New headquarters in Piazza Navona of the Embassy of Spain in Italy, Rome, 2019-2024

The architect joined the Royal Academy of Fine Arts reflecting on architecture projects, to soon afterwards receive the medal of the late Antonio Fernández Alba.

The term ‘interpretation’ is not usually used in architecture, but in other disciplines it is, and in music almost always. The composer creates a work, and other people – of a later era more often than not – play it, making their own version of what may originally have had an altogether different intention. The interpretation is a personal creation, something that is in the interpreter’s imagination, where it has lain in fertilization with other thoughts. Something from another time is rescued, and in the process there is a transformation of that which was was originally created. The word ‘interpretation’ is also used in the field of literature, when translators make their own sense of a text first penned in a foreign language. In both disciplines, hence, there is a clear dividing line between interpretation and the conception of something brand new...[+]