SOMOS.arquitectos (Luis Burriel Bielza + Pablo Fernández
Lewicki + José Antonio Tallón Iglesias) arises like an openminded association which merges
ideas, images and concepts which serve as a base to construct a collection of
realities that allow us a free approach to the contemporary urban landscape. We
provide specific solutions to specific problems wether we might be working on
interior design, building, teaching or researching. We do not believe so much
in “styles” as in the sensible experience of the contemporary reality. The
expressive richness of each and every one of the associates composing the
Studio is a powerfull tool to re-initiate, re-pose, re-think and re-activate
the creative process, providing points of view that are not unidirectional or
univocal. Processes which serve us as departure points to construct parallel
discourses on architecture and its projection in the city.
We rely highly on
public competitions, which offer the necessary freedom that might challenge our
work. Education as well as Research activities are also other areas of interaction
which in the end are necessary to enrich our architectural based firm. The
first one triggers the need to establish our own basic concepts, to transmit
them to the student and to bring him into a personal experimentation. Research
working as a mechanism of personal selection, cultivating those theoretical
aspects that feed our praxis. Architects by the ETSAM in 2002, currently
developing their Phd. Studies. Assistant Teachers at the Department of
Architectonic Projects during four years. Our works have been covered in the
press and several national and international magazines (DETAIL, INTERIOR DESIGN
CHINA, SPACE KOREA, CHILE ATMOSPHERES, FUTURE, El Mundo, El País…),
participating in a wide range of national and international exhibitions
(London, Munich, Berlin, Rome, Barcelona, Madrid…). We have received multiple
prizes and mentions in architecture competitions, developing a precocious
experience in the field of the social housing and new technologies application.
