How we experience the world through the spaces we inhabit. Anatxu Zabalbeascoa

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The architect's desk 2

Library

General public, Professionals

31 March 2016

Anatxu Zabalbeascoa (Barcelona, 1966) has dedicated her professional life to telling how we experience the world through the spaces we inhabit, the objects we choose, and the materials that surround us. She is one of the most recognized voices in cultural journalism in Spain, specializing in architecture, design, and contemporary art. With a sharp eye and clear writing, she has managed to turn design into an accessible narrative, without losing rigor or depth.

She studied Information Sciences at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and completed her training in Art History at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, which forever marked her dual vocation: to inform and analyze. For more than 25 years she has been writing in the newspaper El País, where she has established an essential column for architects, designers, and curious readers. In her articles, Zabalbeascoa not only analyzes form, but also seeks the social, cultural, and emotional background of design.

Author of more than a dozen books, she has addressed topics as varied as contemporary Spanish design, sustainable architecture, the role of women in architecture, or houses as a reflection of our dreams. But always with a common thread: design as a mirror of society.

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