Adrian Bonet

9 Letterstone Road
London SW6 7BS
Mobile:  0772 9121757
email:  cv@adrianbonet.com
design portfolio:  www.adrianbonet.com

Personal data

Date of birth: 15/DEC/1975
Marital Status: Married
Nationality: Spanish
Languages: Spanish (mother tongue), English (high intermediate level)

Working experience

02/2003- today
Adams & Collingwood Architects (London)
position: Architect Assistant

	Flat 7, 45 Lowndes Square, London SW1
in charge of: Assisting the project architect on the complete refurbishment of this 200sq m flat, high standards specifications. Drafting of tendering drawings and production information.
Revision and approval of 1:1 scale construction drawings by Colin Angell Ltd.
Design of ligthing layout and assistance on the design of a central ligthing & home enterainment system.
Production of new survey drawings for Pog & Pohl, Germany based kitchens company.
Continuous on site supervison during the course of the works.

	Redevelopment of Arlington Court, The Grove Finchley N3
in charge of: Co-Designer of a 3 stories residential block, with 18 double bedroom flats and underground parking for 18 cars.
Designed to make the most of built square meter and strictly complying with planning and building regulations.
Submission of planning application [1:50 elevations, sections and floor plans].
General design and layout of the concrete structure 

	New office block for Adams and Collingwood Architects. Bulwer Street Shepherds Bush W12
in charge of: General design and planning application submission for this 3 stories office block 

	General assistance in the development of several residential refurbishments [planning application submission, tendering drawings and production information].

04/2004- today.
XOutbox ltd (London)   <www.XOutbox.com>
Position: Principle
XOutbox is an architectural visualisation company. The first british company offering illustration and presentation services made entirely by personnel working abroad, mainly personal acquaintances in South America, Spain and Portugal.
XOutbox offers very special rates for its services, up to 40% discount. I am also qualified to create a new top quality illustration department for any practice I work for.

03/2001-10/2001
Surimare Residencies (freelance)
in charge of:
Complete refurbisment of flat D2-2A. (300m²)

1999/2000
ICVA (freelance)
in charge of:
1st Virtual Congress of Architecture
General organisation / Student-list moderator / General collaborator
The idea was to bring people from all around the world together via Internet. Groups would be organised by architecture related subjects: chat rooms, email exchange, lectures presented in web sites, pictures databases, mini courses, etc.
Although ICVA was not actually the "first" virtual congress to take place, it has no precedents as far as its achievements and scale of the event itself: over 700 active participants, from all continents, dozens of web sites, several mini courses available to everyone via email, etc

10/1998-10/1999
LTAD Laboratory of Advanced Techniques in Design 
Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism 
Central University of Venezuela 
position:
Teacher assistant. Introduction to computer science, CAD, CAAD, Vectorworks, PhotoShop

1997-2002
CYVARK Web Design (freelance)
in charge of:
Information architecture, graphic design, programming

05/1997-01/1998
Chilia Architecture
in charge of:
Details design / General draftsman
Sales Illustrations

Education

1994-2001
5 years superior degree in ARCHITECTURE (equivalent to RIBA 2)
Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism 
Central University of Venezuela

1997-1998
General Sculpture and Drawing Course
Federico Brandt’s Art School
Caracas, Venezuela

Personal skills

high level: Autocad 2002, Vectorworks, Adobe Photoshop 7,Caligari TrueSpace,
Macromedia Dreamweaver, HTML, Web Design

mid level: Macromedia Director, 3DStudio max, Adobe Premier, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Flash

Interests

Design theory, cyberculture, information architecture, outsourcing, interface design, virtual reality, transarchitecture, hybrid architecture, cinema, modern art, science fiction, computer games

International papers/conferences

09/2000
SIGraDi 2000 Rio de Janeiro, (paper & talk)
title: Virtual Architecture & Cyberarchitecture
about: Past, present and future of cyberspace, + Trompspace: a 
4-Dimensional graphical system for the spacialisation of the World Wide Web or other complex data structures

Publications

04/2001
Entre Rayas
Issue 37 Office Architecture 
International Commerce Centre (Thesis Project)
Design of an Office building & International Meeting Centre
Las Mercedes, Caracas, Venezuela