Public Works Journal Dialogues | 𝗡º 𝟯𝟲𝟱𝟴 𝗝𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗥 𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗢𝗟𝗔
The Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos presented yesterday the extraordinary issue of the Revista de Obras Públicas dedicated to the International Civil Engineering Award and Honorary Member, Javier Manterola.
🗣️Claves of the session:
▪️ Miguel Ángel Carrillo Suárez, president of the Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos: “This extraordinary issue of the Revista de Obras Públicas is an invitation to get to know Javier Manterola’s thinking and to better understand what it means to practice this profession with rigor and passion”.
▪️ Carlos Nárdiz, director of the Revista de Obras Públicas: “Manterola’s vindication of the engineering work as a work of art passes the filter of resistance”.
▪️ Miguel Aguiló. President, Miguel Aguiló Foundation: “Javier was passionate about looking at bridges, he spent his life looking at bridges. He looked from the depths of design; he was very aware of criticism, he understood criticism as a vehicle in the chain of innovation behind each work.”
▪️ Conchita Lucas Serrano. Head of the Transport Infrastructure Department. Dragados: “Javier was a designer with a unique elegance who did not design the final work but thought about how he would build it”.
▪️ Jose Romo. CEO fhecor Ingenieros Consultores: “Javier did not hesitate to define himself as a designer, he felt he was a bridge designer”.
▪️ Juan José Jorquera Lucerga. Head of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena: “It is necessary to return to Javier with fervor and loyalty, to discover him by crossing his bridges”.
▪️ Javier Torres Ruiz. Professor at the University of Cantabria: “Javier was thinking all his life how to make the bridge a space, the line a space, so he was looking to generate shadow and he saw that in the work of Chillida”.
▪️ Moderator and issue coordinator: Antonio Martínez CUTILLAS. CEO at CARLOS FERNANDEZ CASADO, S.L. (CFCSL)
📹Video of the presentation: https://lnkd.in/e9Z-ixSC
