Manuel de las Casas   Spain   This housing project won first prize in a competition of design and building teams, in which constructive innovation was an essential premise. The apartment blocks, each with five levels, house four units per floor in a linear scheme, with the majori

Manuel de las Casas   Spain   On the banks of the Douro, where it passes through Zamora enroute to Portugal, stood the Convent of San Francisco, a Gothic construction of which much still remains. This ecclesiastical premise is now a center for cultural exchange, thanks to a proje

1940-2014 Born in 1940 in Talavera de la Reina, where he built his very first work after graduating in 1964, De las Casas developed a fertile career in the professional, academic and administrative fields. As an architect, he designed important colle

Manuel de las Casas died on 7 February in Madrid. He was born in 1940 in Talavera de la Reina, where he built his first work shortly after graduating in 1964. De las Casas had a long teaching career in the Madrid school, starting as assistant profess

Marta García Carbonero   Faculty in La Coruña and Station in Córdoba  Two buildings – one in Galicia and the other in Andalusia – share the National Prize for Architecture, bestowed every two years by Spain’s Council of Architectural Institutes in conjunction with the M