PhD in architecture from the UPM (outstanding Doctoral Thesis Prize, academic year 2014-15; doctoral thesis finalist at the X Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, 2016).

He teaches at Columbia University in the City of New York (GSAPP) and at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM). Has also taught at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the Universidad de Alicante (UA).

Since 2006, he co-directs the architecture office elii, which has been part of the Spanish Pavilion at the 18th (2023) and the 15th Venice Biennial of Architecture (2016), awarded with the Golden Lion. Among other national and international recognitions, two of their works have been selected for the European Union Prize For Contemporary Architecture – the Mies Van Der Rohe Award (2015, 2019). Elii won the prestigious Golden Prize Holcim Awards 2023 (together with Husos and Ultrazul, sponsored by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation). They have obtained the First Prize of the College of Architects of Madrid (2017); and they have also won the COAM Prize on five occasions (2018, 2016, 2013, 2011, 2006).  Their work Yojigen Poketto was selected as one of the 20 visionary domestic spaces of the last 100 years in the exhibition ‘Home Stories 100 Years, 20 Visionary Interiors’, at the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein (2020).

Fogué combines his teaching and architectural practice with research. He is a founding member of the discussion and debate group Political Fictions Crisis Cabinet. He usually collaborates with the Institute For Postnatural Studies and has collaborated with the Mutant Institute of Environmental Narratives.

He is author of the book Las arquitecturas del fin del mundo. Cosmotécnicas y cosmopolíticas para un futuro en suspenso (Puente editores, 2022), awarded at the XVI Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo 2023. Along with the members of elii, Fogué is co-author of the books: What is Home Without a Mother (HIAP – MataderoMadrid, 2015), awarded at the XIII Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo 2015 and Beyond the Limits (CentroCentro, 2020). He is co-editor of the book: Planos de intersección: materiales para un diálogo entre filosofía y arquitectura (Lampreave, 2011, with Luis Arenas) and co-editor of the publication UHF, listed in the Archivo de Creadores de Madrid.

His article “Technifying Public Space and Publicizing Infrastructures: Exploring New Urban Political Ecologies through the Square of General Vara del Rey”, published in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR, 2013), together with Fernando Domínguez Rubio, was highlighted as one of the most relevant texts in the last 40 years of this scientific publication.

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