[casaleganitos] is a studio founded by Carlos Jiménez Cenamor, Beatriz Sendín Jiménez, Leticia López de Santiago and Marwan Zouein.

The office now operates between Madrid and Beirut and develops a variety of projects that range from furniture design, curation, ephemeral events to architecture, urban planning and long-term territorial strategies. Socio-economical questions, ethical positions and the political role of architecture are at the core of our design approach with the desire to build better places to live in.

Architecture is conceived as a collaborative journey, where design is combined with research, while maintaining the final user at the core of the process. Our every day practice is supplemented by academic involvement.

Our recent projects include the 1st prize in the Competition for the rehabilitation of old cement quarries in North Lebanon, the refurbishment of the Massaad Stairs and the new offices of the Cervantes Institute in Beirut, a proposal for the Talca Civic Centre in Chile or the proposal Drafting spaces of citizenship that received the 2nd prize in the competition for the Lebanese pavilion at the 2021 Venice Biennale.

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current team

Leticia López de Santiago
Architect and Urban Planner,
ETSAM, Madrid 2007, M Arch, ETSAM 2010.

Marwan Zouein
Architect, DPLG
Paris Belleville, 2004, M Arch / DEA, ETSAM 2010
Phd candidate LéaV-Paris Versailles CYU

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network of collaborators

Rani Boustani, Architect
Maha Issa, Landscape architect
Andrew Georges, Architect
Studio Kawakeb, visual arts studio
N'undo Office
CAL, Collective for Architecture Lebanon
CartonLab
Antoine Hertenberger, Hush Architectes

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