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		Cervantes Theatre in "Milenio"	20/02/2012
		Milenio, a mexican newspaper, published an interview of Antón García-Abril, speaking about Cervantes Theatre at Mexico DF. They called the project, "El Cervantes, un teatro subterráneo" that means: "The Cervantes, the underground theatre".
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		Lecture Vilnius in Video	15/02/2012
		The lecture of last thursday at the National Art Gallery (NDG) in Vilnius, is now available in video.
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		Lecture in Vilnius	09/02/2012
		Antón García-Abril is going to give a talk today February 9th, 8.00 p.m. at the National Art Gallery (NDG), Konstitucijos av. 22, Vilnius. He has been invited by a non-profit organization ARCHITECTURE FUND. The ARCHITECTURE FUND together with volunteer architects organizes these lectures and discussion sessions on different architectural and cultural topics. This lecture will be part of a sixth sessions named “ARCHITECTURE AS PROCESS”.
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		Lecture in Oslo	31/01/2012
		Antón García-Abril is going to give a talk today January 31st, 6 pm at the Norwegian fairground “Norges Varemesse” in Oslo. He has been invited by 0047, an independent organization for projects in and in between the fields of art and architecture, based in Oslo. The lecture will be part of a yearly-series of presentations initiated by 0047 for a Norwegian 400-people audience that includes architects, architecture students, artists and interior designers.
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		Team-work	31/01/2012
		The web for architecture news “Plataforma Arquitectura” has published an article titled “The importance of the team work”. A photo of the Ensamble-team at the beginning of the post remarks how important is team-work to develop an architecture project.
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		Displacements	31/01/2012
		Displacements refer to a change in position, the movement of an entity that changes its relative position in space. The emotional experience that denotes the action of displacing oneself through a building or on the previous path before you reach it became one of the most relevant principles in modern architecture, reaching the point where it transformed these trajectories in rites that were then used to highlight the space and time surrounding the work...
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		'Casas' shows the Truffle	12/01/2012
		‘Casas’ magazine, with the group ‘Cosas. Una revista internacional’ from Lima, shows the Truffle in its latest number. This work by Ensamble Studio “relates to the process, rather than the final product. It seems like a piece of ground that vanishes in the landscape…”
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		"Il Tartufo" in 'Images' Alpine magazine	10/01/2012
		The column ‘Tendenze’ by Roberto Rosset has been published in the six-monthly review “Images” that was born in the winter of 2007 with the aim of showing significant examples of contemporary architecture in the Alps. Despite not being an Alpine architecture, the Truffle by Ensamble Studio and Antón García-Abril has been chosen for this issue, because of its interesting link with the environment and landscape. It is described as a small sheltering...
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		Ensamble at the MOT	09/01/2012
		The exhibition “Architectural Environments for Tomorrow - New Spatial Practices in Architecture and Art” that has been running at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo is about to come to an end. Since last October, it has showed the way in which architects and artists respond to environmental and urban problems, demographic growth and change, as well as other transformations in our surroundings, expressing them through their ideas and experiments in...
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		"En-caja"	13/12/2011
		"En-Caja" is a collective exhibition that studies a cube of 20 x 20 x 20 cm, without two of its faces, and divided in two parts. Antón García-Abril has participated in this project among a group of painters, sculptors, architects, designers and photographers who have intervened in order to make a creative work around this cube. This exhibition also celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Gallery.
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		'Cacao' Magazine Interview	29/09/2011
		'Cacao' is a Taiwan-based independent magazine publishing topics about creativity, art, communication, alchemy and opinion. It is “focused on the pursuit of dreams, the feeling of a creation and the touching work of creators, making their stories to be seen worldwide”. With this passion, they present Antón García-Abril in an issue about Madrid: Matadors, Dancers and Painters.
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		Cervantes Theater in '100xN'	29/09/2011
		Hong Kong Architecture Science Press devotes to the spread of architecture around Asia, and has recently published its new book: '100×N Architectural Shape and Skin'. Generously illustrated, the volume presents Cervantes Theater, the ongoing project by Ensamble Studio in Mexico.
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		Venice Biennale in Japan	29/09/2011
		Antón García-Abril is going to attend a conference on Venice Biennale at Italian Embassy in Tokyo on September 29th from 17:00 to 19:00, giving a talk and discussing at a later roundtable. The event is going to be chaired by Kazuyo Sejima, director of the 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, and will bring together about 300 architects from Italy, Japan and from all over the world.
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		Le forme del cemento	19/08/2011
		Valerio Paolo Mosco, Italian writer and critic, published an interesting article about the work of Ensamble Studio, taking Ensamble’s ‘Balancing Act’ installation inside the Arsenale building for the Venice Biennale as a starting point. The text reflects very well the way we think, and expresses it with beautiful words, rigor and depth. We hope you also enjoy it.
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		The place of delights	17/08/2011
		The immediate association to a truffle is a small piece of soft, fine chocolate, custom-made to be perfectly eaten in just one bite. Moreover, it gives the impression of being done with the care of the culinary tradition, and not coming from a monstrous industrial machine. This is how the Latin-American magazine focused on contemporary culture, ‘Exclama’, sees this project by Ensamble Studio.
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		Hemeroscopium in 'Igloo'	16/08/2011
		The Hemeroscopium House is on the cover of the last July Romanian ‘Igloo’ magazine, volume 115-116. Inside, the well-illustrated article explains that “an allusion to a real, concrete, well defined space that is at the same time an imaginary space, abstract and ephemeral, equally determined by its massive elements, sunlight and the line of the horizon, the project whose creator and beneficiary is Antón García-Abril, defines open spaces in an unusual way...
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		BAC students in Hemeroscopium	08/08/2011
		Some students from the Boston Architectural College have visited Spain this summer. During their trip, they had the chance to visit the Hemeroscopium House: “This project gets to the very essence of what architecture means: a gravity-defying composition of abstract elements, suspended impossibly overhead, deftly framing space with a fine eye for proportion, detail and experience of the inhabitant”. Read their impression here.
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		XI Biennial of Architecture in 'El Cultural'	29/07/2011
		‘El Cultural’ magazine has published an article about the XI Biennial of Spanish Architecture in Comillas, written by Antón García-Abril. “Recycling as a strategy” states that “restoration turns into recycling as a strategy against the growth” and that “researching wins against the monumental, and big names are replaced by young architects, more concerned about the human scale and social needs”.
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		GA International Exhibition	28/07/2011
		‘Global Architecture – GA’, the prestigious Japanese publisher for the international architecture spreading, has organized the International 2011 Exhibition, about the “Emerging Future”. GA Gallery has organized every year an extensive exhibition about the world’s foremost architectures, among which Ensamble Studio shows its outstanding works in progress, this year. A special issue of ‘GA Document, International 2011’, which includes the exhibited...
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		The Truffle in 'Hogarismo'	27/07/2011
		‘Hogarismo’, a Spanish platform for showcasing architecture and design “in constant movement”, has published an article about the Truffle. It is described as “a piece of nature, a delicacy under the earth”, which is formed like a mineral rock. Read more here.
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