Architects of Madrid: Emilio Tuñón
In May 2018, the Culture Award of the Community of Madrid in the Heritage category recognized the work of the Madrid architect Emilio Tuñón
Brief biographical sketch
Emilio Tuñón (Madrid, 1 January 1959).
Graduated by the School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM) in 1981 and doctor by the same institution since the year 2000, newly obtained his title continues his training in the study of Rafael Moneo, with which for ten years he will collaborate in several projects and works with his colleague Luis Moreno Mansilla (1959-2012).
In 1992 they founded the Mansilla + Tuñón studio, from which they will develop an intense teaching activity for twenty years, which leads them to be visiting professors, among others, at the universities of Princeton, Frankfurt and Lausanne, the Harvard design school or the schools of Barcelona, San Pablo CEU and Navarra.
The studio has received many of the most prestigious awards in the industry: in 2003 the National Prize for Architecture, the Mies van der Rohe Prize and the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture in 2007, and the 2014 Gold Medal for Fine Arts.
From 2012, the architect continues his solo work from his studio Tuñón Arquitectos. In addition, he is a professor of projects at the School of Architecture of Madrid and, from 2007, honorary patron of the Arquia Foundation.
Works
Tuñón and Mansilla will build numerous public and private buildings throughout Spain, such as the City Hall of Lalín, the Auditorium of León, different private homes (in Cádiz, Cáceres or Tarifa, among others) or the Atrio de Cáceres hotel.
But his most recognized works are linked to the cultural sector, such as the construction of the Barrié de la Maza Foundation in Vigo or the recovery of the El Águila beers building as a Community Archive and Regional Library.
They are also in charge of numerous museum projects: the renovation of the Zamora Museum, the Castellón Museum, the MUSAC in León, the Museum of Fine Arts in Cantabria or the center for the Helga de Alvear collection in Cáceres.
In Madrid, the studio builds the San Fernando de Henares Swimming Center and wins the competition for the construction of the new Royal Collections Museum.
It is a space of more than 40.000 m2 Distributed on six floors, built next to the Royal Palace and in which, through mostly open-plan rooms, a selection of the magnificent collection of National Heritage will be exhibited.
Among other projects selected in competitions are the Museum of Migrations of Algeciras, the Dome of Energy of Soria or the International Convention Center of Madrid.
In 1993 Tuñón and Mansilla founded, together with Luis Rojo, the CIRCO thinking cooperative from which they publish the magazine of the same name, and which has been recognized with different awards, including the COAM prize (Official College of Architects of Madrid) the best cultural initiative 1995, the special award of the critic FAD 2007 or the III Iberoamerican Biennial of Architecture and Engineering.
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