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		ANTON GARCÍA-ABRIL IN SERPENTINE GALLERY	18/06/2013
		Antón García-Abril was invited to attend the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013 inauguration, designed by multi award-winning Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto.
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		RIBA Gold Medal & Fellowship 2013 BOOK	18/06/2013
		February 6th,London -Antón García-Abril received his membership to the Royal Institute of British Architects at the Royal Gold Medal & Fellowships Dinner 2013. RIBA International Fellowships reward the particular contributions that non-UK architects have made to architecture. It was presented at this special ceremony at the RIBA on Wednesday 6 February 2013. and this book was edited for that special moment.
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		Cervantes Theatre at Modo de Vida	29/05/2013
		Puerto Rico's magazine Modo de Vida features in may the Cervantes Theatre in Mexico DF. "In design world we are always looking for the "wow" factor, a contrast element that impresses the viewers. This is exactly what Ensamble Studio's team have made. They have captured everyone's attention in Mexico DF with the fabulous Cervantes Theatre.".
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		Ensamble Place at GA HOUSES 130	16/05/2013
		GA Houses 130 features Ensamble Place in Las Rozas, Madrid. It's an experimental space that evolves to adapt to different needs in different times. It is a space that evolves because the technology it is built with enables this to happen. It evolves recycling the materials that conform it: dislocating and relocating them once again. NO matter is wasted in the process, 100% is reused, achieving a maximum efficiency and flexibility in the use of matter throughout its life.
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		Reader's House at AV: ESPAÑA 2013	16/05/2013
		AV MONOGRAFIAS dedicates a double number showing the most important buildings in Spain last year. They chose Reader's House as one of the most important buildings of the year in it section called NEW PATHS. "As a reflection of these new times characterized by containment, four works proposed a return of the old, extracting the value treasured in urban remains that have reached our days. The first one of them, promoted by the Madrid City Council, is based in the collaboration of different architecture teams that have transformed the old MAtadero (municipal slaughterhouse) into a dynamic cultural venue."
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		The Cloud at Details 32	15/05/2013
		The Korean's magazine Details features The Cloud in it number 32. "The Cloud is a dense space built with a very light material, it is 98% air. Based on 7 modules of identical massive volume: 2.4mX6mX2.4m, each of them is shaped differently to generate a unique space, thus getting: the stage, the patio, the step, the circus, the cinema, the assembly and the scale. 7 spaces as the 7 notes that compose the musical scale, wich combined together produce very different sets of sound, multiple scenes that accommodate simultaneously reading, playing, rest or conversation activities."
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		Ensamble's work at Speech:Structure	15/05/2013
		Russia's magazine Speech: dedicates it number to Structure and features a large number of projects of Ensamble Studio and an interview of David Cohn to Antón García-Abril. The projects featured are the Reader'sHouse in Madrid, The Truffle in Galicia, Cervante's Theatre in Mexico DF, Hemeroscopium House in Las Rozas, the Hai-Tech in Japan, The Cloud in Madrid and the research project WoHo.
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		Cervantes Theatre at C3 341	15/05/2013
		Korean's magazine features Cervantes Theatre in it 341 number. "The Dovela (Keystone) is an air stone, the "Sun Stone". The aztec basalt monolith excavated in the Zócalo in México City, means "Tonatiuhlan de Ollin" or "Sun of Movement". The god of the sun it represents, Tonatiuh, grabs a heart and expresses the need for continuity of solar time."
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		Nude and Naked: Lecture at the MIT	14/05/2013
		On May 7, 2013 at 6:30 PMin the Long Lounge at MIT, Antón will give a lecture with Valerio Paolo Mosco and Nader Tehrani. “Recently we have been seeing the return to a naked architecture in many places: architecture that is stripped bare, wiped clean, anti-decorative, simplified not just in its forms but also in its conceptual machinery. It is a generalized phenomenon, from the bottom up, that makes no reference to a defined system of thought, has no putative fathers and it is not supported by any academic institution. What is certain that the return to nudity (for nudity in architecture is never an invention but always a return) represents a significant break with a past that has been seen the proliferation of works of architecture of quite another kind: dressed up, tending to conceal their bodies as much as possible."
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		Pedagogical Practices: Antón García-Abril round table in Puerto Rico	14/05/2013
		The 29th of June at 05.00pm in the Architecture School of the University of Puerto Rico, Antón participated in a round table with Nader Tehrani, both MIT professors that was streamed live worldwide.
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		Reader's House in the cover of AV: Spain Yearbook 2013	14/05/2013
		The important spanish magazine AV, as every year, dedicates a double number magazine to the most important finished buildings in Spain. The Reader's House was chosen not only as one of the most influent Spanish buildings of the year but also to represent all the buildings in the cover. It was successfully opened last year by the Prince and Princess of Asturias in a special event.
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		Ensamble Studio featured by Lively Magazine	21/03/2013
		Ensamble studio is an architectural design and construction studio based out of Madrid, Spain. It’s team consists of founder PhD Antón García-Abril, partner Débora Mesa, and Javier Cuesta, head of construction design.Ensamble Studio is a research oriented team that enjoys giving back to the local community through its architecture, while highlighting both their designs and physical space that surround them.
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		Architectura Viva features The Reader's House	13/03/2013
		Madrid's Old Slaughterhouse is now a hub of Contemporary creation of contemporary creation, thanks to competition organized over the years to give new life to its148,000 square meter. The Reading House arose from one of them, hel in 2006 to renovate warehouse 13, 14, 17b and 17c.
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		Naked Architecture Book features The Truffle	11/03/2013
		Naked Architecture features 'The Truffle'. The central premise of this book explores the notion of a missing thread that has run through the last few hundred years of architecture and architectural criticism.
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		RIBA International Fellowships Awards: Antón García-Abril	11/03/2013
		The RIBA Council has announced eight new International Fellowships of the RIBA. Antón García-Abril has received his RIBA 2013 International Fellowship award, this lifetime honor allows him to to use the initials Int FRIBA after his name. RIBA International Fellowships reward the particular contributions that non-UK architects have made to architecture.
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		Antón García-Abril and Christian Kerez in Kerez Studio	07/03/2013
		Antón García-Abril and Christian Kerez working in Kerez Studio at Harvard
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		Cervantes Theatre featured by Archdaily	05/03/2013
		Ensamble's project: Cervantes Theatre at Plaza Carso, México.
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		SPAIN Arts & Culture USA features Antón García-Abril	15/02/2013
		SPAIN arts & culture features the most cutting-edge works of international renowned Spanish artists in fields such as design, urban culture, architecture, visual arts, film, performing arts, literature and music. In this opportunity Antón García-Abril was elected as one of the great spanish architects and welcomed to give a lecture about his work and his vision in a series of seminars and lectures held at the National Building Museum in Washingtong DC.
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		ENSAMBLE STUDIO POP LAB AT MIT	14/02/2013
		Poplab is a new research laboratory born to think and produce innovative solutions in architectural and urban environments. Poplab bases is research activity in developing strategies and projects thought for people, functional and economic, efficient and creative. Real. Designing high quality technologies that will result in living spaces operative and accessible to every citizen.
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		Spotlight on Design: Anton García-Abril	13/02/2013
		ANTÓN GARCÍA-ABRIL will give a lecture at the National Building Museum of Washington DC, on February 13th. Antón García-Abril presents the firm’s work, which includes Madrid’s Reader’s House and Cervantes Theater in Mexico City. Co-presented with The Catholic University of America’s School of Architecture and Planning, and the Embassy of Spain.
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