Auditorium of Barcelona

AUDITORIUM OF BARCELONAL’AUDITORI DE BARCELONA

Rafael Moneo

The Building Rafael’s professional work

Technical specifications The architect Photographic Tour

Technical Specifications

The Auditori is a modern building of 42.000 square metres designed by the architect Rafael Moneo, opened on 22nd March of 1999. It’s in the centre of the new pole of urban development of Glòries, which brings together the three widest and longest avenues in Barcelona Diagonal, Gran Via and Meridiana- The Auditori is near to the old centre of the city and next to the National Theatre of Catalonia. The acoustics of the halls has been carefully studied within the project by the specialized engineer Higini Arau.

In the same musical complex, there are the centres of the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya and the Museu de la Música. This makes the Auditori a focus of musical life in the city.


The Architect

José Rafael Moneo Vallés was born in Tudela (Navarre) in 1937. He studied at the Madrid School of Architecture, graduating in 1961. Nine years later he became a professor of Elements of Composition in the Barcelona School of Architecture and in 80s held the same post in Madrid until 1985, when he was appointed Chairman de la Graduate School of Design of Harvard University, a post he held until 1990.

Rafael Moneo has received numerous distinctions, including the Pritzker Prize for Architecture in 1996 and the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2003.Elected an Academic of Fine Arts in 1997, he took possession of his post in early 2005.



Photographic Tour Exteriors


Exteriors Foyer Salas


Photographic Tour Foyer




Photographic Tour Salas



Sala 1 Sala 2 Sala 3


Rafael’s professional work

Of his professional work, it is worth mentioning the National Museum of Roman Art in Mérida (1986), Atocha Station in Madrid (1992), the Pilar y Joan Miró Foundation in Palma de Mallorca, the Davis Museum in Wellesley College in Massachusetts (1993), the Museums of Modern Art and Architecture in Stockholm (1998), the New Building for Murcia City Hall (1998), the Auditorium and Kursaal Congress Centre in San Sebastián (1999), the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas (2000), the New Cathedral in Los Angeles (2002), the General Archives of Navarre in Pamplona (2003) and the Gregorio Marañón Mother-Infant Hospital in Madrid (2003), amongst other works.

The New Cathedral in los Angeles

© Miquel Royo Martínez

Education

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