Open the exhibition from October 14, Emilio and Luis will give a lecture on October 23th at 6:30 pm in the Toledo COACM about their project : Museo de la Vega Baja. Toletum Visigoth.

If you living in Toledo , or you visit that day the city, do not miss it!
 

Text of project: "The International Center of Visigoth Culture takes formal and constructive references from a pragmatic and striven architecture, ranging from a modernity of minimums, with elemental volumes, to a vernacular architecture, balanced, sustainable and quiet.The proposal is structured around a system of quadrangular cells, with a broken perimeter and fragmented volumes that try to stimulate a large area free of buildings. Without having to appeal to an iconic unique volume, it constitutes a reference point, a focus for activating the area, establishing an appropriate relationship with the built elements of the environment. The proposed package consists of a cluster of elementary cells that confront different orientations. The movement of volumes, covers, and geometry try to solve the visual relationships with the environment by using the deliberate formal ambiguity of its picturesque and not hierarchical volumetry, and the earthy colors of their materials, looking for a bond with the environment."

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In 1992 Emilio Tuñón Álvarez (1958) and Luis M. Mansilla (1959) founded the firm MANSILLA + TUÑÓN ARQUITECTOS, awarded with the MIES VAN DER ROHE PRIZE 2007 (Prize for Contemporary Architecture of the European Union), National Prize for Spanish Architecture 2003, FAD Prize 2001.

Emilio Tuñón and Luis M. Mansilla are titular professors of the Department of Architectural Projects in Madrid. They have been professors in a number of universities, among which are the Graduate School of Design in Harvard, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, the New School of Architecture in Puerto Rico and the Städelschule in Frankfurt. They are currently giving clases in the School of Architecture of Princeton University.

In 1993 they founded the cooperative of thought CIRCO, coming out with a publication under the same title, and which has been awarded with the FAD Special Prize 2007, the prize for the III Iberoamerican Bienal for Architecture and Engineering 2002 and the C.O.A.M. Prize 2005.

Mansilla + Tuñón were awarded the following commissions: Institucional Building for the City of the Environment in Soria (2008), Madrid Internacional Convention Center (2007), Helga de Alvear Foundation Art Center in Cáceres (2005), Lalín Town Hall (2004), Master Plan of the area of Valbuena in Logroño (2003), Library on Artists Street in Madrid (2003), Cantabria Museum (2002). Royal Collections Museum (2002), Sanfermines Museum (200l), Brescia Contemporary Cultural Center of (2000), Castellón Fine Arts Museum (1998), City of León Auditorium (1996), Cultural Center of Madrid in the old El Águila warehouse (1995).

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Published on: October 17, 2010
Cite: "TOLETUM VISIGODO. Museum. Museo de la Vega Baja" METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/toletum-visigodo-museum-museo-de-la-vega-baja> ISSN 1139-6415
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