HUSOS ARCHITECTURAS
Husos is an architecture studio founded in Madrid in 2003 by Diego Barajas (Bogotá) and Camilo García (Cali), operating between Spain and Colombia. Their work understands architecture as a tool for ecological and social transformation, addressing the interdependence between planetary health and the well-being of diverse human and more-than-human bodies.
Husos approaches architecture by considering not only its direct impact on specific contexts of intervention, but also recognizing its dimension as a cultural practice that contributes to the production of imaginaries—inviting us to envision and to move towards alternative ways of inhabiting the world together. Therefore, it understands imaginaries as part of the very domains its architecture engages with. Central to their approach is the conception of architecture as “infrastructures of desire”: spatial dispositifs capable of accompanying collective processes of change through joy and care— toward other futures.
Their work challenges extractivist logics by engaging with ecological design strategies—including life cycle assessment of materials, bioclimatic design, energy efficiency, prioritizing the use of biogenic materials, urban renaturalization, gardening and architectures for biodiversity and cohabitation. These are treated not as technocratic solutions, but as means to cultivate ecosocial relations grounded in the interdependence between bodies and ecosystems, and as ways of articulating responsibility and beauty.
Husos’ practice integrates research, theory, and collaborative design processes. Through situated projects, the studio engages with diverse forms of knowledge to explore how architecture can open new spatial, social, and ecological possibilities. Their interventions operate across multiple scales and formats.
Their work has received international recognition, including the Holcim Awards Gold (Europe, 2023) for Sustainable Construction, and selection among the ten European studios for the 2024 Dorfman Prize at the Royal Academy of Arts. Their projects have been exhibited widely, including at the Venice Biennale, Oslo Architecture Triennale, Rotterdam Biennale, and institutions such as Matadero Madrid, the Tàpies Foundation, and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
Husos’ work is held in institutional collections such as the History Museum of Rotterdam. Their book Urbanisms of Remittances: (Re)productive Houses in Dispersion (Caniche, 2017) received the Fundació Banc Sabadell Prize and forms part of its permanent art collection.
Husos has been a pioneer in introducing interscalar and multimedia approaches, interspecies cohabitation, gender urban perspectives, and Global South epistemological frameworks into architectural discourse. Their practice reflects a sustained commitment to rethinking architecture’s role in contemporary crises and its capacity to open alternative futures.
Over the past two decades Husos arquitecturas has built a distinctive field of its own where ecology, social innovation, and spatial experimentation converge—anticipating key debates in contemporary architectural discourse while operating as a transnational practice of applied research.
What motivated Husos to candidate for the Claude Parent Prize:
We participate in the Prix Claude Parent recognizing the strong influence of his work—particularly the oblique, and his collaborative working approach across disciplines—on our own spatial explorations. His radical rethinking of architecture as a field capable of transforming bodily experience and social relations has deeply informed our practice.
For us, the oblique is both a way of challenging normative spatial conventions and a relational device that opens architecture to new ways of inhabiting the world and relating to each other. Similarly, Husos approaches architecture as a practice that questions dominant spatial frameworks and proposes alternative forms of coexistence across human and more-than-human bodies.
Our work seeks to expand architectural agency by experimenting with the spatial experience of bodies while engaging ecological, social, and political dimensions through situated practices. Participating in this prize allows us to situate our work within this lineage of critical experimentation and to contribute to its ongoing evolution.