Though based in Madrid, where he graduated from the School of Architecture at the Technical University of Madrid in 2002, José María Sánchez García developed his career in his native Extremadura, a relatively poor rural region in western Spain. There he has won a number of competitions for public projects in which the conservation of the region’s historic monuments and natural environment are constant themes. In response, his designs often hover over or burrow under their sites. More importantly, his work seeks a formal solidity and directness that interacts with its privileged surroundings as a forceful presence that is never loud in tone.
His attraction to solid geometries was evident in his first private commissions. For the Pronat office building in his hometown of Don Benito, he set the protruding volumes of its southern facade on a large concrete esplanade that underscores the sharply modeled play of light and shadow. For other projects, such as a creative-arts workshop for teenagers in a former water cistern, he has literally drilled through thick concrete and masonry walls to open points of access and light, in a kind of architectural piercing.
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