Born in Navarra in 1957, Francisco Mangado is an architect from the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra, where he has been a professor since 1982. He has also been a visiting professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Likewise, he has been Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architecture at Yale University's School of Architecture. Mangado is also a professor of Projects in the Master of Architectural Design, an extraordinary professor of Projects at the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra, and a visiting professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. In June 2008, he promoted the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad, which works to foster the interaction of architecture with other disciplines of creation, thought and economics. In parallel to his academic activity and his dedication to the Foundation's programmes, he has been working as an architect from his studio in Pamplona.
Thanks to this professional work, he has received, among others, the Andrea Palladio Architecture Award, the Thiene de Arquitectura Award, the Architécti Award, the CEOE and FAD Award, the First Place in the 20th edition of the Urban Planning, Architecture and Public Works Awards 2006 granted by Madrid City Council, and he has also been awarded the Saloni de Arquitectura Award 2007, the Gran Premio Enor de Arquitectura 2007, as well as the First Place for Architecture at COAL 2007. The Spanish Pavilion at Expo Zaragoza 2008 has won the following awards: First Place at the 7th ASCER Cerámica de Arquitectura Exhibition in 2008; in 2009, First Place at Construmat en Edificación; the Giancarlo Ius Gold Medal, awarded by the UIA, the García Mercadal Award granted by the Association of Architects in Aragon (COA) and the Spanish Architecture Award by the Board of Directors of the Spanish Associations of Architects (CSCAE), as well as in 2010 the Green Good Design Award by the Chicago Athenaeum. The Archaeological Museum of Vitoria received the 2010 Copper Award in Architecture, the First Award of the COAVN in the category of Public Building and the 2010 International Architecture Award. The Centro Municipal de Exposiciones y Congresos in Ávila won the International Architecture Awards in 2011.
In December of this year, Francisco Mangado has been named RIBA International Fellow, a recognition granted by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) to non-British professionals for their particular contribution to the field of architecture.
Emilio Tuñón Alvarez (1959) and Luis M. Mansilla (1959), founders of the thinking cooperative CIRCO, are tenured professors of the department of architectural projects of Madrid School of Architecture and have been professors at Princeton University School of Architecture (2008-2010) and at Harvard Graduate School of Design (2006). They have been awarded the 2007 Mies van der Rohe Award, the 2003 Spanish National Architecture Award and the 2001 and 2007 FAD Awards.
Topic: 'WORKING THE LIMIT'
The geographical limit in architecture is decisive. Whether we like it or not, it marks an inexorable reality from which the project can hardly escape and to which it must respond sooner or later. Yet cleverly assumed, it is at the origin of some of the most attractive fragments of architecture throughout history.
