Activated Architectures. The Space of Relation. Sara de Giles

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The architect's desk 8

Library

General public, Professionals

26 May 2022

"Activated Architectures. The Space of Relationship". Sara de Giles (MGM, Morales de Giles Architects).

MGM Morales de Giles Architects is an internationally recognized architecture studio led by José Morales and Sara de Giles.

José Morales and Juan González Mariscal founded the architecture studio in 1987. In 1998, Sara de Giles Dubois joined as a new partner. Since 2004, the studio has been consolidated under the name MGM Morales de Giles Architects SLP.

José Morales and Sara de Giles have been visiting professors at several universities including the International University of Catalonia, Barcelona (Spain), École Supérieure Nationale d'Architecture Paris Val de Seine (France), University of Navarra ETSA in Pamplona (Spain), University of Applied Sciences Hochschule in Bochum (Germany) and Washington University in Saint Louis (USA).

The teaching experience of José Morales and Sara de Giles is reflected in their deep interest in typological and formal research, as well as in their constant exploration of new architectural, urban and landscape scenarios.

The work of MGM Architects reflects a careful study of their entire development process, both in technical projects and in the execution of works; recognized by various public and private institutions that highlighted the quality of these works through numerous national and international awards.

Some of the most important awards for their completed works include: the prestigious Spanish Architecture Award in 2013, the International Spanish Architecture Award in 2017, the Award from the Higher Council of Architects of Spain in 2003, 2016 and 2019. Additionally, they were finalists for the Mies Van der Rohe Award in 2001 and 2009. Other recognitions include the First Prize from the Order of Architects of Cádiz in 2008, the First Prize NAN in 2012 and 2017, the First Prize of the AIT International Awards in the "Housing" category and the First Prize of the AIT International Awards in the "Health" category in 2014. They were also awarded at the Spanish Architecture Biennial in 2016 and 2019, the X Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism in 2006 and the Bigmat International Architecture Award in 2017 and 2019. Other recognitions include the First Prize COAS in 2006, 2010 and 2019, as well as the FAD International Award in 2024.

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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