Fran Silvestre Arquitectos

Francisco Silvestre Navarro, Architect / Founder

The studio Fran Silvestre Arquitectos, founded by Fran Silvestre on 2007, has been awarded the Concurso peninsular para la remodelación de la cripta de la colonia Güell_ Antoni Gaudí Prize (Barcelona), the National Competition Fundación Caja de Arquitectos Prize (Barcelona), the Competition para la remodelación del eje Prado Recoletos Prize (Madrid) (as Álvaro Siza Vieira collaborator), the Colegio de Arquitectos de Granada Prize for the Zaida building displayed at MOMA_ On Site (New York) (as Álvaro Siza Vieira collaborator, Oporto), the Concurso Nacional de Auditorio y Galería Arte Contemporáneo Edgar Neville Prize (Valencia) and has also been awarded the limited Competition de Centro Comercial, Jardín Público y Edificio de viviendas en Bétera Prize (Valencia).

Fran Silvestre has been invited to many European Universities and Institutions to show his projects. Studio work has been published in a large number of national and international Architecture and Design magazines, books and websites: TC Cuadernos, Pencil, GG, GA Houses, On-Site, AV, Igloo, Interni, Arquitectura y Diseño, i+c China… Moreover, the studio has shown its projects in several national and international museums and art galleries.

During 2010, Fran Silvestre Arquitectos has been awarded the MHK Prize (Berlín) for the project Casa del Atrio (Atrium House); and has been finalist of Concurso internacional para la Fundación de Arquitectura Contemporánea de Córdoba; and the project Casa en la Ladera del castillo (House on the mountainside overlooked by castle) has been chosen by Fundación Caja Arquitectos to be part of the best spanish architectural buildings of 2008-2009 catalogue.

Lately, the studio has been awarded with the Mención en la categoría de Arquitectura de los Premios COACV Prize for the building Casa del Atrio (Atrium House) (Godella).