The Museum of Royal Collections in Madrid. Emilio Tuñón

Activity

The architect's desk 5

Library

General public, Professionals

28 March 2019

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. He graduated from the School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM) in 1981 and received his doctorate from ETSAM in 2000, and began working at Rafael Moneo's studio until 1992. In 1990 he joined as an editor at Arquitectura magazine and founded his own studio with Luis Moreno Mansilla, Mansilla + Tuñón Architects.

He is a professor at the School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM) and has been a professor at the New School of Architecture of Puerto Rico, the International School of Architecture of Barcelona, the San Pablo CEU University Foundation, as well as a visiting professor at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, the School of Architecture of Navarra, and also at the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University USA and Princeton University School of Architecture. Since 2007, he is a trustee of the ARQUIA Foundation, Gold Medal of the Superior Council of the Colleges of Architects of Spain CSAE 2015.

Among the projects developed with Luis Moreno Mansilla (1959-2012), the Museum of Zamora, the Documentary Center of the Community of Madrid, now the Joaquín Leguina Regional Library, the Museum of Fine Arts of Castellón, the MUSAC in León, the León City Auditorium, the Museum of Cantabria, the Hotel and Restaurant Relais & Châteaux Atrio and the Museum of Royal Collections (Madrid) stand out.[1][2]

In 2014 he was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts by the Spanish government.

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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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