Jaime Oliver

Background

About Jaime Oliver

Jaime Oliver received his diploma in Architecture from the ETSAB in Barcelona (Final Thesis with Honors) and Master of Science in Adv. Arch. Design degree from Columbia University in New York. He studied for a year at the Institut Supérieur d’Architecture CF in Brussels with an Erasmus Grant and he received “La Caixa” Scholarship awarding him a full grant to the Columbia University Postgraduate Program. Prior establishing his own office he gained 9 years of professional experience in different prestigious architectural offices such as Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA / Rem Koolhaas). He is a PhD candidate at the ETSAB (DEA and pre-thesis approved). Jaime Oliver has been Design Professor at the Master in Design for Work, Retail and Learning environments from the IE School of Architecture in London and Madrid (from 2015 to 2017), he was coordinating teacher at IED Design Degree in Madrid from 2011 to 2014, he taught at “La Gran Escala” Master from UPC in Barcelona and has been critic at different design juries at Princeton and Columbia University in New York and at Universidad Europea in Madrid. Jaime Oliver is codirector of OHLAB, an award-winning office devoted to urban analysis and cultural research of contemporary society through design, architectural practice and urban strategy. OHLAB has been recently awarded as Interior Design firm of 2019 by Architecture Masterprize, selected as one of the 6 best emerging interior design studios of 2018 by Dezeen and has been previously described by the Chicago Atheneum as “one of Europe’s most important emerging architects”. OHLAB has received numerous awards for their work on design and sustainability, such as Architecture Masterprize, INSIDE, AHEAD, Dezeen, Conde Nast, Monocle, Surface, to the best hotel of the year (Can Bordoy), Best House of the Year Award in 2017 from Architectural Record, New York; Best Eco Design Award in 2017 from IED, Madrid; 3 Awards at the World Architecture Festival 2016, Berlin; Best Energy Efficiency Project Award from NAN in 2016; Best of the Year Awards, New York in 2016, 2014 and 2012, WIN Awards, London, in 2016, 2014 and 2012; Great Indoors Awards 2013 among many others. The office was also nominated for the Mies Van der Rohe Awards in 2021 and 2011. Their work has been published extensively in specialized and general media such as Monocle, Wallpaper, Architectural Record, Interior Design, Arquitectura Viva, FRAME, AD, Diseño Interior, Vogue, Elle, El País Semanal, The New York Times or Financial Times among others.