Biographical notes
Ángela García de Paredes (Madrid 1958) obtained her PhD in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Since 1995 she has combined her professional activity with teaching and research in the Department of Architectural Projects at the Madrid ETSAM School of Architecture. She is a visiting professor and lecturer at national and international universities, including the IUAV in Venice.

She is an Academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando for the Architecture section.

In collaboration with Ignacio Pedrosa (Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos), she has won first prizes in public competitions from which her built work has been recognized with the Spanish Architecture Prize (2007), the Gold Medal of Merit of the Fine Arts of Spain (2014), the Eduardo Torroja Prize for Engineering and Architecture (2014), the European Prize for Intervention in Architectural Heritage (2015), and the National Architecture Prize (2024). In addition, their work has been presented in monographic exhibitions and in various editions of architecture biennials in Spain, Venice, and Latin America, among others.

She curated the Spanish Pavilion of the 6th International Architecture Biennale in Venice 1996 and the Ibero-American Biennales of Architecture and Urbanism in Cadiz 2012 and São Paulo 2016.

Among her works, which have won awards at the Spanish and Latin American Architecture Biennales, are the Valle Inclán Theater in Madrid, the Archaeological Museum in Almería, the Auditoriums of Peñiscola and Lugo, the Libraries of Ceuta and Cordoba, the Villa Romana la Olmeda, and the Embassy of Spain in Piazza Navona in Rome. The Spanish School in Rabat, Morocco, is under construction. Her work has been exhibited in several editions of the Venice International Architecture Biennale.