Office for Political Innovation Information

Office for Political Innovation, a Madrid/New York based practice directed by Andrés Jaque, develops architectural projects that bring inclusivity into daily life. All their architectures can be seen as durable assemblages of the diversity ordinary life is made of. In 2014 they recieved the Silver Lion of the 14 Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, Biennale di Venezia and they are authors of awarded projects such as Plasencia Clergy House (Dionisio Hernández Gil Prize), House in Never Never Land (Mies van der Rohe European Award’s finalist), TUPPER HOME (X Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo), or ESCARAVOX (COAM Award 2013). Its work has instigated crucial debates for contemporary architecture. In 2012, the Museum of Modern Art of New York (MoMA) acquired their ‘IKEA Disobedients’ project as the first architectural performance to be part of its collection. In 2013 they presented ’SUPERPOWERS OF TEN’ at Lisbon Architecture Triennale, ’Different Kinds of Water Pouring into a Swimming Pool’ for RED CAT / CalArts Center for Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, and ’Hänsel & Gretel's Arenas’ at La Casa Encendida, in Madrid. In 2012, they unblack-boxed Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion with the intervention ‘PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society’. In 2011, the research and prototype-making project ’SWEET PARLIAMENT HOME’ was presented at the Gwangju Biennale and, in 2010, the installation ‘FRAY HOME HOME’ was presented at the Biennale di Venezia 2010. The office clients list includes AC/E Acción Cultural Española, ARCOmadrid, Mairie de Paris, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, MASDAR Mubadala Company, Municipality of Holon, EMVS de Madrid S.A., CA2M Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo, Museum of Modern Art MoMA NY, MoMA PS1, Art Fairs S.L., La Musa S.L., Matadero Madrid, Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Obispado de Plasencia, Construmat, Comunidad de Madrid, Aluz Imagen y Comunicación S.L., Ayuntamiento de Burgos, Caja Duero and Xunta de Galicia, among others.