Biography
Ignacio Laguillo (Seville, 1968) graduated from the Higher Technical School of Architecture in Seville in 1994 in the specialty of building. In the first years of his professional practice, between 1995 and 1998, he trained at the Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos office, combining this work with teaching and research activities as Collaborating Professor and Associate Professor of Projects II in the Project Department of the E.T.S.A. in Seville. During the period 2000-2020, he worked in association with the architect Harald Schönegger, being co-founder in 2007 and partner until 2012 of the firm Eddea. Since 2020, he has been managing his professional practice as founder of Laguillo Arquitectura.
Throughout his career, his built work has been recognized with various prestigious national and international awards, including the First Work Bauwelt Prize 2005 (Munich), the FAD Architecture Prize 2007 (Barcelona), Awards from the Architectural Associations of Córdoba in 2022 and Seville in 2023 and Prizes at the 9th and 16th Biennials of Architecture and Urbanism in Spain. In addition, several awards at the Enor Awards (Vigo) 2011 and 2020, Philippe Rotthier (Brussels) 2011, AIT Awards (Frankfurt) 2012 and 2020, Brick Award (London) 2019. And Finalist of the CSCAE Spanish Architecture Prize 2005, of the XIII Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism and Nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Prize in 2007 and 2024. It has recently won the Andalucia Architecture Prize 2024 in the Conservation and Heritage category.
His work has been exhibited, among others, at the Mostra Giovani Architetti Europei 2004 (Naples), in the Spanish Pavilion of the XI Mostra Internazionale di Architettura Biennale di Venezia in 2008 and at the 9th and 16th Biennials of Spanish Architecture and Urbanism.
Laguillo Architecture is a studio based in Seville directed by Ignacio Laguillo.
Since the beginning of its activity in 2000, it has worked and built at very different scales for both private and institutional clients, the result of a long history and experience in the field of public tender, and with programs that range from private and collective residences, to equipment for the education or health system, spaces for public administrative and office venues, to sports venues and museums.
In their work, they seek to be strongly rooted in the vernacular. With an attitude of respect for the uniqueness of the places and for the natural or built heritage on which they intervene, they approach each Project as a multidisciplinary investigation, where territories and their culture, programs, technique or materiality are connected with tradition through a contemporary perspective that constantly seeks to illuminate other disciplines that are of interest to them.
As professionals, they are committed to the concerns of their clients, where the responsible management of their investment, their deadlines and the fulfillment of their programs are a priority for the team, seeking rigor and excellence in all processes. From there, they focus on ensuring that the scale and materiality of spaces and a sensitive treatment of natural light generate a warm, complicit and intimate relationship in everything that surrounds them.
Team
Since its inception, the following professionals have collaborated or have collaborated closely in their teams, in chronological order:
Architects
Javier Garcia
Ignacio Pastor
Immaculate Donaire
Virginia Martinez
Yeghishe Guetsoyan
Andrew Macintosh
Diego Brieva
João Pedro da Silva
Paloma Pérez
Juan José Medero
Juan Luis Palomares
Andrés Garcia
Olaf Schubert
Tirma Raventos
Lucas Garcia
Covadonga Varela
María Romero
Paco Marqués
Ignacio Orellana
Valentina Daria
Pedro Escobar
Carlos Morales
Priscila Campos
Francisco Losada
José María Sánchez-Rey
Carlos Serrano
Javier Estévez
José Carlos Oliva
Jacobo Otero
Alberto Aragón
Fernando Vidal
Jaime Fernandez
Carlos Carnicer
Luz Torres
Carmen Ferrín
Raquel Jiménez
Blair Scott
Borja Martínez
Javier Martínez
Blanca Farrerons
Javier Salvador
Ignacio Olivares
Álvaro Valverde
Jongjin Lee
Rocio Martínez-Fons
Francisco Garrido
Jorge Rodríguez
Patricia Cámara
José Agustín Ruciero
Teresa Moreno
Carmen Mora-Figueroa
Olga Nunez
Giulia Luccesi
Mercedes Orellana
Blanca Gavira
Quantity Serveyors
José Luis Páez
Enrique Lerma
Manuel Delgado
Roberto Alés
Rosalino Daza
Engineers
Eduardo Martínez-Moya
Enrique Cabrera
Tomás Ruiz de Terry
Miguel Sibón
Photographers
Fernando Alda
Duccio Malagamba
Jesús Granada
José Hevia
Javier Orive
Consultants
Jaime Garcia
Rosario Moreno-Torres