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KREA. Expresión Contemporánea(KREA. Contemporary Expression) is a new cultural and creative proposal promoted by the Caja Vital Kutxa (Vital) savings bank. This project places at everyone’s disposal the necessary resources to learn contemporary artistic creations. It also wants young people to explore their most creative facet and displaying emerging projects. At first, the building was called The Convent of Betoño which was originally founded at the end of the 19th century (started 11 September 1904) by the architect Javier de Aguirre and the designer Marcial Dagorette. However, as the nuns who lived there left the monastery it was abandoned until the Caja Vital Kutxa (Vital) savings bank decided to make it up and to use it as a school of new artists such as sculptures, writers, filmmakers and more. Unfortunatelly, the construction was so expensive and when it was finished, there was no money left to start using it. In 2014, a rumour said that an American University wanted this building to use it as a campus. Now it is known that the rumour was right and that it could open its doors between the years 2016 and 2017. ==History of the building== In 1904, the first stone of the monastery was placed. It is financed by Lorenzo Rolland y Paret, resident of Madrid and consul in Toulouse, who purchased a large plot of 16,000 square meters in the area known as "La Perla". In addition, he ordered to build it in nearby "Villa Melania", a place for his summer holiday. It was designed by Marcial Dagorette and was held by Javier de Aguirre, municipal architect of Vitoria. In 1905 the Carmelite mothers from a convent in Toulouse, moved to the convent. The Church, neo-Gothic design, was the last thing that was built in the convent for lack of funds. It is the highlight of the whole and rightly combines pleasant proportions with a line of elegant construction. The facade is topped with a pinion triangular with oculus. Lorenzo Rolland y Paret died in "Villa Melania" and was embalmed and buried in the monastery. Later, the convent was closed and the Church was unsanctified. The remains of the cemetery also rose to move them to the Vitoria-Gasteiz Carmelite convent, located in the Santa Teresa way behind the Diocesan Seminary. Following the advice of the Vicar of the diocese, also stood the remains of the founder, who were in a crypt. The nuns who lived in the convent were transferred to other places. Some were destined at Calahorra, others to Alba de Tormes (birthplace of Santa Teresa) and finally to the convent of the Carmelo de Vitoria in the path of Santa Teresa. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KREA Contemporary Expression」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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