Navarre's architect Patsy Mangato He made a conservation of architecture that puts people and their well-being first, he said in the forum's closing presentation. Industrial construction. Author who designed the Navarra Convention Center and Auditorium – known as Baluarte – and the Spanish Pavilion at Zaragoza, Mancato Expo 2008 “The industrialization applied to architecture must have a social awareness“, from “It should contribute to reducing or eliminating the differences that exist in our society.”
“Architecture is not a material reality, it is not a sum of things. Architecture is based on integration, but in reality it is related to conceptual truth, concepts and cultural truth.. If this is not the case, industrialization will not succeed because what people want is to identify where they live. “Construction, naturally construction, is economic, a social response… but above all it is an identity,” said the famous architect.
Patsy Mangato (Estella, 1957) is an architect at the High School of Architecture of the University of Navarra, where he has been a professor since 1982. He holds a degree in Economics from the National University of Distance Education (UNED). In 2008 he founded the Architecture and Social Foundation, which in 2015 received the CSCAE (High Council of Colleges of Architects of Spain) gold medal. He recently received the 2022 Gold Medal of Merit in Fine Arts and was appointed a Fellow. from the French Academy of Architecture.
