Luis Fernández-Galiano   Almost inadvertently, young Turks become young masters. Just after turning 50, and after 25 years of professional activity, Francisco Mangado is no longer the archetypal representative of that young Spanish generation that entered the schools of arch

Jorge Francisco Liernur   As we know, we are not ‘individuals’, but ‘dividuals’: a rather chaotic assortment of desires, memories, ideas, feelings, words, and physical impulses brought together by that which with the primitive simplicity of language we insist on calling the ‘

Kenneth Frampton   Among the more remarkable cultural phenomena of our time is the amount of civic architecture that has been realized in Spain over the past three decades. There is perhaps no other country in the Western world where there has been such an intense prod

Francisco Mangado   Spain   In Pamplona, the residential growth has evolved in an orderly way, without encroaching upon the city center and leaving the task of organizing the urban fabric to the open spaces (landscaped parks, walled precincts, squares, gardens, river promenades

Francisco Mangado   Spain   The building the new Archaeological Museum of Álava is configured from context and the continuity it establishes, both in terms of concept and program, with the adjoining Bendaña Palace, currently the Naipes Fournier Museum. The main entrance is thro

Francisco Mangado   Spain   Ávila is a dense and intense city. Its layout, centered and delimited by the smoothly crafted city walls, confirms this perception. There is, however, another mineral and topographic density that exists in the magnificent landscape of granite rocks t

Francisco Mangado   Spain   Located on a large plot by the technological park of the municipality of Sarriguren, 9 kilometers from Pamplona, the new building had to include, on a total area of 10,500 square meters of office space plus 8,745 of parking, a comprehensive and relat

Francisco Mangado   Spain   The project is based on two essential ideas: the first one springs from the conception of the place and of the building’s process of topographic adaptation; the second entails a sense of efficiency, which in this case has to do as much with the speed

Francisco Mangado   Spain   Teulada-Moraira is an atypical urban center. Though it is divided into two separate  physical units, it is however a single administrative one. Located in Alicante, in a valley that descends from the mountain to the sea, the town gives up neither its

Francisco Mangado   Spain   The new municipal stadium La Balastera goes up near the Palencia fair grounds. The sports complex is designed to serve not only as a soccer field, and takes on new tasks on two differentiated scales. The most unique feature o

Francisco Mangado   Spain   The plot chosen for the construction of the covered swimming pool is located at the highest point of the university campus of Orense. The different centers that altogether make up the University of Vigo are located in three Galician cities: Vigo, whe

Francisco Mangado   Spain   Evoking the space of a forest, or of a group of bamboos on a surface of water, is the idea that has always been present in the project’s subconscious. On the one hand there is a desire to create a ‘building mechanism’ able to generate endless possibi

Francisco Mangado   Spain    The center is located in Zenotz, in the Ultzama valley, one of the most humid areas of the north of Navarre, of sturdy but gently rolling hills, where the green pasture and the oak trees configure a landscape of strong personality, whose color chang