Bate is a creative office founded in Madrid in 2021 by architects \u00c1lvaro Carroquino (Gij\u00f3n, 1991) and Jos\u00e9 Antonio Miguel (Madrid, 1991). Trained at Universidad CEU San Pablo, both have spent more than a decade developing a way of understanding architecture that remains deliberately apart from its conventional circuits.<\/p>\n
“Brands no longer want you to look at them. They want you to walk in, to stay, and, above all, to share it. In this shift, where experience has replaced the conventional campaign, physical space has become a new language. It is no longer about designing shops or events, but about building stories that can be inhabited. That is where Bate comes in \u2014 a design studio led by architects that is redefining how brands exist in the real world. Space stops being a container and becomes a message,” the architects explain.<\/p>\n
The studio works across architecture, design and creative direction, developing spaces, objects and experiences for brands and institutions: retail, hospitality, workspace, installation and ephemeral architecture projects. Names such as Adidas, Mango, Bimba y Lola, VIPS and Mr Boho, together with venues such as the restaurant Laveintiocho, Lazo Caf\u00e9 and the Burger Jazz chain, form part of a portfolio that understands architecture as a digital and physical medium of communication. Each project starts from an idea and translates it into a recognizable physical experience.<\/p>\n
Against the industry’s usual logic, in which design is treated as a phase prior to execution, Bate integrates concept, technical development and production within a single process, retaining control of the project from its initial conception through to construction. Every formal, material or budgetary decision is part of the same system: here, designing means taking on constructive complexity, not delegating it.<\/p>\n
That same rigor \u2014inherited from the discipline of architecture and translated into systemic thinking, technical control and attention to detail\u2014 is also applied to the most ephemeral projects, even those that last only a few days. Under this outlook, ephemeral architecture stops being stage design and becomes strategy: a pop-up is no longer just a temporary place, but a tool for building identity, generating content and activating community.<\/p>\n
Behind this approach lies a universe of references built deliberately from outside conventional architecture: product design, the Apple universe of the 2000s, the editorial legacy of Domus, cinema and fashion shows coexist within an approach that favors well-thought-out systems over passing aesthetics. The result, difficult to pin down, is what its own founders describe as a new way of thinking about design: more hybrid, more strategic and more attuned to how brands \u2014and, as their first residential project shows, people too\u2014 want to exist today.<\/p>\n
Alongside Bate, both architects run parallel projects that extend this same territory: Bate Social Store, a space in Madrid that blurs the physical boundaries between culture, style and art, conceived to generate connections and unique experiences; and CMMV.group, through which they help brands differentiate themselves by designing relationships with their audience. Both also combine their professional practice with teaching: they lead experimental projects and production workshops at IED Istituto Europeo di Design, and have taught at Dmad and Escuela TAI, passing on their hybrid vision of the discipline to new generations of architects and designers.<\/p>\n
\u00c1lvaro Carroquino (Gij\u00f3n, 1991) is an architect trained at Universidad CEU San Pablo (2011\u20132017). Co-founder and creative director of Bate, he also serves as creative director of CMMV.group and as creative development director of Tapa Relationship Spaces. Since 2018 he has taught at IED Madrid and directed Experimental Projects at IED Visual Arts Madrid. He taught at Escuela TAI (2022\u20132024). His profile combines architectural practice with a sustained teaching activity.<\/p>\n
Jos\u00e9 Antonio Miguel (Madrid, 1991), architect trained at Universidad CEU San Pablo (2009\u20132016). Co-founder of Bate and head of Bate Social Store, he combines his work at the studio with teaching on the IED’s Master’s in Creative Direction for Commercial Spaces and on Dmad’s Official University Master’s in Design and Architecture. Before founding Bate, he worked as a content writer for Souvenir Magazine.<\/p>\n
Together with his partner, designer Ana Manuela Mej\u00eda, linked to the world of art galleries, Jos\u00e9 Antonio Miguel signs Casa Lola: the studio’s first residential architecture project and, to date, his most personal undertaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":69597,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","footnotes":""},"categorias-profesionales":[1322],"class_list":["post-69599","profesionales","type-profesionales","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorias-profesionales-architects"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profesionales\/69599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profesionales"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profesionales"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profesionales\/69599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69602,"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profesionales\/69599\/revisions\/69602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categorias-profesionales","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categorias-profesionales?post=69599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}