Ensamble Studio bags Charles Jencks Award

Ensamble Studio principals Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa

Source: RIBA

Practice praised for ‘powerful combination of placemaking, functionality, refinement and beauty’

Ensamble Studio has been named as the recipient of the 2019 RIBA Charles Jencks Award, in recognition of its major international contribution to both the theory and practice of architectecure.

With studios in Madrid and Boston, the practice’s principals are Spanish architects Débora Mesa and Antón García-Abril.

Chair of the Jencks Award judging panel David Gloster – who is also RIBA’s director of education – said Ensamble was a highly collaborative practice that was built on the personal, professional and academic strengths of its staff.

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