Six projects developed by Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra begin to form part of the permanent collection of the Pompidou Center in Paris, in a process that has lasted more than two years in which the Vázquez Consuegra team and the center's architecture curator, Valentina Moimas, have collaborated.

The selection of the chosen work has been carried out by the Georges Pompidou Center, seeking to cover all periods, typologies and territories of intervention of the architect in his extensive career of more than 50 years, working jointly on the documentation and choice of materials. the chosen projects.
The works finally selected by the Pompidou Center from the work of Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra have been the Olivares Garden (1976), the House and Studio for the painter Rolando in Mairena del Aljarafe (1982), the Ramón y Cajal social housing building in Seville (1986), the Navigation Pavilion for Expo '92 in Seville (1990), Las Atarazanas de Sevilla in its two variants, Caixaforum (2012) and Cultural Center (2015), and finally, the Planning of the Maritime Front of Vigo (1993-2004), in addition to the Atarazanas Cultural Center, a project whose work is close to completion.

The French government acquires the heritage of more than 70 original plans on tracing paper or polyester, 80 photographs, 60 drawings and sketches and 7 study models or other more definitive ones, which will share space with works by other great architects such as Carlo Aymonino, Vittorio Gregotti, Louis Kahn, Norman Foster, Fernández Alba, Oriol Bohigas or Álvaro Siza.


Rendering of the Atarazanas Cultural Center by Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra.

The architectural collection of the Musée National d'Art Moderne is today one of the most relevant in the world, it has more than 13,000 works in its collection since its creation in 1992 and through its exhibitions and publications it exposes to the world the multidisciplinary dimension of modernity.

Following a coherence based on the notion of an architectural project, the collection develops the projects from their conception to their completion, in a path that passes through all its forms, models, drawings, prototypes and writings of architects. The documentary collections preserved in the Kandinsky Library complete the set.

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Valentina Moimas.
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Paris Pompidou Centre, France.
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Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra (b. Sevilla, Spain 1945). Gold Medal of Spanish Architecture 2016, Spanish Architecture Prize 2005, Andalusia Architecture Prize 2007, Arpafil Prize (Guadalajara, Mexico) 2006, Grand Prize of the International Biennial of Buenos Aires 2011 and Honorary Member of the American Institute of Architects, AIA 2014. His works have received numerous awards, among which are the ArchDaily Building of the 2018 Year Award, The 2015 Plan Award, The Chicago Athenaeum Museum 2015 and 2018 International Architecture Awards, 2014 Iberoamerican Biennial Prize, Ugo Architecture European Prize Rivolta 2008, 2006 ASCER Award, CEOE Foundation Award 2001 and Construmat Prize 1989.

He has participated in multiple exhibitions highlighting the Biennale di Venecia 1980 and 2004, the Triennale di Milano 1988, Center Georges Pompidou Paris 1990, The Art Institute of Chicago 1992, The Museum of Modern Art New York 2006, RIBA London 2007, DOMUSae Madrid 2010, BIAU Rosario, Argentina 2014 and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design 2016 and 2018.

Among its main achievements are the Caixaforum Sevilla Cultural Center (2017), the Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et Europèennes in Luxembourg (2017), the Seville Conference Center (2012), the social housing buildings in Madrid (2012), Rota ( 1998) and Seville (1987), the San Telmo Palace in Seville, the Andalusian Government Presidency (2010), the National Museum of Underwater Archeology in Cartagena (2008), the Tomares City Council in Seville (2004), the Ordination of the Maritime Edge of Vigo (2004), the Museum of the Enlightenment in Valencia (2001), the Museum of the Sea in Genoa (2001) and the Navigation Pavilion Expo'92 Seville (1991).

He has been Project Professor at the University of Seville, Visiting Professor at the Universities of Buenos Aires, Lausanne, Pamplona, ​​Syracuse New York, Bologna, Venice, Mendrisio and Visiting Scholar at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. He is currently an Honorary Professor at the University of Seville where he directs the Catedra Blanca project workshop.

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Published on: June 13, 2024
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