Fernando Redón

FERNANDO REDÓN HUICI (Pamplona, 1929-2016).
"St. Mark's Square in Venice".1991.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 96 x 129 cm; 97 x 130 cm (frame).

Fernando Redón Huici was a Spanish architect who developed most of his professional career in Navarra. He also cultivated painting, in which he shows a remarkable compositional skill and detailed precision, as we can see in the painting in tender.

He also practiced photography (in 1979 he won second prize in the Nikon International Photography Competition in Japan) and graphic design.

He studied high school at the Marist Brothers School in Pamplona and Architecture at the Superior Schools of Barcelona and Madrid, where he graduated in 1957 and received his doctorate in 1968. He was the author of the architectural projects of Casa Huarte and the "Las Hiedras" building on Avenida de la Baja Navarra in Pamplona (1959), the Huarte Towers (1963), which was the first building of the so-called III Ensanche of Pamplona, and the Ulzama Golf Club (1964), both in collaboration with Javier Guibert. In 1965 he built the housing for the Papelera de Navarra in Sangüesa, in 1967 the Juan XXIII residence in Pamplona and the Elcano rehabilitation center (1968). In the following years he built the second Huarte House in La Manga del Mar Menor (1969), the Control Center of the Portland factory in Olazagutía (1972), and, as an interior architect, several business premises in Pamplona (1973) in collaboration with Manuel Sagastume, with whom he collaborated until 1979. In 1992 he built the Navarre pavilion at the Universal Exhibition in Seville, and in 1996 he designed and directed the redevelopment of the Old Quarter of Pamplona. He also designed the Pago de Larrainzar winery (2002) in Ayegui.

He held various institutional and academic positions. In 1979 he was advisor to the Department of Culture of the Government of Navarre and later director of the Institución Príncipe de Viana, from which he promoted the launching of the Festivals of Navarre in Olite. In 1983, he was appointed advisor to the Ministry of Culture and that same year he became professor of Projects at the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra, a position he held until 1990. From 1995 to 2006 he was president of the Social Council of the Public University of Navarra.