Tomorrow there will be the inauguration of Luis Fernandez-Galiano at the Academy, his inaugural speech will be replied by Rafael Moneo. The takeover came after the vacancy left by the architect Antonio Corrales. Always a pleasure to produce good news, here is our sincere congratulations!!

The event is the result of the election of Luis Fernandez-Galiano as numerary member of the Royal Academy of Doctors, on 20 June 20011, by the Plenary of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Tomorrow, January 22,, Luis Fernández-Galiano read as speech of the item entitled 'Architecture and Life: The arts in mutation', on behalf of the institution's reply will come from the hand of Rafael Moneo; Fernández-Galiano is a Chair Professor of Projects at the ETSAM ( School of Architecture of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), and editor of the magazines AV Monografías and ArquitecturaViva, comes to fill the vacancy of the medal number 10, who was the architect José Antonio Corrales until his death in July 2010.

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Luis Fernández-Galiano (1950) is an architect, professor at the School of Architecture of Madrid’s Universidad Politécnica and editor since 1985 of the journals AV/Arquitectura Viva. Between 1993 and 2006 he was in charge of the weekly architecture page of the newspaper El País, where he now writes in the Op-Ed section.

Member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and of the Royal Academy of Doctors, he is an International Fellow of the RIBA, and has been Cullinan Professor at Rice University, Franke Fellow at Yale University, a visiting scholar at the Getty Center of Los Angeles, a visiting critic at Princeton, Harvard and the Berlage Institute, and has given lecture series at the Universidad Menéndez Pelayo and the Fundación March.

He has also chaired the international architecture congresses ‘More for Less’ (2010),  ‘The Common’ (2012) and ‘Necessary Architecture’ (2014). President of the jury in the 9th Venice Architecture Biennale, juror of the Mies van der Rohe Award and of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, he has curated the exhibitions El espacio privado, Extreme Eurasia (in Tokyo and in Madrid), Bucky Fuller & Spaceship Earth and Jean Prouvé: Industrial Beauty (these last two with Norman Foster), as well as Spain mon amour (in the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale and in Madrid), and The Architect is Present.

He has been on the jury of several international competitions in Europe, America and Asia, including those of the National Library of Mexico, the National Art Museum of China, the National Library of Israel and the Noble Qur’an Oasis in Madinah. Among his books are La Quimera Moderna, Fire and Memory, Spain Builds (with New York’s MoMA in its English version, and presented in its Chinese version with symposiums in Shanghai and Beijing) and Atlas, Architectures of the 21st Century, a series of four volumes.
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Published on: January 21, 2012
Cite: "Luis Fernández-Galiano medal number 10 at the Academy" METALOCUS. Accessed
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