Santiago Cirugeda

Architect. Carries out subversive art project in different areas of the urban environment. He is currently working on self-construction projects in various Spanish cities, in which groups of citizens decide to create their own urban public spaces.

EDUCATION

 
  • Architecture degree from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Sevilla (Higher Technical College of Architecture, Seville).

SITUATIONAL PROJECTS. URBAN PROSTHESES

2007
  • Creation and installation of alegal furniture. Vigo-Madrid
  • Reusing and tuning up 45 housing containers for social collectives
  • Restoration of shantytown settlement of As Rañas. La Coruña
  • Ci-Arte Co-operative. Sevilla
  • Roadblock. Project in the territory. El Cotillo, Fuerteventura
  • Alegal housing contracted on roofs of co-proprietor housing communities

2006

 
  • Studios for rent on roof of Escuela Arte 4.Vivero de Empresas. Madrid
  • Housing estate of 5000 m2 on non-trafficable roof. Mixart-Myrys. Toulouse, France.
  • Casa del Tilo. Lacorzana, Álava
  • 35 rental apartments for young people. Social management project. Basauri, Vizcaya
  • Memorial victims of the Civil War Málaga 1937 together with Rogelio López Cuenca
2006–2005
  • Disassembly and Assembly. Aula Abierta. Granada
2005
  • Self-constructed lecture room building trench. Faculty of Fine Arts, Málaga
  • Stiff sheets. Camouflaged housing
  • Demountable building. One-person housing. Occupation of a land site in Barcelona.
  • Institutional Prosthesis. Extension of the Contemporary Art Centre of Castellón, ESPAI
2004
  • Opening of land sites with public equipment. Sevilla
2003
  • Centre of visual arts project. Automaton architecture. Sevilla
2002
  • Occupation of land sites with movable architecture. Sevilla-Madrid
2001
  • Refuge for excursionists under the Osborne Bulls project
  • Occupation of trees. Insect-house, the strategy of the tick.
2000
  • Poster-house with tunnels. Plaza de la Mina, Cádiz
  • Illegal house in the historical centre (witnesses protection system)
  • Five-storey house inserted in seven-storey building. Degenerated horizontal proposal.
1999
  • Projector-house. Urban bus station. El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz
  • Cápsula 1.S.C. Finland Pavilion. Expo'92. Sevilla
1998-2001
  • Tiendas 13. (habitable cells). Sevilla; Cádiz; Granada; Córdoba
1997
  • Calle San Luis (Installation of container S.C.). Sevilla
  • Plaza de San Marcos (Occupation of scaffolding).Sevilla
  • Calle Divina Pastora (Room on scaffolding).Sevilla
1996
  • Barrio de San Bernardo (Projecting with lights. Neighbourhood energy transfer). Sevilla

EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS

2007
  • Sueño de Casa Propia.Geneva, Switzerland
  • Rotterdam Architecture Biennale, the Netherlands
  • Illegal house project. Fundación Borgovico 33, Como, Italy
  • Urban Reanimations and the minimal intervention. Swiss Arch Museum, Basel, Switzerland
  • Civil Disobedience: the work of Santiago Cirugeda. NYIT, New York, USA.
2006
  • Sector Sur. Instituto Aberroes, Córdoba
  • Galería AD-Hoc, Vigo
  • SPAM city. Contemporary Art Museum, Santiago de Chile
  • 5th Leandro Cristòfol Art Biennale, Lleida
  • Confusión Project. Project 133. London
  • Memorial Málaga 1937. ARCO'06, Madrid
2005
  • Galería ADN, Barcelona
  • 1st Contemporary Art Biennale Moscow, Russia
2004
  • Intrusiones. Andalusian Contemporary Art Centre, Sevilla
2003
  • MAD.03. Experimental Art Meetings, Madrid
  • Crossroads of n°11 creation, Design and habitats. George Pompidou Centre, Paris, France
  • Urban Drift. Transformers. Berlin, Germany
  • UTOPIA STATION. 50ª Mostra di Arte. Venice Biennale, Italy
  • The TENT. Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2002
  • Legal-Space-Public. Établissement d´en face. Brussels, Belgium
  • CAPITAL CONFORT. Alcorcón, Madrid
  • MANIFIESTA 4. Research Room. Frankfurt, Germany
  • Colectivos y Asociados. Casa de América, INJUVE, Madrid
  • Generación 2002. Caja Madrid, Madrid; Barcelona; Sevilla
  • Cambio Climático. 1.1. Ministry of Development. D.G.V.A.U. Madrid
  • Living in Motion. Vitra Design Museum. Berlin, Germany; Milan, Italy; Lisbon
  • Portugal ; London, England
2001
  • ESPAÑA 1:1. Order of Lisbon Architects, Portugal
  • METAPOLIS Nº3, Barcelona, October
  • Second Architectural Market EME-3. Centre of Contemporary Culture, Barcelona
  • IDENSITAT. Calaf art public. Centre of Contemporary Culture, Barcelona
  • UTOPIA NOW. California College of the Arts, San Francisco and Sonoma County Museum. Los Angeles. USA.
  • ARCHILAB .3.  Orleáns, France
  • Exhibition 'MRGNC'. Caja de San Fernando, Sevilla; Badajoz; Cádiz
2000
  • METAPOLIS 2.0. Barcelona, June
  • Expo 'Industrial Design Andalucía'.D.G.A.V. Regional Government of Andalusia. Sevilla
  • 1st Invitation; Vínculos al tiempo. Ministry of Development, D.G.V.A.U. Madrid
  • 1999. First Architectural Market. EME-3. Barcelona
  • Acción nº4 La Casita. Cycle of Initiatives. Ministry of Development. D.G.V.A.U. Madrid
  • Equilibrios, Casitas. Exhibition. Galería Antoni Pinyol, Reus, Tarragona
1999-1995
  • Instalación habitable .Finland Pavilion. FIDAS \ COAAO. Sevilla
1998
  • Video-work for Arts on the edge. Academy of performing Arts, Perth, Australia
  • The City, Space + Globalization Exhibition. University of Michigan. College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Slusser Gallery. Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
1998-1997
  • Museo S.C. Puente del Alamillo, Sevilla (rejected)
1997
  • Urban-Planning Conferences in the District of San Bernardo. Provincial Government of Sevilla
1996
  • Instancias. Civic Centre, Casa de las Columnas, Sevilla
1995
  • Das Letzte Haus. The last house. Haus der Architektur. Graz, Austria
1993
  • Contaminación. Family house. Sevilla
ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS
  • 'Superuse', Recyclicity Foundation. Rotterdam, February, 2007
  • Virus. Lisbon
  • Mark Magazine, Amsterdam, January, 2007
  • 'Situaciones Urbanas', Edit. Tenor, January, 2007
  • 'Arquitectura del Siglo XXI, más allá de Kioto', Madrid, January, 2007
  • 'APTM.30m2', Actar, Barcelona, 2006
  • SPAM arqu, nº 2. Santiago de Chile. October 2006
  • IMPASE, Lleida, nº 6, March, 2006
  • Architecture in Spain, Taschen, November, 2006
  • Progettare, Milan, September, 2005
  • A10, Amsterdam, Nº5, July, 2005
  • Magazine Archis, Amsterdam, Nº2, July, 2005
  • Rooftop Architecture, NAI publishers
  • Pasajes de Arquitectura y Crítica, Nº 86, April 2005
  • CASABASIC, Valencia, June, 2005
  • EXIT, April, 2005
  • 'Arquitectura Portátil', Structure, 2005
  • 'TREE HOUSES', Pageone, 2005
  • 'VIA Construcción', Barcelona, July, 2004
  • 'MOVE HOUSE', Prestel, London, 2004
  • OVIZINE. 3, Bilbao, 2004
  • ZEHAR, Arteleku, San Sebastián, Nº52, January, 2004
  • Pasajes de Arquitectura y Crítica, Nº 53 and Nº 54, January/February, 2004
  • Blank, Madrid, October, 2003
  • PAPERS D´ART, Gerona, Nº 85, 2003
  • Clone, Sevilla, Nº 05, November, 2003
  • EIS, Madrid, October, 2003 
  • SUBLIME, Gijón, Nº 10, October, 2003
  • LAPIZ, Madrid, Nº 184, June, 2002
  • LAPIZ, Madrid, Nº 194, September, 2003
  • NEUTRA. 09-10 .COAS, Sevilla, September, 2003
  • SCALAE, Barcelona, Nº 2, September, 2003
  • IDENSITAT 2, Calaf-Barcelona, CCCB, Barcelona, 2003
  • Generación 2002, Caja Madrid, Madrid, January, 2003
  • B-guided, Barcelona, December, 2002
  • Living in Motion, Vitra Design Museum, Berlin, 2002
  • Pasajes de Arquitectura y crítica, Madrid, Nº 53, Nº54 and Nº 66
  • ABITARE, Italy, December, 2002
  • El interior de la arquitectura, Chile, 2002
  • ¿Qué hago yo aquí?, Madrid, Nº 2, 2002
  • PISO. Architecture Magazine, Mexico, 2002
  • Colectivos y Asociados, INJUVE, Madrid, 2002
  • TRANSVERSAL, Barcelona, September, 2002
  • Diseño interior, Madrid, September, 2002
  • AGGLUTINATIONS, New York, Nº 1, June, 2002
  • 'Cambio Climático. 1.1'. Ministry of Development, D.G.V.A.U., Madrid, 2002
  • ARCH +, Berlin
  • NADAES, Art magazine, Cádiz, November, 2001
  • VERB,. Actar, Barcelona, Nº 1, November, 2001
  • ROJO, Barcelona, Nº 2, October, 2001
  • 'International Ateliers of Alsace and Lorraine', ACTE, Phalbourg, November 2001
  • 'UTOPIA NOW', CCAC: California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, 2001
  • ARCHITECTUR AKTUELL, Austria, Nº7, Nº8, July/August, 2001
  • Diccionario de Arquitectura Avanzada, Actar, September, 2001
  • WERK, BAU+WOHNEN, Switzerland, May, 2001
  • ARCHILAB 3, Orleans, France, May, 2001
  • NEO2, Nº 17, May, 2001
  • MRGNC. Caja de San Fernando, Sevilla, March, 2001
  • Pasajes de crítica y arquitectura, Nº 26, Nº 30
  • INSITU, Oporto, Nº 1, March, 2001
  • CONSTRUCTIVA, Barcelona, Nº 4, Nº 6, December, 2000
  • FIDAS del COAAOC, Sevilla, February/September/October, 2000
  • 'CONVOCATORIA', Ministry of Development, D.G.V.A.U., Madrid, November, 2000
  • METÁPOLIS 2.0, Actar, Barcelona, July, 2000
  • Piezas de Autor. 1920-1999, Industrial Design of Andalucía, Government of Andalucía, May, 2000
  • Fisuras de la cultura contemporánea, February, N° 8, 2000
  • QUADERNS, N° 244, February, 2000
  • SUBURBAN, Sevilla, Nº2, 1999
  • Acciones, Ministry of Development, N° 4, May, 1999
  • FIDAS del COAAOc, January, 1999
  • Pasajes de crítica y arquitectura, Nº 2, Nº 3, Nº 4, Nº 6, Nº 12, Nº 26, Nº 30, December 1998, January/February/April/December 1999, April/October 2001
  • Mi-5, Nº 1, December, 1997
  • 'La última casa', Austria, Steirisher Herbst, 1995
 CONFERENCES (SELECTION)
  • 'On Contemporary Culture', Summer workshop, Almería, July 2007
  • 'Other ways of creating the city: alternatives to globalisation', UIMP, Santander, July 2007
  • Encuentro de Arte Contemporáneo MED07, Medellín, May 2007
  • 'Intramuros' Lecture series and Workshop, PBSA-FH, Dusseldorf, November 2006
  • 'Affordable housing' Seminar, CCCB Barcelona, November 2006
  • '21st Century Housing', UPM summer competitions, La Granja de San Ildefonso, July 2006
  • 'Youth and Housing'. FORO CIVITAS NOVA 2006, Guadalajara, March 2006
  • '21st Century Housing, beyond Kyoto', 2nd Seminar on Sustainability, Madrid, February 2006
  • HOUSING IS BACK. Symposium, Munich, January 2006
  • 'Cities in (re)construction' Course, Local Government of Barcelona, December 2005
  • 'Dance and Architecture'. UPC, Barcelona, May 2005
  • COAM, Madrid, April 2005
  • ARCHITAXI, Granada, February 2005
  • Association of Architects of Castellón, March 2005
  • Fundacione Querini Stampalia, Venice, September 2004
  • 'Public Art in Spain', Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Rome, 2004
  • 'Citizen Participation', C.O.A., Ciudad Real, 2004
  • Conferences on heritage, C.O.A., Toledo, 2004
  • PERIFERIAK, Bilbao, 2004
  • Architecture in Migration, Cologne, 2004
  • 'LABITACIONES', Arteleku, San Sebastián, 2003
  • 'Urban Drift', Transformers, Berlin, 2003
  • Estudios Superiores Foundation, Olot, Gerona, 2003
  • 'The Tent', Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 2003
  • Architecture College of Oporto, Portugal, 2003
  • Barraca Barcelona, FAD, Barcelona, 2002
  • College of Architecture, Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, 2002
  • Higher College of Architecture of Sevilla, 2002
  • Elisava Design College, Barcelona, 2002
  • 'Legal-Space-Public', Établissement d´en face, Brussels, 2002
  • Alicante College of Architecture May 2002
  • ESDI. Sabadell, November 2001
  • Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon, 2001
  • 'A space for art', Andanza, Sevilla, 2001
  • ARCHILAB .3, Orleans, France, 2001
  • Master 'Habitat: contemporary housing and environment', ESARQ, Barcelona, 2001
  • ETSA Granada, University of Granada, 2000
  • Master 'Metrópolis 8', Barcelona Centre of Contemporary Culture, UPC, 2000
  • Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon, 2000
  • First Architectural Market, Eme -3, Barcelona, 1999
  • Forum 'No Homologado' ESARQ, Barcelona, 1999
  • ETSAV, University of San Cugat del Vallés, Barcelona, 1999
  • New teaching tendencies, Fidas.COAAOc, Sevilla, 1998
  • Seminar 'Intervene The City' The Theatre Institute, Sevilla, 1998
  • Arts on the edge Conference', Academy of performing Arts, Perth, Australia, 1997

TEACHING

 
  • Workshop Arpafil, FIL de Guadalajara, Mexico, November 2006
  • Architecture Week. Habitares; Chapultepec. Mexico City, October 2006
  • EUTOPÍA. Meeting of young creators, Córdoba, September 2006
  • Art and Architecture workshop. International Spanish Co-operation, Panama, August 2006
  • International workshop Intersekzi, Bilbaoarte, Bilbao, July 2006
  • Workshop 'Aerial Sevilla, fleeing from speculation', CACC, June 2006
  • Dance and Architecture workshop. 'Catedrales', ENDANZA, Sevilla, March 2006
  • Research workshop, Foro BARRIADAS, Sevilla, 2006
  • International workshop 'Cartagena de Indias', University of the Andes, Colombia, July 2005
  • Director of workshop AULA ABIERTA, Faculty of Fine Arts, Granada, March 2005
  • Master 'Architecture and Ephemeral Spaces', UPC, Barcelona, 2004-2005
  • Workshop 'The subversión of public space', CAAC, Sevilla 2004
  • Workshop 'Urban situations', Spanish Cultural Centre, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2003
  • Seminar 'The contemporary metropolis', Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, 2003
  • Treating Historical Centres, C.O.A., Castilla la Mancha, Toledo, 2003
  • 'Labitaciones', Arteleku workshop, San Sebastián, 2003
  • Workshop 'Dripping shit. Urban Strategies', PERIFERIADOS, Gijón, 2003
  • 'BARRACA BCN', Workshop Barcelona, 2003
  • Director of workshop 'Constructing on the Constructed 2', Escuela LAI, Barcelona, 2003
  • Director of workshop, 'Mastery of urban planning', Bogotá, 2002
  • Director of workshop 'Constructing on the Constructed', ESARQ. UIC., Barcelona, 2002
  • Master 'Design and Public Space', ELISAVA, Barcelona, 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006
  • Co-director of course 'Vertical Dancing-Architecture Dancing' with Geneviéve Mazin, ENDANZA, Sevilla 1999
  • FIDAS, COAAOc, Andalusian Theatre Institute, College of Set Design, Sevilla, 1999
  • Director of course 'Urban Interventions. A place from the institution'
  • Director of course 'Dripping shit. Public Art', Andalusian Theatre Institute, Sevilla, 1998
  • College of Set Design, Sevilla, 1997
  • Director of course 'Urban situations. Public Art', Andalusian Theatre Institute