Complete the city / Housing projects. Mónica Alberola

Activity

The architecture table 12

Library

General public, Professionals

30 October 2025

Completing the City / Housing Projects with Mónica Alberola. Thursday, October 30 at 7:30 PM. Free admission.

Associate Professor in the Department of Projects at ETSAM of the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Since 1996, together with Consuelo Martorell, she founded the alberolamartorell studio, and in 2018 with the incorporation into the team of architects María Casariego Córdoba and Guiomar Martín Domínguez and architect Enrique de Teresa Trilla.

The studio has focused its activity on heritage recovery works and new construction projects in which competitions have been the main driver of our professional activity, highlighting awards in project competitions and built works, among which stand out: 1st Prize Reclassification of the Ex Macello area in Arona, Italy. VPO Prize IX BEAU Building of 22 social housing units for young people in El Rastro, Madrid. 2011. 1st Prize Housing in the PAU of los Ahijones, Madrid. IVIMA. 2007. 1st Prize Housing Building Pza. General Vara del Rey, Madrid. EMVS (2005) and recently the 1st Prize of the competition for the Auditorium and National School of Public Health of the Carlos III Health Institute in Madrid.

Coordinated by: Santiago Varela

In collaboration with: College of Architects of Alicante

Information

Opening hours: 7:00 PM
Duration: 90 minutes
Type of activity: Design and Architecture, Conference
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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