Carlos Arroyo Zapatero is a contemporary architect, urbanist and critic from Madrid, Spain.
His work claims to set the frame for a new architectural culture, language and aesthetics, through the ethics, technology and parameters of sustainability.
In contrast, his built work is often portrayed by photographer-artists, producing innovative formats like photo-novellas,[2] gif's, or video.
His work has been exhibited in internationally renowned venues like the Venice Biennale (8th and 14th), the Institut Français d'Architecture, presented in referential publications like El Croquis, and quoted by many bloggers in the sphere.
In 1990, after graduating in linguistics at the Institute of Linguistics in London, he went back to Madrid where he studied architecture at ETSAM and received ISOVER award for best PFC (Master Thesis Project) of the school in the year he graduated, 1997.