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aldayjover architecture and landscape is an internationally awarded firm founded in 1996 in an old seventeen century palace in the center of Barcelona. It is formed by two partners, Iñaki Alday and Margarita Jover, two team leader architects/landscape architects and several architects and landscape architects. The main works are about public facilities and public spaces or landscape interventions. They have also developed several projects of single family and social housing, as well as restorations of highly valued historical buildings and city centers. The last works recently finished are the Water Park for Zaragoza International Exhibition of 2008, several buildings for the same 2008 Exhibition (the Energy Centre and five pavilions), the Public Sports Centre of Delicias, the Gran Via Residence for Handicapped people, for the Catalan Government and a public social housing intervention in the historical part of the city of Zaragoza, composed by three buildings and the renovation of the heart of the district. All of them are public works commissioned as winners of ideas competitions. The main current works under construction are the Aranzadi Park and the Fundagro Foundation headquarters in the city of Pamplona, the urban integration of the new tramway of Zaragoza. The site works for Renewal of historic city centre public spaces of Ibiza will begin soon. aldayjover has designed lighting elements and urban furniture for the catalogues of iGuzzini, Escofet, Vilagrasa and mmcite, and are curators of the new line of urban furniture of iGuzzini. Among the main merit awards: the European Urban Public Space Prize (2002), the FAD Prize for City and Landscape (2009), two first Prizes of the Architects Association of Aragon Region (2001 and 2005), two times finalist of the Spanish Architecture Biennal (2005 and 2009, and one time finalist of the European Landscape Architecture Prize (2008), of the Iber-American Architecture Biennale (2004) and of the FAD Prize (2002). Lately, the Water Park has been nominated for the European Union Architecture Prize-Mies van der Rohe (2009). In the last three years, aldayjover architecture and landscape has designed and built 1.325.853 Sqm of public space, with a budget of 73,7 million € (101,3 mill $), and 31.647 Sqm of buildings, with a budget of 34,4 million € (47,16 mill $). The total executed budget during the last three years is 108,2 million € (148,32 mill $). In 2010 aldayjover got the certificates for the international regulations ISO 90001 (Quality), ISO 14001 (Environmental) and UNE 150301 (Ecodesign, Spanish). On September 2011, aldayjover architecture and landscape opened a new office in Charlottesville (Virginia), USA. Iñaki Alday Sanz (Zaragoza, 1965) Architect, ETSAV, Polytechnic University of Catalonia UPC, Barcelona (1992) Ellwood R. Quesada Professor of Architecture and Chair of the Department of Architecture of the University of Virginia since August 2011 Previously: Visiting Professor Department of Architectural Design in the ETS of Architecture of Vallès (1996-1997) Associated Professor Department of Architectural Design in the ETS of Architecture of Vallès (1998 -2005) Visiting Professor of Landscape Architecture in ETS of Architecture of Navarra, Pamplona (2005 and 2009) Director of the Landscape Architecture course of the Aragon Architects Association (2004) and Lecturer in the Landscape Architecture Master Degree of the UPC (2003-2004). Lecturer in the Master “Housing Laboratory of the XXI Century” (since 2004). Endowed Visiting Professor in the University of Virginia in 2010 Editor and Founder of Z Arquitectura, architectural magazine Margarita Jover Biboum (París, 1969) Architect, ETSAV, Polytechnic University of Catalonia UPC, Barcelona (1995) On January 2012, she joined the Faculty of the School of Architecture of the University of Virginia in a Research appointment Previously: Guest Professor in the ESARQ Architecture Faculty, Barcelona (2001) and in the Urbanism Department of the ETS Arch of Vallès (2002-2004) Associated Professor in BAU Design School (University of Vic), in Barcelona (1998-2009) and Chair of Interior Architecture Department (2006- 2009) Lecturer in the Master “Housing Laboratory of the XXI Century” (since 2004). Endowed Visiting Professor in the University of Virginia in 2010 From June 2010 to August 2011, Margarita Jover is elected member on the Board of the Architect’s Association in Barcelona (COAC), and Chair of the Department of Cultural Activities. Both have been guest Professors and members of Juries in several architecture schools (UIC Bcn, Paris-Malaquais, BAU Bcn, ETSA Bcn, BiArch, ETH Zürich, IIT Chicago, Washington University ST Louis, MIT) and in honour awards and competitions (Girona 2008, Europan 2009, FAD 2010, AJAC 2010, Habitácola 2011, AIA Virginia 2012). Projects Director: Jesús Arcos, Architect Landscape Architecture: Francisco Mesonero, Landscape Architect and Agricultural Engineer Administration and Documentation: Cecilia Vinyolas