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| ABOUT THE ARCHITECT >> | ||||
| Born in 1937 in Tudelo, Spain, Moneo earned his degree in architecture in Madrid where he established his office in 1966. He also is a dedicated teacher, having taught at Harvard University since 1985, and a prolific writer on post-modern architecture. Moneo has been honored with numerous awards including the prestigious Pritzker Prize for Architecture in 1996. | ||||
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Moneo has designed museums, cathedrals, concert halls and other major
structures throughout Europe, the Middle East, Australia and the United
States all of which embody a unique relationship between architecture
and its surroundings. Moneo’s approach can be summarized by two guiding
principles: an awareness of place which recognizes the primacy
of the landscape which outlives buildings and the people that inhabit
them, and the active gaze whereby the building orients our attention
to new and surpising vistas. Let’s see how this awareness of place
and the active gaze are reflected in Moneo’s Kursaal Auditorium and
Congress Center in San Sebastián, located along the coast of the
Cantabrian Sea in northern Spain. The beauty of San Sebastián is largely due to its spectacular environment of bays, islands, beaches and mountains. Moneo proposed a complex of buildings that would not violate the landscape of the site. As you can see in his preliminary sketch, he conceived the Auditorium and the Congress Hall as two gigantic rocks stranded at the mouth of the river. They fuse more with their natural surroundings than with the surrounding cityscape. The Auditorium is slightly inclined toward to sea, emphasizing the importance of this proximity. This results in an asymmetrical layout of the interior space, which is oriented in such a way that a visitor is unconsciously led to the highest level to observe the sea in its entire splendor. The wall is a steel structure clad with special laminated glass, which makes the interior neutral and luminous. Outside, the building is a dense and opaque mass by day and a mysterious and dazzling source of light by night. As you look at Moneo’s other projects in this exhibition, you will find diverse examples of a thoughtful interaction between architecture and landscape. At the end of the tour, please reserve some time to see Moneo’s most recent project, the New Studios Building of Cranbrook Academy of Art, located on the southeast side of the Museum. The best view of this building is from the window in the Reading Room where you also will find a selection of books and articles on the architect. |
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| THANK YOU >> | ||||
| Rafael Moneo: Recent Architecture, 1990-2002 is generously sponsored at Cranbrook by Lila and Gilbert Silverman, with additional support from Keenie and Geoffrey Feiger and Jonathan Holtzman. The exhibition was organized by the Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation in Mallorca and the Official College of Architects of the Balearic Islands in Spain. The presentation at Cranbrook, its only American stop on an international tour, was developed in collaboration with Studio Moneo in Madrid. | ||||
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The catalogue of the exhibition, Rafael Moneo, De la Fundació a la Catedral de L.A., 1990-2002, with texts in Spanish and English, is available at The Store on the lower level. |
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| SEE DETROIT NEWS ARTICLE ABOUT RAFAEL MONEO: RECENT ARCHITECTURE >> | ||||
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| CREDITS>> | ||||
| Cranbrook
Art Museum is supported, in part, its Members, the Michigan Council for
Arts and Cultural Affairs, the Museum Committee and the fund-raising activities
of the Serious Moonlight Steering Committee and the Women's Committee
of Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum. Cranbrook Art Museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. with extended hours until 9 p.m. each Friday. Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for seniors, students and children ages 6-17 and free for museum members and children under 5. For more information, please call 1.877.GO.CRANBrook. (1.877.462.7262) |
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