The Government distinguishes 33 cultural personalities and entities with the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts 2022.

Among the winners are the Academy of Spain in Rome, the painter Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau, the actor Karra Elejalde, the architect Patxi Mangado (Estella, 1957), the writer Rosa Montero, the singer María Jiménez, the music producer Gay Mercader, the singer Víctor Manuel and, posthumously, the cultural manager and former minister José Guirao.

This award distinguishes people and entities that have excelled in the field of artistic and cultural creation or have provided outstanding services in the promotion, development or dissemination of art and culture or in the conservation of artistic heritage.
Francisco Mangado Beloqui (Patxi) vs Patxi Mangado (Estella, Navarra 1957) is an architect with extensive work. In his buildings, utility and functionality prevail. His great works are the Palacio de Congresos y Auditorio de Navarra, better known as Baluarte; the Museum of Archeology in Vitoria, which earned him several awards, including the Copper Award for Architecture in 2009 (from the European Copper Institute); the Teulada Municipal Auditorium in 2011 in Alicante, a revolutionary building that combines windows to maintain views of the sea and protection from the sun to prevent the building from overheating; and the Palacio de Congresos de Palma de Mallorca, with which he won the National Architecture Award in 2017; without forgetting the Spanish Pavilion for the Zaragoza Expo in 2008, in which he embodies his architecture and his style, being his most awarded work to date.

The Spanish Academy in Rome has awarded the painter Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau, the singer Concha Buika, the actor Karra Elejalde, the music producer Jesús López, the cook María José San Román, the circus artist Miss Kay, the journalist Rosana Torres, the editor Teresa Font, the artist Carlos León, the actress Carme Elías, the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra of Accordions, the architect Patxi Mangado, the Miura Ganadería, the singer-songwriter Luis Pastor, the cultural manager and former minister José Guirao, the writer Manuel Rivas, the theater director Mario Gas, the painter Mirazo, the craft designer Tomás García Alía, the choreographer and dancer Rocío Molina, the Taller de Músics school, the writer Rosa Montero, the singer María Jiménez, the Special Group of Underwater Activities of the Civil Guard (GEAS), the painter Pedro Cano, the actor Javier Cámara, the singer Lole, the curator Carmen Muro, the musician Santiago Auserón, the art curator Carmen Giménez, the music producer Cal Gay Mercader and the singer Víctor Manuel.

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Francisco Mangado, (Navarra, 1957), is an architect from the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra, where he has been a professor since 1982. He has been a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor at the Yale University, visiting professor at the EPF Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Baird and Gensler guest professor at Cornell University and visiting professor at the Polytechnic of Milan.

From his works they emphasize the Palace of Congresses and Auditorium of Pamplona "Baluarte" (2003), the Field of Soccer of Palencia (2006), the Municipal Center of Exhibitions and Congresses of Ávila (2009), the Museum of Archeology of Vitoria (2009 ), the Spanish Pavilion for the Zaragoza International Exhibition (2008), the BBAA Museum of Asturias in Oviedo (2015) and the recently inaugurated Palau de Congresos de Palma de Mallorca (2016) and the New Venue Building of Norvento Enerxia in Lugo (2017). Currently he develops his activity in several countries.

Thanks to this professional work he has received, among others, the Andrea Palladio Architecture Award, the Architecture FAD, the CEOE prize, the Construmat Architecture Award, the Fernando García Mercadal Architecture Prize, the Asturian Architecture Prize, the "Giancarlo Ius Gold Medal" awarded by the International Union of Architects, the Copper in Architecture Award, the RIBA EU Award, the Spanish Architecture Award 2009 and the RIBA for International Excellence, among others.

In 2011 he was named "International Fellow" of the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) and in 2013 honorary member of the AIA (American Institute of Architects). In November 2016, the Berlin Academy of Arts grants Francisco Mangado the Berlin Art Prize-Architecture Prize 2017 in recognition of his work.

In 2008 he founded the Architecture and Society Foundation, which works to favor the interaction of architecture with other disciplines of creation, thought and economy, which has received the CSCAE gold medal (Higher Council of Architects of Spain) 2015

In July 2015 he was appointed General Coordinator of Biennials and under his coordination was awarded to the Spanish Pavilion the Golden Lion of the Venice Biennial in May 2016.

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Published on: December 29, 2022
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