Professor Andrés Jaque’s practice explores architecture as an entanglement of bodies, technologies, and environments. He is an architect, writer and curator and received his PhD in Architecture from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Jaque is Dean and professor at the Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) and the founder of the New York- and Madrid-based architecture practice Office for Political Innovation (OFFPOLINN). Established in 2003, OFFPOLINN works at the intersection of research, architectural design, and activism. Notable recent projects include the Ocean Space for the Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Collection (TBA21), Venice, the Babin Yar Museum of Memory and Oblivion, Kiev and the Reggio School in El Encinar de los Reyes, Madrid (2022), which in 2023 won the 65th FAD Award for Architecture, the most important design award in Spain and Portugal. In 2016, Jaque was awarded the 10th Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts, and in 2014 he won the Silver Lion for the Best Project at the 14th Venice Biennale. His performance-based works include Being Silica (Performa Biennial New York, 2021) and IKEA Disobedients (MoMA, 2012). His publications include Superpowers of Scale (2020), PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society (2013), and numerous other books, articles, and essays. Jaque was chief curator of the 13th Shanghai Art Biennale and co-curator of Manifesta 12 in Palermo (2018). He is based in New York.