Emilio Tuñón

Spanish architect (born 1959)

Emilio Tuñón Álvarez (born 1 January 1959 in Madrid) is a Spanish architect. In 2014, Mansilla + Tuñón Architects received the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (Spain) from the Spanish Ministry of Culture.^[1]

Alvarez graduated from the ETSAM School of Architecture in 1981, obtaining a PhD in 1998. He was with the Fine Arts Cultural Department (1982) and the Architecture Public Works and Urban Planning Department (1983). Until 1992, he worked in the office of Spanish architect Rafael Moneo. In 1992, Alvarez and Luis Moreno Mansilla established the architecture firm Mansilla + Tuñón Architects.

Tuñón is a professor of ETSAM's architectural design department and has been visiting professor in several universities: Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Frankfurt Städelschule, Navarra Architecture School, Barcelona Architecture School, New Puerto Rico Architecture School.

Projects completed by Mansilla + Tuñón Architects include: Pedro Barrié de la Maza Foundation in Vigo (2005), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (2004), Auditorium of León (2003), Madrid Regional Documentary Centre (2002) Fine Arts Museum of Castellón (2000), Indoor Swimming-Pool in San Fernando de Henares (1998), Archeological and Fine Arts Provincial Museum of Zamora (1996) and the Royal Collections Museum in Madrid, which is currently under construction.

Awards

Spanish Architecture Award (2003)^[2]
Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture for MUSAC) (2007)^[3]
Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (Medalla de Oro al mérito en las Bellas Artes) (2014)^[4]
Francqui Chair (2014) Francqui Foundation
Spanish Architecture Award (2017)^[5]

Gallery

Royal Collections Museum, Madrid
Regional Museum of Zamora, Zamora
San Fernando de Henares Indoor Swimming-pool, Madrid
Regional Library and Archives in the former "El Águila" Brewery, Madrid

Literature

Luis Mansilla. Emilio Tuñón: Mansilla + Tuñón 1992–2012. In: El Croquis. Nr. 161, 2012, ISBN 978-84-88386-71-7.
Luis Fernández-Galiano: Mansilla + Tuñón 1992–2011. In: AV Monographs. Nr. 144, 2010, ISSN 0213-487X

References

^ www.boe.es
^ Muñi, María Jesús (25 November 2003). "El Auditorio Ciudad de León logra el premio de arquitectura española 2003" [The León City Auditorium Wins the 2003 Spanish Architecture Award]. Diario de León (in Spanish). León. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
^ miesbcn.com Archived 2013-04-24 at the Wayback Machine
^ "www.metalocus.es". Archived from the original on 2014-03-27. Retrieved 2014-04-03.
^ "El Museo de las Colecciones Reales de Madrid, premio de Arquitectura Española 2017" [The Royal Collections Museum of Madrid, 2017 Spanish Architecture Award]. El País (in Spanish). Madrid. EFE. 14 October 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2019.