Disciplinary fluency: Conversation with Iñaki Alday

Iñaki is a partner, along with Margarita Jover, in Aldayjover arquitectura y paisaje, a firm founded in 1996 that undertakes public architecture and landscape projects with a common approach of specific and attentive consideration of the site. Among others, he has received the FAD Award (2009), the European Prize for Urban Public Space (2002), and the García Mercadal Award (2001 and 2005), in addition to being a finalist for the Spanish Architecture Biennial (2005 and 2009) and the Ibero-American Architecture Biennial (2004). In May 2011, Iñaki Alday was appointed Chair of the Department of Architecture and Ellwood R. Quesada Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia (USA).