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European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe Award 2007 MUSAC – Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla y León MUSAC - Museo de arte contemporáneo de Castilla y León León, Spain Luis M. Mansilla, Emilio Tuñón Mansilla + Tuñón Awarded Work On a vast urban plan, MUSAC draws the scenario for art with the same optimistic attitude used by the Roman surveyors to sketch their cities in the landscape. In contrast to other types of museums that focus on the exhibition of frozen historic collections, MUSAC is a living space that opens its doors to the wide-ranging manifestations of contemporary art. This is an art centre that constructs a set of chessboards on which the action is the protagonist of the space; a structure that develops from an open system, formed by a fabric of squares and rhombi, and permitting the construction of a secret geography of memory. MUSAC is a new space for culture, regarded as something that visualises the connections between man and nature. A cluster of chained but independent rooms permit exhibitions of differing sizes and types. Each of the jaggedly shaped rooms constructs a continuous yet spatially differentiated area that opens onto the other rooms and courtyards, providing longitudinal, transversal and diagonal views. Five hundred prefab beams enclose a series of spaces that feature systematic repetition and formal expressiveness. Outside, the public space takes on a concave shape to hold the activities and encounters, embraced by large coloured glass in homage to the city as the place for interpersonal relationships. Inside, a large area of continuous, different spaces, spattered with courtyards and large skylights, shapes an expressive system that speaks to us of the interest shared by architecture and art: the contemporary manifestation of the variable and the perennial, of equality and difference, of universality and transience, an echo of our own diversity and equality as people. In its size, as a single-storey building with white concrete walls and large coloured glazing seen from the outside, MUSAC strives to be a space where art is at ease and helps to erase the boundaries between private and public; between work and leisure; and between art and life. 2
European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe Award 2007 MUSAC - Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla y León Credits Client: Castilla y León Regional Goverment, Gesturcal SA Collaborators: Andres Regueiro, Ainoa Prats, Clara Moneo, Jaime Gimeno, Katrien Vertenten, Luis Diaz Mauriño, Matilde Peralta, Ricardo Lorenzana, Teresa Cruz Technical Architects: Arcadio Conde, Juan Carlos Corona, Santiago Hernán Consultants: JG Asociados Structural Engineering: Gogaite / Alfonso Gomez Gaite Construction Company: MUSAC UTE, FCC & TECONSA Luis M. Mansilla and Emilio Tuñón Curriculum Vitae 1990 Office of Mansilla+Tuñón established in Madrid http://www.mansilla-tunon.com Luis M. Mansilla 1959 Born in Madrid 1982 Diploma in Architecture, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM) 1984 Prix de Rome, Academia Española de Bellas Artes, Roma Since 1989 Professor, ETSAM 1998 Doctorate, ETSAM 1998 Visiting Professor, Städelschule, Frankfurt 2005 Visiting Professor, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) 2006 Elliott Noyes Professor, Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Emilio Tuñón 1959 Born in Madrid 1981 Diploma in Architecture, ETSAM Since 1986 Professor, ETSAM 1998 Visiting Professor, Städelschule, Frankfurt 2000 Visiting Professor, Universidad Politécnica de Puerto Rico 2005 Visiting Professor, EPFL 2006 Elliott Noyes Professor, GSD Major Competitions 2002 1 st Prize: Cantabria Museum, Vaguada de las Llamas, Spain 2002 1 st Prize: Royal Collection Museum, Madrid 2003 1 st Prize: Masterplan of Valbuena Area, Logroño, Spain 2004 1 st Prize: Lalín City Council, Spain 2005 1 st Prize: Helga de Alvear Visual Arts Centre, Cáceres, Spain Awards and Distinctions 2001 Premi FAD: Castellón Fine Arts Museum, Spain 2002 III Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura: Prize for Publications - CIRCO 2003 Premio Nacional de Arquitectura Española: León Auditorium 2005 Premio ENOR: MUSAC 2006 Premio VIA Major Works 1996 Zamora Museum, Spain 1998 Indoor Swimming Pool, San Fernando de Henares, Spain 2000 Castellón Fine Arts Museum, Spain 2002 León Auditorium 2002 Regional Documentary Centre, Madrid 3
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