THE STUDIO


The Studio is an experimental architectural platform focusing on extreme environments. Projects span through various scales and spheres of action, often challenging the status-quo through inventiveness and a cross-disciplinary approach. Collaborative work with the scientific community and technical institutions  is part of every project we undertake. We truly believe that what exists is only a small part of what is possible, and we design driven by this principle.The Studio is run by architect David A. Garcia.


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Presently at the studio:
Architect Tímea Török (HU),  and interns Heike Vögele (DE), Julian K. Siravo (IT), Karolína Kotnourova (CZ),  Dehne Sibbernsen (US), Kait Kurs (US), Daniele Di Addezio (IT), Pernille Månsson (DK), Jokin Santiago Elorriaga (SP) and Roxana Aron (RO).


Architect David A. Garcia graduated from The Bartlett school of Architecture, London in 2002. He has worked at Foster and Partners, London, he is an Associate partner at Henning Larsen Architects in Copenhagen.
He is the editor and publisher of the international publication MAP (Manual of Architectural Possibilities), now in it’s fourth issue and founder of The Institute of Architecture and the Extreme Environment.

David is a Guest Professor and master course director at Lund's School of Architecture, LTH, Sweden since 2010, having taught at LTH since 2002, and holds a teaching position at the School of Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen since 2003. He has recently been awarded a Teaching Fellowship at The Bartlett School of Architecture, Unit 3, where he is a degree unit director since 2010.

He lectures regularly and is an invited as guest jury at international architecture schools, amongst many others, at the AA London, LSBU London, Bauhaus Weimar, ESA Paris, AHO Oslo and DIS Copenhagen.

In 2007 he was awarded a prestigious 3 year bursary grant from the Danish Art Council, and has in the past year exhibited in Beijing, New York, Chicago, London, Barcelona, Madrid, Oslo, Copenhagen and Rotterdam.