Aside from protecting a series of ruins in the Pearling Path, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the building becomes a foyer for the medina and a public space for the people of Muharraq.
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
The site’s complexity – with a fragment of the Andalusian medieval Ceuta –, the compressed character of the current city, and the marked topography encouraged to think of a unifying proposal that could make both aspects coexist. With this integrating
The recently restored castle in the county of Warwickshire is a placid ‘collage’ of contrasting languages where the brick walls of old continue to be the dominant element.
In September 2007, the Spanish Ministry of Culture called an international competition for the design and construction of a public library in the city of Ceuta. The project’s complexity resided in two perpendicular aspects: the floor plan had to keep
Spain literally rests on the bits and pieces of its own History, and proof of this are thenumerous Greek, Roman and Muslim remains that frequently appear in the subsoil. In the farming region that extends over the prairies of the River Douro, to the
In the Balearic Isles, the meeting of foreign influences with an architecture of strong autochthonous roots generally produced eclectic or merely mimetic results. Erwin Broner’s coherent synthesis of tradition and the avant-garde is an isolated case.
Monuments molt: they change skin, change image, and change meaning. As living heritage, they renew their renders and their walls, transform their outer appearance, and modify their symbolic content; and as vulnerable heritage, they experience decaden
Detroit’s early 20th-century buildings were astonishingly grand – now they’re being destroyed. Philip Jarmain captured their fading glamour. Michigan Theatre, 2013. Architects: Rapp and Rapp. Built: 1926. Michigan Theatre is widely known for its hau
War damage leaves resilient ruins. We use the term ‘urbicide’ to refer to the deliberate destruction of cities to wreck the physical resources and the morale of the opponent, but contemporary metropolises seldom perish. Many ancient cities were unabl
Born in 1979 in the old German Democratic Republic, Christian Richter was still a child when the Berlin Wall fell. Many buildings were abandoned in East Germany after the Reunification, and the young photographer found his source of inspiration in th
En Bartleby el escribiente, ese corto relato de Herman Melville ahora reivindicado como hagiografía del santoral moderno, el protagonista es descrito de la siguiente manera : «Como la última columna de un templo en ruinas, permaneció erguido, callado
Victor Plahte Tschudi Archaeological Imagination in Early Modern Europe
Dan Barasch
London 2019
Phaidon - 240 Pages
Stephen Cairns Jane M. Jacobs Perverse View of Architecture
Nicole Dacos O la invención del paisaje de ruinas
