President of Madrid Puts Foot In Mouth, Offends Architects Everywhere

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Politicians caught on camera say the darndest things. Like – if you’re Esperanza Aguirre, President of Madrid – that architects “should be killed.”

The Politician was unknowingly recorded while speaking with the Mayor of Valdemaqueda, a municipality of Madrid, about their town hall. The building, known as Casa Consistorial de Valdemaqueda (1998), designed by Paredes Pedrosa, was an award-winner at the Spanish Biennale of 1999. Their conversation (translated by yours truly) went as follows:

Mayor: The town hall? Oh, that thing. Well, it’s gotten prizes, president. Architecture prizes.

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Cite: Vanessa Quirk. "President of Madrid Puts Foot In Mouth, Offends Architects Everywhere" 06 Sep 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/271015/president-of-madrid-puts-foot-in-mouth-offends-architects-everywhere> ISSN 0719-8884

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