MANIFESTO
ARIMA studio is an architecture and urban planning practice founded by Alejandro García Clemente, based in Bizkaia.
“Soul” is an idea that defines a way of understanding architecture through what is not always visible, but gives meaning to spaces.
We understand architecture as a discipline in constant relation with time. Spaces are not closed or static realities; they change with those who inhabit them, with emerging needs, with evolving ways of life and with the city that surrounds them. To design, therefore, means working with this open condition: creating places capable of accompanying, adapting and enduring.
The studio approaches each project through an attentive reading of what already exists. Place, scale, light, material, colour, regulations, urban structure and conditions of use are all part of the same conversation. From a home to an urban intervention, every decision seeks to establish a precise relationship between the technical, the everyday and the sensitive.
We are interested in clear, useful architecture with character. Architecture that does not simply solve a brief, but is able to improve the way a space, a building or a city is inhabited. We believe in the value of detail, but also in the importance of strategy; in the capacity of a small intervention to transform a larger experience.
ARIMA Estudio works on projects in architecture, renovation, interior design, public space and urban planning consultancy, understanding that life is transformed both from within the home and through the way we relate to the city. Each project is approached as an open enquiry, where rigour, sensitivity and imagination allow us to create spaces with identity, capable of responding to the present and evolving over time
Alejandro García
Architect
Alejandro García Clemente studied Architecture at the University of the Basque Country in Donostia-San Sebastián, where he completed the Degree in Architecture Fundamentals in 2022 and the Master’s in Architecture in 2023. During his academic training, he specialized in urban planning, completed an Erasmus programme at OTH Regensburg in Germany, graduated with the best academic record of his class and received the Bachelor’s Thesis Award in Sustainable Architecture by HABIC.
His early professional experience began between 2017 and 2020 at Ebanistería DUO in Trapagarán, where he worked on the coordination, design, manufacture and installation of wooden furniture. This experience introduced him to construction processes, material precision and the relationship between design and making.
In 2022, he collaborated with Arsuaga Mallet Arquitectos in Donostia, developing technical drawings, layouts and installation plans. Between 2022 and 2023, he joined Acha Zaballa Architects in Castro Urdiales, taking part in a wide range of projects including furniture design, housing, rehabilitation, 3D modelling, rendering, technical drawings and on-site data collection.
From 2023 to 2025, he worked as Municipal Architect at Agoncillo City Council, where he developed urban planning reports, public projects and municipal works, including the redevelopment of Plaza del Castillo, the design of a pergola for the municipal nursery, the new Wine Museum and local route projects. During this period, he also collaborated in the drafting of the General Municipal Plan.
In 2024, he worked as an Urban Planning Architect at Estudio 18 in Calahorra, participating in specific amendments to several General Municipal Plans and in the preliminary design of a single-family dwelling.
His trajectory brings together architecture, urban planning, public administration and construction, with work ranging from domestic scale and material detail to public space and territorial strategy.