With the announcement of the winners in the categories of Research, Final Degree Project, and Photography, the exhibition of the 15th Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial starts in Valladolid. 

For this edition, curated by the team of architects formed by Óscar Miguel Ares, Anna Bach, and Eugeni Bach, the biennial will be held in parallel in two venues. This bold decision comes as a result of the theme addressed by the XV BEAU called Empty Spain, Full Spain. Conciliation strategies.
The exhibition on display from July 2nd to October 10th at the Museo Patio Herreriano in Valladolid has been organized around three main themes: Territory, Society and Resources, and the audiovisual work of the artist Jordi Bernadó.

In contrast to its complementary exhibition in Barcelona, the work exhibited in Valladolid is conceived as a journey through the works submitted to the different calls where a total of 20 proposals have been awarded in the Research Exhibition call, 8 in the category Final Degree Project and 21 in Photography.
 
"The exhibition focuses on the relationship between three concepts. The territory, attending to demography, as well as density and the lack of it. Subsequently, to society, understanding that architecture needs a complicit society, understanding that architecture is always linked to a context, whether one "empty" or "full". Finally to resources, both material, economic and intellectual".
Anna Bach, XV BEAU curator.

The themes aim to expose the dichotomy and way of approaching from architecture and urbanism the Empty Spain and Full Spain while seeking to have the will to draw similarities and differences that allow reflection and define meeting points organized in.-
 
- Territory.- Context and Demography.
- Society: Sharing and Inhabiting.
- Economy: Society and Resources.

The exhibition installation is approached with a look that vertebrates the theme of the double reality of the Spanish territory. Inside the cloister of the Patio Herreriano, the proposals awarded in the Panorama of Architecture and Urbanism are exhibited through a series of videos made by Jordi Bernadó. The videos focus on the relationship between the works and their context.
 
"Things are very different in so-called Empty Spain and in Full Spain, what happens in one place is very different from what happens in the other. We, as architects, must ask ourselves if the same concepts are the same in one place or the other. The architects of both territories have and must know how to resolve".
Óscar Miguel Ares, curator of the XV BEAU.

On the outside of the cloister is the zigzagging structure that presents the exhibition narrative, relating works, and proposals from the different categories. This structure has been created by COMPAC where a Bering Marble design cladding accompanies visitors throughout the exhibition to guide them organically and naturally.

In addition, the graphic story follows a color code where the panels with a white background represent Empty Spain, while those with a black background represent Full Spain. This decision allows for a dual vision of the works, which leads to the analysis and reflection of conciliation strategies.
 
"This XV Biennial does not intend to give a concrete answer to the current dual situation of the country, nor to be dogmatic. What this Biennial wants is to make an x-ray of the reality of architecture and urbanism in this singular country, placing architecture in the main axis that it should never have lost "architecture as a social service", "architecture as the center and epicenter of society", "architects as social servants on the stage of life"."
Óscar Miguel Ares, curator of the XV BEAU.

Photography Winners

The works of this call, open on this occasion to the participation of the general public, respond to the challenges of a society that are linked and rooted in the places where they are settled. 8 photographers and a total of 21 works have been awarded.
 
Davide Curatola Soprana
- The making of the landscape. Los Berrocales from the Cerro Almodovar. September 2018.
- The Great Southeast avenue of the PAU of Los Berrocales. September 2018.
- The PAU of Los Ahijones from the M203. Vic lvaro - Rivas del Jarama. March 2019.


Carles Puig Soler
- Cervantes Street. Herrera de Valdeca as. Palencia.
- Ramon Berenguer El Gran Square. Barcelona.


Adrià Goula Sardà
- Artificial Horizon IVL.
- Road Poster XVIII.
- Vacation City-Aneto.


Josep Maria de Llobet
- La Rambla from Boquería street.
- La Rambla from Cardenal Casañas street.
- La Rambla from Portaferrissa street.


Alfredo Rodríguez Álvarez
- PURAS.
- TOLOCIRIO.
- TORRECILLA.


Pol Viladoms Claverol
- Available.

Javier Callejas Sevilla
- Untitled 1.
- Untitled 2.
- Untitled 3.


Borja Sánchez Marcote
- Untitled 1.
- Untitled 2.
- Untitled 3.

Awarded Final Degree Projects

This call has received 251 works, of which 8 have been awarded where the projects present a very optimistic perspective of the future of architecture in Spain.
 
- Els Replans: Strategic degrowth to improve habitability and accessibility in the historic center of Cardona
Authors.- Cristina Morata Longares and Ruth Catherine Gow McLenachan. School of Architecture.- Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura del Vallès, Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya.

- La manzana de San Juan / Postcard of Cádiz
Author.- Gonzalo Torres Bollullos. School of Architecture.- Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

- A Good Success
Author.- Manuel Bouzas Barcala. School of Architecture: Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

- The 4th landscape. Territorial continuities to the east of the Muntanyes de Prades. The Glorieta river is a critical revision structure for the counterproposal of the urban planning of Alcover
Author.- Ignasi Pagès Arjona. School of Architecture.- School of Architecture, Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

- An almost Roman theater
Author.- Manuel García-Lechuz Sierra. School of Architecture.- Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

- THE SKIN I LIVE IN. A Greenhouse of Ideas
Author.- José J. Anelo Romero. School of Architecture.- School of Architecture of Seville, University of Seville.

- Agricultural Archaeology. Agricultural Park and Cooperative in Lancha del Genil, Granada
Author: Alejandro Infantes Pérez. School of Architecture.- School of Architecture of the University of Granada.

- Memento Mori. The presence of absence
Author.- Oscar Cruz García. School of Architecture.- Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

Winners of Research

The Research Exhibition received a total of 467 proposals, of which 20 were awarded prizes. These were subdivided into the categories of Publications with 8 winners, Integration Article Category with 8 winners, and Product Category with 4 winners.
 
Publications
 
- Oíza, by Javier Vellés. 
Puente editores/Ministerio de Fomento/Escuela de Arquitectura de Toledo, 2018.

- Aguinaga, Echaide, Sobrini. Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Navarra 1978-2018, by Jorge Tárrago Mingo; Antonio J. Cidoncha Pérez. Eunsa.

- The World as an Architectural Project, by Hashim Sarkis and Roi Salgueiro Barrio with Gabriel Kozlowski. MIT Press.

- José María García de Paredes 1924 - 1990, edited by Ángela García de Paredes. AAVV: Giancarlo De Carlo, Juan Domingo Santos, Ángela García de Paredes, Manuel García de Paredes, Ignacio García Pedrosa, Simón Marchán, Rafael Moneo, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Víctor Pérez Escolano, Josep Lluís Sert, Enrique Sobejano García, Emilio Tuñón Álvarez, Elisa Valero Ramos. Arquia/themes.

- Contemporary pathologies: Essays on architecture after the 2008 crisis, by Francisco Díaz. DPR-Barcelona, Uqbar Editores.

- Aldo Rossi y Sevilla. El significado de unos viajes, by Victoriano Sainz Gutiérrez. University of Seville.

- Epics in the every day, by Jesús Vassallo. Park Books.

- Colección Textos Críticos, by Andrés Cánovas (dir.). Ediciones Asimétricas and DPA-ETSAM.

- Escala Humana, produced by RTVE in collaboration with COSTA EST. 

Articles
 
- All-at-once & all-in-one: La ilusión de libertad como categoría arquitectónica en corporaciones creativas y tecnológicas, by Borja Ganzabal Cuena. ARQ (Chile), N.101, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, ISSN 0716-0852, Santiago de Chile, 2019. Pp. 62-73.

- Arquitectura expuesta. Tránsitos artísticos de la representación fotográfica de la arquitectura, by Iñaki Bergera and Enrique Jerez Abajo. RA. Architecture Magazine, n. 21, 2019, pp. 68-83.

- Construyendo un territorio invisible. Realidad y relato en la reinvención arquitectónica del paisaje estadounidense, by Carlos Santamarina-Macho. PPA (Project, Progress, Architecture), no. 22 Architecture and applied research. Heterogeneous visions. May 2020, pp. 54-71.

- El peso de Bitcoin, by Ethel Baraona Pohl and César Reyes Nájera. ARQ Magazine #98 'Massivity', April 2018, published by School of Architecture, Catholic University of Chile.

- El singular “Hommage au Japon” de Sverre Fehn. Sincretismo moderno en la Villa Schreiner (1959-63), by Iván Rincón Borrego. rita_ indexed journal of academic texts. nº11, May 2019, pp. 44-55.

- Elogio de lo común. El club como condensador social, by Ricardo Montoro Coso and Franca Alexandra Sonntag Rita_14 (2020). Common construction / redfundamentos S.L.

- James Stirling y el proyecto de la Tate Gallery en Albert Dock, Liverpool, 1982- 88, by Eusebio Alonso García. PPA Project, Progress, Architecture, 19, 2018.

- La influencia de Leberecht Migge en la creación de las Siedlungen productivas modernas, by David Arredondo Garrido. VLC arquitectura Vol. 5, N. 2 (October 2018).

Product
 
- Permeable Ceramic Paving Block. Suprareciclaje de material cerámico de bajo valor comercial, by Instituto de Tecnología Cerámica (ITC-AICE) and Cátedra Cerámica Valencia UPV (CCV).

- Kerbs, by Guillermo Fernández-Abascal and Urtzi Grau.

- Elementos Identidad EL CAMINO a su entrada en la ciudad de Santiago, by Carlos Seoane.

- Ceramic prototypes, by the Toledo School of Architecture.

The exhibition thus completes the Barcelona show, to configure a single narrative discourse conceived to be itinerant and compatible with the current socio-sanitary circumstances.
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Óscar Miguel Ares. Valladolid, 1972. Archtiect from School of Architecture of Valladolid, in 1998. In 2010, he obtained the title of Doctor from the University of Valladolid - for the thesis "GATEPAC 1928-1939" - being his tutor Mr. Juan Antonio Cortés. Since 2013 he is professor of design at the ETS de Arquitectura de Valladolid. He has collaborated, as visiting professor, at ETSA La Salle (Ramón Lluch University, Barcelona), at San Pablo CEU University (Valladolid) and at the School of Design at Al Ghurari University (Dubai, UAE).
 
His texts and works on architectural criticism have been published in different publications as well as by the composition and projects departments of the ETSA Madrid, UPC in Barcelona –with whom he has assiduously collaborated as editor in the publication DC Papers-, ETSA in Seville and ETSA Cartagena. He has given conferences and lectures in Helsinki, Mexico City, Porto, Pamplona, ​​Barcelona, ​​Madrid or Seville. Author of the book: "Alternative Modernity. Transits of form in Spanish architecture (1930-1936)" University of Valladolid (2016).
 
Since March 2012 he has been carrying out his professional work alone, together with the architect Bárbara Arranz, under the Contextos de Arquitectura y Urbanismo brand. As an architect he has won various competitions, his work being awarded at the XIV Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism 2018; work exhibited in the Spanish Pavilion of the XII Biennale di Venezia (May 2021); selected in XI Biennial of Ibero-American Architecture of Architecture and Urbanism Paraguay (October 2019); finalist in the 2018 FAD Awards; finalist in the 2017 Spanish Architecture Awards; selected Enor Awards (2020), Awarded with the American Architecture Prize (New York, 2017, Bilbao 2019); Awarded with the International Architecture Awards 2018 granted by The Chicago Athenaeum / Europeen (Athens, 2018); Awarded with The Plan Award, (Venice 2018, Milan 2019); more than a dozen awards and mentions at the Castilla y León Architecture Awards (2009, 2011, 2016, 2018 and 2020), as well as awarded at the Castilla y León Sustainable Construction Awards (2017 and 2018). His works have been published in numerous national and international magazines, including METALOCUS, Domus, Arquitectura Viva, Tectónica, Hic Arquitectura or Baumeister, On Diseño and he has exhibited in Madrid, Seville, Venice, Paris and New York.

Director, together with Anna and Eugeni Bach, of the XV Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, "Empty Spain / Full Spain; conciliation strategies", forming part of the different juries of the awarded categories.


2016  2015

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Anna Bach, Nummi, Finland, 1973. Architect from the Helsinki University of Technology (2001) and Master in Project Theory and Practice from ETSAB, UPC. She is a PDI professor at EINA, Barcelona University Center for Design and Art, UAB. His work has been awarded, among others, with the International FAD Award, the FAD Ephemeral Work Award and the FAD Opinion Award on four occasions, as well as Finalist and Selected in the Spanish Biennial and the Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, Nominated for the European Architecture Mies van der Rohe and exhibited in venues such as the Cité de l'Architecture in Paris or the Spanish Pavilion at the XV Venice Biennale.

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Eugeni Bach, Barcelona, Spain 1974. Architect by the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona, UPC (1999), Professor of Projects at the ETSAB UPC and the Master EPAI of the ETS Arquitectura La Salle, URL. His work has been awarded, among others, with the International FAD Award, the FAD Award for Ephemeral Work and the FAD of Opinion on four occasions, as well as a Finalist and Selected in the Spanish Biennial and the Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, Nominated for the Award of European Architecture Mies van der Rohe and exhibited in venues such as the Cité de l'Architecture in Paris or the Spanish Pavilion at the VII and XV Venice Biennale.

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Anna & Eugeni Bach is an architecture studio founded in 1999 by Anna Bach and Eugeni Bach. The study operates in a broad spectrum of design, from urban planning and architecture to interior and object design.

Anna Bach, Nummi, Finland, 1973. Architect by the Helsinki University of Technology, 2001. Visitant professor at 'Taller Vertical' in ESARQ UIC, Barcelona, directed by Duncan Lewis (1999). PDI Professor in EINA – Univeristy Center of Design and Art in Barcelona, Universitat Autónoma de Bellaterra, Barcelona (2008 – currently).

Eugeni Bach, Barcelona, Spain 1974. Architect by the ETSAB, UPC, 1999. Visitant professor at 'Taller Vertical' in ESARQ UIC, Barcelona, directed by Duncan Lewis (1999). Proffesor in the Mies van der Rohe Chair, ETSAB UPC, under the direction of David Chipperfield (2001). Projects Proffesor in La Salle School of Architecture, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona (2005 - currently).
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Published on: July 4, 2021
Cite: "Award winners in photography, research and final degree project of the XV BEAU" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/award-winners-photography-research-and-final-degree-project-xv-beau> ISSN 1139-6415
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