Emiliano López Matas

Emiliano López Matas earned his undergraduate degree in architecture from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Vallès, and his master’s and doctoral degrees from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Barcelona. He also earned a Master of Architecture from Harvard University. He is co-founder, together with partner Mónica Rivera, of their professional practice, Emiliano López Mónica Rivera Arquitectos. He has taught at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya School of Architecture, Vallés; the Univesitat Rovira i Virgili School of Architecture, Reus; the ESARQ, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya; and the Elisava Escola de Disseny. From 2004-2007, as adjunct assistant professor at Calgary University, he co-directed the school’s Barcelona Architecture Program.

The work of López Rivera Arquitectos has been recognized by several architecture awards, such as the Young Architecture Award of the Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, first award in the Iberian-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, first prize in the AR Emerging Architecture Awards (U.K.), design distinction from ID Magazine Annual Design Review, the FAD Architecture Award for Iberian architecture, and a nomination in 2009 for the Mies Van der Rohe European Prize. The firm’s projects have been published in national and international publications such as El Croquis, A+U Japan, Domus, I.D. Magazine, Interior Design (New York), and The Architectural Review (London), among others, and have been exhibited in venues such as the Cité de l'Architecture & du Patrimoine in Paris (2009) and the Venice Architecture Biennale (2012).