Architecture & Planning - Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
'TallerDE2 Architects' is a Madrid based office for a critic architecture, urban planning and landscape design, led by Arantza Ozaeta Cortázar and Álvaro Martín Fidalgo since 2008. 'TallerDE2 Architects' makes an ongoing commitment to research and knowledge, both in training and innovative practice. Their work has international scope, been recognized, published and awarded on several occasions. 'TallerDE2 work' is mainly developed between Spain, Germany, Italy and UK, where they are teaching, researching and building recent winning competitions. 'TallerDE2 Architects' has been recognized with the international award Bauwelt Prize 2013, the prize COAM Luis M. Mansilla 2013 and Finalists at the XII Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennale 2013, for their project ‘Haus der Tagesmütter'. They have been prize winner in several competitions, among which the following can be highlighted: they won the european competition Europan-09 in Selb (Germany), where they are developing an entire urban strategy for a "shrinking city" through the Urban Acupuncture principle. As the result of the implementation of this competition they have completed the project ‘Haus der Tagesmütter' and the project ‘Youth Club and Youth Hostel'. They have won the ‘IQ Experimental Collective Housing-Wohnquartiere' in Germany, which is currently under construction. They were selected at the international competition for ephemeral urban gardens in Bilbao for their winning project ‘Green Cave', which was realized during the event. They were finalist in the competitions for the wineries ‘Señorío de Villarrica' and ‘Rothschild & Vega-Sicilia'. They have been teaching at the Architectural Association School of Architecture-Visiting School Programme (UK), Hochschule Coburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany), Politecnico di Milano (Italy), Ural State Technical University of Ekaterinburg (Russia). In addition, they have actively participated in debates, workshops and lectures.