Studio Banana interviews the celebrated Spanish architecture duo Mansilla+Tuñón. Mansilla+Tuñón Arquitectos is a Spanish architecture firm founded in Madrid in 1992 by Luis M. Mansilla (Madrid, 1959) and Emilio Tuñón Álvarez (Madrid, 1958).
Perhaps their most famous work to date is the MUSAC of León, Spain, the building that won the 2007 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies Van der Rohe prize). They have also won the public competitions to build the Águila Regional archive and Library in Madrid, the C.I.C.C.M. New Convention Palace in Madrid (2007), as well as the Museo de las Colecciones Reales (Spanish Royal Collections Museum), also in Madrid.
They are teachers at the ETSAM school in Madrid and have taught at the Graduate School of Design in Harvard University, the EPFL in Lausanne, the Nueva Escuela de Arquitectura in Puerto Rico and the Städelschule in Frankfurt.
Their works has been widely published and exhibited in some of the most prestigious magazines, book editions and museums in the world. In 2009 they directed the Biennial X of Spanish Architecture.
Interview by Studio Banana TV. Translation by Andy Marlow.
Mansilla+Tuñón official site
Mansilla+Tuñón on Wikipedia
MUSAC building
El Águila archive and library building
Mies Van der Rohe prize
GSD Harvard
Biennial of Spanish Architecture
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