The gardens and open spaces on the University of Alicante campus. José Luis Romeu Lamagniere

Activity

The architect's desk 2

Library

General public, Professionals

26 May 2016

Agricultural engineer from the Universitat Politècnica de València. He began his relationship with the world of gardening and landscaping in 1987 at the Jardinería Huerto del Cura company, carrying out important and emblematic works such as the Hotel Arts and the MAPFRE Tower in Olympic Barcelona in 1992, the Australian Pavilion at the Seville Expo, the Hotel Príncipe Felipe in La Manga Murcia, the Moda Shopping Shopping Center in Madrid, etc. Subsequently, he created the company Romeu and Lamaignere Paisajistas, specializing in the management of green spaces. One of his most important works is the campus of the University of Alicante.

In parallel, he works as a landscape architect, having carried out countless projects, both in the private and public sectors, and collaborating with renowned architects such as Alvaro Siza (Rectorate of the University of Alicante), Carlos Ferrater (Maritime Promenade of Benidorm in collaboration with landscape architect Maria Jover), Juan Antonio Martinez Lapeña and Elías Torres (Palmeral Viewpoint Competition), etc.

His agronomic training and his experience as a garden maintenance specialist are present in all his design work. The defense of plant material, an indispensable element of the project, is his main guarantee and hallmark. To achieve this, respect for the plant is carried out throughout the entire process: from its selection and implementation in the field to the careful maintenance of all species. Aesthetics are combined with functionality and sustainability, achieving an improvement of the environment at both the plant and fauna levels.

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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