About this Event
Systems and Selves - Social Agency of Architecture
An exploration of the qualitative significance of design in the public domain within the contemporary built environment. This series will present a curated selection of Irish and international case studies, highlighting the cooperative, experimental, and socially enriching potential of design.
With thanks to Trinity College Dublin for their valued collaboration on this series.
The AAI is thrilled to welcome FRPO to give a presentation about the studio's ongoing work with civic and cultural institutions in Spain and across Europe.
DH ECOENERGY PLANT #1, PALENCIA - ES
The ecoenergy power plant is an icon and a reference within energy and environmental transition. Therefore, its architecture must symbolize this shift of paradigm. a transparent infrastructure that shows, as part of its pedagogical role, how renewable energies are improving the public health in our cities. the plant will serve the new district heating network for the city of palencia, supplying ecological hot water to more than 3000 housing units.
Energy / Infrastructures: the scale of the collective
Medium-sized cities have become the spearhead of a new sustainable urbanity, which is committed to soft mobility, energy communities, ecological corridors, cradle-to-cradle design and advanced architecture.
Transparency / Architecture: the scale of the disciplinary
A transparent infrastructure that shows, as part of its pedagogical role, how renewable energies are improving the public health in our cities.
Periphery / City: the scale of the cultural
The periphery of contemporary cities is increasingly marked by the presence of large logistic facilities that serve the gentrified dense city and the new life of teleworking -in the city and outside it-, lacking urban architectural or landscape character. The architecture of the emblematic places, the centers of our cities, the monuments and big public buildings has already been built. Today we architects need to focus our attention on places that grow without a center, without urbanity, without character, without architecture... it is a generational task and an opportunity for our cities that we must not miss.
FRPO has been developing its professional work in the fields of architecture, urban planning and design since 2005. The extensive training and experience accumulated by Pablo Oriol and Fernando Rodríguez have laid the foundations to establish a high-level professional office, where research and the commitment to a contemporary practice of architecture presents results that are widely recognized nationally and internationally.
Standing out for its uniqueness are Estación San José in Toluca (Mexico), the Ecological Thermal Power Plants for DH Ecoenergías in Palencia and Avila, the Azucarera and Elcano housing complexes in Tudela and Madrid, the IX BIAU Exhibition in Rosario (Argentina) and the Magnifica Fabbrica del Teatro alla Scala in Milan (Italy).
FRPO has been recognized for its excellent professional career with the FAD Awards (2024), COAM awards (2023), Architectural Review Emerging Architects (London 2019, finalists), the Architectural Record Design Vanguard (New York 2012), the Europe 40 under 40 (Chicago 2009) and the Bauwelt Preis (Berlin 2007) awards, among others, and their work has been finalist and selected in the XVI, XII and IX Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (2023, 2014 and 2006), the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (2022), the FAD Awards (2022, 2021 and 2019), the Spanish Pavilion in the Venice Biennale 2016 (Golden Lion), the Enor Awards 2011, the Mies van der Rohe Awards 2015, and the Madrid City Council Public Works Awards (2007), the Archizinc Award (2007) or the Camuñas Foundation Awards for Young Architects (2007).
Pablo Oriol
Pablo Oriol holds the MPAA Advanced Architectural Design Masters from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. He studied Architecture at the ETSAM Madrid and the IIT Chicago between 1995 and 2005.
He teaches at the Architectural Design Department of UPM ETSAM, both in Undergraduate and Graduate Programs. He has also taught and has been guest critic at other international institutions, such as the Falcoltà di Architettura del Politecnico di Milano, the IE School of Architecture and Design, the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya or the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio.
He has been curator of cultural activities for the Subdirectorate General of Architecture of the Ministry of Promotion, for the ETSAM and for the Instituto Cervantes between 1999 and 2002. He has worked as an editor in Arquitectura Viva in 2006, and published the books “9 Posiciones Contemporary ”(Ministry of Development, 2001), "Uncharted" (Actar 2014) and "Antoni Gaudí revisited through the eyes of Etsuro Sotoo ”(Meeting 2009), among others. He has been curator of the Lecture Series argument#2 “Dual Practices” and is a jury of the HISE awards.
In 2007 he founds FRPO Rodriguez & Oriol together with Fernando Rodriguez, being awarded with the Architectural Record Design Vanguard (New York 2012), the Europe 40 under 40 award (2009) and the Bauwelt Preis (Berlin 2007). Their work has been selected for the Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Awards (2019), the FAD Awards (2019), the Spanish Pavilion Exhibition at the Biennale di Venezia (2016, Golden Lion), the nomination for the Mies Van der Rohe Award (2015), the IX and XII Spanish Biennale for Architecture (2007 y 2013), or the V and IX Iberoamerican Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (2006 y 2014). FRPO’s work has been widely published, and through often lectures and exhibitions along the world, they have shared their approach to architecture during these years.
Pablo has also obtained the 2ACAA Award (2019), the Hise Award (2014), the Archizinc Prize (2007) and was selected for the Camuñas Foundation Young Architects Awards (2007).
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Trinity College Dublin, Arts Block, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
EUR 7.50 to EUR 15.00
