Palenzuela Taller de Arquitectura   Spain   The idea was to free up space in the Europa school’s original building, which was completed in 1972 as part of the P.U.A., an Andalusian plan for educational centers characterized by rhomboidal floor plans. The old construction would take in the elem

Kauh arquitectos   Spain   This landscape intervention by the Granada-based firm KAUH – Vincent Morales Garoffolo and Juan Antonio Sánchez Muñoz – reclaims the unique heritage site of La Hoya for the city of Almería. La Hoya is a gorge located on the edge of the historic quart

Alberto Campo Baeza Modesto Sánchez Morales   Spain   When in 1964 Bernard Rudofsky filled the MoMA galleries with ‘Architecture Without Architects,’ among cave houses of Cappadocia and adobe huts of Mali he included two photographs of Mojácar taken by José Ortiz Echagüe, with a short text in which he b

Palera arquitectos    Spain   The project is located in Overa, in the north of Almería, in a rural environment with strong roots in agriculture. Over the years, the urban fabric of the town has blurred the agricultural footprint of the territory. Despite this, ancient eras can st

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   Conceived as a ‘cascade of volumes,’ the building is staggered over four levels between the two streets to adapt to the steep site so that, from the sea, this new house is seen as just one more piece of the village...

med.arquitectos   Spain   On the edge of Almería’s Costacabana neighborhood, on a 380-square-meter L-shaped corner plot, stands this building containing two similarly-sized dwellings. A work of the Andalusian firm med.arquitectos (José Moreno Ferre and Javier Peña), the bunke

Castillo-Miras arquitectos   Spain   The restoration of the Nasrid tower of Huércal-Overa, built in the 14th century, has in theoretical terms pursued a dichotomy between the timeless solidity of a preexisting, medieval construction and the lightweight, provisional character of a contem

Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos   Spain   Founded as cultural institution in 1933, the Archaeological Museum has changed site and name on several occasions in the course of the past century. Its final location in what used to be the Colegio Menor Santa María del Mar was followed by several e

Indalecio Batlles   Spain   The project proposes activating the industrial heritage of the gold mines of Rodalquilar with a unitary action that serves as a link between the existing elements: a path, a walkway or a shadow that relates the processing plants with one another.  In

Castillo-Miras arquitectos   Spain   The exploitation of the iron deposits of Lucainena de las Torres, in Almería province, began late in the 19th century, and a railway reaching the bay of Agua Amarga was built to support it. Eventually the appearance of iron-poor carbonate, which requ

Los del Desierto   Spain   Desde muy temprana edad y de forma inmediata, los niños identifican la cubierta inclinada con la casa; así la trazan en sus dibujos: el tejado, la base prismática y por último las puertas y ventanas. Una escuela infantil no es más que una ‘casa grand

Luis Cano Luis Ridao   Spain   Este centro educativo se encuentra en el municipio de Antas, en el Levante Almeriense. Para su emplazamiento se dispuo de un solar con una pronunciada pendiente desde el que se disfruta del fantástico panorama que ofrece el cauce, casi siempre seco,

Nicolás Carbajal Simone Solinas Gabriel Verd   Spain   After the colonization of the Campo de Dalías by greenhouses, whose translucent plastic covers compose the image of a compact mosaic that recalls an artificial sea, the next step was the construction of facilities for the towns in the western area of

Carrascal-Fernandez de la Puente arquitectos   Spain   El campus de la Universidad de Almería se encuentra en un entorno privilegiado desde el que se disfruta de vistas al mar Mediterráneo y el cabo de Gata. El trazado general se estructura con un eje arbolado de gran amplitud perpendicular a la línea de

Born in Almería in 1930 and recently deceased, Siquier was one of the key figures of Spanish avant-garde photography, and his work with the AFAL group earned international attention. In 1956 he started a documentary project on La Chanca, a poor neigh

«Una gran burbuja de aire sobre un basamento de hormigón», así describen Eva Luque y Alejandro Pascual —Los del Desierto— el pabellón polideportivo que acaban de terminar en el municipio de Garrucha. Los invernaderos de la zona, a base de perfiles de