Guzmán de Yarza Blache holds a
Bachelors Degree in Architecture from the University of Navarra in 2002.
Upon graduation, he began working at the office of Andres Perea Architecture in
Madrid, after what he founded J1 Architects with three other partners, a
Madrid-based office that currently undertakes projects and supervises
construction works in Spain. J1 Architects received the Ricardo Magdalena Award for the best building
in Zaragoza built in 2007 with the
Iglesias General Motors Building, that also received the 3rd honorable mention of
the Garcia Mercadal Award given by the Professional Association of Architects
of Aragon (Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Aragón).
Guzman simultaneously develops
a career as a visual artist as well as architect, a combination that
enriches both practices and allows unexpected cross relations. His work
has been exhibited at the Reina Sofia National Museum within Les Rencontres
Internationales de Video, the Contemporary Art Museum of Vigo (MARCO),
the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris, the Centro de Arte Recoleta de Buenos Aires,
the National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Moscow, the International
Triennale of Prague and at several national and international exhibitions.
Guzmán currently teaches at
the undergraduates studies of the USJ School of Architecture in Zaragoza and
also at the IE School of Architecture and Design in Segovia and Madrid, where
he is also Director of the Master in Work Space Design, an international post
professional graduate program conceived in partnership with the Royal College
of Arts in London that intends to educate professionals in the design of
innovative and future work environments.
Guzmán is also a Phd candidate
at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, where he is in the
research period of his thesis “José de
Yarza García, European links in
Spanish Peripheral modernity” directed by Chair of
Design Ignacio Vicens y Hualde and José Laborda and with a presentation date of
July 2014.