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Architect, industrial designer and design educator Enrique Martínez is the founder and director of Providence-based Muchi East LLC. Before setting up office in the United States, Enrique's professional activity in architecture and design developed in Europe. A convinced madrileño despite his many years of professional activity in the United States, Enrique's Madrid days include his role as architecture and design critic for the newspaper El Mundo immediately after its foundation in 1989; his work for architect Francisco Alonso; civil engineer Mariano Moneo; and consultancy MECSA. In his pre-US years he also collaborated with architect Henrik Nielsen in Stavanger and Alexis Pontvik in Stockholm.

In 1994 and 1995, Enrique was one of the young architects selected to design the temporary buildings for the Spanish Presidency of the European Union in Madrid, Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca. From those days he remembers the opportunity to meet Spanish president Felipe González and touring the new buildings with European leaders John Major, Helmut Kohl and Jacques Chirac in the December 1995 Madrid Sumit.

Since 1998, he has been a faculty member at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he currently teaches at the Department of Architecture after several years teaching at the Department of Industrial Design. His design philosophy, presented in this site under the title To exist is to Resist, integrates his experience as a design educator, practitioner and cultural observer. Enrique is an international lecturer, visiting critic and author, and his work has appeared in a number of international publications.

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