Mansilla + Tuñón was a Spanish architecture practice founded in Madrid in 1992 by Luis Moreno Mansilla (1959–2012) and Emilio Tuñón (born 1958), both from Madrid; it worked until Mansilla's death in 2012. The two taught at the Madrid school of architecture, ETSAM, and at Harvard, the EPFL in Lausanne, the Städelschule in Frankfurt and Princeton, and in 2009 they directed the Spanish Architecture Biennial. Much of their work came from public competitions for museums, libraries and cultural centres across Spain, and in 2014 the practice received Spain's Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts.
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The Museu de Belles Arts de Castelló (2001), won in a 1997 competition, was followed in León by the Auditorio Ciudad de León (2002). Their best-known building, MUSAC, Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León (2004), won the 2007 Mies van der Rohe Award, the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. In Madrid they won the competition for the Royal Collections Gallery (2023) in 2002; set beside the Royal Palace and Almudena Cathedral, it holds the collections of the Spanish crown. They also won the 2007 competition for Madrid's International Convention Center.
