Pamplona-based architect, Francisco Mangado will visit Australia in September and October for the Australian Institute of Architects’ International Speaker Series.
The educator and advocate will showcase his award-winning designs and share his cross-discipline philosophies.
He will be speaking in Sydney on Tue Sep 25, Brisbane on Thu Sep 27, Melbourne on Tue Oct 2 and Perth on Thu Oct 4.
Born in Navarre in 1957, Mangado earned his architecture degree from the University of Navarre School of Architecture in 1982, and has since made this institution the centre of his teaching career.
He has been a Guest Professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, as well as Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor at Yale’s School of Architecture. He is Studio Professor in the Navarre school’s Master of Architectural Design program and Visiting Professor at l’École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
Municipal Auditorium of Teulada. Photography by Juan Rodríguez.
In June 2008 he set up the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad, which aims to help increase architecture’s interaction with other fields of knowledge and action. His architectural practice is combined with this academic activity and foundation work, which he runs from his studio in Pamplona.
Municipal Exhibition and Congress Centre, Ávila. Photography by Pedro Pegenaute ©Pegenaute.
Notable among Mangado's works are the Cultural Centre and Church in Thiene (Italy), the Auditorium and Congress Centre of Pamplona, the Place Pey Berland in Bordeaux, the Municipal Exhibition and Congress Centre of Ávila, the Archaeology Museum of Vitoria, the Football Stadium of Palencia, and the Spanish Pavilion at the 2008 International Exposition in Zaragoza. More recent projects include the Congress Centre of Palma de Mallorca, the Fine Arts Museum of Asturias in Oviedo, and the Municipal Auditorium of Teulada.
Tickets for the International Speaker Series are available at
www.architecture.com.au/internationalspeakerseries and discounts will be offered for large group bookings.
