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Isabel Abascal holds a M.Arch from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, she also studied at the Technische Universität in Berlin and at the Vastu Shilpa Foundation in Ahmedabad (India) by Balkrishna Doshi. She was a design studio professor for six years in the Faculty of Architecture, Escola da Cidade, in São Paulo (Brazil). From 2015 to 2017, she was Executive Director of the LIGA, Space for Architecture platform in Mexico City. In 2015 she founded, together with Alessandro Arienzo, the architecture office LANZA Atelier.

LANZA’s first solo show took place at SFMOMA from March until July 29, 2018. They have been lecturers at TEC of Monterrey (Monterrey, 2018), at the CONSTRUCTING (engaged) PRACTICE symposium at GSAPP-Columbia University (NY, 2019), at the University of Houston TX-MX series (Houston, 2019), and at the Architectural Association TownHall Studio (London 2021). LANZA has participated of the 12 São Paulo Architecture Biennale in 2019 and has been nominated for the 2016 Ibero-American Architecture Biennial Award, the Mies Crown Hall Award for Emerging Architects IIT Chicago 2016, the Debut Award of the Lisbon Triennale 2019, the Brick Award 2021 for their project Forest House and to the Dezeen Exhibition Design Award 2021 for their project Re-Source at Storefront for Art and Architecture. The studio is one of the winners of the Architectural League Prize of 2017.