A Trip to Present-Day Galicia
From April 24 to 27, 2025, we will continue to explore the Iberian Peninsula, this time heading west.
An amazing architecture, great museums, dedicated collectors, and groundbreaking artists make a kaleidoscope that reflects an unexpected reality, dipped in creative energy. We will stay in A Coruña, where we will take a look at Nicholas Grimshaw’s building for Afundación Abanca, Arata Isozaki’s design for the Domus-Casa del Hombre museum, and local architect Elsa Urquijo’s rehabilitation project for the industrial complex owned by the Marta Ortega Pérez (MOP) Foundation.
In Santiago de Compostela, a city laden with history, we will see Peter Eisenman’s Cidade da Cultura, the Zen building designed by Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza for Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), the SGAE headquarters, where Antón García-Abril pays tribute to stone and color in the Cathedral’s Portico of Glory, and the building for Fundación RIA by British architect David Chipperfield, winner of the Prtizker Architecture Prize 2023.
In the provinces of Pontevedra and Coruña, we will take in three unique landmarks: the architectural intervention introduced in the pazo de Monteagudo, in A Estrada, owned by an art-collecting couple, by Santander-born architect Juan Navarro Baldeweg; David Chipperfield’s private home in Corrubedo and his rehabilitated bar; and the Manolo Paz Contemporary Art Foundation in Cambados, where the sculptor’s works overlook the river Umia as it flows into the ocean.