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.

Since 2015, MACA has proposed meetings in a conversation format, centered on 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. Esther Pizarro was born in Madrid in 1967. She graduated in Fine Arts from the Sculpture Department of the Complutense University of Madrid in 1990, where she obtained her Doctorate in 1995.

Her training was completed thanks to various scholarships that allowed her to travel abroad, among which the following stand out: Artistic Creation Grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation of New York; Plastic Arts Production Aid from the Community of Madrid; Plastic Arts Grant from the Casa de Velázquez, Madrid; Generation 2000 Grant, Caja de Madrid; Plastic Arts Grant from the Academy of Spain in Rome; Plastic Arts Grant from the College of Spain in Paris; Predoctoral Grant for Research Personnel Training at the Complutense University of Madrid. Between 1996 and 1997, she resided in the United States with a Grant from the Fulbright Commission and the Ministry of Education and Culture.

She has received various awards and honorable mentions, among which the following stand out: Grants for Creation and National and International Mobility 2022/2023, Madrid City Council; Art Promotion Grants, Support for Creators, Artistic Creation and Production 2022, Ministry of Culture and Sports; Ramón Acín Research Contract 2021; Grants for Creation in Visual Arts from the Community of Madrid 2021; Grants for research, creation and artistic production in the field of Visual Arts 2020, Ministry of Culture and Sports; Buitblanc Award 2019-2020, Contemporary Culture Las Cigarreras, Alicante; VISIBLES Award 2018, Art and Women Competition Comarcal Center of Humanities Cardenal Gonzaga Sierra Norte, CCHSN, Community of Madrid; Antón Grant for Sculptural Creation and Research 2017; Project awarded in the XX Call for Visual Creation Aids Proposals 2016, Assistance and Cultural Fund of VEGAP; Acquisition Award XVII Competition of Plastic Arts Sala El Brocense, Provincial Council of Cáceres; Acquisition award IV International Biennial of Plastic Arts City of Alcorcón, category: urban sculpture; realization of an artistic intervention project titled "Postal Codes"; First Prize Plaza de las Libertad/es, international ideas competition for the planning and construction of a space for freedom in Seville, MGM Morales+Giles Architects, in collaboration with Esther Pizarro and Hackitectura.net; El Ojo Crítico Award from Spanish National Radio in the Plastic Arts category; Pámpana de Oro Award in the LXI National Exhibition of Plastic Arts of Valdepeñas in Ciudad Real; Finalist in the Mariano Benlliure Sculpture Award 2000 of the Villa de Madrid Awards and Second Prize XXII National Sculpture Competition of Caja Madrid.

She has exhibited individually at the Provincial Council Hall of Huesca; College of Architects of Madrid (COAM), Mercadal Hall; Euskalduna Urban Hall, Bilbao; Las Cigarreras Cultural Center, Alicante; Tabacalera, La Fragua, Ministry of Culture and Sports, Madrid; Tabacalera, La Fragua, Ministry of Culture and Sports, Madrid; Sculpture Center of Candás Antón Museum, Candás, Asturias; Metrópoli Foundation, Madrid; Royal House of the Mint Museum, Segovia; MataderoMadrid; Casa Asia, Barcelona; Royal Hospital, Granada; San Telmo Museum, San Sebastián; Tomás y Valiente Art Center, Hall A, (CEART), Fuenlabrada; Official College of Architects of the Canary Islands COAC, Las Palmas District; Barjola Museum, Gijón; Antonio Prates Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal; Circle of Fine Arts, Madrid; Raquel Ponce Gallery, Madrid; Ponce+Robles Gallery, Madrid; Manuel Ojeda Gallery, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Isabel Ignacio Gallery, Seville; Teresa Cuadrado Gallery, Valladolid; Liquid Space Gallery, Gijón; Carmen de los Mártires, Council of Granada; Saura Hall, Council of Huesca, Huesca; Gallery B, California State University, Long Beach, United States; Casa de Velázquez, Madrid and Municipal Arts Center, Alcorcón, Madrid.

Among her most recent group exhibitions is her participation in Spain Arts & Science LAB in Belgium. Embassy of Spain; Cervantes Institute Krakow, Poland; Laboral Center for Art and Industrial Creation, Gijón; I Biennial of the South of Panama; Miller Building, City Council of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Venice Architecture Biennial, Spain Pavilion, Venice, Italy; Spanish Cultural Center in Lima, Peru; Cervantes Institute and Academy of Spain in Rome, Italy; Oraziano Museum - Palazzo Orsini, Licenza, Rome, Italy; XVIII Cerveira Biennial, Portugal; University Museum of Alicante; Dasto Art Center, Oviedo; Caja de Madrid, Traveling throughout Spain; Academy of San Fernando, Madrid; Raquel Ponce Gallery, Madrid; Municipal Arts Center, Alcorcón, etc ...

In recent years she has worked on interventions in public spaces with temporary and permanent character: Call for Artistic Interventions in Public Spaces of Barbastro, Project "The Legacy of Culture", Huesca, Spain; Sculptural Park of the Dehesa Boyal, Las Navas del Marqués, Ávila; Pradolongo Park, Madrid; Plaza del Pueblo, Alcobendas, Madrid; Palace of Exhibitions and Congresses, Mérida; West Lake Park, Hangzhou, China; Casino de la Reina Park, Lavapiés, Madrid; San José de Ocoa, Dominican Republic; Arganda del Rey Metro Station, Madrid; Fráncos Rodríguez Metro Station, Madrid and Municipal Board of Latina, Madrid.

She has created specific installations for different spaces, among which the following stand out: "Space Debris :: Constellations of Waste", Euskalduna Urban Hall and Las Cigarreras Alicante; "#NiUnaMenos", Comarcal Center of Humanities Cardenal Gonzaga Sierra Norte, CCHSN, Madrid; "[MAFD] :: Mapping Active Fire Data", Tabacalera, La Fragua, Madrid, Sculpture Center of Candás Antón Museum, Asturias and Euskalduna Urban Hall; "Liquid Stained Glass" Can Prunera Modernist Museum, Sóller, Mallorca; "Liquid mapping :: connected to..", Euskalduna Urban Hall and Ponce + Robles Gallery, Madrid; "Digital Diamonds: Cloudscape" and "Blue Backbone: Datascape". Program: Cities Art, Ecobox, Metrópoli Foundation, Alcobendas, Madrid; "A Japanese Garden: Topographies of Emptiness", Project carried out within the framework of the Dual Year Spain-Japan 2013-2014, Touring: MataderoMadrid, Nave 16, Programming Line: Large Scale. Madrid; Casa Asia, La Purísima Pavilion, Modernist Complex of the Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona; San Telmo Museum, San Sebastián; Royal House of the Mint Museum, Segovia and "Mobility Maps. Patronizing Madrid", Tomás y Valiente Art Center (CEART), Fuenlabrada, Madrid, Spain.

Her collaboration in Universal Exhibitions with large installations stands out: "Skin of Light", Bilbao Guggenheim ++ Pavilion, Shanghai World Expo Exhibition 2010, China and "Urban Fossils", Exhibition Design: GPD (General de Producciones y Diseño), Acciona Pavilion, Expo Zaragoza 2008, Spain.

Her work is represented in various collections such as the Academy of Spain, Rome; City Council of Valdepeñas, Ciudad Real; Casa de Velázquez, Madrid; Alberto Jiménez-Arellano Alonso Foundation, Valladolid; Astroc Foundation, Valencia; Antonio Prates Foundation, Portugal; Valencian Institute of Modern Art, IVAM, Valencia; Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Madrid; Ministry of Environment, Madrid and Caja de Madrid Collection, Madrid.

In the academic field, she directed the Department of Artistic Creation and Theory of the Arts at the School of Art and Architecture of the European University of Madrid during the academic years 2002-2005. She currently combines her teaching activity as a professor of sculpture with academic research, focused fundamentally on the study of the interrelationships between art, architecture, landscape, urban space, data and complexity. During the years 2020-24, she belongs to the School of Doctoral Studies and Research (EDI) of the European University of Madrid, as a Senior Researcher. Currently, and since 2025, she is linked to the Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies of the Creative Campus of the European University of Madrid, where she directs the Research Group: Creative Ecosystems and BioDesign Lab (EcoBD Lab). She has four recognized Research Periods (Sexenios) from the National Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation (ANECA).

Since 2015, MACA has proposed meetings in a conversation format, centered on 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.

José María Sánchez García (1975) graduated from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM) in 2002, and in 2016 obtained the title of Doctor Architect from ETSAM with the doctoral thesis 'The Bath Case'. Currently, he is Associate Professor of Architectural Projects at the School of Architecture of Madrid and has been Visiting Professor at the Academy of Architecture of Mendrisio, at ETH University of Zurich and at IUAV in Venice. In 2017 he was appointed Honorary Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) International Fellowship. He also received an honorable mention in the Spanish Architecture Award 2017, among others.

The José María Sánchez García studio was founded in 2006 and currently has offices in Madrid and Switzerland, developing public projects won through architectural competitions. The studio has been awarded with prizes of national and international scope, such as the First Prize BSI Swiss Architectural Award, Switzerland; First Prize AR+D Architecture Review Awards, London; Architectural Record's Design Vanguard Award, New York; First Prize Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism; First Prize Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism and the First Prize Enor Architecture Award.

The projects have been published by numerous indexed national and international magazines, such as El Croquis, Arquitectura Viva, Casabella, Architectural Review, a+u, Detail, Oris, Azure, On Diseño, Architekture Aktueal, Rita, 2G and Summa.

Since 2015, MACA has proposed meetings in a conversation format, centered on 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 perspective, leads us to delve deeper into this proposal. In the MACA Library, the last Thursdays of each month, from September 2018 to May 2019.

Bachelor's degree in Architecture, has participated in various projects involving remodeling of public spaces, architectural restoration, hydraulic engineering and historic gardening, with environmental, heritage and cultural content and approaches. In recent years has begun educational studies in different fields, along with drawing exhibitions. Practices engraving, photography and calligraphy

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.

Juan Navarro Baldeweg (Santander, 1939), is a Doctor in Architecture from the School of Architecture of the Technical University of Madrid.

Professor of Projects at ETSAM and visiting professor at Spanish universities, as well as at the North American universities of Pennsylvania, Yale, Princeton and Harvard. He is currently Professor Emeritus of the Technical University of Madrid.

He has been awarded numerous prizes and distinctions, among which are the National Prize for Plastic Arts, the Architecture Prize of the Madrid City Council, the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts, the Gold Medal for Architecture of the Superior Council of Architects of Spain and the Architecture Prize at the X Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism.

Since 2015, MACA has proposed meetings in a conversational format, centered on 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 perspective, leads us to delve deeper into this proposal. In the MACA Library, the last Thursdays of each month, from September 2017 to May 2018.

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante, whose collections are formed by works created fundamentally in the twentieth century, encompasses 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. Works expressed on different supports and materials, with diverse dimensions and techniques. Similarly, temporary exhibitions always related to these collections, allow us to expand or deepen some aspects of contemporary chronology. However, from the permanent collections and those temporary manifestations, contemporary architecture is absent.

The architecture of 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 zenith path of light, a kind of "felt" spirituality more emotional than real.

The architect's desk, a desk from 1912, real and present (deposited by its owner Alfonso Navarro Guzmán at MACA), serves as ideological support to link the conversations and serves as material support for drawings, sketches, plans and models so that we can traverse, while dreaming, the imagined space. The coordination of these meetings is in charge of Santiago Varela Botella, architect.

Since 2015, MACA has proposed meetings in a conversational format, centered on art and architecture. Reflecting anew on the relationships between architecture and art, understanding the process of construction and reconstruction of architecture from a more artistic or philosophical perspective, leads us to delve deeper into this proposal. In the MACA Library, the last Thursdays of each month, from September 2017 to May 2018.

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante, whose collections are formed by works created fundamentally in the twentieth century, encompasses 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. Works rendered on different supports and materials, with diverse dimensions and techniques. Similarly, temporary exhibitions always related to these collections, allow us to expand or deepen some aspects of contemporary chronology. However, from the permanent collections and those temporary manifestations, contemporary architecture is notably absent.

The architecture of MACA itself, a project created and directed by Estudio Sancho Madridejos, 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 zenith path of light, a kind of "felt" spirituality more emotional than real.

The architect's desk, a desk from 1912, real and present (deposited by its owner Alfonso Navarro Guzmán at MACA), serves as ideological support to link the conversations and serves as material support for drawings, sketches, plans and models so that we can traverse, while dreaming, the imagined space. The coordination of these meetings is in charge of Santiago Varela Botella, architect.

Since 2015, MACA has proposed a series of meetings in a conversational format, centered on art and architecture. Reflecting anew on the relationships between architecture and art, understanding the process of construction and reconstruction of architecture from a more artistic or philosophical perspective, leads us to delve deeper into this proposal. In the MACA Library, the last Thursdays of each month, from September 2017 to May 2018.

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante, whose collections are formed by works created fundamentally in the twentieth century, encompasses 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. Works rendered on different supports and materials, with diverse dimensions and techniques. Similarly, temporary exhibitions, always related to these collections, allow us to expand or deepen understanding of some aspects of contemporary chronology. However, from the permanent collections and those temporary manifestations, contemporary architecture remains absent.

The architecture of 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 zenith path of light, a kind of "felt" spirituality more emotional than real.

The architect's desk, a desk from 1912, real and present (deposited by its owner Alfonso Navarro Guzmán at MACA), serves as ideological support to link the conversations and serves as material support for drawings, sketches, plans and models so that we can traverse, while dreaming, the imagined space. The coordination of these meetings is in charge of Santiago Varela Botella, architect.