Biography
Eva Castro is a professor of practice at AS+D – SUTD, Singapore, where she currently is the coordinator of core studio 2 and co-leads the advanced option studio on landscape urbanism.
She has been the director of the Landscape Urbanism Unit at Tsinghua University in Beijing and a visiting professor at the Architectural Association in London, where she taught – as a diploma unit master and the director of the Landscape Urbanism Master program since 2003. She has also held positions as visiting professor at HKU, Hong Kong and as honorary professor at X’ian University of Architecture and Technology.
Castro is co-founder of form_axioms lab, a territorial agency for academic research purposes operating from within SUTD, Singapore.
As a practitioner, Castro is cofounder of Plasma Studio and GroundLab. She has been recognized with several awards including the Next Generation Architects Award, the Young Architect of the Year Award and the Contract World Award. Her work is published and exhibited worldwide, including Archilab’s ‘Naturalising Architecture’ and various solo exhibitions and art installations -at the DAZ (Deutsches Architectural Museun) in Germany and the Architectural Association in London. Plasma studio and GroundLab were the lead designers for the International Horticultural Fair in Xi’an, China a 37ha landscape with a wide range of buildings opened in 2011.
Education
- 1994 – 1996 Graduate Design Diploma Architectural Association
- 1987 – 1993 Undergraduate and graduate studies architecture and urbanism
Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas
Research Interests
- Architectural Design
- Cities
- Urban Planning
- Landscape Urbanism
Selected Publication
2015
- This Is Not A House
Authored / Edited by The Editors of Mark and Dan Rubinstein.
Published by Rizzoli
Alma Residence - Grounds and Envelops: Reshaping Architecture and the Built Environment
Co-authored by Michael U. Hensel and Jeffrey P. Turko
Published by Routledge (London)
Xi’an Expo - Representing Landscapes: Digital
Eva Castro and Federico Ruberto: Photographing the Hyper-Index
Edited by Nadia Amoroso
Published by Routeledge (London)
p. 38-46
2014
- Critical Territories: From Academia to Praxis
Authored/Edited by Eva Castro, Alfredo Ramirez, Eduardo Rico and Douglas Spencer
160 pages, Published by Actar
2013
- Naturaliser L’Architecture- Archilab 2013
Edited by Brayer, Marie-Ange and Migayrou, Frederic
Editions HYX, Orléans
Xi’an Expo - Masterplanning the Adaptive City: Computational Urbanism in the Twenty-first Century
Routledge (london), Edited by Tom Verebes
Longgang City masterplan, Xi’an Expo
2012
- Architecture China 100- Reiss-Engelhorn- Museen (Mannheim)
edited by Fang Zhenning
p. 350-355, Xi’an Expo - Masterplanning Futures- Routledge (London), edited by Lucy Bullivant
Cover: Longgang City masterplan - New Arcadians- Merrell Publishers (London), edited by Lucy Bullivant
Back cover, p. 198- 209 - Zhenning, Fang, ‘Architecture China 100’, Reiss-Engelhorn- Museen (Mannheim)
p. 350-355, Xi’an Expo - ‘Masterplanning Futures’, Routledge (London)
Edited by Bullivant, Lucy,
ISBN 978-0415554466
Cover: Longgang City masterplan - ‘New Arcadians’, Merrell Publishers (London)
Edited by Bullivant, Lucy,
ISBN 978-1858945484
Back cover, p. 198- 209
2010
- Digital Architecture, Passages Through Hinterlands (London)
p. 160-165, interview and Xi’an Expo - Architecture Now! 7- Philip Jodidio, Taschen (Köln)
Xi’an Horticultural Expo - ArchManual, AADCU Publication (Beijing)
p.336-343, Flowing Gardens- Xi’an Expo, Strata Hotel - Monograph.it, Landscape Sensitive Design, LISTlab (Barcelona)
p. 94-133, profile and interview, Relation Skin, Cube House, Esker Haus, Strata Hotel, Xi’an Expo - Wohnraum Alpen Abitare le Alpi Living in the Alps, Birkhäuser (Basel)
p.32-35, p.316-317 Tetris House
2009
- Atlas of 21st Century Architecture- Phaidon (London, NY)
Tetris Haus, Esker Haus - Architecture Now Houses- Taschen (Köln)
p. 320-325, Cube Haus
Smart Home Extensions- Links Books (Barcelona), Carles Broto
p. 86-95, Esker Haus
2008
- Reacção em Cadeia / Chain Reaction- Transformations in Hotel Architecture- Serralves Museum (Porto)
Strata Hotel, Hotel Puerta America - Auslandsbeziehungen- Junge Architekten aus Deutschland
Ifa- Adom Publishers (Berlin), Konzeption Romana Schneider
p. 80-91, Hotel Puerta America, interview Holger Kehne
2007
- AV (Arquitectura Viva- Spain) Monografias
‘Emergentes’- Twenty emerging teams selected by Luis Fernandez-Galiano
p.106-111, Esker Haus, University Library Darmstadt - On&Off- NitroSaggio (Rome), Lo Spazio del Salto
Space Design, Archiworld (Seoul)
p.62-73, Hotel Puerta America - 1000x European Architecture- Verlagshaus Braun (Berlin),
edited by Joachim Fischer
2006
- Mediating Modernism- Architectural Cultures in Britain-Routledge (London)
written by Andrew Higgott - Young European Architects- daad (Cologne)
Cover, p. 9, 292- 295 - Architecture: Nature, Prestel (Munich), edited by Philip Jodidio
p.156- 157, Crumple Zone - New Studio Design- daad (Cologne)
p.98- 107, Minerva Loft
2005
- 10x10_2 – Phaidon Press (New York, London)
p.292- 295
2004
- New London Interiors- Merrell Publishers (London)
214- 215, Circus House - Bagni- Federico Motta Editore (Milan)
p.252-257, Musicians Home
2003
- New Architecture- Innovation: from experimentation to realisation,
Andreas Papadakis Publisher (London)
p.74-77, Silversmith’s Workshop - Lofts and Apartments, Atrium Publishers (Barcelona)
p.532-539, Musicians Home - poStboks (Madrid)
p.75-77
2002
- ZOO, issue 13 (London)
p.290- 291
2001
- New Architects 2 – a guide to Britain’s best young architectural practices
The Architecture Foundation and Merell (London)
Exhibitions and Installations
2015
- Contingent Affiliations
Commissioned by VISION Magazine, Beijing - Architects@Work (featuring Alma House)
Itinerant exhibition around Europe
2014
- Sunken Vases, exhibition “Beyond Architecture”
Beijing Design Week 2014, China Millennium Museum - Alpen Architektur Tourismus
Kunsthaus Meran - Hotelzimmer der Zukunft: Hotel Puerta America
Intergastra Stuttgart February 2014
2013
- ArchiLab 2013 – curated by Frederic Migayrou and Marie-Ange Brayer,
FRAC Centre Orleans
2012
- Cartographic Grounds: Projecting the Landscape Imaginary
Harvard GSD, Cambridge USA - Architecture China-The 100 Contemporary Projects- curated by Zhang Fenning, Reiss-Engelhorn Museen, Mannheim, Germany
- Critical Territories– solo exhibition at Architectural Association Gallery, London
2011
- Solo exhibition, Iran Artist’s Forum, Tehran, Iran
2010
- Nodal Landscapes – Formel_X
Solo Exhibition at Deutsches Architekturzentrum (DAZ) Berlin - Wohnraum Alpen- Living in the Alps, Pan-Alpine Travelling Exhibition,
Kunsthaus Meran, Italy and various locations in Europe
2009
- Solo exhibition, Galeria Come Se, Rome, Italy
Finn_Topo, Artek Esplanadi store
2008
- Architecture- Where to?
Solo Exhibition at Buro Happold London Headquarters - ‘International Relations’- German architects working abroad,
XXIII UIA World congress in Turin, Basel and Munich - “Reacção em Cadeia / Chain Reaction- Transformations in Hotel Architecture”
Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Loule, Portugal
2007
- 7th International Biennial of Architecture and Design Sao Paulo, Brasil
- Baukunst- dem Alltag entfliehen, Museum Waldhof Bielefeld, Germany
- Interpretation of China Space: Xisi Bei block proposal, National Library Beijing
- An Architects’ Expose, Gleeds, London
2006
- 3G- Inaugural installation at Extension gallery, Chicago, USA
2005
- Transpositional Practice– Solo exhibition at the Architectural Association, London
- Reciprocal Influences, Lungomare Galerie in Bolzano, Italy
2004
- Factio at Emerson Studios, London
The Crumple Zone for Utilitas, Firmitas, Venustas, September 2004 - Fluxo Rosa, Instituto Cultural de Michoacan, Morelia, Mexico
2003
- 5th International Biennial of Architecture and Design Sao Paulo, Brasil
2002
- Annual 2002, University of Applied Sciences Münster, School of Architecture
- Engaging topographies
Solo exhibition at Suitcasearchitecture Gallery, Berlin, Germany - Between Heaven and Earth– V Nordic Triennial of Architecture,
Estonian Museum of Architecture
2001
- UrbaNite- Installation in Nightclub für Architecture Week
In collaboration with Neutral (Video footage) - Make your Case – Work by ‘Britain’s best young architectural practices’
Travelling exhibition- London, Bristol, Birmingham, Glasgow
Awards
2017
- The Plan Award/ future project: Izmir School of Economics Campus landscape urbanism master plan
2016
- Nomination as TOP100 most influential artists for Modern Art
X-WORKING, magazine and community. Berlin, Germany - Build Architecture Award “International Architecture & Landscape Design Firm of the Year”
- Nomination for arcVision Prize – Women and Architecture
Triennale di Milano
Eva Castro, Ulla Hell
2013
- European Copper Award
Winner of public vote for ‘Dolomitenblick’ - Architectizer
Winner of public vote for ‘Dolomitenblick’
2011
- ‘This Decade of Architecture in China’, 5 most favoured projects – Zhulong
Jury: Wang Mingxian, Xu Weiguo, Wang Yun, Qi Xin, Huang Juzheng, Zhi Wenjun - Wallpaper* Design Award
- Alpine Interior Award – Honorable Mention
AIT, Germany
2009
- Europe 40 under 40
European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and
The Chicago Athenaeum - Cityscape Award (Dubai) – Highly commended
2008
- ContractWorld Award – Messe Hannover, Germany
Jury: Prof. Dagmar Richter, Dr. Christoph Bürkle, Rolf Heide, Gabor Kiss, Wolfram Putz - Next Generation Architects Award – Architecture Foundation UK
Jury: Rowan Moore, Amanda Baillieu, Ian Simpson, Jon Emery
2004
- Design Vanguard 2004 – Architectural Record, USA
Selected alongside: Contemporary Architecture Practice, Masaki Endoh, nArchitects, Alejandro Aravena, dECOi, Patterns, Anton Garcia-Abril, Architecton, Christoff: Fino
2002
- Hot Dip Galvanizing Awards 2002 – Galvanizers Association UK
Photographers’ Studio Joint winner with Studio Daniel Libeskind’s Imperial War Museum - Young Architect of the Year Award 2002 – Corus/ Building Design UK
Jury: Zaha Hadid, Mohsen Mostafavi, Richard Feilden, Kathryn Findlay, Jay Merrick
1999
- Prince’s Trust Business Award