Location: Av Reyes Leoneses, León, Spain.
Architects: Luis M. Mansilla and Emilio Tuñón.
Client: Gesturcal S.A., Government of Castilla y León.
Project date: 2001.
Work completed date: 2005.
Built area: 10 000 m².
Building cost: 24 000 000 Euros.
On a vast urban plan, MUSAC draws the scenario for art with the same optimistic attitude used by the Roman surveyors to sketch their cities in the landscape. In contrast to other types of spaces which, in their museum facet, focus on the exhibition of frozen historic collections, MUSAC is a living space that opens its doors to the wide-ranging manifestations of contemporary art. This is an art centre that constructs a set of chessboards on which the action is the protagonist of the space; a structure that develops from an open system, formed by fabric of squares and rhombi, and permitting the construction of a secret geography of memory.
Mies van der Rohe Award 2007.
Enor Award 2004.
Selected for the VIII Bienniale of Spanish Architecture.
Finalist for the Award of the V Biennial of Ibero-american Architecture.
