10 years have passed. Where are we today? Ginés Garrido

Activity

The architect's desk 7

Library

General public, Professionals

27 May 2021

Architect [1989] ETS Arquitectura, UPM. Doctor of Architecture [2005] ETS Arquitectura, UPM. Extraordinary Doctoral Award (2005) and V Thesis Competition Award Fundación Caja de Arquitectos (2006). Professor at the Department of Architectural Projects ETS Arquitectura UPM since 1991 and Associate Professor since 2007. Visiting Professor at Washington University St. Louis (2017, 2019), GSD Harvard University (2012, 2013), Pontifical Catholic University Peru (2011, 2017), Central University Santiago de Chile (2008), University of Arizona (2005).

He has published the following books: Landscapes in the City. Madrid Río: Geography, Infrastructure, and Public Space (2014), Melnikov in Paris 1925 (2011), The House of Melnikov. The Utopia of Moscow (2009), Alexander Ródchenko. Letters from Paris (2008), Moisei Ginzburg. Writings 1923-1930 (2007), El Lissitzky. Wolkenbügel 1924-1925 (2005), Critique of Spanish Architecture of the Twentieth Century (2003); and K.S. Melnikov (2001).

In 2002 he founded Burgos & Garrido Arquitectos [BGA] with Francisco Burgos. BGA has developed public space and urban design projects and pedestrian bridges, among them, the Madrid Río project which won the XII Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design (2016), GSD Harvard.

BGA has also carried out housing and public facilities projects and has won more than 40 first prizes in international architecture competitions; recently, the competition for the expansion of the Lima Art Museum.

BGA has obtained, among others, the following awards: American Architecture Award (2017); XII Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design, Harvard University (2016); Hispania Nostra Award (2016); FAD Award (2009, 2012); XIII Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism Award (2016); COAM Award (2000, 2001, 2003, 2011, 2012, 2014), Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism Award (2012); Green Good

Design (2012); International Architecture Award (2012); Mies van der Rohe Award [Finalist] (2012); A Plus Award (2012); VII European Landscape Award (2012); European Public Space Award CCCB (2011); CICA Award (2011); COICCP Award (2011); JEC Composites Award (2011); Excellent Work Award (2000); XVI Urbanism, Architecture and Public Works Award. Madrid City Council (2000, 2001).

Information

Opening hours: 7:00 PM
Duration: 90 minutes
Type of activity: Design and Architecture
Modality: At the museum

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Program to which it belongs

The architecture table

General public ... , 29.01.2015 - 17.12.2026

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante whose collections are formed by works created fundamentally in the twentieth century. They range from the so-called avant-gardes to all the approaches and artistic manifestations that took place in the decades of the second half of the past century. They are expressed on different supports and materials, with diverse dimensions and techniques. In turn, the temporary exhibitions are related to these collections and allow for expanding or deepening some aspects of contemporary chronology. However, contemporary architecture is absent from both the permanent collections and those temporary manifestations.The architecture of the MACA itself, a project created and directed by the Sancho Madridejos Studio, is a beautiful building of great functional efficiency. The syncopated projection of horizontal and vertical spaces establishes a formal order based on the geometry and texture of the materials used in construction, while revealing a kind of tension resolved by the overhead passage of light, a kind of "felt" spirituality more emotional than real.The MACA proposes in a conversational format, meetings around art and architecture around the architect's table. In the MACA Library, the last Thursdays of each month, from January to May 2015.This first cycle will consist of different manifestations. The first and fundamental one will show works by an architect related through his vital and professional activity to the province of Alicante. The selection criterion will be conditioned by the modernity of the proposals, understanding that modernity, first of all, in a chronological sense, attending to those architectures and architects who were protagonists and participants in the advent of contemporaneity. The exhibition of some models will allow for offering three-dimensional models, reclaiming the model as such, as the authors of the Renaissance defended. And to illustrate the complete work process, sketches and preliminary drawings will be shown alongside the project plans and notes developed during the construction process. All of this with the ultimate aim of understanding and grasping in some way the constructed space.The architect's table, a table from 1912, real and present (deposited in the MACA by its owner Alfonso Navarro Guzmán), serves as an ideological foundation to link the exhibitions and will serve as the material support for the models so that we can traverse, while dreaming, the imagined space.

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