"Activated Architectures. The Space of Relationship". Sara de Giles (MGM, Morales de Giles Architects).

MGM Morales de Giles Architects is an internationally recognized architecture studio led by José Morales and Sara de Giles.

José Morales and Juan González Mariscal founded the architecture studio in 1987. In 1998, Sara de Giles Dubois joined as a new partner. Since 2004, the studio has been consolidated under the name MGM Morales de Giles Architects SLP.

José Morales and Sara de Giles have been visiting professors at several universities including the International University of Catalonia, Barcelona (Spain), École Supérieure Nationale d'Architecture Paris Val de Seine (France), University of Navarra ETSA in Pamplona (Spain), University of Applied Sciences Hochschule in Bochum (Germany) and Washington University in Saint Louis (USA).

The teaching experience of José Morales and Sara de Giles is reflected in their deep interest in typological and formal research, as well as in their constant exploration of new architectural, urban and landscape scenarios.

The work of MGM Architects reflects a careful study of their entire development process, both in technical projects and in the execution of works; recognized by various public and private institutions that highlighted the quality of these works through numerous national and international awards.

Some of the most important awards for their completed works include: the prestigious Spanish Architecture Award in 2013, the International Spanish Architecture Award in 2017, the Award from the Higher Council of Architects of Spain in 2003, 2016 and 2019. Additionally, they were finalists for the Mies Van der Rohe Award in 2001 and 2009. Other recognitions include the First Prize from the Order of Architects of Cádiz in 2008, the First Prize NAN in 2012 and 2017, the First Prize of the AIT International Awards in the "Housing" category and the First Prize of the AIT International Awards in the "Health" category in 2014. They were also awarded at the Spanish Architecture Biennial in 2016 and 2019, the X Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism in 2006 and the Bigmat International Architecture Award in 2017 and 2019. Other recognitions include the First Prize COAS in 2006, 2010 and 2019, as well as the FAD International Award in 2024.

Ángela García de Paredes de Falla (Madrid 1958) is a doctor architect from ETSAM where she is a professor of Architectural Projects. Guest professor at various international universities such as IUAV in Venice, among others.

Associated since 1990 with Ignacio G. Pedrosa (Paredes Pedrosa Architects), they have obtained first prizes in competitions from which their built work derives, recognized with the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts 2014, Eduardo Torroja Award 2014, European Award for Heritage Intervention 2015 and Spanish Architecture Award 2007, among others. Their built work, fundamentally public, includes the Valle Inclán Theater in Madrid, Archaeological Museum of Almería, Libraries of Ceuta and Córdoba and the Roman Villa la Olmeda.

Monographic exhibitions of their work in Madrid, Lisbon and Porto and guests at the International Architecture Biennial of Venice in five editions and at various Spanish and Ibero-American Architecture Biennials. The exhibition The Sleep of Reason Produces Forms from the Venice Biennial 2018 has toured in 2019 in New York, Ottawa Canada and at ETSAM in Madrid.

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In this talk I will take a tour through several photographic series where a dialogue is established between architectural space and the different elements of nature that are introduced into the image, almost as if in staged scenes. My work deals especially with nature and artificiality, and I have focused in many series on architectural elements as creators of "artifice" through the hand of man.

In nature one connects with the origin, in it we can observe calmly. It is a place to which we belong and it is essential. In the landscape there are no distractions. That essential place interests me, attracts me. But I am also attracted to its relationship or its link with the artificial, with the creative ability of which the human being is capable. I believe that the capacity that human beings have to artificially reproduce the natural is a skill, and this skill is also linked to imagination. In this sense, I understand the architectural as the creative capacity of the human being that coexists with the natural element.

In my work, the relationship I establish between nature and artificiality does not move in the field of confrontation, nor even of denunciation, but rather I establish a point of coexistence, of affirmation of each of their realities through their convergence. In reality, it is like a mutual accompaniment of these two opposite realities. I create a possible situation, I take nature or that artificial space beyond its real possibilities.

Coordinated by: Santiago Varela

In collaboration with: Territorial College of Architects of Alicante.

Digital society produces an exponential infinity of photographs, which demands that the photographic discipline conduct rigorous analysis from educational, social, and professional perspectives.

Today, the blurred boundaries of photographic action make reflection from a multiple and multidisciplinary perspective essential, one that proposes a new photographic culture. For this reason, since 2018 the BEPHOTO congress has investigated critical discussion about the creative, aesthetic, and conceptual processes of contemporary imagery. Processes that are marked both by the artistic action they represent, as well as by the spaces of participation where they are produced, which opens up countless possibilities that demonstrate the mutability and adaptability of the medium.

BEPHOTO International Congress of Contemporary Photography, was born as a satellite initiative of PHOTOALICANTE International Photography Festival that seeks to establish links between academic reflection and professional and artistic praxis.

Architect from the Higher Technical School of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and Master's in Urban Planning from Francisco de Vitoria University in Madrid. In 1984 she founded her studio together with Enrique Herrada, with whom she continues to work as a team today, under the firm Maíz + Herrada architects.

Although her projects range from complete urban developments to private homes, since 1990 her most important activity has been focused on collective residential projects.

Her work has been recognized by various awards and distinctions from different public administrations and professional associations. Her work stands out for typological innovation in housing, based on a renewed character of internal communal spaces, articulating her residential complexes as a coherent extension of the urban environment in which they are located. Among these distinctions, the National Housing Quality Award 2005, granted by the Ministry of Housing, stands out.

In parallel with her professional activity, she has always combined her teaching activity at the Polytechnic University of Madrid from 1983 to recently, mainly at the Higher Technical School of Architecture, within the Department of Architectural Graphic Ideation. Coordination: Santiago Varela

Collaborates: Architects Association Alicante

Furthermore, since 2014, she has founded and directed AP Gallery, a gallery located in the rural surroundings of the Sierra de Ayllón, in Segovia, oriented towards the latent relationship between Art and Landscape, hosting all kinds of manifestations and formats from performance and music to painting and sculpture, including photography, poetry, and video art.

In sum, these are different manifestations of a multifaceted trajectory that combines a special interest and constant curiosity for the practice of architecture, as a professional achievement that she applies from a personal laboratory where research and learning, teaching, craft, and a transversal and interdisciplinary openness to the environment are integrated, through Art, Landscape, and Architecture.

Her work is founded on a poetic commitment to consider each home as a House, even if it is still pending to be appropriated and inhabited, understanding by House that human space of life and coexistence, always a refuge, curative and healing, to which to return.

Similarly, at a collective level, and as a positioning of social and environmental sustainability in her projects, the creation of each residential complex is considered as a landscape transformation for the creation of an integrated physical and social realm. This must result in a place of rootedness, which enables the condition of neighborliness and belonging to a place.

With numerous realizations at the national level, especially in the field of private development, to which she mostly gains access through competitions, she is currently developing several projects in Alicante, among which the Azara residential complex, in Playa de San Juan, completed during 2021, stands out.

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Round table discussion on vulnerability on the occasion of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Exhibition.

Participants:

Juan Antonio Roche, professor at the University of Alicante, Department of Sociology I

Cristina Guirao, professor at the University of Murcia, Department of Sociology

Juan Manuel Zaragoza, University of Murcia, Department of Philosophy

Lecture by Jorge Pulla, professor at the University of Alicante, Department of Communication and Social Psychology on the occasion of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Exhibition.

A, ante, bajo, cabe, con, contra, de, desde, durante, en, entre, hacia, hasta, mediante, para, por, según, sin, so, sobre, tras, versus and via.

Against the autonomy of architecture. Or from form towards place.

Prepositions. Clara Solà-Morales

Clara Solà-Morales is an architect from the School of Architecture of Barcelona (Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona) and holds a Master's degree in Architectural Design (MArch II) from Harvard University. She is an associate professor of Projects at the School of Architecture of Barcelona, ETSAB, UPC. She has been a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), an associate professor of projects and urbanism at Rovira i Virgili University, a visiting professor in the Barcelona program at the University of Calgary, and a professor and director of studies at the Barcelona Institute of Architecture, BIArch. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Architecture at the School of Architecture of Barcelona, ETSAB, UPC.

José Zabala and Anne Hinz (ADDENDA ARCHITECTS) Loose Things.

Addenda Architects is a young collaborative architecture studio based in Barcelona formed by Roberto González, Anne Hinz, Cecilia Rodríguez, Arnau Sastre and José Zabala.

The studio was founded in 2015 and since then has collaborated with renowned cultural institutions such as KULeuven Ghent, Historisches Museum Frankfurt and the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The architects at Addenda have been awarded in national and international public competitions and recognized in various professional and cultural disciplines.

The studio also publishes its own architecture. It is currently carrying out an editorial project initiated by editor and independent art and architecture curator Moritz Küng and German photographers Joachim Brohm and Valentina Seidel. This periodic publication, called Bauhaus Dessau Museum Cahier, aims to document the construction process of the Museum until its opening in September 2019.

We inaugurate the exhibition Text [No Text]. Artist Books and Publications. Collection Universitat Politècnica de València and we do so with a lecture by the exhibition curator Antonio Alcaraz.

Museums play a key role in the promotion of culture and art, which requires proper management of intellectual property rights of the works they house, in particular, those of reproduction and public communication.

To debate the management of these rights, the present Museum and Intellectual Property Conference is organized, which bears the title "Between the Public and the Private", due to this vocation of service to the general interest and, in particular, the promotion and access to culture, which Museums hold, but which must be combined with the recognition and protection of the rights of authors and, of course, the relationship of works with the public, especially in the digital sphere.

Speakers

ANA JOSÉ GANGA FERRIZ. Lawyer. Specialist in cultural rights and intellectual property. Cultural manager. Currently, Legal Counsel in the Legal Services of the Illustrious Provincial Council of Alicante.

JESÚS PRIETO DE PEDRO. Doctor of Law, Professor of Administrative Law at UNED and holder of the Andrés Bello Chair of Cultural Rights. He has been Dean and Vice-Rector of UNED and Director of the Inter-University Institute for Cultural Communication (UNED, UC3M, UIMP). Director General of Fine Arts, Cultural Heritage and Archives and Libraries. His research and work has been fundamentally focused on the Law of Culture.

JAVIER GUTIÉRREZ VICEN. General Director of VEGAP, the management entity for visual plastic artists.

JOAN LLINARES. Law graduate. Currently in the Legal Services of the Barcelona City Council. Management technician and administrator of IVAM almost since the museum's founding, for 13 years he was its Deputy General Director of Administration. Manager of the National Museum of Art of Catalonia (MNAC) between 2001 and 2009. Expert in intellectual property and management of cultural and museum heritage.

RAFAEL AZUAR RUIZ. Doctor of Philosophy and Letters from the Universitat d'Alacant (1987) and Conservator-Cataloguer by competitive examination of the Provincial Archaeological Museum of Alicante since 1982. He directed the project and execution of the new Archaeological Museum of Alicante, the current MARQ, where he is currently Head of the Collections and Excavations Unit. He has been President of the executive committee of ICOM-Spain.