RUIZ PARDO -NEBREDA (RPN) is a Madrid-based practice founded in 2011 by Marcelo Ruiz Pardo and Sonia Nebreda as a multidisciplinary team that provides fully integrated architectural and engineering services with an extensive international track record in developing projects from the conceptual phase to the handover of the works, including Project Management and Procurement.

RPN’s built work includes buildings in Puerto Rico, Namibia, Paraguay, Zambia, El Salvador, Portugal, and Spain, and they have managed and delivered projects in sixteen other countries.

For RPN, the international component is a key factor in their practice. Knowledge of the best international practices is decisive in generating high-added value.

Marcelo Ruiz Pardo
 
Sonia Nebreda Martín
 

MARCELO RUIZ PARDO

M.Architect _ COAM | REG A | OA

Marcelo Ruiz Pardo (Spain, 1980) studied architecture at the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM) and the University of Geneva (UNIGE). He has been an Associate Professor of Architectural Design at the ETSAM for 11 years (2012-2023). He holds a Postgraduate degree in ‘City and Environment from the Polytechnic University of Madrid UPM, and he is currently a PhD candidate at the ETSAM. He is a member of several Research Groups, Innovation Teaching Groups, and Development Cooperation Groups at the UPM. He has taught seminars and conferences at international congresses on university teaching.

SONIA NEBREDA

Building Engineer _ COAATM

Sonia Nebreda  (Spain, 1979) graduated in Technical Architecture at the Universidad de Burgos (UBU) and Building Engineering at the Nebrija University in Madrid. She holds a Postgraduate degree in Project Management from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). She has a broad understanding of all technical and operational issues surrounding the practice of architecture. She has broad experience in the construction industry since she worked for eight years as a Construction and Project Manager in several construction companies.

 
 

RPN’s work has been exhibited in the international architecture biennials in Argentina, Quito, and El Salvador, as well as in international exhibitions in Japan, Argentina, Germany, Ecuador, El Salvador, and the United States. 

Their work has been widely published in books and international magazines such as DOMUS, AR Architectural Review, The Plan, UA Urbanism and Architecture, Detail, and ARQA, among others. In addition, they have been awarded in international architectural competitions in Spain, Italy, and Switzerland. They have been invited as lecturers and visiting critics at universities in the U.S., Japan, Hong Kong, Spain, and Puerto Rico.

They have received significant international awards such as the Best Architects 21, the Europe 40 under 40 Award, the International Architecture Award 2019 and 2017, The Plan Award 2019, the German Design Award 2018, The American Architecture Prize (AAP 2016), the S.Arch International Award 2017, the Grand Prize of the Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism of El Salvador (XIIBAUES 2016), the Luis M. Mansilla Prize 2016, and the X NAN Prize 2017 for the best project of a Spanish study abroad, among other important recognitions.

 
 

TEAM

Principals:

Marcelo Ruiz Pardo.  M.Arch . Partner -Founder
Sonia Nebreda. Building Eng.. Partner - Founder

Collaborators since 2011:

Loreto Moreno, Arturo Alberquilla, Alejandra M. de la Riva, Francisco Abajo Durán, Mónica Esteban Gonzalez, Jara Muñoz Hernández,  Javier E. Lecumberri, Mathew Johnson, Simón Francés, Maxime Simonnet, Laura Cestau, Ralph White, Gary Miller, Lucía Martínez, Thalia Carrasquillo, Eugenio Gómez, Luis Pancorbo,  Luis Silva, Ricardo Montoro, Inés Martín, Mónica Thurne, Michael Gegis, Moses Chulu, Cristina Martinez, Patricia García, Eugenio Fernández, José Bermúdez, Raúl Campos, Noah Hinz, Paul Edwards, Volker Zyde, Konrad Gogol, Virginia Zabala, Javier Vera, Ricardo Muñoz, Kingston Rasego, Christophe Royker, Noel Sendwa, Lilian Jiménez, Irene Bostan, Francis Durand, Rolland Vernier, Robert Davis, Anna Richards, Susan Harris, Giulia Cigui

Consultants:

Structures: Mecanismo, Arup, Suma, Inargest, A400
MEP: JGingenieros, Arup, Suma, 3D3 Ingeniería, A400
Façades: Arup
Photography: Jesús Granada