MENIS. Fernando Menis, Architecture of place
15/12/2011.
Book
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metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
Presented by: Luis Fernández Galiano, founding partner of Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad and director of the magazine Arquitectura Viva.
Speakers: Dulce Xerach, Ph.D. in Architecture from the Universidad Europea de Madrid, Fernando Menis .
Synopsis MENIS
The book MENIS illustrates a way of work whose constancy and consistency has placed its author, Fernando Menis, among the strongest architects in the national scene and has been forging a growing international reputation. His approach is committed to the identification of local values and transporting them to a global context to generate a timeless architecture that responds to universal values.
This volume organizes the long established practice of the Spanish architect in terms of various lines of force that have gone through Menis’s projects, from his beginnings to the most recent coming. Thus, the contents are structured into 4 main chapters: "Landscape and urban small-scale", "Recycle, Revive, Regenerate," "Telluric architecture and Landscape", "Stone Architecture" in which there are renown and recognized as well as unpublished projects.
The introduction to essential concepts, to the founding values and intellectual history of the work of Fernando Menis has signatures of two heavyweights of the discipline: first, Barry Bergdoll, architectural historian and Head of Department of Architecture at the Museum of Modern Art from New York (MOMA) and, on the other hand, Luis Fernández Galiano, contemporary architecture critic, magazine editor and founder of the Foundation Arquitectura y Sociedad.
MENIS Data Sheet
Credits of the edition:
Publisher: Kim Yong-kwan, Editors: Shim Jae-Yeun, Shin Kyung-mi, Photo Editor: Kim Yong-kwan, Graphic Design: DAM design, Han Hyun-jung, Translations Spanish - Español: Michael Doerneman, Kateryn Lorenzo, Simona Rota, Supervision: Production: Simona Rota, Contents: Menis Arquitectos (Fernando Menis, Victor Lledó) Documentation: Menis Arquitectos (Victor Lledó, Maria Ibanez) and Berta Prieto, Graphic Design: Menis Arquitectos (Victor Lledó) and Maria Berga
Credits of the contents:
Texts: Barry Bergdoll, Luis Fernández Galiano, Fernando Menis, Dulce Xerach, Photographs and visuals: Teresa Arozena, Jaime Bravo, Florian Bolk, Jordi Bernadó, Jose Roberto Delgado, Torben Eskerod,CJ Caesar, Miguel de Guzman, Roland Halbe, Christel Lehmann, Marcel Mettelsiefen, Menis Arquitectos, Karolina Mysiak, Next Gene Project, José Oller, Efraín Pintos Cheap, Simona Rota, Torsten Seidel, Hisao Suzuki, Uwe Walter, Kim Yong-kwan; Acknowledgements: ARENA, Teresa Arozena, Jaime Bravo, CEPSA , CJ Caesar, Luis Fernandez - Galiano, Miguel de Guzmán, NEXT GENE Project (Yu Tung Liu), Efraín Pintos Barate, Torsten Seidel.
ISBN 97I8-89-964508-2-5 93610,
Printed in Republic of Korea,
Archilife Publishers, Seoul
Fernando Menis, (1951,Tenerife island, Spain). Throughout his 40 years professional career, Menis has achieved an architectural production that includes works of various scales and typologies, as well as long-term research projects. An expert in designing concert halls and auditoriums, he is internationally recognized and awarded for conceiving an innovative variable acoustics system for the CKK Jordanki Concert Hall (2015, Poland).
Among the projects completed, alone and in co-authorship: The Holy Redeemer of Las Chumberas Church and Community Centre (2021), El Tanque Cultural Space Public Garden (2021), CKK "Jordanki" Concert and Conventions Hall, in Poland (2015) , Plaza Bürchen in Switzerland (2015), Insular Athletics Stadium (2007), Magma Arte & Congresos (2007), Floating pool in the Spree River of Berlin (2004) and the Presidency of the Canary Islands Government in Tenerife (2000). Among the ongoing projects, the following stand out: the Adaptive Reuse of the Viera y Clavijo Cultural Park as the Rodin Museum Tenerife, the Boa Vista Masterplan, the Pájara Conventions and Concert Hall in Fuerteventura, the Rehabilitation of the Cultural Center in La Guancha, the Rehabilitation of the Teobaldo Power Performative Arts Hall in La Orotava.
Distinguished on 10 occasions with the Manuel de Oráa Canary Islands Architecture Prize, Menis also won: the Prize for the Best Cultural Building in Poland 2015 from the National Council of Architects of Poland; the CEMEX Award for Universal Accessibility 2016; the 2016 Taipei Design Award to the Best Public Building; the Stone Award at the VIII International Stone Architecture Award 2005; and the Prize of the V Spanish Biennial of Architecture 1998, among others. Architect Doctor from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, his works have been shown in several editions of the Venice Architecture Biennale, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, at the Aedes Berlin gallery and the GA gallery in Tokyo. The Holy Redeemer Church of Las Chumberas is part of the permanent collection of the MoMA Museum of Modern Art in New York.