Location: Aedes am Pfefferberg, Hall, Christinenstr. 18-19, 10119 Berlin
Exhibition dates: 13 December 2011 – 26 January 2012
Exhibition Opening: Tuesday, 13 December 2011, 6:30 pm
Opening Hours: Tue – Fri 11 a.m. – 6:30 p.m., Sat – Sun 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Born in 1957, Francisco Mangado is one of the most prominent and prolific of his generation of Spanish architects. Among his most widely published and acclaimed works are the Baluarte Congress Center and Auditorium in his native Pamplona, the building that first earned him international stature; the Spanish Pavilion at Expo Zaragoza, which won him a UIA Giancarlo Ius Gold Medal besides Spain’s National Architecture Prize for an individual work; the Archaeology Museum in Vitoria, winner of the European Copper in Architecture Award; the Municipal Exhibition and Congress Center in Ávila, which along with the Baluarte graced the ‘Spain Builds’ exhibition held at the MoMA in New York City; the Ultzama Equestrian Center in rural Pamplona; and, most recently, the Municipal Auditorium of Teulada (Alicante), the first Mediterranean Mangado.
Besides buildings public and private, Mangado creates a line of lamps, seats, and benches. His pedagogic vocation centers around his graduate-level professorship at the University of Navarre but regularly has him teaching in architecture schools abroad as well, as at Harvard, Yale, and currently the EPF of Lausanne. Last but not least is Mangado’s commitment, through his Fundación de Arquitectura y Sociedad, to boost architecture’s interaction with other disciplines and sectors.

The flexibility of Mangado’s work and its capacity to negotiate – with social actors, material and history – is fundamental. To quote himself: “Time is the most important material in the undertaking of architecture; the search for beauty is an ethical dimension in architecture; form in architecture, can only be understood as being subject to content; architecture has a civic dimension and is a social discipline”.

The traveling show ‘Francisco Mangado Arquitecto.’ premiered early this year in Madrid’s Círculo de Bellas Artes to move on to his own Municipal Auditorium in Teulada and the Palacio del Condestable in his hometown, Pamplona.
Through models of building projects and digital representations of interior fixtures and urban furniture pieces, it presents a large part of the Navarrese’s output as an architect and industrial designer in the past years.
A documentary then takes us on a tour of his major built works while making us privy to some of his deepest-held views and reflections, candidly expressed in an interview, with cameo appearances by mentors and friends including Rafael Moneo, Álvaro Siza, Eduardo Souto de Moura  and Juan Herreros.
Finally, a publication bequeathing us with a selection of his drawings, writings  and photos of his projects will be available with an exhibition catalog published by AEDES (€ 10.-).

The exhibition will be on show in Lubjana, Lausanne and Paris after Berlin.

Exhibition organizers: AEDES + Hélicon Axis + Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid + Embajada de España en Berlín y Oficina Cultural

Speakers at the opening will be:
Dr. h.c. Kristin Feireiss, Aedes
SE Rafael Dezcallar, Ambassador of Spain in Berlin
Lars Lerup, Rice University, Texas
Luis Fernández-Galiano, Architect, Chair Professor of Projects at the ETSAM (School of Architecture of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), editor of the magazines AV / Arquitectura Viva

Visual material related to the exhibition is available from Ulla Giesler at ug@aedes-arc.de

The exhibition has received generous support from:
Acción Cultural Española AC/E, Ministerio de Cultura / Gobierno de España, Instituto Cervantes en Berlín, Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad, ALS, B.Lux|Vanlux, Gatrooms Hotel Berlin and the Aedes Cooperation Partners Zumtobel, Busch-Jaeger, carpet concept, and Axor hansgrohe.