Born in Navarre in 1957, Francisco Mangado earned his degree from the University of Navarre School of Architecture in 1982, and has since made this institution the center of his teaching career. He has been a Guest Professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and an Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor at Yale’s School of Architecture, and is currently a Studio Professor in the Navarre school’s Master of Architectural Design program and a Visiting Professor at l’École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. In June 2008 he set up the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad, which aims to help increase architecture’s interaction with other fields of creativity, thought, and action. He combines his academic activities and foundation work with an architectural practice that he runs from his studio in Pamplona. For his professional work Mangado has earned, among other honors, an Andrea Palladio International Architecture Award, a City of Thiene Architecture Award, an Architécti Prize, the FAD and CEOE Awards, and First Prize in Madrid City Hall’s 20th Urban Planning, Architecture, and Public Works Awards (2005). The year 2007 saw him win First Prize in the Saloni Architectural Awards, the Grand Prize in the Enor Architecture Awards, and the First Prize for Architecture awarded by the COAL. His Spanish Pavilion at Expo Zaragoza 2008 has merited the following recognitions: in 2008, First Prize in the 7th ASCER Ceramic Architecture Awards; in 2009, First Prize for Construction at Construmat, the UIA’s Giancarlo Ius Gold Medal, the Fernando García Mercadal Prize of the Aragon Architects Association (COA), and the National Architecture Prize of Spain’s National Council of Architects’ Associations (CSCAE); and in 2010, the Green Good Design Award of the Chicago Athenaeum. The Archaeology Museum in Vitoria has for its part capped the Copper in Architecture Award, First Prize in the Civic Construction category of the Basque-Navarrese Architects Association (COAVN) Awards, and an International Architecture Award, all in 2010, and the Municipal Exhibition and Congress Center of Ávila was honored in the International Architecture Awards of 2011. The year 2011 also earned Francisco Mangado a RIBA International Fellowship, an award granted by the Royal Institute of British Architects to non-UK architects for their contribution to the architectural field. Notable among Mangado’s works are the Auditorium and Congress Center of Pamplona, the Place Pey Berland in Bordeaux, the Municipal Exhibition and Congress Center of Ávila, the Archaeology Museum of Vitoria, the Football Stadium of Palencia, and the Spanish Pavilion at the 2008 International Exposition in Zaragoza. More recent projects include the Congress Center of Palma de Mallorca, the Fine Arts Museum of Asturias in Oviedo, and an office high-rise in Buenos Aires. The Baluarte Auditorium and Congress Center in Pamplona and the Lienzo Norte Exhibition and Congress Center in Ávila were included in the exhibition on Spanish architecture that was held at the MoMA in New York City in 2006. The monographic exhibition ‘Francisco Mangado, Architect’ premiered at Madrid’s Círculo de Bellas Artes in February 2011 and has so far also gone on view at the Teulada Auditorium, Pamplona’s Palacio del Condestable, and the Berlin gallery AEDES.