Estudio de Arquitectura Toni Gironès   Spain   The first phase of the project to transform the large urban vacuum of 6,000 m² into a new public space consists in building a structure of corrugated steel rods that restore the geometry of the original cavea through its guidelines and generatrices..

Harquitectes   Spain   Three starting points: understanding the historic value of Lleialtat Santsenca (1928), an old working class cooperative in the Sants neighborhood; knowing to the detail the building’s (physical) state to maintain as much as possible; and being sensit

Diébédo Francis Kéré Kéré Architecture   Sudan   In a semi-desert landscape between the Nile and Atbara rivers, the remains of the city of the Kushites in Meroe – a powerful dynasty that reigned from the 8th century BC to the 4th century AD – were declared a UNESCO Heritage Site in 2011. Located ab

BSA Barrio & Sainz de Aja   Spain   The architectural site that has reached  our days is part of a group of 11th-century  buildings around a Benedictine monastery outside the city of Burgos, a crossing point in the Way of Saint James. The church, with three naves and several chapels,

Rodríguez + Pintos arquitectos   Spain   The castle of Santa Cruz is a modest building which is part of a series of small forts, watchtowers, and fachos that were erected in the 17th and 18th centuries along the banks of the river Miño as border strongholds. Santa Cruz does not stand out in

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

Héctor Fernández Elorza Manuel Fernández Ramírez   Spain   The Hermitage of the Holy Sepulcher in the Extremaduran town of Jarandilla de la Vera, built in the 17th century, was used as a prison in the 19th and as an elementary school in the 20th, after losing its roof. The intervention has involved consolida

Ferran Vizoso   Spain   Destroyed in the Battle of the Ebro in 1938, the town church of Corbera d’Ebre became an icon of what the population had to endure. It has now been transformed into a multipurpose hall, but in a way that preserves the memory of the Spanish Civil War,

CUAC Arquitectura   Spain   The project for an architectural studio at Calle San Jerónimo 17, just a few meters from the church of the same name, in the city of Granada, involved a radical transformation of a commercial space that had served different purposes in the course of

Archikubik Enllaç arquitectònic   Spain   The unearthing of the Rei Martí water storage deposit, built late in the 19th century, was accidental. The old cistern of the estate of the Torre Bellesguard, a work of Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona’s Sarrià-Sant Gervasi neighborhood, had been hidden ben

Flores i Prats Architects   Spain   In the historic center of Palma, Casal Balaguer is a large noble house from the 14th century, refurbished in the 16th and extended in the 18th. At the end of the past century, the City Council decided to convert it into a cultural center, making the

AleaOlea arquitectura i paisatge   Spain   Santa María de Vilanova de la Barca is a Gothic church of the 13th century that was partially destroyed in 1936 during Civil War bombings. Since then the building has remained in a state of neglect and only the east facade, some fragments of the aisl

Kosme de Barañano   The enlargement of the Museo dellOpera del Duomo and of the Ospedale degli Innocenti are fine models of heritage integration. 

Time continuously stores information in matter, making it a document. That by reading matter we can understand time is something well familiar to archaeologists, voracious exegetes of the remains of past civilizations, interpreters of those entropic

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Perhaps like us, buildings live in time and perish in space. They are built over years or decades and often last centuries, suffering the ravages of weather, use or conflict, experimenting metamorphoses or changes and in the end being demolished or c

The early moderns saw the past as a hindrance to eliminate or at least transcend and ‘go beyond.’ But as modernity matured, becoming less and less ‘modern,’ the past tended to shed its bad reputation and eventually carved an actual niche for itself i

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Dead stones are very much alive. We think about ruins as residues or traces of past activities, and fail to appreciate the fertility of these material remains, which store both the thermodynamic capital of their transport, preparation, and assembly,

David Rivera   Modern Movement architecture was born amid manifestos and controversies, and from the very start came with an impressive retinue of manuals and monographs. Orthodox history itself and the genealogies of modern architecture took off with force in 1923

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Ana Goñi   A joke. The latest outlandish idea in an election period. Madness. Benidorm’s bid for a place in Unesco’s list of World Heritage Sites, in the twin category of Good Culture and Good Nature, was made public this week, and been lambasted and parodied.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Buildings have many lives, because their functional erosion is often faster than their physical ruin. The stubborn persistence of their shells, where the materials, energy and knowledge used in their construction are deposited – what we now would cal

Tourists traveling today to the great city of Istanbul will be finding it harder to frame with their cameras and mobile phones the image that the age-old city has had up to very recently: that of a vast, dense, and ancient hamlet marked by the vertic

José Ignacio Linazasoro   Partly because of the economic crisis, which has particularly affected architects, work on heritage has returned to the forefront, seen as a professional opportunity at a moment when, paradoxically, indifference to history in an operational sense and

Teresa Carrau Carbonell   Buenos Aires  2020  
Diseño Editorial   - 130 Pages 

Philip Jodidio   A Framework for Urban Conservation

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