Auditorium in La Vila Joiosa. José María Torres Nadal

Activity

The architect's desk 3

Library

General public, Professionals

24 November 2016

José María Torres Nadal (1947) architect and doctor from ETSAB (Barcelona 1973), professor at the same university 1978-1997, full professor at the University of Alicante 1997-2017 and currently honorary collaborator at the School of Architecture University of the Republic of Montevideo.

He has been a visiting professor at various American and European universities and at UTS Sydney. His professional work has been published in the book ARQUITECTURAS TORRESNADAL: UN TRABAJO, with a foreword by Robert Venturi and texts by Toyo Ito, and his work "Auditorium in La Vila Joiosa" was selected for the exhibition "On Site: New Spanish Architecture" at M.O.M.A. in New York (2006).

He was director of the legendary architecture book collection, ARQUILECTURAS. His teaching experience has been compiled in the book ARQUITECTURA IN-DEPENDIENTE, with a foreword by Andres Jaque, and deals with the methods, objectives and contents developed at the School of Architecture in Alicante. In this school, architecture was defined for the first time as a collaborative and ecologizing critical practice (that makes ecologies).

He currently researches through the cultural practice of editions

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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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