Damián Ascoz Carrió is an architect and founder of Ascoz Arquitectura, a Valencia-based studio that has built its identity around a conviction as simple as it is demanding: that architecture only makes sense when it is enjoyed in the making, and that this enjoyment is, in itself, a guarantee of quality. With over twenty-five years of experience across all areas of building and urban planning, Ascoz has developed a practice that brings equal attention to the technical dimension of a project and to the human needs of those who will inhabit it.

He trained as an architect at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), where he built a solid grounding in construction that has shaped his understanding of the project ever since: as a process that is at once technical and human, where structural rigour and active listening to the client are inseparable. After graduating, he began his professional career in 1999, accumulating broad and varied experience — residential architecture, urban planning, building at every scale — that allowed him to develop his own perspective on contemporary practice and to define what kind of studio he wanted to found.

Curiosity, enthusiasm and a deep commitment to doing things well are the qualities that define Ascoz in both his personal and professional life. His interest in nature, art, music and cinema naturally feeds his sensibility as an architect: an attentive gaze toward the world around him, which translates into projects capable of listening to what each commission needs before proposing any solution. That attitude — open, curious, committed — is also what shapes the day-to-day workings of the studio and its relationship with clients.

Ascoz Arquitectura

Ascoz Arquitectura was born out of a particular way of understanding the profession: with time, with enthusiasm and with the will to enjoy it. Founded by Damián Ascoz, the studio has developed from the outset around three principles that serve simultaneously as a design criterion and as a commitment to clients: simplicity, harmony and material honesty. Materials must be natural, noble and honest — a conviction that extends to the way the studio works and to the relationships it builds with all the parties involved in its projects.

That way of working is, in fact, one of the studio’s most defining qualities. Ascoz Arquitectura actively brings the client and all the trades involved in the build — the contractor, the engineering consultants, the carpenters, the metalworkers — into the creative and operational process. A horizontal, inclusive practice that lies at the heart of an architecture defined above all by its authenticity.