José María García de Paredes, from which the first and most important music auditoriums in Spain are built, such as the Manuel de Falla, the Palau de the Music of Valencia or the National Auditorium of Madrid. When José María passed away, in 1990 they founded the Paredes Pedrosa studio, with which they will mainly develop public works.
Works
His works include the libraries of Ceuta, built on a fourteenth-century Hispano-Muslim site, or that of Córdoba, a project under development, the musealization of the Roman villa of La Olmeda in Palencia (Piranesi award and nominated for the Mies van der Rohe ; the Lugo auditorium; the Archaeological Museum of Almería or the intervention for Bodegas Real in Valdepeñas, on an old XNUMXth century farmhouse.
To the previous works are added international projects in Italy, Morocco, Germany and Slovenia, and that of the future Visigoth Museum of Mérida.
Among his work in Madrid is the Valle Inclán Theater, for which he received the 1996 Spanish Architecture Prize. Institutional and cultural centers such as the Valdemaqueda Town Hall, the María de Molina Library in Villanueva de Velilla, or different reforms inside the Bank from Spain.
To these must be added residential buildings, such as the social housing buildings built in Usera or in Palomeras, the XAMUMX COAM award, mention in the 2003 Urbanism, Architecture and Public Works awards and selected for the 2002-2001 Spanish Architecture Biennial.
Paredes Pedrosa studio was invited to show their work at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2018.