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.

Nuria Enguita, director of Bombas Gens Centre d'Art

"Bombas Gens. The Recovery of a Heritage by the Fundació per Amor a l'Art"

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 point of view, 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 certain 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 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 zenithal 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. María Langarita, architect

"Skin Techniques"

Since 2015, MACA has proposed a series of 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 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 certain aspects of contemporary chronology. However, contemporary architecture remains absent from both the permanent collections and those temporary manifestations.

The MACA's own architecture, 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. Alfonso Navarro/Antonio Fernández Alba, architects

"Melancholy"

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, contemporary architecture remains absent from both the permanent collections and those temporary manifestations.

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 overhead passage 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. Lorenzo Fernández Ordóñez, architect "Open-Air Museum of the Castellana, Madrid"

This meeting concludes the lecture series for the 2016-17 academic year, and it is precisely the coordinator of "The Architect's Table" who will close it.

Santiago Varela Botella is a Doctor of Architecture and Member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos. He is currently Heritage Inspector at the General Directorate of Culture of the Valencian Regional Government for the province of Alicante. He has participated as a guest lecturer at the Universitat Politècnica de València, the Universitat de València, and the Universitat d'Alacant, among other national and international institutions. His written work is an essential reference in research on medieval and post-medieval Valencian heritage. Awarded by the International Center for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage Foundation (CICOP) with the Prize for Professional Trajectory in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage