Juan Antonio García Solera

Activity

The architect's desk 1

Library

General public, Professionals

29 January 2015

Juan Antonio García Solera, born in Alicante in 1924, and classmate of Javier Carvajal, began practicing as an architect in his native city in 1953, shortly after completing his Architecture studies at the School of Madrid. Without a doubt due to the chronology mentioned, but above all due to the significance of his architecture in the city, García Solera is the representative in Alicante of that second generation of architects pointed out by Carlos Flores. In 1967, with the project for a Convention Palace, he began a series of projects that aimed to provide Alicante with an infrastructure for holding international congresses that would complement the city's tourist offerings. The project, developed on a hexagonal grid that revisits geometries and modules tested by Corrales and Molezún in the Spanish pavilion of the 1958 Brussels Universal Exposition nine years earlier, was submitted to the National Architecture Competition promoted by the General Directorate of Fine Arts, being one of the 12 projects selected for the exhibition.

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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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