Eduardo Cadaval is a licensed architect with a BA from the National University of Mexico (with special honours) and a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University. He founded his first office in New York and then moved to Barcelona and opened a satellite studio in Mexico City. His work The studio has won numerous awards including the Bauwelt Prize (Munich), the Young Architects Prize from the Catalan Institute of Architects (Barcelona), the Design Vanguard Award (New York), a Mention of Honor for Young Architects from the IX Spanish Architecture Biennale (Madrid), The Silver Medal of the XI Mexican Architecture Biennale in two different occasions (Mexico City), the Prize of the Ibero American Architecture Biennale (Cadiz), the International FAD Prize (Barcelona) the Spotlight Prize (Houston) and the Emerging Voices Award from the Architectural League of New York.
Cadaval´s work has been selected for multiple exhibitions in Europe and abroad, including among others: The official selection of the Venice Biennale, the Barbara Capuchin Biennale, the Exhibition of Young Spanish Architects of Spain and the Mexican, Spanish, and Iberoamerican biennales. The work of his practice has also been published extensively worldwide in over 300 specialized magazines from more than 30 countries. Furthermore, it has been featured in some of the most prestigious global newspapers such as The New York Times, The Financial Times, Il Corriere della Sera, El Clarin, Reforma, Mercurio, La Vanguardia and El Pais.
Eduardo Cadaval has taught and lectured at several highly regarded academic institutions in Europe and North America. He is an associate professor at the Barcelona School ofArchitecture, ETSAB, UPC. He has been visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, SCI-ARC Mexico City´s Program, the Barcelona program of Calgary University, the Boston Architectural Center, Harvard University Career Discovery Program, and at the International Workshop at the Barcelona School of Architecture, ETSAB, UPC. Eduardo has acted as critic at such universities as Harvard, MIT, Yale, The University of Pennsylvania and EPF Lausanne.
Cadaval was considered by Wallpaper Magazine as one of the world’s best young architects and by Architectural Record as one of the top ten firms at international level in their Design Vanguards issue. He is associate professor of Urbanism at the Barcelona School of Architecture, ETSAB, UPC. and has been a Visiting Professor at University of Pennsylvania, and at Calgary University’s Barcelona program. Eduardo was awarded with the National Council for the Arts Young Creators Awards, from the Mexican government.