Serpentine Gallery’s pavilion, by Peter Zumthor

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About the Exhibition

This exhibition represents the enhancement of the work of a 77-year-old novel painter with self-taught pictorial training. His work is based mainly on non-figurative drawings, using colored pencils and oil painting.

The artistic concerns of the author led him to participate in some shared exhibitions with an open theme in the 80s, with paintings dedicated mostly to urban landscapes. It was at the beginning of the 90s when his pictorial activity intensifies the introspective exploration of the sphere of his affections and emotions, enhancing sensitivity and producing works in which the interpretative character on the realist usually stands out. For professional reasons, he had to paralyze his artistic production, which would not resume until the end of 2014, the year after which his production has intensified, producing more than 90 different works of different themes, among which landscapes tend to predominate, the bullfighting scenes, and especially the portraits.

The design proposal of the exhibition project aims to expose 22 paintings painted in oil, based mostly on portraits of protagonists of the university environment, accompanied by some of scenes related to the family environment of the author, is framed in a framework of common illusion that supposes for the artist, motivation and recognition, for his pictorial baggage and for the production of new works.

Seville, to November of 2017

Signed Andrés Agudo Martínez

Curator of the exhibition

Angar Architects creates web ConventosdeSevilla, formed by a team of Sevillian determined to act urgently to keep alive the heritage of the city, with the sole intention of moving our culture to future generations. Sevilla has spaces and works of great artistic and historical value and still today are unknown to the general public, this group aims to open the public part of these works of art hidden from the city. For Sevillian and tourists can admire the grandeur of one of the most spectacular cities in the world and create a new way of conservation of these properties. The website has the aim of raising funds for the rehabilitation of Sevillian convents and other side: Objectives of this site are: Rehabilitation of the Sevillian Conventual Buildings To value the Hidden Heritage Building Create a pathway Self-Financing for the conservation of buildings Communities of nuns maintain Insurance Buildings and salubrious Discover hidden areas for Sevillian and Tourists Convento Madre de Dios The Mother of God Convent, located in San Jose de Sevilla, Seville convent is in need of restoration with more urgency. In addition, the construction companies that have gone through the convent have contributed to the poor state of the building, with the plundering of images and tiles of great value. church The chancel of the church of the convent Madre de Dios is closed with string, showing the dilapidated state of the existing coffered ceiling on the roofs of the old synagogue. The Dominican sisters have been forced to move the location of the Mass to another area of ​​the convent for the safety of parishioners. The wall of the east facade is undergoing a horizontal displacement to the street San Jose, clearly visible in the cracks of the upper choir. In addition, the plasterwork is coming off the magnificent main arch. House Chaplain This area is the brunt of the convent, it is shored up because of the deceptions of construction companies. Wood structures roofs wet due to leaks of the covers. This makes the wood rot and fall to the ground. Bedroom Isabella Any city would maintain the historical landmarks of special interest occurred on it to boost its tourism, but Seville seems unmoved by these aspects. The bedroom in which Isabella I of Castile lived when he visited the convent, could be a gem if it was restored, as currently its windows are boarded up to prevent theft and wooden ceilings now in the ground. This bedroom is a beautiful space, worthy of an intervention to recreate stays Isabella in the late fifteenth century. The current situation of the convent is due to the Queen, as in 1496, gave the nuns a block of houses in front of the parish of St. Nicholas. These homes had been membership of the Jews. Also in the donation it included a synagogue that nuns became Christian oratory. Enlace: ConventosdeSevilla

Study Architecture Study Barrera, stands in his career in research in the field of virtual reality. Being able to join the technological development in the area of ​​architectural visualization.

In the words of architect Javier Barrera:

"Virtual reality is no longer the future but the present. CG Artist and Architect, I have several years researching on my own on Virtual Reality, to apply this technology in the field of Architecture and Design. For me it has been a challenge, but I can say I'm one of the first architects to make and offer such jobs. I can make a customer "live" the project, that is, when I receive either request a particular private developer or company, would perform all phases of work as usual, but the difference is that this time the customer will not see the typical image or images that i want to see, but this customer will be virtually within the project and hyperrealistic live that experience, so that you can move and look wherever. I think it's very interesnate before building anything, you can see how it really design, space, light ..etc. However much I try to explain how this experience, I assure you it is impossible, because you have to prove it. From now on, all customers who made me a commission, whose value P.E.M. (Budget Execution Material) exceeds 300,000 €, will benefit from completely free and exclusive to this virtual experience, ie personally will perform the entire project content in 3D and I can show them the best device on the market, the HTC LIVES. I also do commissions Virtual Reality freelancers or companies, consisting of a package consisting of: - Minimum of 5 high resolution images (for signage or advertising) - Video of about 3 minutes. - Executable where the client moves freely. - File prepared for Virtual Reality systems: HTC VIVE, Oculus Rift "

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  It is with great sadness that Zaha Hadid Architects have confirmed that Dame Zaha Hadid, DBE died suddenly in Miami in the early hours of this morning. She had contracted bronchitis earlier this week and suffered a sudden heart attack while being treated in hospital. Zaha Hadid was widely regarded to be the greatest female architect in the world today. Born in Baghdad in 1950, she studied mathematics at the American University of Beirut before starting her architectural journey in 1972 at the Architectural Association in London. By 1979 she had established her own practice in London – Zaha Hadid Architects – garnering a reputation across the world for her ground-breaking theoretical works including The Peak in Hong Kong (1983), the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin (1986) and the Cardiff Bay Opera House in Wales (1994). Working with office partner Patrik Schumacher, her interest was in the interface between architecture, landscape, and geology; which her practice integrates with the use of innovative technologies often resulting in unexpected and dynamic architectural forms. Zaha Hadid’s first major built commission, one that affirmed her international recognition, was the Vitra Fire Station in Weil Am Rhein, Germany (1993); subsequent notable projects including the MAXXI: Italian National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome (2009), the London Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympic Games (2011) and the Heydar Aliyev Centre in Baku (2013) illustrate her quest for complex, fluid space. Buildings such as the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati (2003) and the Guangzhou Opera House in China (2010) have also been hailed as architecture that transforms our ideas of the future with visionary spatial concepts defined by advanced design, material and construction processes. In 2004, Zaha Hadid became the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize. She twice won the UK’s most prestigious architecture award, the RIBA Stirling Prize: in 2010 for the MAXXI Museum in Rome, a building for the staging of 21st century art, the distillation of years of experimentation, a mature piece of architecture conveying a calmness that belies the complexities of its form and organisation; and the Evelyn Grace Academy, a unique design, expertly inserted into an extremely tight site, that shows the students, staff and local residents they are valued and celebrates the school’s specialism throughout its fabric, with views of student participation at every turn. Zaha Hadid’s other awards included the Republic of France’s Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Japan’s Praemium Imperiale and in 2012, Zaha Hadid was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She was made Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture. She held various academic roles including the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; the Sullivan Chair at the University of Illinois, School of Architecture. Hadid also taught studios at Columbia University, Yale University and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Zaha Hadid was recently awarded the RIBA’s 2016 Royal Gold Medal, the first woman to be awarded the prestigious honour in her own right. Sir Peter Cook wrote the following citation: "In our current culture of ticking every box, surely Zaha Hadid succeeds, since (to quote the Royal Gold Medal criteria) she is someone “who has made a significant contribution to the theory or practice of architecture.... for a substantial body of work rather than for work which is currently fashionable.” Indeed her work, though full of form, style and unstoppable mannerism, possesses a quality that some of us might refer to as an impeccable ‘eye’: which we would claim is a fundamental in the consideration of special architecture and is rarely satisfied by mere ‘fashion’. And surely her work is special. For three decades now, she has ventured where few would dare: if Paul Klee took a line for a walk, then Zaha took the surfaces that were driven by that line out for a virtual dance and then deftly folded them over and then took them out for a journey into space. In her earlier, ‘spiky’ period there was already a sense of vigour that she shared with her admired Russian Suprematists and Constructivists – attempting with them to capture that elusive dynamic of movement at the end of the machine age. Necessarily having to disperse effort through a studio production, rather than being a lone artist, she cottoned–on to the potential of the computer to turn space upon itself. Indeed there is an Urban Myth that suggests that the very early Apple Mac ‘boxes’ were still crude enough to plot the mathematically unlikely – and so Zaha with her mathematics background seized upon this and made those flying machine projections of the Hong Kong Peak project and the like. Meanwhile, with paintings and special small drawings Zaha continued to lead from the front. She has also been smart enough to pull in some formidable computational talent without being phased by its ways. Thus the evolution of the ‘flowing’ rather than spikey architecture crept up upon us in stages, as did the scale of her commissions, but in most cases, they remained clear in identity and control. When you entered the Fire Station at Vitra, you were conscious of being inside one of those early drawings and yes, it could be done. Yet at perhaps its highest, those of us lucky enough to see the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku in the flesh, can surely never have been in such a dream-like space, with its totality, its enormous internal ramp and dart-like lights seeming to have come from a vocabulary that lies so far beyond the normal architecture that we assess or rationalize. So we are presenting her with this Medal as a British Institution: and as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire: thus she might seem to be a member of our British Establishment. Yet in reality, many of our chattering classes and not a few fellow architects have treated her with characteristic faint praise, and when she heroically won the Cardiff Opera House competition, blocking the scheme. Or when we awarded her the RIBA Stirling Prize for the school in South London – her second win in a row - we, the jury, were loudly derided by a number of distinguished architects. Of course, in our culture of circumspection and modesty her work is certainly not modest, and she herself is the opposite of modest. Indeed her vociferous criticism of poor work or stupidity recalls the line-side comments of the tennis player John McEnroe. Yet this is surely characteristic of the seriousness with which she takes the whole business: sloppiness and waywardness pain her and she cannot play the comfy British game of platitudinous waffle that is the preferred cushion adopted by many people of achievement or power. Her methods and perhaps much of her psychology remain Mesopotamian and not a little scary: but certainly clear. As a result, it is perhaps a little lonely there up at the top, surrounded now by some very considerable talent in the office, but feared somewhat and distanced from the young. Yet in private Zaha is gossipy and amusing, genuinely interested in the work of talented colleagues who do very different architecture such as Steven Holl, and she was the first to bring to London talent such as Lebbeus Woods or Stanley Saiotowitz. She is exceptionally loyal to her old friends: many of whom came from the Alvin Boyarsky period of the Architectural Association: which seems to remain as her comfort zone and golden period of friendship. Encouraged and promoted at an early age by Boyarsky, she has rewarded the AA with an unremitting loyalty and fondness for it. The history of the Gold Medal must surely include many major figures who commanded a big ship and one ponders upon the operation involved that gets such strong concepts as the MAXXI in Rome – in which the power of organization is so clear - or the Bergisel Ski Jump in Innsbruck where dynamic is at last captured – or the Aquatics Centre for the London Olympics where the lines diving boards were as fluid as the motion of the divers - made into reality. And she has done it time and time again in Vienna, Marseilles, Beijing and Guangzhou. Never has she been so prolific, so consistent. We realize that Kenzo Tange and Frank Lloyd Wright could not have drawn every line or checked every joint, yet Zaha shares with them the precious role of towering, distinctive and relentless influence upon all around her that sets the results apart from the norm. Such self-confidence is easily accepted in film-makers and football managers, but causes some architects to feel uncomfortable, maybe they’re secretly jealous of her unquestionable talent. Let’s face it, we might have awarded the medal to a worthy, comfortable character. We didn’t, we awarded it to Zaha: larger than life, bold as brass and certainly on the case. Our Heroine. How lucky we are to have her in London." The year 2015 comes to a close has given us great architectural projects that continue to raise the bar for technical capabilities and wonder to which we are able to reach. In this report, we discuss some of the highlights of this year has offered new as suggestive as the new tallest buildings in China and Africa and to build a luxury apartment building in Manhattan that exceeds in height to the very Empire State. 1. 432 Park Avenue This apartment block in the heart of Manhattan, between Calles 56 and 57 will revolutionize the skyline of the city and will be the tallest residential tower in the western hemisphere with its 425 meters high. The views cover the whole city and its luxury apartments, only available to privileged pocket will be configured as palladianos spaces provided, with ceilings of almost 4 meters and windows 3x3, with a panoramic so far only been achieved by helicopter flights in NY. 2. Shanghai Tower In the financial area of ​​Lujiazui in Shanghai, this new prototype of skyscrapers and new icon of modernity of the Chinese superpower stands. With its altitude of 632 meters has been ranked as the tallest building in China and the world's second, making way for a new concept of vertical city where business spaces, hotel and a great range of restaurants, shopping centers combine and cafes. Its innovative design spiral and a second glass skin has provided for ventilation and innovative use of renewable energy. 3. The seat of the Louvre in Abu Dhabi Planned for 2012 but delayed until 2016, and takes shape this stunning contemporary building that will display works by Van Gogh, Warhol, Monet or Matisse through an agreement between the governments of Fracia and UAE will lead the first universal museum built on a Arab country as an example of harmony between civilizations. Architecturally, the Jean Nouvel project aims to invent a new model of city-museum with a renewed aesthetic of Moorish architecture and the centerpiece of a huge dome. 4. Shimao Wonderland Intercontinental hotel One of the most visually impressive works of 2015 is this luxury hotel designed by the British firm Atkins being built in Songjiang District in Shanghai. Leveraging the vast cavity of an abandoned quarry, it has designed an embedded in the ground with a facade of over 100 meters and the construction of underwater levels taking advantage of a pool of existing water will result in a futuristic building that will house guest building from $ 300 per night. 5. Al Noor Tower Casablanca Still in its initial phase, the singular form has earned him the nickname "The Tower of the Lord of the Rings of Africa", particularly Barad-dur, tower-fortress of Sauron. Which promises to be the tallest tower in Africa, will be signed by the Dubai-based company Middle East Development LLC and will reach 540 meters to revolutionize the modest skyline of the economic capital of Morocco with a new residential space and businesses that want to boost the regional economy. Various are the jobs that architects must go, this is a case of an architect who is winning with the drawings on walls and other items. "The girl plant created in response to the crisis conditions in the current architecture and to a creative personal need. During the years of work in various architectural firms, was directing my attention toward more open and creative aspects, understanding the Currently the disciplines of photography and illustration. I departed from the demand for architectural photographs in the studio where I was and I was opening myself to many other subjects such as fashion, reports of events, concerts, etc. However, in the scope of drawing, it comes against a need to decorate, mainly focused on the child's world indoors. The drawings are made either directly on the wall, and on paper or canvas. These works, besides being focused on the children's world as mentioned above, also have focused on other issues, in the case of paintings, the abstract and in the case of the drawings to the creation of sheets on various topics ". http://www.laninaplanta.com/ First Prize Master Plan and promenade Matalascañas. Almonte, Huelva Architects team winners: Laura Moruno, José Suárez, María Hormigo y Carlos García. Date: May 2015   The draft Master Plan and promenade Matalascañas born to triple situation where the town center is: location in the natural surroundings of Doñana, coastal presence of a patrimonial set of defensive towers or beacons, as well as a major commitment to tourism. Our goal is to draw a comprehensive strategy necessarily reconcile this triple fact, using its potential in a respectful attitude to the environment. We propose a pedestrian axis of public spaces connected by two bands parallel to the beach. The first is maintained at high level of the arena, while a system of ramps with gentle slopes up and down to form the second band, thus allowing continuity between urban space and sea. An essential quality of the proposal is the possibility of temporarily develop in stages from a minimum emergency action on the boardwalk and access to the beach, to the incorporation of multi-core rhythm utility along the same. 'POP-UP House' is a full refurbished flat for a recently emancipated thirty something person, located in a mid-20th century residential building in Madrid. 'POP-UP House' is an experiment which deals with two crossed interests: on one hand, it tests the infiltration of a thin and gathering domestic infrastructure; on the other hand, it explores the sociological reality linked to the increased number of one-person homes in metropolis -known as "single phenomenon"   Architects: TallerDE2 Video: Imagen Subliminal Light, bricks and austerity The implementation of building in the old helipad Virgen del Rocio Hospital is a conversion of this space for educational use and fitting of a new piece in the current framework of buildings of the hospital grounds. The new Aulario Medical / Nursing at the University of Sevilla meets the program requirements posed by the two powers, allowing adequately impart teaching in a hospital. This is a unique construction, solid, prismatic, which opens onto a veranda aporticada, as a runner, invites into the building. The simplicity of the lines used, the brightness of the spaces, the skin of red brick, and austerity, structure the balance of the composition and the serenity conducive to building cross it. Seville, November 2014 The Architect works for your particular client and for the benefit of the city as a whole. The College has always sought a balance between these interests in the city of Seville, through the Delegation of Planning and Environment. And so, the two institutions collaborate in the constant improvement of the perception of our work. Obtaining planning permission and other approvals must always guarantee safety and quality and never an obstacle or an avoidable delay. The survey that we present today is particularly important and the result will formalize an accurate picture of the possible improvements to the procedures involved before this body do daily. Looking for efficiency and visibility of our work as architects and enhancing the experience of the citizen to the extent that our suggestions are implemented. The time you spend will be well spent as long as the public service provided by the Planning influences many cases our experienced private client. The survey is divided into four blocks, related to the main areas of the Delegation of Urban and Environment of the City of Seville: PART 1 Works / Urban Planning Service Licenses BLOCK 2 Activities / Environmental Protection Service BLOCK 3 Technical Inspection Buildings BLOCK 4 Local Energy Agency The set of questions seeking not only the main problems you meet, but the methods of solution and can bring improvement are proposed. The College has made some of them, and today the digital processing of files is more real than ever. We need your experience to continue to lead the necessary fluidity and effectiveness of this important procedural step. The result of the survey, which have a completely anonymous treatment, will move to the Planning Department for information and as a basis for improving procedures.   Only COAS. link

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El objeto de la convocatoria es premiar el mejor Proyecto Fin de Carrera de Arquitectura del año 2014. Los premios serán honoríficos, realizando una entrevista al ganador y para mayor conocimiento, se recogerán los proyectos premiados en la página web www.tvarquitectura.com, ayudando a la difusión de los estudiantes que presenten su proyecto a este concurso. Puedes descargar los 5 paneles con la máxima resolución en este enlace This shop, specialized in selling pineapple cake (popular sweet in Taiwan), is in the shape of a bamboo basket. It is built on a joint system called “Jiigoku-Gumi,” traditional method used in Japanese wooden architecture (often observed in Shoji: vertical and cross pieces in the same width are entwined in each other to form a muntin grid). Normally the two pieces intersect in two dimensions, but here they are combined in 30 degrees in 3 dimensions (or in cubic), which came into a structure like a cloud. With this idea, the section size of each wood piece was reduced to as thin as 60mm×60mm. As the building is located in middle of the residential area in Aoyama, we wanted to give some soft and subtle atmosphere to it, which is completely different from a concrete box. We expect that the street and the architecture could be in good chemistry. Architects Kengo Kuma and Associates Vídeo: Vicente Hecht The Watson House. Boldre Location: Boldre, north of Lymington, New Forest National Park, Hampshire, England Architects: John Pardey Architects Date: 2.013 Video: RIBA