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[L-R] Ignacio Borrego, Lina Toro and Néstor Montenegro

[L-R] Ignacio Borrego, Lina Toro and Néstor Montenegro – © dosmasuno arquitectos

Published projects

	Social Services Center in Móstoles The programme of the new local Social Services Center in Móstoles is strongly conditioned by two facts: on the one hand, it hosts many identical spaces —...
	67 Dwellings in Colmenar Viejo Flying across the Madrilenian mountains, we chose a hill to land on. Its slope enabled us to establish a visual relationship with the surroundings, gazing...
	Central Library and Museum for the University of Alcalá de Henares Occupying a historic building: We thought that the project for the new Central Library of Alcalá de Henares University should not be strictly limited to a...
	Casa Syntes in Pinto A garden house. A house between courtyards. The project had to face two preliminary constraints: a surrounding area burdened by the aesthetic and cultural...
	Shadow in Fuencarral Client requirements: The client had a small garden in his back yard. This free space was pitched, and featured a notable unevenness. The client wanted to...
	House and Atelier in El Escorial Leandro Antolí’s house and atelier rests in the slope of Mount Abantos, in San Lorenzo de El Escorial. The local topography and the required programme...
	Dead Garden in Fuencarral After the death of a cupresus macrocarpa lambertiana, its skeleton remained in the original place, and the different plants which used to coil around its trunk...
	102 Dwellings in Carabanchel Orientation and introspectiveness Despite the guidelines drawn on the plots, places need to express their own personality, to arise naturally, to construct...

Brief description

Ignacio Borrego (ETSA Madrid 2000), Néstor Montenegro (ETSA Madrid 2000) and Lina Toro (UPB Medellín 2001) formed dosmasunoarquitectos in 2002.

They have been prize winners in 25 national and international competitions, among which the following could be highlighted: 67 dwellings in Colmenar Viejo, University Central Library and Museum in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, 102 dwellings for the EMVS in Madrid, 17 dwellings for the EMVS in Madrid, all of them under different phases of construction; and also Europan 7 in Slovenia and Spain, Casa de las Artes in Cadiz, Reorganisation of the Llano Amarillo in Algeciras and the Masterplan for the Justice Campus in Madrid.

They have been lecturers in ETSA Madrid, UCJC Madrid and UIC Barcelona, and are currently teaching in ETSA Madrid and UEM Madrid. Besides, they have been visiting lecturers in Athens, Alghero, Barcelona, Bogota, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Evora, La Paz, Ljubljana, Lima, Lisboa, Medellin, Montevideo, Santo Domingo, Sao Paulo, Puebla, Valencia, Weimar or Zurich.

Their work and articles have been presented in diverse publications of architecture, conferences and collective exhibitions, such as the XI Biennale di Arquitectura di Venezia, JAE (Young Architects from Spain) Exhibition in Columbia University, NY, the III and IV Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura, the 2003 Biennale in Sao Paulo or the 2008 Biennale in Moscow. Moreover, they have taken part in many other national collective exhibitions, such as ‘Obra Reciente’, ‘Abierto’, ‘Crudo 100%’ or ‘Cómo’, at Fundación COAM.

Furthermore, they have curated several exhibitions and conferences series, as Monoespacios for the Fundación Arquitectura COAM. They are currently directors of the magazine Arquitectos published by the Consejo Superior de los Colegios de Arquitectos de España.

Principals

Ignacio Borrego
Néstor Montenegro
Lina Toro

Key projects

2010 – Syntes House in Pinto, Madrid
2009- – Social Services Center in Móstoles, Madrid
2008- – 67 Dwellings in Colmenar Viejo, Madrid
2007- - Central Library and Museum for Alcalá University, Madrid
2007 – 102 Dwellings in Carabanchel
2005- – 17 Dwellings in Vallecas, Madrid
2005 – Shadow in Fuencarral
2002 – Dead Garden in Madrid
2000 – House and Atelier in El Escorial

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