Antón García-Abril's second doctoral thesis examines “Stressed Mass” at the School of Civil Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Barcelona.

Antón García-Abril has been associate professor at the School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (ETSAM-UPM), invited professor at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) of Harvard University (2010) and Cornell University (2008). He has been a visiting critic and lecturer at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart; Kunstakademie of Düsseldorf; Architecture Association (AA), London; Instituto Cervantes, Chicago; Bienne Forum de l’Architecture; University of Texas at San Antonio; Bauhaus University Weimar; the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich); Princeton University; Harbin Institute of Technology; ZA 2010 Congress, Johannesburg; Accademia d’Architettura of Mendrisio; and the College of Architects of Ecuador.

He established Ensamble Studio (2000-) leading, together with his partner Débora Mesa, a cross-functional team with a solid research background on the lookout for new approaches to architectonical space, building technologies and urban strategies. Their built projects are exposed structures that explore the essence of materials to create space, including: Music Studies Center and SGAE Central Office in Santiago de Compostela; Martemar House in Malaga; Hemeroscopium House and Reader’s House in Madrid; The Truffle in Costa da Morte; and Cervantes Theater in Mexico City.

Their office has been awarded the Rice Design Alliance Prize for emerging architects in 2009 and the Architectural Record Design Vanguard Prize in 2005. Ensamble Studio was selected by SANAA to participate in the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2010.

Antón García-Abril was elected an International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) for his services to international architecture, and has been curator of the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale presenting “Spainlab”. He received the Spanish Academy Research Prize in Rome in 1996.

He co-founded with Débora Mesa the Positive City Foundation in 2009, with the aim of forwarding their views on urban development, and they are in the process of setting up a research laboratory at MIT, the POPLab (Prototypes of Prefabrication Laboratory).

He was a member of the Holcim Awards jury for Europe in 2014.