Andrés Jaque

Jaque holds a PhD in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and he has been Heinrich Tessenow Stipendiat (Alfred Toepfer Stiftung FVS) and Graham Foundation grantee. He is the Dean and Professor of Architecture at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Jaque is member of the Advisory Board of the Temple Hoyne Buell Centre for the Study of American Architecture. He has been awarded with the Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts, the Silver Lion to the Best Project of the 2014 Venice Biennial and the Dionisio Hernández Gil Prize.

He is the Chief Curator of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, Bodies of Water, and the co-curator of Manifesta 13th in Palermo, The Planetary Garden. Cultivating Co-Existence, an inquire into the ecological, technological and political roles Palermo plays in the boundary of the global North and South. His work is part of the collections of the MoMA and the Art Institute of Chicago, among many others, and it has been the object of solo exhibitions at the MoMA, MoMA PS1, MAK Vienna, Princeton University, RED CAT Cal Arts Contemporary Art Centre in Los Angeles, the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine de Paris, and Tabacalera arts centre in Madrid; and it also been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien ZKM (Karlsruhe), London Design Museum, Whitechapel Gallery (London), Z33 (Hasselt), the Schweizerisches Architektur Museum (Basel), Lisbon and Oslo architecture triennials, and the Venice, Chicago, Gwanju, São Paulo, Santiago de Chile, and Seoul architecture biennials.

Jaque is the founder of the Office for Political Innovation, an architectural practice based in New York and Madrid working at the intersection of research, body-environmental critical practices and design. The office has a broad portfolio of awarded projects, that includes the Babyn Yar Museum of Memory and Oblivion in Kiev, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Ocean Space in Venice, Reggio School in El Encinar de los Reyes, the Clergy House at the historic center of Plasencia, COSMO MoMA PS1 in New York, Escaravox at Matadero Madrid, Transvector at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris, Rambla Climate-House in Molina de Segura, House in Never Never Land in Ibiza, Ròmola in Madrid, Hybrid Infrastructure: RUN RUN RUN, TUPPER HOMES, Rolling House for the Rolling Society, among others.

All these projects are part of a critical practice that the office has developed as well through the revision of architectural formats in performance projects that include: Being Silica (Performa NY, 2021), IKEA Disobedients (MoMA, 2012), Superpowers of Ten (Lisbon Architecture Triennial 2013; Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015; Jumex Museum, Mexico City, 2016; ZKM Karlsruhe, 2016), 12 Actions to Make Peter Eisenman Transparent (City of Culture, Santiago de Compostela, 2004), 1L Oil Banquet (Madrid, 2007); and research-based installation projects including: Spirits Roaming the Earth (Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2018), Pornified Homes (Oslo Architecture Triennial, 2016), Intimate Strangers (London Design Museum, 2016), Sales Oddity. Milano 2 and the Politics of Direct-To-Home TV Urbanism (14th Venice Biennial, 2014), PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society (Arts Institute of Chicago, 2012), Fray Foam Home. When Decoration Becomes Political (12 Venice Biennial, 2010), among others.

Andrés Jaque's design work with OFFPOLINN has been published in the most important architectural design outlets including A+U, Bauwelt, Domus, El Croquis, The Architectural Review, Abittare, Arquitectura Viva, and in publications like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, and El País. His research work has been published in Thresholds (MIT), Perspecta (Yale), Log, Volume, e-flux, and chapters in books edited by Bruno Latour, Nortje Marres, Albena Yaneba, Rem Koolhas, Beatriz Colomina, Mark Wigley, Nikolaus Hirchs, Hans Ulrich Obrist, among many others.

His books include: Superpowers of Scale (Columbia Press, 2020), More-Than-Human (with Marina Otero and Lucia Piestroiusti; Idea Books, 2020), Mies y la gata Niebla. Ensayos sobre arquitectura y cosmopolítica  (Mies and the cat Niebla. Essays on Architecture and Cosmopolitics) (Puente Editores, 2019), Transmaterial Politics (MCD, 2017), Transmaterial / Calculable (ARQ, 2017), PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society (ACTAR, 2013) and Different Kinds of Water Pouring into a Swimming Pool (CalArts, 2013). He has held long term collaborations with the El País newspaper and Radio Nacional de España (Spanish National Radio).