Valenica, Spain -- This year at Cevisama 2018, to take place from February 5 to 9, at the Feria Valencia Center, two winners of the Pritzker Prize, an accolade considered to be the Nobel Prize of the architectural world, will be speaking at the show.

The program for the Architecture and Design Forum, part of CevisamaLab, Cevisama’s cultural initiative, has been put together this year by eminent architect and critic, Luis Fernández-Galiano, known as “Material architecture.”

“Architecture is all about ideas and shapes, but both crystallize through the material,” said Fernández-Galiano. “This seminar is about the tangled relationship between intentions, demands, constructions and environments and, through six case studies, will look at how an architectural project becomes a material object. Six recently completed buildings will be presented by the contemporary masters responsible for them, who will explain every aspect of their construction, from the complexity of the contexts and the role of the materials used.”

Cevisama’s Architecture and Design Forum will comprise two sessions, taking place on the first two days of the fair. The first session will bring Francisco Mangado and Emilio Tuñón together, who will talk about the two buildings that earned them the most recent Spanish Architecture Prize, the Palma Conference Centre and the Royal Collections Museum in Madrid (designed by Luis Moreno Mansilla). The session will finish with a presentation by Portuguese Pritzker prize-winner, Eduardo Souto de Moura, about a building he had the opportunity to build twice: the market in Braga.

The second session will bring the two practices that have been awarded the Senior Council of Colleges of Architects Medal, Catalonia-based Batlle I Roig, represented by Joan Roig, who will present two university buildings in Barcelona; and Rafael de La-Hoz, of Madrid, which will be giving a detailed description of the Rey Juan Carlos Hospital it built in Móstoles. Master architect and Pritzker Prize winner, Rafael Moneo, will provide the final touch to the day with a presentation on his latest build, the J. Palacios winery in El Bierzo.

The detailed program for the Architecture and Design Forum, which provides details of times and biographies of the speakers, is available on Cevisama’s website.

For more information, visit cevisama.feriavalencia.com.