Fernando Redón

(1929-2016)

One of the finest Navarrese architects of the 20th century, author of emblems built in the course of almost six decades, died in Pamplona at 87 years of age. After graduating from the Madrid School of Architecture in 1957, Fernando Redón focused his work in the Navarre region, introducing there a modernity that had gone through an organicist sieve, a mark of Frank Lloyd Wright but also of the best of popular architecture in Spain. The result was a series of buildings of great aesthetic and tectonic quality, from the Huarte House in Pamplona (1959) to the avant-garde Ubarmin Clinic in Elcano (1968) and the Control Center of the Portland factory in Olazagutía (1972), passing through the powerful Huarte Towers in Pamplona’s gridded extension (1963) and the exquisite Golf Club at Ultzama (1964), both of these in collaboration with Javier Guibert. The multifaceted Redón also devoted himself to photography and painting, served as advisor to the Culture Ministry, carried out important publishing projects addressing nature, art, and heritage in Navarre, and for nearly a decade taught design studio at the University of Navarre.