November 16, 2017
United States
Andrés Jaque is founder of the Office for Political Innovation, an international practice that explores material politics at the intersection of design, research, and activism. He is the youngest recipient of the Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts, and he has been awarded the Silver Lion at the 14th Venice Biennale along with the Dionisio Hernández Gil Prize.
The Office for Political Innovation's work includes: Plasencia Clergy House, House in Never Never Land, TUPPER HOME, ESCARAVOX, COSMO PS1, IKEA Disobedients'—the first architectural performance ever included in the MoMA Collection—SUPERPOWERS OF TEN, PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society, and SWEET PARLIAMENT HOME, which have been featured in A+U, Bauwelt, Domus, El Croquis, The Architectural Review, and The New York Times, among many others. The Office's work has been exhibited at the London Design Museum, Museum of Applied Arts Vienna (MAK), Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Tel Aviv Museum of Art, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe, RED CAT Cal Arts Contemporary Art Center in Los Angeles, Z33 in Hasselt, Schweizerisches Architektur Museum in Basel, the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine de Paris, and the Hellerau Festspielhaus in Dresden.
Andrés Jaque, PhD Architect (ETSAM), Alfred Toepfer Stiftung's Tessenow Stipendiat and Graham Foundation grantee, is Professor of Advanced Architectural Design at the Columbia University GSAPP and Visiting Professor at Princeton University School of Architecture. His research work has been published in Log, Perspecta, Thresholds, and Volume. His publications include Transmaterial Politics, Calculable, Everyday Politics, SUPERPOWERS OF TEN, PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society, Different Kinds of Water Pouring into a Swimming Pool, and Dulces Arenas Cotidianas.
