Pilar & Joan Miró Foundation
Rafael Moneo. Palma, Spain
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Name of work in English
Pilar & Joan Miró Foundation
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Name of work in original language
Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró
Prize year
EUmies Awards 1994
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Work Location
Palma, Spain
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Studio
Rafael Moneo
EUmies Awards 1994 Shortlisted
As director of the Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation, Miguel Servera entrusted Rafael Moneo with a project that would complete the set of buildings erected on Joan Miró’s property in Son Abrines: an 18th-century mansion, the Miró family home designed by the architect Juncosa, and the studio designed by the architect Josep Lluís Sert.
Program
Culture
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Labels
Foundation
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Client
Unknown
Total gross floor
2990 m²
Completion
1993
Moneo’s work confronts the dilapidated environment and tries to rescue the lost bay by carrying water to the roof of a concrete building consisting of a longitudinal element crowned by a star-shaped polygon reminiscent of a fortress’s bastion, a metaphor of the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró defending itself in a hostile setting. On another note, the uneven and broken condition of this architecture enables Miró’s oeuvre, with its moments of epiphany and discontinuity, to fit in here.
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