Processes in Time. Toni Gironés

Activity

The architect's desk 5

Library

General public, Professionals

27 September 2018

Since 2015, MACA has proposed meetings in a conversation format, around art and architecture. Reflecting again on the relationships between architecture and

art, understanding the process of construction and reconstruction of architecture from a more artistic or philosophical point of view, leads us to delve deeper into this proposal. In the MACA Library, the last Thursdays of each month, from September 2018 to May 2019. Toni Gironès Saderra is an architect graduated from the School of Architecture of Vallès (ETSAV) in 1992.

Doctor of Architecture from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in 2016 with the doctoral thesis: "Spontaneous Architectures, reflections on constants in architecture: the peninsula of Cap de Creus, a topography in time". (Grade: Excellent cum laude). Teaching projects at ETSAVallès from 1993 to 2005. Since then he has been Head of Architecture Studies at URV (2005-2012), Coordinator of the first cycle of projects in the degree (2012-2016), professor/coordinator of the subjects of Projects, Drawing I - II (2005-2011, 2014-2016), Projects and Urban Planning II (2011-2014) and coordinator of 3rd cycle/5th year + PFG (2017-2020) at the School of Architecture of Reus - URV. In 2017 he was invited as a visiting professor at the School of Architecture of Navarra - UNAV. From 2009 to 2012 he was a member of the board of directors and professor at BIARCH - Barcelona Institute of Architecture, and from 2013 to 2017 he was part of the Board of Trustees of the old city of Vic, invited as an expert architect in the field of rehabilitation and heritage. Speaker at various professional schools and guest professor at the universities of Rosario, Santa Fe, Posadas and Palermo (Argentina), Católica (Chile), Escola da Cidade (São Paulo), University of Mérida (Mexico), Rabat and Casablanca (Morocco), Ferrara, Trieste, Milan and Cagliari (Italy), ETH-Zurich (Switzerland), Aarhus (Denmark), Berlin (Germany), Bratislava (Slovakia), Alicante, Valencia, Zaragoza, Madrid, A Coruña, Granada and Seville (Spain), ETSAV, ETSAB, ESARQ, Ramon Llul and UB of Barcelona.

Established since 1993 as an independent professional. His work has been recognized with important awards and exhibitions at the national and international level. In 2013, the studio's work was exhibited at SAM (Swiss Museum of Architecture) in Basel in the monographic exhibition: "Space and Matter: life and place." In 2014 the project "Transmitter Space of the Túmulo de Seró (Lleida)" was chosen to represent Catalonia with its pavilion in the context of the collateral events of the XIV Venice Architecture Biennale. Similarly, also in 2014, Toni Gironès's professional trajectory was nominated for the Swiss Architecture Award. In 2016, he was proposed by the curator of the XVII Venice Biennale, Alejandro Aravena, to participate with his own pavilion at the Arsenale within the framework of the "Reporting from the front" exhibition. That same year, the project "80 social housing units in Salou" was part of the Spanish Pavilion, which was awarded the Golden Lion of the Biennial. In 2017, the work of Adaptation of the Roman Site of Can Tacó was awarded the Gold Medal in the international DOMUS Fassa Bartolo award from the University of Ferrara. Likewise, in 2019 the work of the Climate Museum of Lleida will be awarded the Special Exaequo prize at the XI Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urban Planning, and with the Spanish Architecture Award 2019 promoted by CSCAE.

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

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The architecture table

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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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