Manuel Alvarez-Monteserin Lahoz

Manuel Álvarez-Monteserín Lahoz is an architect and founder of Monteserin Architects (Madrid), where he develops international projects at the intersection of architecture, art, and technology. He is also the founder of Nuolab (Madrid–China) and Manu-Facturas, a studio focused on architectural visualization and graphics.

Trained within the Madrid collective scene—such as León 11 and Zoohaus—he has built an internationally recognized career with numerous awards. He served as lead architect and author of the Kaohsiung Maritime and Pop Music Center (88,000 m², Taiwan, 2021), a project awarded the FIABCI World Prix d’Excellence (2021) and the Taiwan Architecture Award – Special Prize (2023).

He won First Prize in the HP–NASA competition (2018) for the design of a city for one million inhabitants on Mars, as well as First Prize in the competition for the Gwangyang Observation Tower (South Korea, currently under construction, 2024). A PhD candidate at ETSAM, his research focuses on creativity, hybrid processes, and generative artificial intelligence, exploring how new tools are transforming the ways we think, design, and build contemporary architecture.