The first time we got to know about SelgasCano was in 2015, they were off the radar the time before. Lucía Cano and José Selgas are the two founders of this Madrid-based architecture office since 1998. In February 2023, we had a chance to interview architect José Selgas, the meeting provided more insights of their ways of practising architecture.
Plasencia Auditorium and Congress Centre (2005 – 2017) Cáceres, Spain. Photo: Iwan Baan
Effortlessly creative website
José Selgas: Well, I think our website is a reflection of our work and our office. We have been always a small office. We could, in some point, grow but we never did and we just decided to keep it like so. Because Lucía and I, we are partner in life and work so we decided that we wanted to be part of the whole process in architecture from the very beginning to the last touch at the construction site. It is fundamental for us to control the amount of work that we have at the office. We do not do what we think we do not need. And I guess that also is related to the website.
We used to have a very complex one. It was a lot of work at some point with a lot of humour but it was difficult, we have no one to take care of it. There are only architects in our office. And at one point, we decided to have our base website – Google. Because at the end, all of our works more or less is on Google, just simply search ‘selgascano’ and you will see everything. Probably it has been 10 years plus that we get the website like so and it is still the same, we never touch it.
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Text by Phạm Hà Thu, Trần Trung Hiếu Photos by Iwan Baan
