Santiago Cirugeda is Principal of Recetas Urbanas of Seville, Spain.
Santiago Cirugeda has produced architectural projects, written articles and participated in different educational and cultural contexts (master classes, seminars, conferences, workshops, exhibitions, debates, etc.).
He is currently preparing an architectonic project in Seville, for a cultural and visual arts centre, and is immersed in investigations regarding emergency dwellings, developed in distinct forums such as the Barraca BCN - a winter factory for the ETSA in Alicante.
He occasionally acts as professor in Bogota’s Javeriana School.
Santiago Cirugeda studied architecture at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura in Seville.
For the past nine years, he has developed subversive projects with distinct ambitions in urban reality which has allowed him to endure a complicated social life. From systematic occupation of public spaces in containers to the construction of prostheses in facades, patios, covers and lots, he negotiates legal and illegal zones, as a reminder of the pervasive control to which we are all subject.
Santiago Cirugeda was invited to the Venice Biennale where he critically demonstrated socio-cultural differences which nourish interventionist projects in distant urban surroundings, and which move through issues of self-administration and precariousness to stupid frivolity.
[last updated 20-Mar-10]