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Marta Armengol is an architect formed in ETSAB (Barcelona).
In her work, through various disciplines such architecture, design, installations and sculpture, she plays with experimentation, and works in research and conceptualization of spaces and objects, using errors and material possibilities rather than searching for definitive solutions.
She works with the materials out of which we construct our surroundings, and opens up new spaces within a world we thought we had defined.
She believes that it is by mixing the boundaries between architecture, design, and scenography; between installations and sculpture or between the practice and research of architecture itself; that new ideas and innovation flourishes.
She has exhibited her work at Palais de Tokyo in 2015, Dutch Design Festival in 2018 and Matadero de Madrid in 2019. She is also co–founder of the Cierto Estudio, and member between 2015 and 2017. During this period of her life the studio had different recognitions: Special Mention at Solvia Innova Prize 2014, Shortlisted at Solvia Innova Prize 2015, was awarded with two Premis Ajac X 2016 in Unbuilt Work + Furniture and more recently, in 2017, with the First Prize for the Masterplan and construction of a social housing building in Plaça de les Glòries, Barcelona.
Publications
2022 - Can Camper Valencia
Neo2
Architectural Digest España
Revista Revista
Fashion United
Modaes.es
2020-2021 winter - Apartamento Magazine Issue26
2020, December - In Palma
2020,October - Clarck’s Desert Island
2020, September - Vogue Spain
2020, September - SModa
2020, September - Architectural Digest
2020, September - Camper
2020, March - Dezeen
2019, September - Vanity Fair
2019, August- El Ventilador, Diari Ara
2019, May - Els Entusiastes, IB3
2019, February - 15 authors show in Madrid their works between art and design. Domus
2019, February - Marta Armengol: arte y diseño mallorquín para ‘El Mal Querer’ de Rosalía, Diario de Mallorca. Por Elena Vallés
2019, January - Mujer, Objeto. Diario Design
2018, November - Mujer, Objeto. Neo2
2018, November - Mujer, Objeto. Architectural Digest
2018, November_The Biggest Living Room in the Netherlands. Annyversay Magazine
2018, July - Marta Armengol: Entre el arte y la arquitectura. Neo2
2016, March - Eigh phases of Enlightenment. Vice
Exhibitions
2020, Desember- LUSTRERIE- Group show, at Maniera , Brussels
2020, August- TRÍO- with Carlos Fernandez Pello and Geray Mena, at Taca, Palma de Mallorca
2020, 5-8 March- with Maniera Brussels at Collectible Design Fair, Brussels
2020, 6-9 February- with Maniera Brussels at Nomad Circle St.Moritz
2019, 19-29 September- Lightness. Carhartt Wip Palma
2019, 8 - 17 June - Trancisions, Casa de les Punxes, Barcelona. Curated by The Creative Net during Barcelona Design Week 2019
2019, 8 - 17 March - Sisters. Ox Poblenou, Barcelona. Curated by Sanna Völker
2019, 21 Feb-20 March. - Mujer, Florero. DIMAD, Matadero de Madrid. Cuarated by Teresa Fernández-Pello & Claudia Paredes
2019, 16-26 Feb. - The Librarian Room. Espacio Vértice, Madrid. Curated by Parasite 2.0 & Studio La Cube
2019, 14 Feb.-14 March. - Functional Art. Galería Seismasuno, Madrid. Curated by Andrés Izquierdo
2018, 15-18 Nov. - Mujer, Objeto. Casabanchel, Madrid. Cuarated by Teresa Fernández-Pello & Claudia Paredes
2018, 20-28 Oct.- The Biggest Living Room in the Netherlands, Dutch Design Festival 2018
Molto Molto Projects & Tellurico
2016, June 17-24 - COAC, Barcelona. “Cadáver exquisito” (a project with Cierto Estudio).
2015, November - Palais de Tokyo, Paris. “Huit Phases pour l’Illumination”
2015, Sep/Oct - COAC, Barcelona. “La casa que queremos”. 1/50 Model of “El ciclo habitacional” and “El hogar reversible” for the ‘Pujades 279’ competition organized by Solvia Innova (a project with Cierto Estudio)
2014, December - COAM, Madrid. “Bienvenido a casa”. 1/50 Model of El ciclo habitacional (a project with Cierto Estudio)
Lectures
2019, July - Construint Tangències. Insòlit Festival, 2019. Palma de Mallorca
2019, March - Made In Mallorca. Round Table. Palma de Mallorca
Awards
2017, May - First Prize for the Masterplan and construction of a social housing building in Plaça de les Glòries, Barcelona, with the proposal “La Comunitat Habitacional” (a project with Cierto Estudio)
2016, October - Premio AJAC X, best unbuilt building “El hogar reversible”(a project with Cierto Estudio)
2016, Octubre - Premio AJAC X, best product design “Enhebrar”(a project with Cierto Estudio)
2014, November - Special Mention for “Bienvenido a casa. Premio Solvia a la innovación en el diseño de la vivienda wih the proposal “El ciclo habitacional”(a project with Cierto Estudio)