Authenticity of Built Heritage. Antoni González

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The architect's desk 2

Library

General public, Professionals

28 January 2016

MACA opens its doors to the study and analysis of contemporary architecture through the most sensitive material: drawings, plans, models… the world of ideas. The architect's table is a cycle of encounters around art and architecture around a table where many projects have been drawn. A board, a paper, the tension: strokes and lines, inks that belong to its memory that are now revealed to bring us closer to the creators of spaces. Their architectures, their influences, their origins, the backstage of their souls so that the architect's table continues drawing... and we, learning. Antoni González Moreno-Navarro has been for more than four decades one of the most

relevant figures in the field of architectural heritage conservation. Antoni González's theoretical contribution has been fundamental for the dissemination of a broader and more complete concept of "authenticity" of built heritage. His defense was also pioneering at the time that a vision of "authenticity" excessively tied to the materiality of the building poses a threat to the conservation of the main values of the buildings or ensembles to be preserved. In this way, Antoni González has been a defender of restoration not only as material conservation, but as a process that respects the architectural, historical and community values of the works

in which it intervenes. When the intervention began, only the ruinous remains of its walls remained of the small Romanesque temple, on which others had been built in the modern era. After carrying out the archaeological excavation and historical and constructive studies of the building, a restoration was proposed that would make its evolution intelligible in terms of use, form and constructive systems. Two general criteria would govern the restoration: to restore the building's architectural condition and to recover formal and constructive episodes of its history without prioritizing one era to the detriment of others.

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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