Luis Ybarra

Luis Ybarra (Seville, 1965) graduated in architecture from the Seville School of Architecture (1992), specialising in design. Before qualifying he worked as a site assistant on several buildings at the Expo 92 site, where he gained solid experience in concrete and steel structures.

In 1992 he founded, with José María de Cárdenas, a small technical office under the name DeCYA, the origin of EDDEA. Since then he has led large-scale industrial, commercial and office projects such as the La Raya Business Park in Aljaraque (Huelva), Novapark in Benacazón (Seville), the Galia Puerto office park and business centre and the Royal Business Park in Seville, a complex of more than 70,000 m² built, as well as the J5 subsidised housing scheme in Málaga for EPSA, a competition winner in 2000. He also led EDDEA’s role in the site supervision of the Kaohsiung Pop Music Centre (Taiwan).

He sits on EDDEA’s management board and is responsible for the constructability review of the studio’s projects. He was part of the site supervision team for the Casa Forestier residential scheme in Seville and, together with José María de Cárdenas, of the team behind the hotel conversion of Aníbal González’s building on Avenida de la Constitución for Serras Collection.

He champions increasingly industrialised, efficient and sustainable construction, and a way of working that brings the client and every party involved — including the contractor — into the project from day one.

• 2023 · Towards healthy and sustainable spaces — round table at the FIDAS technical conference, Seville.