OTEIZA. DISOCCUPIED ARCHITECTURE. From Orio to Montevideo

Fernando Moral presented on Monday April 11, at 19 hours, "Oteiza. Disoccupied Architecture. From Orio to Montevideo", which reflects on some of the brightest architectural genius Gipuzkoa from unpublished documents. The event will be attended by the Ambassador of Uruguay in Spain, Carlos Pita, the Associate Dean of Architecture at IE University and Executive Director of the Pritzker Prize, Martha Thorne, the Director of the Foundation, Museo Jorge Oteiza, Gregorio Díez, Chief Department of Cultural Programs of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Jesus Carrillo and the Rector of IE University, Juan Luis Martínez.

Within the extensive literature produced to interpret the vast work of Jorge Oteiza, this thesis reconstructs on the basis of unpublished documents, some of the brightest architectural projects that were developed by this controversial creator. For the author, Oteiza architectural facet is one of the most overlooked, despite being one of the sculptors who probably has influenced contemporary architecture. And precisely, it is his architectural work, of which here defines a set of invariant capital, where they could reveal some of the most ambitious and important insights from this genius.

 The volume presented by Pedro Manterola, with a foreword by Carlos Martí Aris, is the result of the work that won the Fellowship Jorge Oteiza 2005. It is the first book on this subject fully translated into English.

Venue.- Sede de IE, Calle Serrano, 105. Madrid.

Oteiza. Disoccupied Architecture. From Orio to Montevideo
Fernando Moral Andrés
Universidad Pública de Navarra Pamplona, 2011. 496 pp, 19,1 x 22,3 cm.
ISBN.- 978-84-9769-264-9
Language.- Spanish/English  Price.- €25

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Fernando Moral

Fernando Moral, Ph. D. in Architecture, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña . M. Arch.: Criticism and Desing, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona . B. Arch, Universidad de Valladolid. He obtained the ‘Jorge Oteiza Research Grant’, 2005-2007 from the Universidad Pública de Navarra. He has been invited to different congresses and workshops, all of them organized by the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, the ETSAB-UPC, Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de León, Museo Jorge Oteiza, IE Business School and the Architectural Association, among others. He is professor at IE school of architecture/IE University.

He carries out his practise of profession from his office MORAL ARQUITECTURA and part of his works has been published by Visións, Quaderns, Arqscoal, AE 2005 bienal, Conarquitectura or Pasajes.

He has curated exhibitions like: MECANOO architecten : “the Dutch mountains” and Ábalos+Sentkiewicz: “6 verticalscapes”. He is currently collaborating with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte REINA SOFÍA.

Published on: April 8, 2011

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