MANSILLA + TUÑÓN. ACTIVE GEOMETRIES
30/06/2012.
EL CROQUIS nº 161. MANSILLA + TUÑÓN 1992-2012
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Fine Arts and Archaelogy Museum in Zamora. Swimming Centre in San Fernando de Henares. Ciudad de León Auditorium. Castellon Museum of Fine Arts. Reina Sofia Art Centre in Madrid. Pulic Library in Jerez. San Fermín Celebratory Unit. Cross Plan Construction in Teruel. Gran Slam in Madrid. Civic Centre in Sabadell. Madrid Regional Documentation Centre. Villa 08 in Nanjing. Museum of Cantabria. Citadel in Logroño. MUSAC in León. Pedro Barrié de la Maza Foundatión in Vigo. Automobile Museum. Aluminium House in La Vera. Territorial Migration Museum. City of Madrid International Convention Centre. Energy Dome in Soria. Kuntshaus Zurich Extension. Twin Houses in Tarifa. San Fermín Festivity Centre. Atrio Relais Chateaux in Cáceres. Lalín Town Hall. Vega Baja Museum in Toledo. 20th Century Mueum and Cultural Centre in Mestre. Stone House in Cantabria. Royal Collection Museum in Madrid. El Croquis Ed. El Escorial, Spain, 2012.
In 1992 Emilio Tuñón Álvarez (1958) and Luis M. Mansilla (1959) founded the firm MANSILLA + TUÑÓN ARQUITECTOS, awarded with the MIES VAN DER ROHE PRIZE 2007 (Prize for Contemporary Architecture of the European Union), National Prize for Spanish Architecture 2003, FAD Prize 2001.
Emilio Tuñón and Luis M. Mansilla are titular professors of the Department of Architectural Projects in Madrid. They have been professors in a number of universities, among which are the Graduate School of Design in Harvard, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, the New School of Architecture in Puerto Rico and the Städelschule in Frankfurt. They are currently giving clases in the School of Architecture of Princeton University.
In 1993 they founded the cooperative of thought CIRCO, coming out with a publication under the same title, and which has been awarded with the FAD Special Prize 2007, the prize for the III Iberoamerican Bienal for Architecture and Engineering 2002 and the C.O.A.M. Prize 2005.
Mansilla + Tuñón were awarded the following commissions: Institucional Building for the City of the Environment in Soria (2008), Madrid Internacional Convention Center (2007), Helga de Alvear Foundation Art Center in Cáceres (2005), Lalín Town Hall (2004), Master Plan of the area of Valbuena in Logroño (2003), Library on Artists Street in Madrid (2003), Cantabria Museum (2002). Royal Collections Museum (2002), Sanfermines Museum (200l), Brescia Contemporary Cultural Center of (2000), Castellón Fine Arts Museum (1998), City of León Auditorium (1996), Cultural Center of Madrid in the old El Águila warehouse (1995).