Transscalar ARchitecture

Andrés Jaque is an architect, theorist, and curator who explores architecture as the
entanglement of bodies, technologies, and environments, and has introduced the
concept of transscalar architecture. He founded the New York/Madrid-based Office for Political Innovation and is Dean and Professor at Columbia University GSAPP. His awards include the Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts, the Silver Lion of the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale, the UNESCO Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, and the Dionisio Hernández Gil Prize. Jaque is Chief Curator of the 13th Shanghai Biennale Bodies of Water, and co-curator of Manifesta 12 in Palermo The Planetary Garden. 

His publications include Superpowers of Scale, More-Than-Human (with Marina Otero and Lucia Pietroiusti), Mies y la gata Niebla, Transmaterial Politics, PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society, and Different Kinds of Water Pouring into a Swimming Pool.

Jaque’s work is part of major collections worldwide, including MoMA and the Art
Institute of Chicago, among others.

He is the founder of the Office for Political Innovation (OFFPOLINN), an architectural practice based in New York and Madrid. The office’s awarded projects include Reggio School (Madrid), Babyn Yar Museum of Memory and Oblivion (Kyiv), Thyssen-Bornemisza Ocean Space (Venice), the Transspecies Palace (Milan), COSMO MoMA PS1 (New York), Escaravox (Matadero Madrid), Rambla Climate-House (Molina de Segura), RUN RUN RUN (Madrid) alongside performance-based and research-driven works such as IKEA Disobedients, Being Silica, and The Transspecies Kitchen.