Andrés Perea Ortega (1940 - 2023) passes away
17/11/2023.
[MAD] Spain
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
Yesterday, Andrés Perea Ortega architect, passes away in Madrid. He died after being diagnosed with cancer at the beginning of last year. I met him one night at dinner with other friends when I was finishing my architecture studies, at a dinner organized by another good architect Alfonso Valdés, in 1990 and I was lucky to maintain his friendship throughout all these years.
I will remember Andrés for his erudition, his work as an architect, his virtuosity with the guitar, and his lucidity and passion for architecture. Passionate, vehement, and always full of energy, something he did not lose until the last moment.
I will remember Andrés for his erudition, his work as an architect, his virtuosity with the guitar, and his lucidity and passion for architecture. Passionate, vehement, and always full of energy, something he did not lose until the last moment.
Andrés Perea Ortega (1940 - 2023).
Engraving "Melancholy" by A. Dürer (1514). Fontán building by Andrés Perea, Elena Suárez, Rafael Torrelo.
Fontán building by Andrés Perea, Elena Suárez, Rafael Torrelo. Photograph by Ana Amado.
Metro de Madrid Headquarters and Transport Complex by Nexo + Gutiérrez-delaFuente + Perea. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Floor plan. La Rioja Congress Palace by Andrés Perea
Rafael Alberti Library, Madrid, by Andrés Perea. Photography by José Juan Barba, 2001
New Headquarters of the State Public Library in Santiago de Compostela by Andrés Perea
Fontán building by Andrés Perea, Elena Suárez, Rafael Torrelo. Photograph by Ana Amado.
Fontán building by Andrés Perea, Elena Suárez, Rafael Torrelo. Photograph by Ana Amado.
Fontán building by Andrés Perea, Elena Suárez, Rafael Torrelo. Photograph courtesy of AP+ES+RT.
I think that the best tribute that we can pay him from here is that he was able to see, and remember the extraordinary recognition items that were made to him last year on the occasion of the declaration of METALOCUS Building of the year 2023.
06/11/2022. Fontán, Building of the Year 2022 by José Juan Barba
07/11/2022. The era of light things will come. Fontán building by Perea, Suárez, Torrelo
07/11/2022. The beauty of the in-between states by Alberto Campo Baeza
07/11/2022. Knowing how to see the architecture by Ana Amado
08/11/2022. Designing the structure. Holding the Fontán building by Ignacio López Picasso
09/11/2022. La Re-Habitación de un espacio. Del Avenida al Fontán by Jorge Morín de Pablos
10/11/2022. Weaving networks, an inseparable interweaving of nature and society by Emilio Luque
11/11/2022. Reconstructing the silhouette of Compostela's topography by Fernando Buide del Real
12/11/2022. Un vuelo construido. Arquitectura caudalosa y desbordante por Josep Llinàs
14/11/2022. Fontán, or the love of technique by Andrés Jaque
16/11/2022. Designing relationships in space by Camilo Restrepo
18/11/2022. Future and Pedagogy by Izaskun Chinchilla
20/11/2022. Future Prologue by José Juan Barba
07/11/2022. The era of light things will come. Fontán building by Perea, Suárez, Torrelo
07/11/2022. The beauty of the in-between states by Alberto Campo Baeza
07/11/2022. Knowing how to see the architecture by Ana Amado
08/11/2022. Designing the structure. Holding the Fontán building by Ignacio López Picasso
09/11/2022. La Re-Habitación de un espacio. Del Avenida al Fontán by Jorge Morín de Pablos
10/11/2022. Weaving networks, an inseparable interweaving of nature and society by Emilio Luque
11/11/2022. Reconstructing the silhouette of Compostela's topography by Fernando Buide del Real
12/11/2022. Un vuelo construido. Arquitectura caudalosa y desbordante por Josep Llinàs
14/11/2022. Fontán, or the love of technique by Andrés Jaque
16/11/2022. Designing relationships in space by Camilo Restrepo
18/11/2022. Future and Pedagogy by Izaskun Chinchilla
20/11/2022. Future Prologue by José Juan Barba
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Andrés Perea
Andrés Perea Ortega (Bogotá 1940 - Madrid November 16, 2023) was born in Bogotá, due to his family's exile during the Spanish Civil War.
A Spaniard, he studied at the ETSAM, graduating in 1965.
His long professional career has allowed him to share with countless architects collaborators in constructive production, and students of Architecture here as a teacher, researcher, and understanding of architecture, always as creative work.
An effort that has earned awards and distinctions, and also failures and mistakes as the human being he pretends to be.
Madrid, Bogota autumn 2022.
A Spaniard, he studied at the ETSAM, graduating in 1965.
His long professional career has allowed him to share with countless architects collaborators in constructive production, and students of Architecture here as a teacher, researcher, and understanding of architecture, always as creative work.
An effort that has earned awards and distinctions, and also failures and mistakes as the human being he pretends to be.
Madrid, Bogota autumn 2022.
