Variations in Time. Ángela García de Paredes

Activity

The architect's desk 8

Library

General public, Professionals

21 April 2022

Ángela García de Paredes de Falla (Madrid 1958) is a doctor architect from ETSAM where she is a professor of Architectural Projects. Guest professor at various international universities such as IUAV in Venice, among others.

Associated since 1990 with Ignacio G. Pedrosa (Paredes Pedrosa Architects), they have obtained first prizes in competitions from which their built work derives, recognized with the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts 2014, Eduardo Torroja Award 2014, European Award for Heritage Intervention 2015 and Spanish Architecture Award 2007, among others. Their built work, fundamentally public, includes the Valle Inclán Theater in Madrid, Archaeological Museum of Almería, Libraries of Ceuta and Córdoba and the Roman Villa la Olmeda.

Monographic exhibitions of their work in Madrid, Lisbon and Porto and guests at the International Architecture Biennial of Venice in five editions and at various Spanish and Ibero-American Architecture Biennials. The exhibition The Sleep of Reason Produces Forms from the Venice Biennial 2018 has toured in 2019 in New York, Ottawa Canada and at ETSAM in Madrid.

www.paredespedrosa.com

Information

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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