Miguel Fisac   Spain   Before the liturgical revolution brought about by the Second Vatican Council, Fisac set out to renew the compositional parameters of his own temples. The desire to “create sacred space in which man would yearn to approach God” is made evident in the

Miguel Fisac   Spain   Among Gardens and courtyards, the Dominican theological center of Alcobendas lies on a valley with a nine meter drop that descends towards the stream of Valdevevas. Conceived at a time when Fisac was thinking about leaving the Opus Dei, this project

Miguel Fisac   Spain   Only partially completed, the pavilions of the Teacher Training Center which go up by the highway of La Coruña reveal the purpose they serve by way of a distinct volumetry. The brick volumes that are taken up by the access area, the classrooms, the o

Miguel Fisac   Spain   A flat and treeless plot – which owes its name to the fact that it was the place where the Crown money was custodied in the fifteenth century – was chosen by the Dominican Fathers to build a school where, aside from studying, the students could also

Miguel Fisac   Spain   By request of Fisac to the Secretary Ibañez Martín, Daimiel became the site for the first labor institute of Spain, an initiative aimed at introducing in our country the German experience in vocational training. Later on he designed the centers of Al

Miguel Fisac   Spain   This commission took Fisac on a trip around Europe to see up close the stabling conditions of animals used for testing purposes. Between October and November of 1949, he became well acquainted with that modernity, less orthodox and closer to nature a

Miguel Fisac   Spain   Formed by pavilions designed in several phases, the Garvey winery complex was raised on a plot amongst vineyards in the north of the city, by the road that joins Madrid and Cádiz. A garden that was not completely finished links up the different piece

Miguel Fisac   Spain   On number four of Castellana Avenue, Fisac raised for the company IBM one of his buildings with greater urban vocation. The protection from the heat of the afternoon sun – a priority for the company after the experience with one of their American hea

Miguel Fisac   Spain   Sign of an optimistic and gradually modern Madrid that spread towards the airport in search of connections with the exterior, the Jorba laboratories came out of the architect’s studio boards when he already enjoyed unanimous recognition. Though the e

Miguel Fisac   Spain   After Anaick, his older daughter, passed away, Fisac was commissioned by Monsignor Morcillo, archbishop of Madrid-Alcalá, and the construction company Urbis, to build a parish center in the neighborhood of Moratalaz. In a residual plot with a six met

Miguel Fisac   Spain   The reproach of his friend Fernando Casinello for his lack of interest towards the structural solutions in his projects encouraged Fisac to test, in the competition for the church of San Esteban in Cuenca (1960), double curvature beams whose section

Miguel Fisac   Spain   The headquarters of Made laboratories, where he already used concrete as single material, foreshadowed two aspects that marked the architect’s production in the sixties decade: on one hand, the fruitful relationship with the pharmacy industry, for wh

Miguel Fisac   Spain   While he was designing an urban plan for San Juan, in Alicante, Fisac received the commission to build a small administration building. To underscore its presence amidst a cluster of apartments towers, the architect displayed a formal freedom which w

Miguel Fisac   Spain   Arepeated pattern – that allows to sense the heart and the cross present in the emblem of the Hermanas Hospitalarias order – dominates the facade of this small center for social purposes located in the south of Madrid. On one of the most central stre

Miguel Fisac   Spain   Amidst the apartment towers of Madrid’s Barrio del Pilar, this parish center of the Carmelite Fathers asserts its public condition with a horizontal silhouette and a concrete enclosure whose relief shows geometrical patterns similar to those of the A

Miguel Fisac   Spain   Concealed amidst the thick vegetation of the residential colony La Moraleja, this house protects the family’s privacy behind a cladding of prefabricated white concrete panels. The living room, gathering areas, dining room, kitchen and two bedrooms oc

Miguel Fisac   Spain   Amongst the dunes of Fuerteventura’s coast, the stout volumetry of this hotel fades with a pyramidal contour which evokes that of Lobos island. Mass tourism allowed Fisac to study concrete prefabrication at a large scale. “It was commissioned by a Ge

Miguel Fisac   Spain   The Mupag rehabilitation center replaces two houses of a residential complex in the district of Chamartín and is set back at successive points to comply with the urban regulations. Aside from the doctors’ offices and the physical therapy and surgery

Marta García Carbonero   Few architects are as widely published as Miguel Fisac. Just when it seemed that little could be added, three new books suddenly expand the bibliography. Two monographs now accompany the ‘complete works’ published by Francisco Arqués, by Andrés Cánov

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Architecture has a difficult relationship with color. If heroic modernity embraced a clinical, hygienic white, subsequent revisions extended the palette to the natural tones of raw material, but without giving up on the ascetic ideal of chromatic rel

For the centenary of Miguel Fisac (Daimiel, 1913–Madrid, 2006) and Alejandro de la Sota (Pontevedra, 1913–Madrid, 1996), the ICO Museum in Madrid hosts an exhibition on the life and work of both masters of modern Spanish architecture. Curated by Carl

Marta García Carbonero   Inquisitive and tenacious, Fisac abandoned academicism for a spiritual and technical architecture that he developed with organic masonry, beam-bones and padded skins.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   We begin to celebrate the centenaries of those who were our masters, and the many anniversaries in 2013 prompts a pixelated portrait of architecture after the First World War with ten biographies of figures born on the eve of the Second. In my case,

2013 is a year of centenaries. We commemorate the birth of ten masters: five Spaniards, one Japanese, one Greek, one Azerbaijan-French and two Argentinians. The Spaniards (José Antonio Coderch, Alejandro de la Sota, Miguel Fisac, Antoni Bonet i Caste

Fermín González Blanco   El arquitecto Miguel Fisac, fallecido hace ahora cuatro años, protagoniza dos publicaciones recientes, ambas esperadas. Por un lado, un libro editado por Ricardo Sánchez Lampreave para el Ministerio de la Vivienda con ocasión del Premio Nacional de A

Francisco Arques   Con el título Miguel Fisac. Huesos varios, el pasado mes de mayo se inauguró, simultáneamente en la sede del Colegio de Arquitectos de Cataluña en Barcelona y en la Fundación del Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid, una exposición que recoge uno

(1913-2006) “I have always designed with the criterion to understand the architecture but not the forms; therefore, there is no formal criterion, but rather a conceptual one”. It was with this phrase that the architect, born in Daimiel, summed up his

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Llevaba años preparándola. Miguel Fisac orquestó la ceremonia de los adioses como su último proyecto. El progresivo despojamiento, la creación de la Fundación, el traslado de los archivos a Ciudad Real, las disposiciones finales y hasta sus ‘poemas d

David García Montes   En octubre de 1952, un grupo de arquitectos españoles —Aburto, Bidagor, Cabrero, Chueca, Fisac y Zuazo entre otros— partieron a la Alhambra para una estancia de tres días, con la seria intención de meditar sobre las bases de una nueva arquitectura en

Mohsen Mostafavi   Miguel Fisac’s work never quite follows the trajectory of his contemporaries. Maybe it is the influence of his travels, his familiarity with international architecture, or his interest in a broader intellectual debate that give his work an unconventi

Kenneth Frampton   Fame and fortune are capricious companions to the extent that the one by no means guarantees the other, while innate talent, which is at times a pre-condition for both, is equally rare. Miguel Fisac is an exceptionally talented architect on whom fort

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The long career of Miguel Fisac is orchestrated here in three movements, linked to the Renaissance triad vis-cupiditas-amor (strength-ambition-love), chosen so that the dialogue between nature and history may cover the three stages of his work (relat

Setting himself apart from the abstraction of the Modern Movement, Fisac combined constructional rationality with the traditions of Castilla La Mancha in his buildings of tile and whitewashed load-bearing walls... [+]

Marta García Carbonero   In the famous photograph of the Madrid studio on number 5 of Villanueva street, a trowel and a section of hollow brick rest as paperweights on the work desk. Taken out of context, these two objects succinctly summarize the role of brick masonry durin

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The road that leads to Madrid’s modest acropolis on the racetrack heights begins in a small town of La Mancha, Daimiel. There was born in 1913 the son of a pharmacist who later went to school in Badajoz, led in 1929 student protests against the depen

When the size of the pieces allowed their being lifted and transported, pre-stressed beams were the chosen solution, like in the Valladolid institute, the Somosaguas houses, the school La Asunción or the computing center... [+]

Marta García Carbonero   More greek than Roman, Miguel Fisac replaced the vault with the lintel. In Spain, a country which shyly adapted to the new developments during the sixties decade, the great spans demanded by the industrial and research buildings served as motivation

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The growing popularity of Miguel Fisac as author of religious architectures did not prevent a gradual distancing from the Opus Dei, whose founder was also his confessor, though this circumstance did not help to consolidate the link between them. Afte

This civic center manages to blend with its surroundings through an assembly of white prisms and tinted glass windows which echo the painted bands that characterize the public buildings of this Sevillian town... [+]

Marta García Carbonero   The world oil crisis also coincided with the decrease of the studio’s activity; during the decade of the seventies, the commissions were few in a Spain in political transition, where the profession changed at the same pace as the economic and politic

David García Manzanares   Ciudad Real  2023  
Fundación Miguel Fisac Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Castilla-La Mancha   - 296 Pages 

Diego Peris Sánchez   1943-2006

Diego Peris Sánchez   1942-1991

Ana Victoria López   Jaén  2016  
Libros.com   - 524 Pages 

Carlos Asensio-Wandosell Moisés Puente   Madrid  2013  
La Fábrica   - 237 Pages 

Ricardo Sánchez Lampreave   Premio Nacional de Arquitectura 2002

Francisco Arqués Soler   Ciudad Real  2009  
Fundación Miguel Fisac   - 295 Pages