Jesús Arcos

Barcelona, Spain (1978). Architect (terminal professional degree), ETSAV-UPC Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona (2004). Member of aldayjover from May 2005. Partner and COO of aldayjover Barcelona from August 2011 to present. aldayjover is a multidisciplinary research based practice focused in innovation and in the specific place character, particularly renowned by its leadership in a new approach to the relation between cities and rivers, in which natural dynamics as the flood become part of the public space, eliminating the idea of “catastrophe”. Among others, aldayjover has designed the most important recent public spaces in Barcelona, Zaragoza, Pamplona or Ibiza; and public and infrastructural buildings, housing, and restorations of highly valued historical buildings and city centers. At the urban and territorial scale, aldayjover has elaborated strategic and master planning in Spain, Brazil, or India, developing the ‘socio-ecological urbanism’ concept for public administrations, entities as the World Bank (as urban expert and regular consultant), or private entrepreneurs. Some of the main aldayjover honour awards are: the FAD Prize for City and Landscape(2009), the AZ Awards of Landscape Architecture(2016); finalist of the Spanish Architecture Biennal(2005 and 2009), the European Landscape Architecture Prize(2008), the International Landscape Architecture Prize(2014); and nominated for the European Union Architecture Prize-Mies van der Rohe(2009).