Biography
Bordes was Born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on July 15, 2948. From 1957-60 he attended sculpture courses at the School of Las Palmas Lujan Perez Cárdenes with Abraham. From 1965-1972 he studied in Mdrid, attending the School of Architecture of Madrid, the School of Ceramics Moncloa and Life drawing classes in free Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. In 1976, he started teaching at ETSA Madrid., becoming a professor of Architectural Composition there om 1988, and in 1986 received a PhD from the
He is a Corresponding Member of the Real Academia Canaria de Bellas Artes de San Miguel Arcángel, an Academician of the RReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. He has received fellowships from CINFE, and at the Academia Española in Rome.
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