Iñaki Ábalos and Renata Sentkiewicz, visited last Friday, May 10, the University of Navarra's School of Architecture of the University of Navarra where they gave the lecture the closing lecture of the 2018-19 course, entitled "a house, a palace", whose degree scroll makes reference letter to the most characteristic of the works of their studio: that with the same importance they dedicate themselves "to a small-scale pavilion as to a very large project ".

Both are professors at prestigious university centers such as GSD-Harvard University, Architectural Association, and direct Abalos+Sentkiewiczan international architecture office with presence in Spain, China, Switzerland, Italy, USA, Colombia, Chile and Taiwan. The projects and built work by Abalos+Sentkiewicz are internationally recognized, they have been the subject of 15 solo exhibitions and many group exhibitions in the most prestigious centers, AA-London, Pavillion de l'arsenale-Paris, MoMA- NYC (MoMA has exhibited 5 built works in three different exhibitions: Light construction, ON Site, Groundswell) and At the Venice Architecture Biennale.

"Good students, good professors, passion and money" would be for Iñaki Ábalos the keys to academic excellence in the Schools of Architecture: "Guests from different countries, final reviews like the ones you have here today -referring to the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra-, the important thing is to avoid trendy schools and make the schools university schools in the academic sense, that is, universal, and with different ideas that are discussed vividly, passionately and with the maximum fraternity".

As for the future of the profession, Ábalos -Full Professor of the ETSAM-, considers that "a balance must be found between the technical offices and consultancies, which have a proven capacity for effective and fast technical development , and the programs of study of intermediate scale that have a proven capacity for design and impact on the city".

"There is a lot of confusion," Renata explains. From her point of view, there is a tendency to relegate sustainability to engineering "architecture is done and then sophisticated prostheses are added -solar panels, etc-. What we demand is to work with sustainability from the process of design, to work with the form, with the subject, which are the main elements that really have an enormous importance so that a building can adapt and work well in a specific climate".