Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos, winners of the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts

The Cabinet has awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts seventeen winners. This award, granted by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, distinguishes people and entities who have excelled in the field of artistic and cultural creation or have rendered notable service in the promotion, development and dissemination of art and culture or conservation of artistic heritage.

Overview Museum of the Royal Collections by Courtesy of Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos.

The Government has awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts seventeen winners, among which are found from the PhotoEspaña and the Festival Internacional del Cante de las Minas, to Gerard Mortier, posthumously, the composer Tomás Marco Aragón

and among others the study of architects Mansilla + Tuñón formed by Luis Moreno Mansilla (Madrid, 1959-2012) and Emilio Tuñón Álvarez (Madrid, 1959), as one of the most influential of his generation, and that currently is finishing the construction of the Museum of the Royal Collections. Congratulations

Together, they have also been recognized this year Manuel Alejandro, Cecilia Margarita Bartolomé Pina, Eduardo Cardenal Gómez, Jorge Herralde Grau, ‘Victoria Eugenia (Betty)’, Victorino Martín Andrés, Alicia Hermida, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Joan Pons Álvarez, Juanjo Seoane, Sybilla and Teatro Principal de Mahón.

Some of the previous winners of the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts are Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Antoni Tàpies, the Círculo de Bellas Artes, the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Fundación Juan March, Antonio Saura, José Guerrero, Rufino Tamayo ,Museo Guggenheim de Bilbao, Elvira González Frax, Eduardo Arroyo, Rafael Sanz Lobato, Cristina García Rodero, Soledad Lorenzo, Pilar Citoler Carilla, ARCO (Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo), Helga de Alvear, Alberto Schommer, Juan Gatti, Isabel Muñoz and Pilar Pequeño.

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PAELLA TRIBUTE TO LUIS M. M. Photo by Jose María Torres Nadal.

Luis Manislla y Emilio Tuñon. Courtesy of Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos.

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Emilio Tuñón Álvarez, Luis M. Mansilla. MANSILLA Y TUÑON

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).