Sara de Giles (MGM Architects) - Dominic Stevens

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Sara de Giles (Seville, 1972) in 1998 graduated from ETSA, Seville, and since 1999 has worked there as Associate Professor (Department of Architectural Projects). She joined José Morales and Juan González Mariscal’s studio in 1998 converting it into MGM Architects. They are active as visiting professors and lecturers at various universities and institutions in Spain and abroad. Their work may be seen in Andalucía, Ceuta, Extremadura and Galicia.  

Irish architect Dominic Stevens only does one or two projects a year from his one-man studio, based in an old refrigerated truck. He does his own carpentry and juggles his architecture with farming (he breeds goats, chickens and geese as well as making cheese), in the Irish town of Cloone, population 327. He lives in a crude house of plywood and sheets of glass, saying “Today the house is one of those unknown objects for which people always have to call in the experts to repair it. If instead our children grew up in a house in continual construction, they would learn about the art of building and could build their own houses