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Fernando Menis. The nature of reevaluated architecture. 

Presentation in Madrid of the magazine Architecture Snob.

When: May, 4th 2023, 18:00h – 21:00h

Where: Madrid, Casa de la Luz de Simón, C. de Sta. Cruz de Marcenado, 1

Registration: free, prior registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fernando-menis-the-nature-of-reevaluated-architecture-tickets-625145606337?fbclid=IwAR2LKisBIirpm3x90H76i4Wg5XHKkC1UzLNWrR7r9ieJ3ozJQ57hJNGEmNI

 

A friend of mine likes saying that doctors treat people starting from the skin to within their body, while architects approach people from their skin to outside their body. We are responsible for people living in good conditions – states architect Fernando Menis.

 

The discussion between the Canary Islands-based architect Fernando Menis and Iván Blasi, a Chief Programmer at Fundación Mies van der Rohe, hosted by Marcin Szczelina, Editor-in-chief of the magazine Architecture Snob, will be an opportunity to reflect on the fact that it is not possible to design in isolation from what is happening in the world. Thus, architecture has to respond to the migratory phenomenon that directly affects the worsening of the housing crisis; it must also face the prospect of a climatic catastrophe of which the increasingly frequent anomalies warn us. Observing and learning from design practices which pay attention to circularity and locality, critical to the way materials are used in construction, can improve our built world.  This type of approach is what the Architecture Snob magazine is committed to, having been born to critically and constructively analyze the direction in which contemporary architecture should develop. This event is an opportunity to learn about Fernando Menis’s work  and is part of the presentation, in Madrid, of the new architecture magazine, Architecture Snob, which has recently begun to be distributed in Spain.

 

AGENDA

 

> Welcome

18: 15/20h-18:20h 

 

> Talks

18:20h – 18:40h

Marcin Szczelina, Architecture critic 

 

18.40h – 19.00h

Fernando Menis, Architect

 

> Q&A 

19:00h – 19:30h

Discussion between architect Fernando Menis and Iván Blasi,Chief Programmer at the Mies van der Rohe Foundation, moderated by Marcin Szczelina

 

>Cocktail

19:30h – 21:00h

 

Biograms:

 

Fernando Menis

A Phd Architect with more than forty years of creative production around constructive solutions based on nature and its forces, recycling, traditional building techniques, form and matter, Fernando Menis approaches, alone or co-authored, works of various scales and typologies, with a special interest in public spaces and environmental rehabilitation projects, as well as public buildings. Among the former, the El Tanque Cultural Space Garden, the Dragon Tree Park, the Rehabilitation of the Viera y Clavijo Park, the Cuchillitos de Tristán Park, the Plaza España in Adeje, the Plaza Bürchen in Switzerland, the Pool on the Spree river of Berlin, the Botanical Garden of La Orotava, the Vallehermoso Botanical Garden in La Gomera. Among the latter, the most notable are the Park Seo Bo Art Museum in South Korea, the CKK Culture and Congress Center in Poland, the Church of Las Chumberas, Magma Art & Congress and the Presidency of the Government of the Canary Islands in Tenerife.

 

Iván Blasi 

Ivan Blasi was born in Barcelona, son of a doctor, researcher and a photographer. He studied architecture and did an Erasmus exchange in Delft. After opening his own studio with two partners and being secretary general of Docomomo international, he focused on teaching at the Barcelona Architecture School and collaborating with Fundació Mies van der Rohe.Here, he began organizing the research projects with architecture schools from all over the world and curating interventions in the Barcelona Pavilion with artists from different fields. Since 2014 he has been curator of programmes and awards, developing the exhibitions, publications, debates and dissemination of this European institution.

 

Marcin Szczelina

Architecture critic and curator based in Warsaw. An expert of the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. The founder and editor-in-chief of the Architecture Snob Magazine. Jury member of Simon Architecture Prize 2022. Climate Leadership Program expert under the auspices of the UN Environment Program. Co-creator of the project “Let’s talk about garbage” presented at the main exhibition of the Architecture Biennale in Venice in 2016 and at the European Parliament in Brussels in 2017. Curator of the exhibition “Littered – stories from a civilizational landfill” presented at the Copernicus Science Center in 2019.