Husos
At Husos, we understand architecture as a practice of ecological and social transformation. We are interested in exploring to what extent it can contribute to the well-being and joy of the diverse bodies that inhabit the world, while also serving planetary health —two inseparable dimensions. We acknowledge the responsibility of architecture in the climate crisis, as well as in other current social crises.
Through the projects we engage in, we work together with others, and from different forms of knowledge, to test ways of repairing territories and opening possibilities for everyone. This means attempting to collectively build another material world: carrying out tangible spatial ecosocial actions while also giving rise to imaginaries that allow us to dream and drive shared transformations. We think of the architectures we create as infrastructures of desire, spaces capable of accompanying processes of change —through joy and care— toward other futures.
We work in a constant dialogue between research and design, theory and practice. Our path is informed by ecological studies and approaches linked to social justice, in particular interspecies, decolonial, and post-heteronormative perspectives. Husos began twenty years ago in Madrid (2003), initiated by
Diego Barajas (Bogotá) and Camilo García (Cali).
Based in Madrid, we operate between Spain and Colombia.
We have been pioneering by developing in the architectural Spanish-European context, interscalar-multimedia
approaches (Dispersion, 2002), interspecies cohabitation activisms
(Garden Building, 2005), LGTBQ+ urban perspectives (Bear Urbanisms,
2006) and decolonial activisms (Dispersion 2002, Urbanisms of Remittances 2017, and Espacio Afro 2021, among others).
Our work is included in the permanent collections at the FRAC Centre in
Orleans, France, and the History Museum of Rotterdam. It has also received
the first
prize at the Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction
(Gold, Europe
–
2023) and
recognition from the Zumtobel Award for Sustainability and Humanity, and the XV
Bienal Española de Arquitectura. Furthermore, it has been presented at the
Venice Biennale, the Rotterdam Biennale, the Oslo Architecture Triennale,
Matadero Madrid, the Tápies Foundation, the Bienal de Quito, the Witte de With
Museum in Holland, Archilab, Ecovisionarios, PhotoEspaña, MAC/ CCB de Lisboa and Luca/ Luxemburg Center for Architecture,
among others. We
are the authors of the book Urbanisms of Remittances: (Re)productive Houses
in Dispersion published by Caniche Publishers in Madrid in 2017. The book
received the Fundació Sabadell 2019 prize and is now included in the permanent
Art Collection of the Fundació Banc Sabadell in Barcelona.
We have worked on projects for various institutions and organizations,
including CA2M - Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Centro de Creación
Contemporánea Matadero Madrid, Centro Cultural Espacio Afro, Rotterdam History
Museum, Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation, Spanish Ministry of Culture and
Sports, Universidad del Valle, Rotterdam Biennial, Museo Nacional Centro de
Arte Reina Sofía, Oslo Architecture Triennial, Taller Croquis, and Instituto
Cervantes.
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