Studying architecture in the mid-2000s meant high exposure to major Spanish architecture firms, which were experiencing a highly productive period of project development, particularly cultural and public works.
That was how I discovered and studied the work of Emilio Tuñón, who was then a partner at the firm Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos. Projects like the León Auditorium, the Cantabria Museum, and the MUSAC taught many of us how to engage with the surroundings, study facades, and use color.
In 2012, he founded Tuñón Arquitectos, a firm dedicated to confronting design and construction practice with theory and teaching, which emerged as a natural evolution of Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos. They approach architecture from a humanistic perspective: "it is the construction of an architecture made with people, by people, and for people."
