Arquitectura Viva 261 - FRPO Rodriguez & Oriol

Ever since first meeting as students, Spanish architects Fernando Rodriguez and Pablo Oriol have shared an infrastructural approach to tackling projects - less in relation to mechanical logic and more in terms of an organisational capacity to take on complex contexts and programmes. For every commission they set down a different set of rules. The two are convinced that for particular problems there can only be specific solutions. An overview of their varied work features the Estacion San Jose Complex in Toluca (Mexico), Unolab Headquarters in Getafe (Spain), a thermal power station in Palencia (Spain), and the new artistic production facilities for Milan's Teatro alla Scala in Italy.