Atxu Amann, Andrés Cánovas and Nicolás Maruri
associate in 1987 and settle in Madrid.
Since then, they teach at the ETSAM (Madrid School of
Achitecture). Also they have focused on searching new housing units types and housing
blocks reconfiguration, according to contemporary public space and urban issues.
As an office they have received more than seventy
national and international awards, such as, Best State Subsidized Housing Block by Government of
Madrid, Best Architectural Proposal by the Government of Murcia, First Prize Biennale
Zaragoza, National Housing Award and National Award for Preservation of
Archeological Heritage 2012.Their most recent exhibitions were held at the AA in
London, in NAI Rotterdam in IIT Chicago, Arizona CAPLAN, in the Venice
Biennale, at the Cervantes Institute in Rio, Sao Paulo, Paris, Rome and New
York, AEDES Gallery in Berlin, at the RIBA in London, and in many schools and
association of architecture in Spain. Their work has been published in more than three hundred
magazines and books worldwide.