About

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Jaime Espinosa, born and raised in Madrid (Spain), is an architect by the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid – Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ETSAM-UPM). He became interested in bamboo as building material in 2004, when he was still an undergraduate student, before obtaining his first master’s degree in Architecture (MArch, 2011) from the UPM. There he had been granted an scholarchip to conduct a technology transfer project between South America and East Africa, implementing lessons learnt in Colombia about sustainable management of bamboo in the working practices of a women’s cooperative group in Tanzania. Fundación Caja Madrid funded Jaime to obtain his second master’s degree, this one from Lund University (Sweden), in Architecture and Sustainable Urban Design (MSc, 2014).

In the present, he directs his own architecture studio while being a PhD candidate at UPM’s Department of Construction and Architectural Technologies. He is a founding member and first Secretary of AsIB – Iberian Bamboo Association and represents it at UNE – Asociación Española de Normalización (the Spanish office for standardization), where he has translated the ISO standards related to structural bamboo culms. Among his clients, private and public agents as well as from the international cooperation for development sector, are found Greenpeace and the Red Cross. He is a World Bamboo Ambassador since 2017, by the World Bamboo Organization, and has been invited to speak in forums and institutions within Europe, Africa, America and Asia. Up to date, he has had the opportunity to materilize bamboo related projects in various countries: Tanzania, Mexico, Spain, Vietnam, Colombia and Madagascar.

Jaime is based in Copenhagen (Denmark) where he is a visiting researcher in the Institute of Architecture and Technology, at the Royal Danish Academy.

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