Igor Bragado Fernández

Igor Bragado is an architect, writer, and the co-director of the design practice Common Accounts. Bragado has taught at the School of Architecture and Design of the Instituto de Empresa since 2019, and he was prior teaching architecture at Cornell University and The Cooper Union, both in New York. Bragado has been recognized by the New York Times Style Magazine as one of the most influential architects in Spain and has received the 2019 Rome Prize by the Spanish Academy in Rome.

Bragado has published in architecture journals such as Yale University’s Perspecta, UC Berkeley’s Room 1000, Cornell University’s journal of architecture. He has written articles as an architecture critic for general media such as for Babelia of ElPaís or NEO2. Bragado received the Writing Prize by the Design History Society. He has recently lectured about his work and research at institutions like Harvard University, Cornell University, The University of Tokyo, UTS Sydney, Princeton University, University College of London, Columbia University, The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Korea, and Alserkal Avenue in Dubai.

Common Accounts has just finished their first house called “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely,” a lakeside cabin in Northern Ontario, Canada. They have built work for brands like Louis Vuitton Möet Hennessy and they have exhibited in museums and art galleries such as the Architecture and Design Museum of Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Toronto, a83 gallery of New York, the Cube Museum in the Netherlands, the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, the Azkuna Zentroa of Bilbao, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Korea, where their work has been acquired for the permanent collection.

Bragado’s office has participated in Biennials and Triennials showcasing their work and research in Venice, Istanbul, Toronto, Madrid, and Seoul, including their second prize curatorial proposal for the Canadian Pavilion at the 2021 Venice Biennale.

Bragado’ work examines the intersection of the body with space and matter both online and in real life, and considers extra-architectural material that often passes below the radar of design, such as the cultures of fitness, cosmetics, and death.

He holds a Post-professional Master’s Degree from the School of Architecture of Princeton University, where he received a full tuition grant and the Suzanne K. Underwood graduation prize. Bragado studied architecture at ETSA Barcelona, and Waseda University in Tokyo. Aside from these cities, Bragado has lived in Beijing, Rome, New York, Seoul, and he is currently based in Madrid.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Guest Jury for Graduate and Undergraduate Architecture Design Studios at COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GSAPP (2020), PRINCETON UNIVERSITY SOA (2020, 2018), BARTLETT SOA UCL (2021, 2020), UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (2021, 2020), UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (2020), THE COOPER UNION (2018), UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE (2021, 2022), NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (2017)

• Adjunct Professor, Third Year Design Studio, IE UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF DESIGN, MADRID. Fall 2019 – 2020, 2020 – 2021, 2021 – 2022, 2022 – 2023

• Proyectos Zero Design Studio Guest Coordinator, ALICANTE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, Spring 2022 – 2023

• Adjunct Professor of Third Year Design Studio and Research Studio, ISTITUTO EUROPEO DI DESIGN, MADRID, Spring 2020 – 2021, 2021 – 2022

• Visiting Professor, Special Topics in Visual Representation, CORNELL UNIVERSITY AAP NY CAMPUS, NEW YORK, Fall 2018 – 2019

• Adjunct, First Year Design Studio, THE COOPER UNION IRWIN S. CHANIN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, NEW YORK, Fall 2018 – 2019

• Organizer/Coordinator, Thesis Now Symposium, THE COOPER UNION IRWIN S. CHANIN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, NEW YORK, 2018

• Instructor Adjunct, Bachelor Design Thesis, THE COOPER UNION IRWIN S. CHANIN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, NEW YORK, Fall 2017 – 2018, Spring 2017 – 2018

• Coordinator of School wide Lecture Series, THE COOPER UNION IRWIN S. CHANIN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, NEW YORK, Spring 2017 – 2018

• Undergraduate Admissions’ Office Interview Process, Volunteer at Alumni Schools Committee, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, 2017

• Assistant in Instruction, Graduate Design Studio, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, Spring 2015-2016

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• Post Professional M.Arch, Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Graduation Prize, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, 2014 – 2016

• Program in Media and Modernity, 2016

• Degree in Architecture, With Honors, Registered Architect in Spain, ETSAB, BARCELONA SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, 2004 – 2010

• ETSAB Thesis Project Research Year, WASEDA UNIVERSITY, TOKYO, 2009 – 2010