Lorenzo Gil graduated as an architect from ETSAM in 2001. Like Luis Gil, he started collaborating at Frechilla Lopez-Pelaez Arquitectos, where he won several first prizes in national competitions, and directed execution projects and works as senior architect of the studio before founding Plantea Studio with Luis. He is also working on his doctoral thesis, and since 2020 he has been a professor at the Toledo School of Architecture, which he combines with lectures and critical sessions at the Madrid School of Architecture. His texts and essays have also been published in different books and specialized magazines.
Plantea is an architectural firm founded in 2012 by Lorenzo and Luis Gil, both architects from ETSAM. Their works, generally small and medium scale, cover a wide variety of programs. They have made children's schools, offices, restaurants, cafes and multipurpose spaces, always keeping an important part of their activity focused on the private home, and lately also in hotels. They have been published in numerous national and international media, and among them stands out the rehabilitation of the former Duque de Alba cinema, known as Sala Equis, which won the First Prize COAM for the best architectural work of 2018. In their day-to-day work, they try to balance knowledge and risk, technique and craftsmanship, past and future, without thinking about the success of the moment, but with the aim of building real places for real people.
