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| Rafael Moneo: Theory through Practice Archive Materials, 1961-2013 |
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 FUNDACIÓN BARRIÉ, A CORUÑA, dal 24/10/2013 al 30/03/2014
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Between 24 October 2013 and 30 March 2014 the Fundación Barrié will host a new cultural and educational project: Rafael Moneo. Theory through Practice. Archive Materials 1961-2013. The exhibition is the first comprehensive retrospective of the architect’s work. Curated by Francisco González de Canales of the London Architectural Association, it has been produced entirely by the Fundación Barrié in collaboration with the studio of Rafael Moneo.
To accompany the exhibition the Fundación Barrié is organizing a full program of educational activities, all of which will be free of charge. Besides customary guided tours for adults, education workshops for children and families, the program includes a master class offered by the architect prior to the exhibition opening to the students of the School of Architecture at the University of A Coruña.
The exhibition (from 24 October 2013 to 30 March 2014 in Coruna) is structured into five biographical sections that span his entire career and show 46 projects through 18 models, 142 photographs and 98 original drawings. At the presentation, the architect offered to view two works included in the display: a drawing and a model of the National Museum of Roman Art in Mérida, Spain (1980-1986), one of Moneo’s signature pieces.
Furthermore, the selection of the materials reveals the importance of drawing as a fundamental tool and medium used by the architect to develop his work and frame his intellectual approach. Accompanying the drawings are models and photographs from his archive to illustrate the selected works. This is the first time that such a significant ensemble of original drawings has been put together for public viewing to divulge the work and thought of Rafael Moneo.
Rafael Moneo: Theory through Practice tells the story of an architect who has sought to define an approach to the architectural project on a stable disciplinary base amid the changing conditions of his time, assuming the difficult task of vindicating architecture as a culture and specific form of knowledge. But this story not only describes the work of an architect, it also recounts an important part of the history of architecture through his eyes. From the organicist and stucturalist tendencies of the 1950s and 60s; to the Italian discourses on the city of the 60s and 70s; to theoretical anxiety of architects of America’s East Coast of the 70s and 80s; to the creation of the global “star system” of the 1990s, the exhibition tracks, through the five biographical sections, how the architect has resisted, reflected and absorbed this diversity of interests to shape his own cultural thought system.
Following the interdisciplinary forays of recent decades, a revision of Rafael Moneo’s career presents a timely opportunity to discuss what the work of an architect is, what it can offer society, and what type of knowledge it involves.
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| Fundación Barrié - Tel: + 34 981 060 091 / [email protected]
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| www.fundacionbarrie.org |
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