Jorge Sobejano is an architect by the Universidad Politécnica Madrid and founding partner of BURR. As part of BURR he has been awarded numerous prizes and distinctions among which stand out with awards, distinctions and grants among which stands out one of the prizes of the Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism 2024. In addition, they have been finalists in the Arquia Próxima awards, the FAD awards, the Ascer Awards and the awards of the Official College of Architects of Madrid. In 2022 they were recognized with the Fuera de Serie award for best interior designers of that year. As speakers they have participated in congresses such as “Constructing (Activist) Practice” in 2024, at Columbia University, New York; “RIXC Festival of Arts and Science”, in 2019 at the National Museum of Latvia, Riga or “Radical Networks” in 2018 at Spektrum, Berlin.
BURR is an architectural studio formed by Elena Fuertes, Ramón Martínez, Álvaro Molins and Jorge Sobejano. Their practice is semantically based on the English term that gives them their name, BURR, which defines the imperfections and remains that appear in a process of material modification. Their interest is focused on situations that in many cases are considered surplus or out of an aesthetic or practical canon. His production has an experimental ambition, trying to open the spectrum of the spaces we inhabit, the techniques we employ, the materials we use or the models we put into practice.
