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This stately monograph of renowned Spanish architect Francisco Mangado, recognised for his typically bold volumes and monolithic geometries, is divided into three sections: built, in progress and competition. It includes more than 25 works from the turn of the century to the present, each with insightful detail and elucidated in photographs, plans, models and drawings. Many of his most iconic buildings are represented, such as the Baluarte Centre in Navarra, Madrid's Dalí Square, the Spanish Pavilion Expo Zaragoza and the Archaeology Museum of Álava. Notable works in progress include the Fine Arts Museum of Asturias and housing at Zac Andromede-Beauzelle.

Francisco Mangado is a well-known architect, some of his buildings have been widely published. His awards are many and he has been a professor at numerous universities. Always seen partially, it is necessary to complete the enormous puzzle that appears when bringing together his forgotten works, his numerous competitions, his teaching and research activity, and of course everything done under the umbrella of his foundation.

Just after turning 50, and after 25 years of professional activity, Francisco Mangado is no longer the archetypal representative of that young Spanish generation that entered the schools of architecture during the initial years of democracy, and that started professional life coinciding with the political hopes sparked by the first socialist governments and with the economic prosperity of the second half of the eighties. This pragmatic and plural generation, "committed only to a certain lyrical abstraction and with no other obvious fidelity than to a vague constructive realism", as I once described it, has experienced both political disappointment and economic crisis, breaking up into a spreading bundle of individual trajectories where that of Mangado is one of the most prominent, probably the most prolific, and without a doubt the most forceful in its pedagogical activism

Este livro sobre um dos projectos mais significativos de Pamplona está recheado de textos, fotografias e desenhos que o apresentam de forma magistral. Para além da riqueza das imagens, conta com dois textos de introdução de Luis Fernández-Galiano e Carlos Ferrater.