Trailer release of the Documentary on Fran Silvestre

The release of the trailer for the documentary dedicated to Fran Silvestre is more than a preview. It is an invitation to step inside the quiet discipline of a designer who understands architecture as an interplay of light, technique and landscape. The film is set to premiere globally in the second half of 2026, and this early glimpse opens a slow and deliberate conversation with the architectural community and with the Gallery itself.

Fran Silvestre was born in Valencia and shaped a path defined by precision and calm. His education, first at the Polytechnic University of Valencia and later in urbanism at the Technische Universität Eindhoven, reflects a dual attention to the scale of the city and the intimacy of the building.

His time working with Álvaro Siza Vieira in Porto left a visible imprint. There is in his work a command of silence, a restraint that allows light to become part of the structure, not as effect but as essence. When he founded the studio Fran Silvestre Arquitectos in 2005, he consolidated this approach into a practice grounded in research, technique and a profound trust in refined simplicity.

The studio, now located in the former workshop of sculptor Andreu Alfaro, gathers a multidisciplinary team working across scales and geographies. Houses by the sea, volumes anchored on rocky slopes, buildings that seem to hover in space, interiors shaped so that material speaks softly. Works such as Aluminium House, Casa del Atrio and Casa en la Ladera de un Castillo reveal an ongoing commitment to continuity, economy and precision. Nothing is excessive. Nothing is missing. Every line arrives at the moment it needs to exist.

For the Gallery, documenting figures like Fran Silvestre is not only about recording completed works. It is about following thought, observing choices, entering the space between the first sketch and the final gesture. The platform sees cinema as a tool for inquiry. Architecture does not reveal itself only when finished. It reveals itself when someone begins to think it into being.

The trailer hints at exactly that. It brings fragments of studio life, conversations, drawings, models, landscape, shifting light. It does not offer answers. It opens questions. The film seeks what rarely becomes visible: the interval where ideas breathe, where hesitation becomes structure, where the project finds its internal logic.

The Gallery recently conducted a research survey among its growing community. The message was unambiguous. People want to understand process. They want proximity to creation. They want to witness how an architect thinks before a building emerges. The interest is not only in the final image, but in the path that leads to it.

This confirmed what we already sensed. Contemporary architecture gains cultural depth when we share not only the built work, but the reasoning that precedes it. And the documentary on Fran Silvestre emerges precisely from this alignment between the public’s expectation and the Gallery’s purpose.

The newly released trailer responds directly to this desire. It serves as the first step of a conversation that will unfold until the film’s premiere. It prepares the eye and invites viewers to engage with the slow, precise rhythm that defines the architect’s practice.

To record the practice of an architect like Fran Silvestre is to preserve more than projects. It is to keep a way of seeing the world. His architecture is controlled and serene, yet never cold. It deals with shade, room, wind, terrain and time. It recognizes that inhabiting is not only about living in a place, but about establishing a relationship with what lies outside and what lies within.

The documentary becomes part of the Gallery’s living archive, a collection that does not freeze the present but allows it to breathe. It exists so that architectural thought can remain accessible to those who wish to see, study, learn and create.

The full film arrives in 2026. The trailer, now unveiled, is the first light.