Balzar Arquitectos was founded in Valencia in 2018. The practice brings together three architects across two generations: José María García Zarco, with over thirty years in the profession, and Txema García Ballester and Laura Moreno Albuixech, who lead the studio's current work. We are twenty people. We work internationally. We operate as an author practice — a studio where a coherent architectural intelligence runs from the initial concept to the last construction detail.
2018
FOUNDED
20
PEOPLE
30+
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Balzar Architects was founded in Valencia in 2018. The practice brings together three architects across two generations: José María García Zarco, with over thirty years in the profession, and Txema García Ballester and Laura Moreno Albuixech, who lead the studio’s current work. We are twenty people, working internationally. We operate as an author practice — one architectural intelligence holds the work from the initial concept to the last construction detail.
Every formal decision is a constructive decision. We do not design forms and then find ways to build them. We design from the logic of materials, structure and craft, so that the way something is made is inseparable from what it is. This is not a methodology. It is an ethics.
The fundamental problems of architecture — space, proportion, light, material — are not solved through novelty. They are solved through precision. A wall at the right thickness, a window at the right height, a floor that meets the ground in the right way. These decisions determine whether a building feels accidental or inevitable.
Before we specify stone, wood or steel, we design the light. The quality of natural light — its direction, its diffusion, its behaviour across the day — determines the character of a space more than any finish. We design apertures before we design walls.
We are not interested in the contemporary as a stylistic category. We are interested in the permanent. The architecture we admire has not dated because it was never of its moment — it was made from a formal logic that transcends it. Restraint is not an aesthetic choice. It is the result of removing everything that does not belong.
Txema García Ballester
FOUNDER, PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT
Laura Moreno Albuixech
FOUNDER, CEO
José María García Zarco
FOUNDER, CONSULTING DIRECTOR
Anna Rico
PROJECT LEADER
Paula Soler
PROJECT LEADER
Michela Nardoni
INTERNATIONAL PROJECT LEADER
Giorgia Piamontese
ARCHITECT
Irene Martínez
ARCHITECT
Paloma Feng
BUSINESS DEVELOPER
Lucía Rolo
ARCHITECT
Javier Fabado
ARCHITECT
Lluna Cerdà
ARCHITECT
Javier Escribà
ARCHITECT
Borja Tormo
ARCHITECT
Boro Álvarez
3D ARTIST
Evolutiva
MEP DESIGN
Ingetec
STRUCTURAL DESIGN
David Zarzoso
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