Andrés Jaque

Andrés Jaque is Dean and Professor of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP). He holds a PhD in architecture, and is a practitioner, writer, and curator, internationally known for pioneering architecture as an entanglement of bodies, technologies, and environments. His work approaches materiality as relational, transscalar, and intrinsically political.

He was awarded the 2024 UNESCO Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, the Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts (2016), the Silver Lion 14th Venice Architecture Biennale (2014), the FAD Prize (2020 and 2023), the Dionisio Hernández Gil Prize (2001–2006), among other recognitions. His work is part of the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) and the Art Institute of Chicago, among other major collections.

Jaque is founder of the New York- and Madrid-based architecture practice Office for Political Innovation (OFFPOLINN). Established in 2003, OFFPOLINN works at the intersection of research, architectural design, and activism. Notable recent projects include the Reggio School, Madrid; the Ocean Space for the Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Collection (TBA21), Venice; the Babin Yar Museum of Memory and Oblivion, Kiev.

His performance and installation-based works include Xholobeni Yards (Venice Biennale 2023); Being Silica (Performa Biennial New York, 2021); IKEA Disobedients (MoMA, 2012); and Superpowers of Ten (multiple venues, 2016–2019). Jaque was the chief curator of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, Bodies of Water (2020), and co-curator of Manifesta 12 Palermo, The Planetary Garden (2018).

His books include Superpowers of Scale (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2020), PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society (Fundació Mies Van der Rohe, 2013), and Mies y la gata Niebla. Ensayos sobre arquitectura y cosmopolítica (Puente Editores, 2019), which has been published in translation in Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.