Based between Madrid and Sydney, GRANDEZA STUDIO (Amaia Sánchez-Velasco, Jorge Valiente Oriol and Gonzalo Valiente Oriol) is a collective of architects and artists founded in Madrid in 2011. Their work studies late-capitalist spaces and narratives to identify –through critical analysis– and challenge –through political imagination– the mechanisms that veil and normalize structural forms of violence against bodies and territories.

GRANDEZA STUDIO’s work hybridizes methodologies that entangle with research, critical spatial practice, writing, performance, design, filmmaking and pedagogy

Their work Pilbara Interregnum: Seven Political Allegories was recently exhibited at the 18th Biennale Architettura 2023 in Venice (titled “The Laboratory of the Future” and curated by architect and writer Lesley Lokko). Their film Strata Incognita (co-directed along with Locument) was exhibited in “Foodscapes”, the Spanish pavilion of the same edition of the Biennale di Venezia.