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		"City and Architecture" in Panama	21/06/2011
		The 12th Architects National Congress “Ciudad y Arquitectura: Responsabilidad ante los nuevos tiempos” has invited Antón García-Abril to give a talk in Panama, in June 24th. The lecture will be at 2.30 pm in the Convention Center Vasco Nuñez de Balboa. Panama is going through a period of incomparable growing that has changed the city outline, mainly due to the construction of skyscrapers and mega projects. The opinion of García-Abril and other designers...
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		Museum of America in 'Summa+'	20/06/2011
		The project of Museum of America in Salamanca, that Ensamble Studio has recently finished, has been published by the Argentinean magazine ‘Summa+’ in the 115th volume of June 2011. By means of large photographs, you can study the details of its construction and the richness in its spaces. Have a look inside.
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		García-Abril examiner in the AA	14/06/2011
		Antón García-Abril has been invited to participate as an external examiner of Intermediate student works for AA Intermediate RIBA/ARB Part 1 (Third Year portfolios) on Tuesday 14 June and Diploma student works for AA Finals RIBA/ARB Part 2 (Fifth Year portfolios) on Wednesday 15 June. The schedule includes several events, like a talk where García-Abril will try to help the students from his own view. Good luck to all of them!
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		The Truffle in MUUUZ	14/06/2011
		The Architecture and design web magazine MUUUZ has focused on the Truffle project by Ensamble Studio, in an article titled “Cave House”. It explains that the house seems to be carved into a rock, to become a shelter with just some basic elements: a window, a bed, a fireplace, a sink and shower.
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		The Truffle in 'Archithese'	26/04/2011
		Swiss magazine 'Archithese' shows a brief article on the building of the Truffle on its second issue of 2011. The photos describe the whole construction process from the natural formwork to the final looking.
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		'Icon' shows the Hemeroscopium House	26/04/2011
		The magazine ‘Icon’, that brings every month the latest news on international design, architecture and culture, has written an article about the Hemeroscopium House: “…an apparently casual pick-a-sticks pile of giant structural elements that, on closer examination, reveals a sophisticated thought and serious intent”.
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		Lecture in Chicago	18/04/2011
		The “Instituto Cervantes” in Chicago will celebrate its second series of conferences on architecture, which are included within the exhibition “Young Architects of Spain” (YAS) for this spring. It will try to show the extraordinary quality of work of a generation of Spanish architects under age 40. As a highlighted event, Antón García-Abril will give a lecture to show Ensamble Studio’s work, as a reference of Spanish architecture worldwide, which emphasizes the...
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		Cos’è architettura	18/04/2011
		The prestigious Italian magazine ‘Casabella’, which has dealt with international architecture since 1928, will soon get its 800th issue. On Tuesday, April 19th, Francesco Dal Co, Benedetto Gravagnuolo and Francesco Venezia will celebrate this special launching in Naples. This number is entitled “Cos’è architettura”, and benefits from the participation of Antón García-Abril, who talks with Rafael Moneo to try to answer this question in an interesting...
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		Visitors at the Reader's House	13/04/2011
		The building site of the Reader’s House in Madrid’s Old Slaughterhouse is about to become a mediatheque where creative processes and artistic training will be developed in an environment of arts and education. This project, whose competition was won by Ensamble Studio in 2006, has sparked an enormous curiosity in many people. Today, Felipe Samarán and his students of Universidad Francisco de Vitoria will visit the construction site and will be guided...
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		Forum de l'architecture de Bienne	05/04/2011
		The Swiss “Bienne Forum of Architecture” is a platform that has been in the service of the contemporary architecture debate since 1987. It organizes courses of lectures and exhibitions about the current developing architecture. This year, both specialist and lovers of architecture will discover a few stars of the European architectural scene, and Antón García-Abril has been invited to participate among them. The lecture will be at 17.00 in the School of Visual Art of...
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		Ensamble's MZRRD10 in 'a+u'	30/03/2011
		The prestigious magazine ‘a+u’ has published its volume 486, which is given over to the analysis of 50 architects’ offices. Ensamble Studio is among them, and Antón García-Abril was interviewed to draw the main concepts of Ensamble’s working space. MZRRD10 is the head office, and it is settled in an old company store next to the Manzanares River in Madrid. Other aspects of the working style were also dealt, so have a look at the whole article!
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		The Truffle in 'Igloo' magazine	15/03/2011
		The Romanian magazine ‘Igloo’ has recently published in its volume 111 an article about the Truffle, and it is described as a small piece of art, not for those who dream of a delicate finish or square meters. Have a look inside to get more info.
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		Materia y Forma 5	03/03/2011
		Antón García-Abril with Ensamble Studio will attend the International Symposium about concrete in architecture ‘Materia y Forma 5’ that Cátedra Blanca has organized in Valencia (Spain) for next days. García-Abril will give a talk in March 4th at 17:00 to explain Ensamble’s vision on building with concrete, who has used this material in a great part of his work. You can also follow the event on the Internet, as it will be shown through the organizers’ web site.
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		Antón García-Abril in the AA	28/02/2011
		Antón García-Abril has been invited to give an evening lecture at the Architectural Association in London in March 2nd. He will discuss the inspirational work of his Ensamble Studio in front of an audience of interested students, staff, alumni and guests of the AA, the most prestigious and experimental architecture school in the UK. Get more info inside.
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		García-Abril visits UTSA	23/02/2011
		Antón García-Abril, Ensamble Studio's principal, will present some of his most recent work in a conference held at University of Texas at San Antonio. The event, which has been organized by the College of Architecture, will be this evening Feb. 23rd at 5.30 pm at UTSA downtown Campus, in auditorium # 1326. We hope you enjoy it!
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		PoPs at MIT	17/02/2011
		Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa Molina with Ensamble Studio are giving a lecture today on “PoPs: Prototypes of Prefabrication”. Architecture may use the technology of prestressed concrete from a new insight, trying to achieve effective processes of construction and the maximum expressiveness with the fewer resources. Attend the lecture to learn more about these proposals! The event is part of the Architecture Lecture Series that the MIT Department of...
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		Ensamble Studio in 'Monitor'	15/02/2011
		The Russian magazine ‘Monitor’ has interviewed Antón García-Abril, Ensamble Studio’s founder. He explains that Ensamble is “a team in search for architectural application of conceptual and structural experiments”, and shows their way of working, through an analysis of their most recent works, like the Reader’s House or the Cervantes Theatre, which are currently under construction. Read the interview inside.
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		Jury at UEM	08/02/2011
		Antón García-Abril will take part, as jury member, at a critical session of the projects by the students in the Architecture School in Universidad Europea de Madrid. The event will be at Villaviciosa de Odón Campus in Madrid, on Friday 11th February at 10 a.m. The architect Christian Kerez will also attend the event and discuss his latest work. Do not miss the great opportunity to listen to these two architects!
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		Lecture at Universität der Künste	04/02/2011
		Professor Enrique Sobejano, of the University of the Arts in Berlin, has invited Antón García-Abril to present his lecture, Dense Structures-Stressed Structures to the students from the Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning on Monday, 7th February. During this visit Antón will also act as Guest Critic, reviewing two sets of the students’ projects, the first of which will be taking place on Monday when students will present their proposals for a Visual Arts Centre. On...
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		'Architecture versus Design'	27/01/2011
		In February, Peter Eisenman wil be in ‘Círculo de Bellas Artes’ in Madrid for the opening of an exhibition about his latest project in Galicia and he will participate in a new edition of Contemporary Architecture courses. For this show, titled “Architecture versus Design”, the American architect has invited figures of several generations to analyze the dense framework that merges the architectural discipline, and the construction and design. Antón García-Abril is one...
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