The School of Architecture will carry out the next academic year 2016-17 a academic tribute to Professor Joaquín Lordadied last Friday, June 17, 2016, in Pamplona.

Throughout these days, there have been countless expressions of affection, fond memories, stories, that students, teachers, alumni and friends have sent us through different channels to the School.

In order to channel all these messages and collect all these testimonies of moments lived and shared with him, the School has enabled an e-mail address (profesorlorda@unav.es) and encourages all those who want to participate in this initiative to send those memories, which will help us to "drawing" the figure of the teacher Joaquín Lorda.

Born in Pamplona, Prof. Lorda studied at degree program in the School He graduated in Architecture in 1979, and obtained the doctorate (1989) with a thesis on the art of the theorist and critic Ernst Hans Gombrich, later published.

After a brief initial period focused on professional practice (1980-85), she returned to the School to engage in the teaching and the researchalthough he collaborated in some singular works, such as the structuring and decoration of the Main Chapel of the cathedral of Pamplona, the finishing, ornamentation, altarpieces and gold and silver work of the cathedral of San Salvador de El Salvador, and the Crown for Santa Maria the Royal of the cathedral of Pamplona.

In addition to the study of various topics related to the theory of art and architecturehe dedicated himself to an ambitious research in the field of the history of architecture and decorative arts in the Classicist and pre-modern universeand acquired a deep and extensive knowledge knowledge of the compositional and ornamental formulas of baroque architecture in Spain and America.

He gave guest lectures and sessions at various Spanish and Latin American universities and organized successive programs and courses for national and foreign students. He was one of the professors of the School more dear and appreciated by the studentsfor his charisma, his advice and, above all, for his way of teaching the History of Architecture through drawing.

Since 1996 he has been an Honorary Professor at high school Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico), and since 1998 he has been a corresponding academic of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Jorge (Barcelona).