Francisco Mangado is a Navarrese architect with an international projection. He attended the architecture school of the University of Navarre, in Pamplona, and has maintained his practice in the Navarrese capital. Since his graduation he has combined an intense professional career with teaching.

Having given postgraduate classes at Harvard University, in 2008 he became Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor at Yale. He is also a professor in the Master of Architectural Design program at the University of Navarre.

Mangado capped the FAD architecture award in 2004 for the Baluarte Auditorium and Congress Center in Pamplona, and the Saloni architecture award in 2007. He has won many competitions, including those for the Fine Arts Museum of Asturias (2006) and the Spanish Pavilion at the International Exposition of Zaragoza (2008). For the latter, in 2009 he received several honors in a row: the National Architecture Prize given by Spani’s overall Council of Architect`s Associations, the Fernando García Mercadal Prize awarded by the Association of Aragon Architects, and the Giancarlo Ius Gold Medal that the International Union of Architects (UIA) grants each year to the most innovative project in the field of energy saving and renewable energy technologies.

Another recent Mangado building, the Archaeology Museum of Vitoria, brought him the 14th Copper in Architecture Award of the European Copper Institute.

Link: www.fmangado.com