Rafael Otero was born in Cadiz in 1952 and graduated in architecture at the School of Architecture of Seville in 1979.

Since then, his architecture has been devoted to the area of Cadiz and surrounding regions, collaborating with architects like Alvaro Siza.

His work has been recognised through numerous awards in the region of Andalusia and has been featured at the Biennale di Venezia and other Biennales in Spain and Latinamerica

As a professor, he has lectured in several Spanish universities and has conducted symposiums and congresses of architecture

In easa011, Rafael Otero will speak about the style and sense of architecture in the region, basing his speech on his works and career of more than 30 years.

More Info: http://www.rafaelotero.com/

Rafael Otero

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MGM

[27th July]

Jose Morales Sanchez, (Seville, 1960) graduated as an architect from the Seville School of Architecture (ETSAS). In 1988 he obtained the qualification of Doctor of Architecture and in 2004 the professorship of the architectural Design Department of the University of Seville. He has given lectures and bed a guest professor at many Spanish and international universities, as the Istituto Universitario di Architettura in Venice, the Technische Universitat in Berlin, the Metropolitan University in London or the University of Texas at airlington. In 2006 he won the first FAD Thought and Criticism Award for his book La disolución de la estancia: transformaciones domesticas 1930-1960 (Rueda, Madrid, 2005).

Sara de Giles (Seville, 1972) graduated as an architect from ETSAS and is an assistant lecturer in the Architectural Design Department of the University of Seville. She has given lectures and been a guest professor at many Spanish and international universities, as the Federico Santa María Technical University in Valparaiso, the Irish Architectural Association / Cervantes Institute in Dublin or the Institut Français d’Architecture in Paris

More info: http://www.morales-giles-mariscal.com/

Born in Navarra in 1957, Francisco Mangado got his degree in architecture at the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra, where he developed his work as a professor since 1982. In the education field, he has also been a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and at l’École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. In June 2008 he promoted the Architecture and Society Foundation, which works to promote interaction between architecture and other disciplines related to creation, thought and economics. Alongside his academic work and his dedication to the programs of the Foundation, he actively works as an architect at his studio in Pamplona.

Thanks to his work he has received, among others, the Andrea Palladio Award for Architecture, the Thiene Architecture prize, the Architécti Prize, the Prize of the CEOE and the FAD. His Plaza Dali in Madrid won the first prize in the XX edition of the Planning, Architecture and Public Works Awards 2005, awarded by the City of Madrid. He has also won the First Prize in the Saloni Architecture Awards 2007, the Enor Grand Prize of Architecture 2007 and the First Prize in the COAL Architecture 2007 in the category of new construction of public buildings for his Football Stadium “New Balastera” in Palencia. His Spanish Pavilion at Expo Zaragoza 2008 has won the following awards: First Prize at the VII edition of Architectural Pottery ASCER in 2008, the First Prize in Building Construmat 2009, the “Giancarlo Ius Gold Medal” awarded by the UIA at the Fourth International Biennial of Architecture “Barbara Cappochin” in August 2009 and in September of the same year the Garcia Mercadal Prize, awarded by the College of Architecture of Aragon (COA). In October 2009 the Superior Council of Colleges of Architects of Spain (CSCAE) gave this same building Spanish Architecture Award 2009. In September of that year the Archaeological Museum in Vitoria received the Copper in Architecture Awards, organized by the European Copper Institute in London and in March 2010, Prime COAVN Architecture Award 2010 in the category Building Endowment.

More Info: http://www.fmangado.com/

Francisco Mangado

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La Panadería

[30th July 2011]

La Panaderia (The Bakery) is an architectural office initially started by Eva Morales Soler, David Cañavate Cazorla and Ruben Alonso Mallén studying at the School of Architecture of Seville. After spending several years in Barcelona, Berlin and Torino working, studying and participating in projects closest to art than to architecture in 2003 returned to Seville and decide to start working together.

They found a place near an ancient bakery and there they found the name, they liked the idea of mixing ingredients, transforming and performing a simple and natural a task for basic, everyday life. At first they shared space and projects with CALC artists group. Now they have another space and are dedicated more and more every time to “architecture”

After the first 4 years they started to finish some work with a mixture of pride in the results, customer satisfaction, and self-criticism for mistakes. Then they became aware of the complexity of the process of building “something”.

They like working with the context, rather reinterpreting than inventing. Proposing solutions to problems in a contemporary way but also playing with what exists, as in a see-saw in strange balance.

More Info: http://www.despachodepan.com