MUGARRIA. Límite natural y urbano
19/05/2011.
Opening Exhibition. Raquel Ponce Gallery [MAD] Spain 05/19-05/28.2011 FREE METALOCUS READERS!!
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Today opens at the Gallery Raquel Ponce and with METALOCUS collaboration, the Museum of San Telmo in San Sebastian rehabilitation and expansion project, by architects Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano and artists Leopoldo Ferrán and Agustina Otero, who have made the building's skin. In the gallery you can see, at 1:1, the pieces of the facade designed by the artists, in two configurations: with partial vegetation and light permeability. The pieces of the facade have been made in cast aluminum.
Museum of San Telmo in San Sebastian, architects Fuensanta Nieto y Enrique Sobejano
Museum of San Telmo in San Sebastian
You can see models of this exceptional project, photographs and videos of the building and contents. A recommended visit since the opening of this afternoon. METALOCUS readers are invited to the inauguration.
"At the heart of all architectural project, is the recognized of limit as a concept that determines the spatial and formal settings. That the realization of this limit is manifested in a sharp or diffuse, with hardness or softness, expressing lightness or weight, it is a decision without importance, since it reflects itself taking a stance against the multiple discontinuities facing contemporary cities. In a few cases, these discontinuities are juxtaposed so clearly and yet harmonious as in the meeting area between Urgull Mount and the Downtown of San Sebastian: between nature and city, and the horizontal plane and topographic elevation, land and sea, historic buildings and existing buildings. Perhaps this is why the rehabilitation project and expansion of San Telmo Museum, located at the confluence of nature and the urban landscape, require a conscious response of the boundary condition of the site itself, represented by the image of a long wall broken as a manifestation of nature / artifice, beating in the project.
A facade or lattice, developed from a combinatorial game of aluminum castings specifically for this occasion, is thus transformed into an unusual intervention that recognizes the role of architecture in relation to public art. The new extension of the San Telmo Museum change its appearance over the course of the seasons, joining in the vegetation of Mount Urgull or expressing their autonomy in a long, unfinished wall broken: unexpected metaphor of vague boundary where the architecture and the city are with the landscape."
Venue.- Galería Raquel Ponce. C/ Alameda, 5. MADRID.
Date.- 19-28/05/2011
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ARQUITECTOS NIETO SOBEJANO
Fuensanta Nieto (Madrid 1957) and Enrique Sobejano (Madrid 1957), are graduated architects by the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM) and Master of Science in Building Design por la Graduate School of Architecture and Planning (GSAPP), Columbia University, New York (USA). Are partners of the office Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, with headquarters in Madrid and Berlín.
Enrique Sobejano is Design Professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin (Germany) and Fuensanta Nieto Fuensanta is an Design Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the Universidad Europea de Madrid. Both have been guest professors and lecturers at various universities and institutions within and outside Spain. From 1986 to 1991 was Director of ARQUITECTURA magazine, of Official College of Architects of Madrid.
Sobejano Nieto's work has been published in numerous magazines and books in Spanish and international, such as Casabella, METALOCUS, The Sketch, Architectural Review, Domus, Architectural Record, Detail, A + U, etc, and has been exhibited, among other places, Venice Biennale (2000, 2002, 2006) and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York (2006). They have received the National Award for Restoration of the Ministry of Culture (2008), the Nike Prize BDA (Bund Deutscher Architekten) (2010) and the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (2010).
Among his recent works include Madinat al Zahra Museum (Córdoba), Moritzburg (Germany), Colegio de San Gregorio (Valladolid) and the Conference Centres of Mérida and Zaragoza.
NIETO SOBEJANO ARQUITECTOS: http://www.nietosobejano.com
LEOPOLDO FERRÁN AGUSTINA OTERO
Leopoldo Ferrán (Irun, Guipúzcoa, 1963) and Agustin Otero (San Adrián del Valle, León, 1960). After an initial training period in the Basque Country, two years in Florence, two in Paris and stayed in the south of Senegal, this pair of artists has established his studio in northern Spain, first in Hondarribia (Guipúzcoa) and after in Ituren (Navarra) in a privileged sanctuary at the foot of Mount Mendaur, where they project their latest and most ambitious sculptural-architectural works. In 1994 They decided to join our common Interests Generating with the purpose of installation works in order to Thoroughly Investigate and study the language of art. They Set Out from the idea of places Inhabited by questions in Which to create answers Able to generate a new creative universe.
Their work have been exhibited recently among others by:
Museo ARTIUM, Vitoria. Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao. Koldo Mitxelena San Sebastián. Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento, Ginebra. The White Box. New York, EEUU. Monasterio de Prado, Valladolid. Museo Zuloaga, Segovia. Chapelle Saint-Louis, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris. Bienal de Venecia, Mostra de Arquitectura, Venecia 2002 - 2006. VII Bienal de El Cairo, Egipto. Espai 13, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona. Spazio Temporaneo d’Arte, Rovereto, Italia. Centre d'Art La Panera. Lérida. MARCO, Vigo. Galería dels Ángels, Barcelona. Galería Raquel Ponce. Madrid. Galería Moisés Pérez de Albeniz, Pamplona. Galería Salvador Díaz, Madrid
LEOPOLDO FERRÁN Y AGUSTINA OTERO http://www.euskalnet.net/al.la/
JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
José Juan Barba (1964) architect from ETSA Madrid in 1991. Special Mention in the National Finishing University Education Awards 1991. PhD in Architecture ETSAM, 2004. He founded his professional practice in Madrid in 1992 (www.josejuanbarba.com). He is an architecture critic and editor-in-chief of METALOCUS magazine since 1999, and he was advising different NGOs until 1997. He has been a lecturer (in Design, Theory and Criticism, and Urban planning) and guest lecturer at different national and international universities (Roma TRE, Polytechnic Milan, ETSA Madrid, ETSA Barcelona, UNAM Mexico, Univ. Iberoamericana Mexico, University of Thessaly Volos, FA de Montevideo, Washington, Medellin, IE School, U.Alicante, Univ. Europea Madrid, UCJC Madrid, ESARQ-U.I.C. Barcelona,...).
Maître de Conférences IUG-UPMF Grenoble 2013-14. Full assistant Professor, since 2003 up to now at the University of Alcalá School of Architecture, Madrid, Spain. And Jury in competitions as Quaderns editorial magazine (2011), Mies van der Rohe Awards, (2010-2022), Europan13 (2015). He has been invited to participate in the Biennale di Venezia 2016 as part "Spaces of Exception / Spazi d'Eccezione".
He has published several books, the last in 2016, "#positions" and in 2015 "Inventions: New York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi " and collaborations on "Spaces of Exception / Spazi d'Eccezione", "La Mansana de la discordia" (2015), "Arquitectura Contemporánea de Japón: Nuevos territorios" (2015)...
Awards.-
- Award. RENOVATION OF SEGURA RIVER ENVIRONMENT, Murcia, Sapin, 2010.
- First Prize, RENOVATION GRAN VÍA, “Delirious Gran Vía”, Madrid, Spain, 2010.
- First Prize, “PANAYIOTI MIXELI Award”. SADAS-PEA, for the Spreading of Knowledge of Architecture Athens, 2005.
- First Prize, “SANTIAGO AMÓN Award," for the Spreading of Knowledge of Architecture. 2000.
- Award, “PIERRE VAGO Award." ICAC -International committee of Art Critics. London, 2005.
- First Prize, C.O.A.M. Madrid, 2000. Shortlisted, World Architecture Festival. Centro de Investigación e Interpretación de los Ríos. Tera, Esla y Orbigo, Barcelona, 2008.
- First Prize. FAD AWARD 07 Ephemeral Interventions. “M.C.ESCHER”. Arquin-Fad. Barcelona, Sapin 2007.
