Ángela García de Paredes
Ángela García de Paredes Falla is a Spanish architect. She founded the Paredes Pedrosa studio together with Ignacio García Pedrosa.Biography
Ángela García de Paredes was born in Madrid in 1958. She is the daughter of architect and María Isabel de Falla.
She earned a licentiate as an architect from the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid in 1983, and an Architecture PhD from the Technical University of Madrid in 2015 with the thesis La arquitectura de José M. García de Paredes, ideario de una obra.
She took control of her father's architecture studio upon his death in 1990.
Together with architect Ignacio García Pedrosa, she founded the Paredes Pedrosa studio in 1990. They combine the free practice of the profession with teaching work at the universities of Granada, Barcelona, and Navarra. They are professors of ETSAM's Department of Architectural Projects. They have also held critical sessions at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, ETH Zurich, the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. They have been guest lecturers at the universities of São Paulo, Oslo, Monterrey, Puerto Rico, and Münster, as well as the City University of New York,, the Dallas Architecture Forum, the Polytechnic University of Milan, the Technical University of Munich, the Graz University of Technology, and the Times Center of New York.
Since 2011, García de Paredes has served as a member of the jury for the Architecture Awards.Selected projects
- Palace of Assembly of Peñíscola, Castellón, 2000–2003, with Ignacio García Pedrosa
- María Moliner Library, Velilla de San Antonio, Madrid, 2000–2003, with Ignacio García Pedrosa
- Museum of Almería, Almería, 1998–2004, with Ignacio García Pedrosa
- Lecture room at the UAM School of Psychology, University City of Cantoblanco, Madrid, 2002–2004, with Ignacio García Pedrosa
- Teatro Olimpia, Madrid, 1996–2005, with Ignacio García Pedrosa
- 146 EMV, Madrid, 2002–2006, with Ignacio García Pedrosa
- Área Arqueológica de la Olmeda, Pedrosa de la Vega, Palencia, 2004–2006, with Ignacio García Pedrosa
- Conservatory of Coimbra, Portugal, 2004 competition, with Ignacio García Pedrosa
Awards and recognitions
In 2007, Ángela García de Paredes and Ignacio García Pedrosa received the Spanish Architecture Award for the Teatro Valle-Inclán in the Lavapiés district of Madrid. In the words of the jury, it was given
In 2013, they received the Eduardo Torroja Award for Engineering and Architecture from the Eduardo Torroja Foundation and the Ministry of Development for the Villa Romana de la Olmeda in Pedrosa de la Vega. The jury cited "the way in which their audacious structural conception, typical of civil engineering, enhances the clear and resounding expression of their architecture."
In 2014 they received the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts from the Ministry of Education and the Council of Ministers, as well as the Luis Moreno Mansilla Award ex aequo from the for their work on the Public Library of Ceuta.
