Juan Herreros

Juan Herreros is an architect and educator with 40 years of experience. He holds a master’s degree and a PhD in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, where he was awarded the rank of Chair Professor of Architectural Design in 2010. He has served for more than 20 years now at Columbia University GSAPP where he holds the position of Professor of Professional Practice. In 1984, he founded Abalos&Herreros, in 1999 the LMI (International Multimedia League), and in 2006 estudioHerreros. He has developed his teaching and research career in numerous institutions such as Princeton, IIT, AA-London, EPF-Lausanne, and Aalto-Helsinki.

He has participated as a jury member in numerous international competitions, awards, and is a member of several editorial boards of specialized journals and expert committees related to professional practice and architectural education.

In recognition of his activism in defense of the social responsibility of architecture and the right to the city, Herreros holds distinctions as the International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects; Architect of the World from the Chamber of Architects of Lima-Perú; MadBlue 5 Oceans for environmental commitment; and the International BIA Award for Architectural Excellence from the Basque Government. Other international awards in the Spanish context recognizing his entire career are the AD; the A+; the Fuera de Serie; the ICON distinction from the newspaper El País; the FAD Award in the Architecture category in 2020, and in the International category in 2022; and the 2023 COAM International Award. He has also received nominations for the Architecture Medal of the Academy of Arts and Letters of the U.S. and the United States Artists Prize.

The most relevant texts and monographs by or about Herreros’s work are: Prototype and Type (AV, 2022), Critical Practice (TC, 2019), Dialogue Architecture (La Oficina, 2013), Housing and Domestic Space in the XXI Century (Actar, 2008), Isla-Ciudad (Actar, 2005) and Palacios de la Diversión (LMI, 2000); and, in collaboration with I. Ábalos, Tower & Office (MIT, 2003) and Le Corbusier-Rascacielos (Madrid, 1988).

As part of the Spanish “generation of democracy,” Herreros has an extensive body of built projects in Europe, Latin America and South Korea. His most significant recent completed works are the MALBA-Puertos Museum in Buenos Aires, the Ágora-Bogotá Events Center in Colombia, the mixed-use residential complexes in Marseille, Casablanca, and Barcelona, and the Munch Museum in Oslo, whose design and construction process has been documented in the book Lambda Files published by Spector Books and in the documentary by director Morrosko Vila San Juan, More Than a Museum. In 2025, the Santiago de Compostela high-speed train station, the SOLO Museum in Madrid, and the headquarters for the ADAKAR collection in Bilbao have been completed. Currently, he is working in several museum projects in Spain and Mexico and a residential complex for young people in Madrid. His work has been exhibited on numerous occasions in collective and solo exhibitions, including three appearances at MoMA, New York, arc en rêve-Bordeaux, StudioX-Rio de Janeiro, and countless biennials among many others.