Alicante city Dynamic?. Joaquín Alvado Bañón

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The architect's desk 9

General public, Professionals

27 October 2022

ALICANTE CITY: DYNAMIC? Joaquín Alvado Bañón.

"What are we talking about when we talk about Architecture?" I propose a reflection on this question by questioning whether Alicante is prepared for the future as a resilient city. To do so, we invite you on a journey through the proposals presented by the studio in Antwerp, Osaka, Quito and Helsinki, passing through the "City Model", which we have just built in Benidorm. Finally, to conclude and debate, we will present the proposals submitted in recent years to transform Alicante into an "Urban Coastal Forest".

Joaquín Alvado Bañón. Doctor of Architecture. Associate Professor of Architectural Projects at the University of Alicante. He has presented his work as a visiting professor at the Universities of Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Baku, Munich, Dubai, Sydney, Tokyo, Istanbul and Venice. His projects have received various national and international awards in architecture competitions. His work has been published in twelve languages. He collaborated with architect Toyo Ito and his "K" house was selected in the X Spanish Architecture Biennial. His latest works have been nominated for the A+A Awards (Garden House), F.I.B. Outstanding Structures Prize 2014 (Kiss Bridge), Best House, Archdaily 2013 (Pool House), best landscape and public space work, Plataforma Arquitectura 2015 (Promenade 1K). In 2016 he was invited to present his work at the XV International Architecture Exhibition La Bienal di Venezia 2016 (Time, Space and Existence). Architect of the Mediterranean Avenue and the EDUSI of Benidorm.

Coordinated by: Santiago Varela

In collaboration with: Territorial College of Architects

Information

Opening hours: 7:00 PM
Duration: 90 minutes
Type of activity: Design and Architecture
Modality: At the museum

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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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