FEDERICO ECHEVARRÍA SAINZ INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED ARCHITECT AND ARTIST

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Federico Echevarría Sainz founded in 1970 the Study of Urbanism and Architecture, the result of an early vocation endorsed and spurred by a family history of architects, businesspeople, and painters. His great-grandfather Federico Echevarría Rotaeche, a Basque industrialist of great reputation, his maternal grandfather José María Sainz Aguirre, architect and his father Federico Echevarría Uribe, renowned painter with multiple national and international exhibitions.

Over the more than 40 years it has incorporated prestigious professionals from different disciplines and countries: Miguel Gómez, Marie Laurence Cerisier, XuLi, Tatiana Echevarría who, after specializing in the USA with I.M. Pei, joins the studio forming a tandem and contributing to each project his experience and modernity.

'We are an interdisciplinary team, committed to our clientele in obtaining the greatest flexibility, adaptability, modernity and technological leadership, offering comprehensive architecture, engineering and landscaping services with the aim of carrying out a global conception of the project, seeking the highest quality of design', explains Federico.

The ftE studio is currently a benchmark in Spanish architecture covering all fields of architecture in general: office buildings, hotels, residential buildings, rehabilitation of historic buildings, shopping parks, facilities, funeral architecture, prisons, airports, shopping centres etc., in addition to interior design and urban planning.

The Firm has been a pioneer in the integration of technical and technological innovations in projects, such as the use of screwed laminated glass and glass supported by structural silicone, made for the first time in Spain. The use of prestressed and post-tensioned structures at the same time opened a new field to obtain large lights, avoiding the pillars and thus diaphanizing the plants.

However, the most important contribution in search of energy saving and environmental comfort from noise and pollution occurred when a Double Active Climatic Façade was projected for the first time, a technique applied and developed in most of the 50 office buildings made. Currently, the joint use of these technologies places the studio at the forefront of research and execution of Smart buildings.

The trajectory of more than 2,000 projects elaborated from creative freedom, half executed, which exceed 2M m2 built, supply a very wide experience.

ftE Federico & Tatiana Echevarría is an international studio with offices in Madrid, Lima, Lisbon and Budapest developing large projects in Algeria, Brazil, Qatar, Panama, Portugal, Peru, Colombia, Italy, China, Budapest, Germany, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Morocco, among others. In the international framework, they have formed strategic alliances to deepen their knowledge of the regulations and needs of those countries in which they intervene both by presenting competitions and developing projects on request.

But not only architecture...

Federico also has another artistic side as a painter and sculptor with both national and international exhibitions. He always tries to incorporate his architectural talents into his artworks. Most of his artworks do not have a unique position. The same painting can be hung on the side that most attracts the buyer. A sculpture can also be placed in diverse ways on a pedestal and remain attractive. This is a peculiarity of Federico's works. The same thing also happens with architecture. A building usually has four faces, but Federico tries that none of the faces are the same, that they are unique, singular.

In his works he tries to take advantage of residual materials and transforms them into works of art. A cardboard box, a piece of paper, a piece of plastic or any other material can become a work of art.

Visit his studio of 300 square meters is really an experience. Works can be seen on all the walls and sculptures on the ground in an open environment illuminated with sunlight. But even more amazed you get when you go down to the community garage and sees how the garage is adorned with works of art on the walls, that the floor of the garage is painted in an artistic way, that the garage is equipped with music and dim LED lights. It almost feels like you are in a Spa instead of a garage. And it is not surprising since opening a door we enter a community Spa designed by Echevarría... and we realize that the entire building has been designed by himself with meticulous solutions and designs out of the ordinary. Really mind-blowing!

A unique artist and architect!

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