Inside their homes. Yolanda Cónsul

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The architecture table 10

Library

General public, Professionals

25 January 2024

Yolanda Cónsul Pascual. Architect. "Inside Their Homes".

What does a master of Spanish architecture, such as Julio Cano Lasso, do when he designs his own house? Does he investigate? Does he consolidate? And above all... how far does his involvement in the design go?

There were many questions that prompted the development of an investigation that culminated in a doctoral thesis presented at the School of Architecture of Madrid in February 2015, and from which we now extract in this lecture the chapter referring to Julio Cano Lasso's residence in La Urbanización de La Florida in Madrid (Spain).

The residence on Calle Güecho has been the subject of many publications, but perhaps in none of them has the eye "peeked" into the protected space, into the intimacy of the home. That is why today we speak of interior space, of the envelope that shelters and allows the development of family life beyond the walls that delimit the dwelling. Much has been written about one's own house, and in this lecture we aim to give a new twist to the perspective, moving from studying their houses to looking "inside their homes".

In such a delicate territory the architect must combine decisions that affect his surroundings, turning his own family into the people who will experience that space, which also accompanies them over time, adapting to the different situations that a family inevitably goes through in its life journey.

The client is the most demanding. The margin for error... narrow.

Let us enter then...

Yolanda Cónsul

Coordinated by: Santiago Varela

In collaboration with: Territorial College of Architects

Information

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

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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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