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Jose Antonio Corrales – Biography

BIOGRAPHY.

José Antonio Gutierrez was born in Madrid Corrales, Spain, in 1921.

At age 27 years old, in 1948, obtained a degree in Architecture from the School of Architecture of Madrid. The same year of completion of the race won the National Architecture contest with the theme of “A chapel in La Mancha”.

Generationally, Corrales is in an intermediate segment between generating Fisac ​​Miguel and Javier Carvajal. He was assigned to a group called by some group or school of Madrid Madrid, with exponents as Alejandro de la Sota, Cabrero and Francis Assisi Saenz de Oíza, among other architects of renown and singled out by what is known as rationalism postwar academically (Rationalist Neo), current that found its peak between 50 and 60 twentieth century.

In 1952 initiated a collaboration with the architect Ramón Vázquez Molezún. The two would collaborate on numerous projects as was the Spanish Pavilion at the Brussels World Fair 1958, with which won first prize in the National. , representatives of a powerful architecture, rigorous and very expressive.

In 1961 becomes a teacher in the School of Architecture of Madrid.

Subsequently, after a time away from teaching, again in 1981 School of Architecture of Madrid.

Was academic by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, won the Gold Medal in Architecture 1992 and Antonio Camuñas Award in 2004. In 2001 he was again recognized National Architecture Award for its achievements in your life.

He died in Madrid on 25 July 2010.

Jose Antonio Corrales occasionally showed his bitterness against the erosive aging some of its buildings recorded and attributed to laziness, official or private, maintenance observed. However, architecture, marked by an inspired Neo Dutch masters but highly original and autochthonous, with great attention to technological innovations and the smooth issuance of topography on tectonic, the landscape on housing; place the architect died among the most faithful to the changes experienced by his generation and his time. Industrious and tenacious in their study, many of his colleagues have emphasized the enthusiasm “almost adolescent” with that until late Jose Antonio Corrales was appearing at numerous contests. Moreover, juries comprised of the most important qualifiers architectural ventures, fact which gave the failures of these organs die a distinctive credit for their knowledge and seniority.

AWARDS.

  • 1948 National Architecture Award.
  • 1957 Information Pavilion Award of the City of Madrid.
  • 1958 Award of the Spanish Pavilion at the Brussels World Fair.
  • Studies Circle Award for Architecture in Paris.
  • 1960 Construction Award Huerta del Rey.
  • 1992 Gold Medal of Architecture (CSAE).
  • 1999 CEOE Foundation Architecture Prize.
  • 2004 Antonio Camuñas Award for Architecture.
  • 2001 National Architecture Award.

Major Projects.

His work was extensive and included performances as;

  • The Public Library project for the city of Tehran, capital Irani, the fall of the Shah Reza Pahlevi, in 1979, prevented build.
  • The Spain Pavilion at the International Exhibition of Brussels, in 1958, a proposal based on hexagons attached later was remade in the grounds of the Country Fair Madrid, where this original construction languishes.
  • Another of his works was Elviña urbanization, in Corunna, which overlapped a residential complex topography of the landscape ataludada chosen to build it. Coruñesas Some voices have denounced the alleged abandonment state that this development, very avant-garde at the time, is today after several performances that have disintegrated some components tectonic.
  • People of colonization Llanos del Sotillo in Andújar (Jaén).
  • Theoespacio Exhibition Gallery in 1990.
  • PRAISE light [video] : a journey through contemporary Spanish architecture / director: Juan Manuel Martín de Blas.
  • Murado, Clara. Group homes in North Valdebernardo, plots 7,8,9 and 10 in 1996.
  • Residence of Miraflores de la Sierra (Madrid)
  • Editorial Headquarters Reader's Digest (Madrid)
  • Huarte builder townhouses (Madrid)
  • Huarte House (Madrid)
  • House of the writer Camilo Jose Cela (Palma de Mallorca)
  • Parador de Turismo de Sotogrande (Cadiz)

With Vazquez Molezún, Corrales was also the author of numerous projects that are described in Corrales and Molezún Blog.

 

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