Manuel Gallego Jorreto   Spain   Across the Platerías facade of the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, and nestled in the shadow of the Berenguela Tower, stands the new Museum of Pilgrimages. A part of it is incorporated into the stone facade of the Banco de España building, erected

Manuel Gallego Jorreto   Spain   In the foothills of the Compostela campus, and next to one of its main access ways, arise three equal and distinct prisms. Their similarities and differences derive from both a lack of definition in the program and from the characteristics of the sit

Born in Carballiño (Ourense) in 1936, Manuel Gallego Jorreto is this year’s winner of Spain’s National Architecture Prize, given by the Public Works Ministry. This is his second time to land the award. In 1997 he was commended for a work, the Fine Ar

Manuel Gallego Manuel Gallego Jorreto, born in Carballiño (Ourense), in 1936, has received the Spanish National Architecture Award promoted by the Ministry of Public Works, a distinction it bestows annually to “pay a tribute of admiration to an archi

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Firmly rooted in his native Galicia, where he has built all his works, the architect has renewed the modern language with stern discipline and rough poetry.

15 Works Awarded The 12th edition of the BEAU (Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism) chose to commend a group category of fifteen works, divided into five categories. The first one – reconversion projects – included the Cineteca in Matadero

Manuel Gallego Created to acknowledge “people and institutions that commend and ennoble architectural activity”, the Gold Medal of the Council of Spanish Architectural Associations has gone in its 2010 edition to Manuel Gallego Jorreto (O Carballiño,

Creada para reconocer a ‘personas e instituciones que, en su trayectoria, ensalzan y ennoblecen el quehacer arquitectónico’, la Medalla de Oro del Consejo Superior de Arquitectos de España de 2010 ha sido otorgada a Manuel Gallego Jorreto (O Carballi

Most restoration jobs lead to the reutilization of the building for cultural purposes of diverse scale and nature. From the painstaking rehabilitation of an 18th-century Madrid hospital to accomodate a national art center, to the installation of loca

In Barcelona's Olympic Village, Oriol Bohigas sought to combine the features of an almost traditional block with the Modern Movement's various housing types, and the architects managed to come up with some plastically excellent examples under very st

If an architectural genre has flourished dramatically in the past decade, one has got to point to buildings with a cultural function. Large or small, in cities or villages, academic or popular, the constructions destined to accommodate artistic or sc

From the city museum to the village schoolhouse, architectures of education and culture constitute genuine spaces of public responsibility. As laboratories for formal experimentation but also a fertile field for programmatic and functional innovation

The promise and the risk of global culture have been expressed in Spain through three cosmopolitan feasts and a parochial funeral. The inauguration of the Domus in La Coruña, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona and the metro of Bilbao contras

At the direct service of health are the numerous hospital and clinical facilities that have gone up in the past years; and at the indirect service of health and physical welfare are the similarly proliferating sport complexes. Whether an exclusive fi

Manuel Gallego Jorreto   Arquitectura 1969-2015

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2015  
Fundación Arquia    - 60 Pages 

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