Capaul & Blumenthal architects
Pour fêter son 10e anniversaire, le Forum d’architecture Fribourg a choisi de rééditer le fascicule publié en 1941 à l’occasion de l’inauguration des bâtiments de l’Université Miséricorde et épuisé depuis. Cet ouvrage richement illustré de plans et de photos décrit le chantier du prestigieux édifice, l’architecture de Denis Honegger et Fernand Dumas, la construction en béton armé des ingénieurs Alexandre Sarrasin, Henri Gicot, Beda Hefti et Jean Barras, ainsi que les solutions, innovantes pour l’époque, dans les domaines de l’acoustique, de l’éclairage, des techniques du bâtiment et des interventions artistiques. La nouvelle édition contiendra un facsimilé de l’original, un volume texte sur l’architecture et les travaux d’ingénieur et un volume de photographies actuelles.
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He is an Architect graduated from the Escola d’Arquitectura del Vallès (ETSAV) in 1992 and a Doctor of Architecture from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) with the doctoral thesis ‘Spontaneous Architectures, Reflections on Constants in Architecture: the Cap de Creus Peninsula, a Topography in Time.’
Established as a professional since 1993, he understands architecture as one of the fundamental supports in human activity, as a mediating element that allows optimizing and reconciling the attributes of each place. Consequently, the term ‘architecture’ as a noun is not what interests him as much as the verb ‘to inhabit,’ because that is what gives it meaning. In this way, he understands human inhabiting as something derived from experience and not the product of theoretical speculation or any prior strategy. Therefore, he projects it as an experience that arises from within to be lived and shared, resulting in a blend of reason and emotion.
He has been awarded the Gold Medal in the international DOMUS Award, the Special Prize of the XI Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture, the Spanish Architecture Biennial, and several times the FAD Award. Recently, in 2023, within the framework of the Piranesi Prix de Rome et d’Athènes, the proposal made jointly with a research team from the Politecnico di Milano received the First Prize ex aequo in the competition for the enhancement of the Acropolis of Athens and its UNESCO surroundings.
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