A slender roof shaped as a tall canopy is designed to protect the vast excavated space from the weather. It is formed by a rectangle held by four pillars, where a series of light footbridges mark the walking paths for visitors throughout the archaeol
Guided both by tradition and common sense, over the centuries the people of Los Pedroches Valley – a protected area between Extremadura, Andalucía, and Castille – have cherished the holm oaks that cover the valley’s meadows as if they were sacred tre
The library is conceived as a gate of access to the Jardines de la Agricultura (Agriculture Gardens), which it joins and becomes part of. In order to adapt to the historic layout of the 18th century gardens and to respect the existing trees, the buil
The Campo de la Verdad neighborhood faces the monumental area of the city of Córdoba. Reinterpreting tradition with a contemporary language, the building contains fourteen apartments, each with a bathroom, a living-dining-kitchen area, and a bedroom,
Photographs from the early 20th century have allowed to rebuild the castle using sandstone ashlar pieces with carved headers to let light pass through; a substructure anchored to the concrete cores of the interior of the towers stabilizes the new wal
LAP Arquitectos, renovation of conference and exhibition center of Córdoba Córdoba-based LAP Arquitectos – Rafael Pérez Morales, David Pérez Herranz, Rafael Pérez Herranz – undertook the renovation, improvement, and adaptation of the Conference Cente
Seeing the need to modernize the city courts, the regional government of Andalusia called a competition for the construction of the new City of Justice of Córdoba. On a plot of 12,000 square meters, in a new urban area, the project would give the nei
The need to reduce costs to a maximum during the building’s construction process led to the decision of choosing a lightweight facade, formed by aluminum trays with a variable section, which allowed a fast and dynamic assembly... [+]
The complex features of the site – with a fragment of the medieval Marinid city –, the compactness of Ceuta, and the deep slope called for a proposal with a unifying character. The architecture is born from the place, offering one reading in spite of
Winners of the international competition called in 2006, the Dutch studio Mecanoo – together with the Spanish engineering firm Ayesa – is building the City of Justice of Córdoba since 2014. The new complex of 50,000 square meters is designed to gathe
With privileged views of the historic quarter of Baena, this Center for the Elderly is configured as a lookout that opens up to the landscape and directs its views towards the main urban landmarks of the Cordovan municipality. Sitting on a raised pla
The project gives a glass fifth facade to one of the few works that modern rationalism left in the city of Córdoba, the interiors of which have been renovated completely.
Mistrusting the supposed efficiency and container so often used nowadays, we devised a building closely linked to a place and to a faraway memory. A building in which each space is configured individually, in a time that is subject to transforming i
The project presents sustainable and self-managed rental housing, grouped around a green courtyard where common activities take place, while the private areas are located on the exterior boundary…
Inspirado en la geometría de la mezquita de Córdoba, un bosque polícromo de parasoles de alturas y diámetros diversos cubre un espacio multifuncional, abierto y mediterráneo.
Architecture is always feeding on images concealed in our memory, ideas that at some point become clear and unexpectedly mark the outset of a project. Perhaps for this reason the echoes of the Hispano-Muslim culture still present in Córdoba have unco
Geométrico y abstracto como las tapias de la Mezquita Catedral, este nuevo hotel de lujo se presenta como un volumen rojizo a las puertas de la Córdoba amurallada.
The extension of the Emilio Caraffa Provincial Museum of Fine Arts, located in the capital of Córdoba, brings together the neoclassical building, designed at the beginning of the 20th century by the Hungarian architect Johannes Dronfuss, and the rece
The romantic image of the ruins, so often rejected as nostalgic and anachronistic, is capable of transmitting, however, not only the evocative power of the constructions of the past but also the destructive force of time and nature. In this duality -
Cruzando el río Guadalquivir desde la ciudad histórica, surge una pieza de 360 metros de longitud, de la que emerge tan sólo un auditorio en voladizo. En el interior, un pasaje continuo comunica ambas partes del meandro en que se sitúa el edificio, m
In an area that is particularly close to the center, right next to the meander that surrounds the stadium, the Balcón del Guadalquivir project restores the blurred banks of the river, builds a park in the areas that are cleared with the intervention,
Close to Córdoba’s fortress, just a few blocks away from the Mosque, the Martyr’s cemetery conceals beneath it the remains of a rich complex of halls that presumably integrated the baths of the Arab fortress. Discovered in 1903, the site was dug out
Few Spanish cities are so directly identified with a single monument as Córdoba is. And that is why the appeal of this project comes precisely from its proximity to the Mosque. Moreover, the choice of site is fortunate because, while the Mosque is th
1929-2020 He who some critics called the “silent artist” – due to both his personal discretion and his objectivist idea of art – passed away at 91 years of age in the Córdoba of his birth. Having studied architecture, in his native city he co-founded
The work of Philibert Girault de Prangey, who was a draughtsman, pioneering photographer and an Islamic architecture scholar, has been the subject of recent exhibitions in his hometown (Langres, 2019), at the Metropolitan Museum (New York, 2019) and
The painter and also architect Juan Serrano was one of the founding members of Equipo 57, which pioneered geometric abstraction in Spain.
This promenade through Córdoba, Seville, and Granada is also a walk through the intellectual journey of its author. Rafael Moneo brings together three texts, written in successive decades, that examine three monumental works built in the period betwe
Known for the formal freedom with which it tackles its projects, the Dutch firm Mecanoo has demonstrated more restraint in building the new Palace of Justice of the southern Spanish city of Córdoba. The Delft-based practice has distributed the comple
Flanqueando al Guadalquivir y dialogando con los edificios históricos que se asoman al río, las obras del futuro Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Córdoba dan ya una idea del aspecto final del edificio. Diseñado por el equipo madrileño dirigido por
En pleno corazón de Córdoba, los sevillanos Morales, Giles y Mariscal construirán la nueva sede de la Fundación Arquitectura Contemporánea, entidad privada dedicada a la investigación y difusión de la arquitectura, como resultado del concurso interna
Un revestimiento de planchas de acero cortén perforadas con láser distingue el primer hotel de cinco estrellas de la ciudad califal, firmado por el equipo de Alfonso Casares en colaboración con el estudio Isasi y Pieltain, sobre el solar del antiguo
Contemporary Art Center in Córdoba
Tras Sevilla, Cádiz y Granada, la cuarta entrega de la colección ‘Guías de Arquitectura de Andalucía’ reúne el ingente y excepcional patrimonio histórico de Córdoba con su arquitectura contemporánea en una edición bilingüe español-inglés. Tras una in
Córdoba, el sábado 15 de febrero de 2003, a las once de la mañana: en el salón de actos del Círculo de la Amistad tiene lugar la inauguración solemne de la exposición de Julio Romero de Torres. Es un momento histórico porque todo el mundo allí está p
Veni, vid, vici.The concise report of Caesar to the Senate serves well to describe the last visit to Spain of Rem Koolhaas: the rushed Rotterdam architect stopped in Córdoba just the necessary time to persuade a jury of the advantages of his project
Faculty in La Coruña and Station in Córdoba Two buildings – one in Galicia and the other in Andalusia – share the National Prize for Architecture, bestowed every two years by Spain’s Council of Architectural Institutes in conjunction with the M
¿No estábamos de acuerdo en que Córdoba era una de las ciudades más bellas de España, con un casco antiguo admirable en el que sabían convivir los grandes monumentos con la recoleta estructura residencial, el espacio público con la discreta privatiza
El regionalismo en arquitectura adquiere en nuestros días un interés nuevo. Los condicionantes económicos, los sistemas constructivos tradicionales, la morfología urbana y las permanencias tipológicas, aspectos, todos ellos, desarrollados por la cult
Rafael Moneo La Mezquita de Córdoba, la lonja de Sevilla y un carmen en Granada
Gabriel Ruiz Cabrero Visiones de la mezquita
Francisco Daroca María Yllescas Ortiz Felipe de la Fuente Darder
Córdoba 2003
Junta de Andalucía - 274 Pages
