#Ramón Vázquez Molezún

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'Colegio Mayor Santa María del Espíritu Santo', student residence Universidade Politécnica de Madrid - Madrid, Spain; 1968-69

Ramón Vázquez Molezún, José de la Mata Gorostizaga

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via "COAM Arquitectura" 142 (1970)

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El despertar. Álvaro Urbano

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José Antonio Corrales y Ramón Vázquez Molezún. Casa Huarte #10 by Ximo Michavila

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Pabellón de España en la Exposición Universal de Bruselas 1958

Corrales y Molezún

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La ruina del pabellón de los hexágonos. De edificio de prestigio a refugio para gatos. (El Confidencial)

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Casa Huarte (1966) in Madrid, Spain, by José Antonio Corrales & Ramón Vázquez Molezún 

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José Antonio Corrales, Ramón Vázquez Molezún - Spanish Pavilion at 1958 International Exhibition - Brussels, Belgium - 1958

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José Antonio Corrales y Ramón Vázquez Molezún; Casa Huarte; Madrid, Spain (1966)

Photography by Carmen García Sánchez .

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Pabellón de los Hexágonos (1956), de José Antonio Corrales y Ramón Vázquez Molezún

Hay muchos ejemplos del patrimonio arquitectónico español olvidado como el Pabellón de los Hexágonos (situado en la Casa de Campo de Madrid). Esta obra magistral ganó el primer premio de la Exposición Universal de Bruselas en 1958, imponiéndose a maravillas como el famoso Atomium de Le Corbusier o el Pabellón…

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'Banco Pastor', bank agency at Paseo de Recoletos Madrid, Spain; 1973

Corrales y Molezún (José Antonio Corrales, Ramón Vázquez Molezún); Gerardo Salvador Molezún, Rafael Olalquiaga

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via "COAM Arquitectura" 218 (1979)

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Destrucciones bestiales | José Ramón Hernández Correa

A veces asistimos atónitos al zafio y bárbaro “espectáculo” de fanáticos completamente imbéciles y bestiales destruyendo obras de arte milenarias. Los seres humanos de todo el mundo, impotentes, lloramos de rabia y de indignación ante las inconcebibles salvajadas que son capaces de cometer estos borricos, que se sienten iluminados por algo o alguien.

No podemos concebir que nadie, tenga la ideología que tenga, pretenda lo que pretenda o esgrima los motivos que quiera esgrimir, pueda acabar impunemente con unas obras que han hecho otros seres humanos que se encontraban en el extremo opuesto del magma social: En la cumbre de la sensibilidad, de la cultura, del talento, mientras que estos zopencos están en la sima de la zafiedad y de la crueldad, y del mierdasequismo más deleznable y despreciable.

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FOMA 27: Hybrid Modernity - Five Peripheral Practices

The Forgotten Masterpieces are this time represented by architects Rudolf Olgiati, José Luis Romany, Julio Lafuente, José Antonio Corrales, Ramón Vázquez Molezún, Reima and Raili Pietilä. It would seem like the only thing in common between those architects is the time they shared to be born. 

Spanish Pavilion in Brussels by Corrales y Molezún. | Photo Unknown Author

But they all received the influence of the modern architecture directly, in different environments and their response to it was unique. However, they all worked in countries where more famous architecture figures eclipsed their work. That situation resulted in a lack of undeserved knowledge.

Alvar Aalto in Finland, Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza in Spain and Luigi Moretti in Italy where outstanding figures that veiled other not less significant architects. I will draw attention to lost and silent masters and bring them back to the present. On the other hand, they also share an attitude towards modern architecture. Instead of following the dominant tendencies they all developed a very personal and unique language, which was also influenced by the geographic location of their practices and their colleagues.

Schäfer house (1975) designed by Rudolf Olgiati in Flims - Graubünden, Switzerland. | Photo via Elara Fritzenwalden 

Although it might sound generic, I will take this opportunity and categorize already mentioned forgotten architects. In such way we can say that Rudolf Olgiati and José Luis Romany belong to the modernity and tradition.

They achieved a deeply understanding of the local architecture of their countries. It is not a kitsch but a real understanding of the principles that were used in the traditional architecture. Instead of starting from a tabula rasa, as some of the contemporary modern architects did, Olgiati and Romany valued the importance of the tradition in an abstract way. At the same time they managed to keep their background while facing architectural problems in a modern way. That extensive knowledge together with the modernistic influence rendered an outstanding corpus of works that is essential to recover today.

Rudolf Olgiati produced a collection of impressive houses in the Graubünden canton in a unique language where the echoes of the Flims architecture and the modern influence renders a unique architecture. It is not hard to imagine the influence on Siza that architecture might had.

José Luis Romany developed a silent number of works where the rational was mixed with the background of the traditional. He mastered in housing and urban planning, developing one of the most livable urban plans after the Civil War in Spain. The motifs of his plans were the work with the materials, the simplicity and the pragmatism.

Poblado dirigido de Fuencarral in Madrid by José Luís Romany. | Photo Unknown Author 

Julio Lafuente, José Antonio Corrales with Ramón Vázquez Molezún, Reima Pietilä and Raili Pietilä belongs to the geometry exuberance. They all developed a very personal language, which merges with the modernistic background. In Julio Lafuente’s work the musculature and expressionism of his structures mixes with the Italian influence in a virtuoso way, with brutalist and even Japanese echoes.

Tor di Valle Hippdrome in Rome by Julio Lafuente. | Photo © Claudio Caravano

José Antonio Corrales and Ramón Vázquez Molezún were a refreshing duo who created a versatile and revolutionary body of work which was against the prevailing rational architecture. They faced the architecture in Spain in a complete new way.

Spanish Pavilion in Brussels (1958) by Corrales-Molezún. | Photo © Sandra Nav 

Exterior of the Spanish Pavilion in Brussels. | Photo © Sandra Nav

Reima and Raili Pietilä represented the other face of the Finish scenario. They created an own and very sensitive language yet intuitive, that is sometimes close to the expressionism. The way they integrated their architecture with the surrounding landscape is still one of the most beautiful lesson of them. 

Dipoli in Helsinki by Reima and Raili Pietilä. | Photo by Unknown author

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#FOMA 27: Julio Gotor Valcárcel

Julio Gotor Valcárcel was born in Albacete, Spain. He is an architect graduated from ETSAM (Madrid), 1st Class Honors, 2017. Before finishing his studies he did a short internship in Tokyo. He has lived and worked in Madrid, Spain and Basel, Switzerland. His work has been exhibited at the Palazzo Mora as a collateral event at the Venice Biennale 2018 and Documentos por Venir during the Bienal Española de Arquitectura in 2018. He was one of the winners of the Young Talent Architecture Award by the Mies van der Rohe foundation in 2018.

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Arquitecturas perdidas de Madrid

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Pabellón de los Hexágonos (1956), de José Antonio Corrales y Ramón Vázquez Molezún

Hay muchos ejemplos del patrimonio arquitectónico español olvidado, pero ninguno indigna tanto como el Pabellón de los Hexágonos. Esta obra magistral ganó el primer premio de la Exposición Universal de Bruselas en 1958, imponiéndose a maravillas como el famoso Atomium de Le Corbusier o el Pabellón Philips, de Xenakis. Ahora, languidece en la Casa de Campo de Madrid, pasto del olvido y de la indolencia de la Administración.

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Casa Huarte, José Antonio Corrales y Ramón Vázquez Molezún

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Casa Huarte. José Antonio Corrales y Ramón Vázquez Molezún 

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