Elii
Elii’s research and practice explore the role of architecture in addressing ecological matters from a cosmopolitical and cosmotechnical approach. In permanent dialogue with other disciplines—such as philosophy, sociology, and art—the studio combines architectural practice with research and teaching (UPM; Columbia University; EPFL).
Elii participated in the 24th Milan International Triennial Exhibition (2025) and the 18th (2023) and 15th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2016, Golden Lion). Two of their works were selected for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award (2015, 2019).
Among other recognitions, the studio received the Gold Prize Holcim Awards 2023 with Husos and Ultrazul, sponsored by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation; the First Prize COAM Award (2017); and the COAM Award on five other occasions (2018, 2016, 2013, 2011, 2006).
Their work Yojigen Poketto was selected as one of the 20 visionary domestic spaces of the last 100 years in the exhibition Home Stories: 100 Years, 20 Visionary Interiors at the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein (2020).
They are authors of the books Super Petites Maisons (EPFL, 2022) and What is Home Without a Mother (HIAP – Matadero Madrid, 2015), awarded at the XIII Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo (2015), among others. They also co-edited the art and architecture publication UHF (1999–2010), listed in the Creators Archive of Madrid.
