Foster, Koolhaas or Souto de Moura Among the finalists for the Salón de Reinos of the Prado Museum

The full Museum Royal Board approved this Tuesday the selection of the eight finalists teams done by the jury of the international competition for the architectural restoration and museum adequacy of the Salón de Reinos of the Buen Retiro. A total of 47 nominations were submitted to the contest.

Outside image. Courtesy of the competition organized by the Prado Museum.

The eight teams, related in the order of registration in the contest are:

- Cruz and Ortiz Architects; Nieto Sobejano Architects;
- UTE B720-David Chipperfield Architects Architecture;
- Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) Stedebouw B.V. ;
- UTE Souto Moura Architects - Juan Miguel Hernández León - Carlos de Riaño Lozano;
- UTE Foster + Partners - Rubio Architecture; UTE Garces de Seta Bonet Arquitectes - Pedro Feducci Canosa; and
- UTE Gluckman Tang Architects - Estudio Álvarez Sala - Architecture Enguita and Lasso de la Vega.

"The last contest held for the Museo del Prado was a controversial contest of enlargement, nobody won (first prize was not awarded, obtaining accesits the Spanish Matos-Castillo and a team of Swiss architects) and the same Foster, because of the rumors, descided to witthdraw his proposal and submit a model out of competition.

That contest was repeated and won by Rafael Moneo, whose project was completed a few years ago.

"Among the bets to win the contest some are shuffled, obviously all have options, but some stand out more than others. For example, Chipperfield is a remarkable competitor who could overshadow the current expansion of Moneo. Koolhaas' could be a risky proposal, but certainly the only one that has proven to be able to reinvent typologies. Foster is also an option, being in the jury Fernandez Galiano and Moneo, for his surgical interventions that would not conflict with those made and because it would be the time to compensate him for the withdrawal of two decades ago.

The contest is developed with the intervention of the jury, being the latter composed by the following members:

President
President of the Royal Board of the Prado Museum
Secretary
The Deputy Director of Administration of the Prado Museum
Vowels
The vice president of the Royal Board of the Prado Museum
The director of the Prado Museum
The Director of Fine Arts and Cultural Assets and Archives and Libraries
Deputy Director of Conservation and Research at the Prado Museum
The general coordinator of Programming and Operations of the Prado Museum
The comptroller delegated to the Prado Museum
The attorney of the Legal Service of the State
The president of the Superior Council of Colleges of Architects of Spain
D. Luis Fernandez-Galiano
Mª Dolores Jiménez-Blanco
D. Rafael Moneo Vallés
D. Fernando de Terán Troyano

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Inside images. Courtesy of the competition organized by the Prado Museum

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JOSÉ JUAN BARBA

José Juan Barba (1964) is an architect, graduated from ETSA Madrid (1991), and holds a Doctorate in Architecture from ETSA Madrid, awarded Cum laude for his thesis Inventions: New York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi (2004). He received a special mention in the National Awards for Completion of Studies (1991) and served as an advisor to various NGOs until 1997. He founded his studio in Madrid in 1992 (www.josejuanbarba.com).

Barba is an architecture critic and has been the director of METALOCUS magazine since 1999. Since 1998, he has directed the International Architecture Magazine METALOCUS (bilingual, Spanish/English), which has been recognized with multiple national and international awards.

He is a Full Professor at the University of Alcalá, leading the project line of the Habilitation Master's Architecture and City, responsible for several courses in Theory and Criticism, heading the Urban Planning area of the Department of Architecture, and participating in the research group Architecture, History, City, and Landscape at UAH. He has been invited to numerous architecture and urbanism forums, including the II Forum of Mexican Cities World Heritage: Urban Development, History, and Modernity, organized by the Pan-American Committee for Urban Development and Historical Heritage, and the World Urban Development Forum (FMDU) in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico. He has also participated in the International Architecture and Urbanism Conferences from the perspective of women architects, and has lectured at prestigious national and international universities, including the National Building Museum (Washington, DC), Roma TRE, Politecnico di Milano, UPMF Grenoble, ETSA Madrid, ETSA Barcelona, University of Thessaly (Volos), UNAM Mexico, the Faculty of Architecture Montevideo, schools of architecture in Medellín, Quito-Ecuador, Alicante, Málaga, Granada, Seville, A Coruña, Zaragoza, Valladolid, Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico, IE School, Universidad Europea Madrid, UCJC Madrid, ESARQ-UIC Barcelona, or Università Degli Studi di Genova.

Barba has extensive professional experience in architecture, urban planning, landscape design, and territorial recovery. He has received numerous awards, including the First Prize for Gran Vía Posible for Delirious Gran Vía (Madrid), the River Interpretation Center (Zamora), exhibited at the World Architecture Festival (Barcelona 2008), Santa Bárbara Park (Toledo), the Erich Degner Architecture Prize 1995 promoted by the BBVA Foundation, and his Day Care Center for the Elderly project, featured in Volume 3 of the COAM Madrid Architecture Guide (2007). His work has been published in numerous national and international books and magazines.

He was also Maître de Conférences at IUG-UPMF Grenoble (2013–14), in a position obtained through a European competition. His work has been published internationally. He regularly serves on academic juries, including the editorial competition of Quaderns magazine (2011), as a selector for the Mies van der Rohe Awards (2007–2026), as juror for EUROPAN13 Spain (2015–16), TRANSFER in Zurich (2019), and was invited to participate in the Venice Biennale 2016 as part of the exhibition Spaces of Exception / Spazi d’Eccezione.

He has published several books, including The Dark Line. michele&miquel, dA Vision Design (2024), CONGRESO ANYWAY. The City of Cities (2020), #Positions (2016), and Inventions: New York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi (2015). He has contributed to other publications such as Public Space Gran Vía. The Tourism City (2020), Spaces of Exception / Spazi d’Eccezione (2016), La mansana de la discordia (2015), and Contemporary Architecture of Japan: New Territories (2015), as well as chapters in numerous books including Architects: A Professional Challenge (2009), 21st Century Architectures (2007), Ruta de la Plata, New Conquerors of Space (2019), and The Tourism City (2020).

Selected awards include:

- “PIERRE VAGO” ICAC. International Committee of Art Critics Award, London, 2005
- “PANAYIOTI MIXELI AWARD,” SADAS-PEA, award for the promotion of architecture, Athens, 2005
- “SANTIAGO AMÓN” AWARD, award for the promotion of architecture, COAM Madrid, 2000
- FAD Award 07, Ephemeral Interventions, First Prize, M.C. Escher Exhibition, Arquin-FAD, Barcelona, 2007
- World Architecture Festival, Center for Research and Interpretation of the Rivers, Tera, Esla, and Órbigo, Finalist, Barcelona, 2008
- Gran Vía Posible, First Prize, Delirious Gran Vía, Madrid, 2010
- Reform of the Río Segura Surroundings, Award, Murcia, 2010

Published on: June 29, 2016

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