Cersaie 2025 welcomes Ángela García de Paredes among the protagonists of ‘Costruire, Abitare, Pensare’ (Building, Dwelling, Thinking), Cersaie‘s cultural programme dedicated to architecture and design that every year hosts internationally renowned architects and designers from all over the world to present their projects and vision on contemporary architecture.
The appointment with architect Ángela García de Paredes is scheduled for Thursday 25 September at 2.30 p.m. at ‘The Square’ at the Bologna Exhibition Centre. Once again this year, therefore, the International Exhibition of Ceramic Tile and Bathroom Furnishings confirms itself as a reference point for the meeting between professionals of the sector and the big names of contemporary architecture.
Founder of the Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos studio together with Ignacio Pedrosa, Ángela García de Paredes pursues a shared design vision based on continuous research and an approach that combines theory and practice, teaching and construction. The essentiality of forms, care for natural light and material minimalism characterise a poetics that transforms design into an interpretative act of space and landscape. The studio’s architecture dialogues with its context, respecting it, merging with it without ever imposing itself.
In June 2023, Ángela García de Paredes was named an academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, the highest cultural award in Spain, with a speech entitled La arquitectura como interpretación, a synthesis of her design philosophy.
The Paredes Pedrosa studio boasts an extensive repertoire of award-winning works in the national and international spheres, including the Archaeological Museum in Almería, the Valle-Inclán Theatre in Madrid, the Congress Palace in Peñíscola, the Auditorium in Lugo, the public libraries in Ceuta and Córdoba and Villa Romana la Olmeda in Palencia. Other notable projects include the Town Hall of Valdemaqueda, the Espacio Torner in Cuenca, the Popular Children’s University in Gandía and the Bibliometro in the Madrid metro. Works abroad include the Spanish Educational Centre in Rabat, the Spanish Embassy in Rome in Piazza Navona, as well as the curatorship of the Spanish Pavilion at the 6th Venice Architecture Biennale (1996) and participation in the Latin American biennales in Cadiz (2012) and São Paulo (2016).
They have received numerous awards: from Europan II and IV (1991, 1996) to the Spanish Architecture Prize (2007), from the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts (2014) to the Eduardo Torroja Prize (2014), up to the European Prize for Intervention in the Architectural Heritage (2015) and the most recent National Architecture Prize (2024). Their works have been exhibited in monographic exhibitions and in several editions of the Architecture Biennales in Spain, Venice and Latin America.
With appointments such as the one with Ángela García de Paredes, the ‘Building, Dwelling, Thinking’ programme confirms Cersaie’s ability to become a platform for dialogue between architecture and design, generating cultural value and opening up new scenarios for reflection.
