kawamura-ganjavian

kawamura-ganjavian is a young architecture studio established in 2000 by Key Portilla-Kawamura and Ali Ganjavian. After meeting in London, where both were studying (at the Architectural Association and at the Royal College of Art), they have worked in several countries: India, USA, Japan, Great Britain and Switzerland in the fields of urbanism, architecture, stage design and product design, both professionally and academically (SANAA Tokyo, Herzog & deMeuron Basel, Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Istituto Europeo di Design...).

In 2006 they set up their present base in Madrid from where they direct projects in Spain, Great Britain, France and Switzerland. They are founding members of the multidisciplinary creative platform Studio Banana and Studio Banana TV.

The studio understands architecture in its full variety of scales, working in the field of product and furniture design, temporary architecture, interiors, building scale projects and territorial studies.

kawamura-ganjavian has participated in exhibitions and conferences in Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Portugal, Spain, Argentina, United States and Korea. Its work has been published in magazines and books in Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Great Britain, Sweden, Norway, Korea and Taiwan.

kawamura-ganjavian are also Mónica Borondo, Daniel Duarte, Ivo Gigante, Sofie Liesenborghs, Mónica Mejía, Cornelia Tapparelli and Agustín Zea; and have been in the past Amir Afshar, Milos Jovanovic, Lu Lu, Tony Berrio and Toño Guadarrama.