Paula Montoya Saiz

Paula Montoya holds a PhD in Architecture from the Escuela Técnica de Arquitectura de Madrid, She has been teaching for 25 years in the area of Architectural Projects.

She is member of the Scientific Commitee of EDUMEET for innovation in Architecture Education.

She also holds a RIBA DIPLOMA part II from the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. In 1993-1994 she worked in the studio of Alison and Peter Smithson.

Graduated in 1997, she collaborated in the studios of Foster and Partners in London, and César Ruiz-Larrea and Andrés Perea in Madrid.

Since 2005 she has been working in Madrid in her own studio, currently called ANY SCALE ARCHITECTURE. He develops projects of a wide variety of scales and typologies, proposing architectural interventions based on sustainable development approaches. Recently, he has initiated a series of cooperation projects for vulnerable environments in Latin America.

His marked interest in the incorporation of computational environments into architectural production runs parallel to his line of academic research and the insertion of Artificial Intelligence tools and concepts in his projects. He has spent time in London at Imperial College. His designed and built work includes residential, cultural and multipurpose buildings of multiple scales.

He has received several national and international awards such as the LAFARGE_HOLCIM Acknowledgedgemet Prize for sustainable architecture, two EUROPAN (EDITIONS 6 and 10) Joint Commendation Prize UK, the SUSTAINABILITY PRIZE of the Empresa Municipal de la Vivienda de Madrid, Vivenda da Galizia, etc…

His work has been published and exhibited in Spain, the UK, Portugal, Switzerland, Estonia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Colombia and Mexico.

She presented her work at the SAO PAULO BIENALE 2011 and VENICE BIENALE 2018 and 2025.

She has given numerous lectures and has been invited as a critic in several Spanish and international academic institutions (Bartlett School of Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design).

Between 2004 and 2006 she held the position of Secretary General of the Consejo Superior de los Colegios de Arquitectos de España.

Corporate Experience

Director. PAULA MONTOYA- ANY SCALE ARCHITECTURE Madrid, Spain 2016 - present

Co-Director architect at MEROESTUDIO , Madrid, Spain 2006 - 2016

Senior Architect at ANDRÉS PEREA Arquitectos Madrid, España 1999 - 2004

Junior architect FOSTER AND PARTNERS UK, London, 1997 - 1999

Architecture student Internship ALISON AND PETER SMITHSON UK. London 1993 - 1994

Academic Experience

Adjunct Professor of Architecture ETSAM Universidad Politécnica, Spain, 2000 - Present

Adjunct Professor of Architecture Universidad Europea, Spain, 2023 - 2025

Academic Background

Ph.D. in ARCHITECTURE, ETSAM Universidad Politécnica, Spain, 2016

Master Degree in ARCHITECTURE, ETSAM Universidad Politécnica, Spain, 1998