Eva Gil Lopesino

Born in Madrid, she is an architect (2009) from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid and the TU Delft, Master in Advanced Architectural Projects (2012) with honours and is currently developing her doctoral thesis at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid on the relationship between the history of computation and architectural devices, within the research line ‘Shrinking’. She has been a lecturer at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, at the Universidad Politécnica, and at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and is a member of the ProLab Research Group and the Educational Innovation Group Dispositivos Aglutinadores de Proyectos. Since 2006, she co-directs elii [architecture office] together with Uriel Fogué and Carlos Palacios. She has given courses, lectures and workshops at various national and international universities. Her work and articles have been published in renowned publications and specialised media, as well as in various exhibitions. She has won several distinctions and awards for her work, including. This list of prizes include the FAD 2020 Award for Ephemeral Interventions; the UPM 2021 Educational Innovation Award (also for the 2019 Educational Innovation Group and the 2018 UPM Educational Innovation Project); the 2017 COAM First Prize from the Official College of Architects of Madrid; the FAD Awards Finalist Work (2017), with work in the Spanish Pavilion of the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, (awarded the Golden Lion, 2016). Her work has also been selected for the European Union Prize by Contemporary Architecture Mies Van Der Rohe Award (2018 and 2015) as well as a finalist in the Mapei, MatCOAM, Simón, Veteco-Asefave, Archdaily, Gubbio and other awards.