This Friday, the Council approved the awarding of the 2014 Gold Medals for Merit in Fine Arts to 25 individuals and entities that stood out in the field of artistic creation, "providing significant services or notably promoting the teaching, development and dissemination of art or the conservation of the national artistic heritage" during 2014, according to the information provided by the Council.

The complete list of artists who will receive their medal was announced a few days after the Council presented the medals awarded in 2013. In addition to Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos, 25 people and institutions have been honoured with the medal, including Blanca Portillo, Olvido Gara Jova vs Alaska, Manuel Benítez El Cordobés, the director, Emilio Martínez-Lázaro, the radio journalist Juan Claudio 'Cifu' Cifuentes, the actor and director Manuel Galiana Martínez, the dancer Eduardo Serrano El Güito, the guitarist Manolo Sanlúcar, the Spanish Federation of Friends of Museums (FEAM), the Teatro de La Abadía Foundation, María Corral Lopez Dóriga, curator and museum director, Victoria Civera Redondo, plastic artist, Álvaro Fernández Villaverde, Gabriele Maria Finaldi, curator and museum director, Gaël de Guichen, researcher and scientist, Diego Masson, patron, María Jesús Pagés Madrigal dancer and choreographer, Helena Rohner fashion designer, Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio writer, Manuel Serrat Crespo translator and editor, Jose Maria Sicilia Fernandez-Shaw painter, Bruno Turner musicologist, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina visual artist.

  • Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos. Architecture Studio.- Founded in 1990 and directed by Ignacio Pedrosa and Angela Garcia de Paredes, architects from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid. Both are professors in the Department of Architectural Projects of the aforementioned school and guest professors at the Schools of Pamplona, ​​Valencia, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya and Universidad de los Andes (Colombia). Likewise, they have been guest critics at the GSD Harvard, the ETH Zurich, the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio and the Polytechnic of Lausanne, as well as lecturers at numerous international universities. They have received awards for the Visigoth Museum in Mérida, the auditorium in Lugo, the Public Libraries of Ceuta, Córdoba and Ciudad Lineal (Madrid), the Universidad Popular Infantil in Gandía - nominated for the Mies Van der Rohe Award in 2013 and winner of the Mansilla Award, the Gold Medal International Prize for Sustainable Architecture and the Arquitectura Plus a+ Award, all in 2012 -, the VSA Library in Madrid, the Museum of the Roman Villa of La Olmeda (Palencia) - which received the Europa Nostra mention, was nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award and was winner of the Piranesi Award in Rome and the Dedalo Minosse Award in Vicenza - and for the Museum of Almería, among others. These are the EUROPAN II and IV awards, the ENOR Awards 2005, 2006 and 2009, the FAD Awards 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 and the Spanish Architecture Award 2007 for the Valle Inclán Theatre in Madrid.

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Ángela García de Paredes (1958) and Ignacio García Pedrosa (1957) are architects from the Architecture School of Madrid, where they teach. Invited professors in other Spanish and foreign universities for teaching, critics and speakers. They founded Paredes Pedrosa Studio in 1990, after collaborating with José María García de Paredes for several years.

They are authors of, among other works, the Valdemaqueda Town Hall, Valle Inclán Theatre in Madrid, the Archaeological Museum of Almería, Peñíscola Auditorium, La Olmeda Roman Ville, Ceuta Library or the Lugo Auditorium. Their work has been recognized with the 2007 Spanish Architecture National Award, ar+d Award, Europan II and IV, Europa Nostra, Madrid Architecture Award, Mansilla Award, Gold Medal International Prize for Sustainable Architecture, Mediterranean Sustainable Architecture Award and 'Golden Medal for the Merit in Fine Arts' 2014, given by the Culture and Sports Spanish Ministery. Their work has been exhibited in many national and international architecture biennials.

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Ángela García de Paredes Falla (Madrid, 1958) is architect from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid in 1982 and a doctor, Extraordinary Prize for doctoral thesis - dedicated to the work of her father, José María García de Paredes - from the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 2015, where she is a professor in the Department of Architectural Projects.

She began working as an architect collaborating, together with her husband Ignacio Pedrosa, in her father's studio which, after his death in 1990, became Paredes Pedrosa arquitectos Estudio de Arquitectura.

She is vice president of the Manuel de Falla Foundation, founded by her mother, and Academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando for the Architecture Section.

In 1990 he joined forces with Ignacio Pedrosa with whom he shares his professional and research activities, having obtained numerous first prizes in competitions and having built more than twenty buildings, and having been awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts 2014. In addition, his work has been exhibited at the Venice International Architecture Biennale in various editions.

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Ignacio García Pedrosa (Madrid, 1957) is architect from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, where he obtained his doctorate in 2015, receiving an extraordinary award for his thesis Auditorium, a typology of the 20th century.

Since 1995 he has been an associate professor of Architectural Projects at the ETSAM and has been a guest professor at various institutions such as the IUAV in Venice, the School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, etc.

In 1990 he joined forces with his wife, Ángela García de Paredes, to open the Paredes Pedrosa studio. In his professional career they have won first prizes in competitions and built more than twenty buildings, highlighting public works of a cultural nature and public housing.

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Published on: February 8, 2015
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