AHI Architectural Heritage Intervention

“Contributing to enhancing our heritage, as the way forward for 21 st Century architecture is our raison d’être; to emphasize a diverse, rich vision that necessarily complements the intervention is our mission, and achieving it with reflexive and purposeful efforts is the challenge”.

This project, founded in, and directed since, 2011 by Ramon Calonge, Oriol Cusidó, Marc Manzano and Jordi Portal, architects and members of the Group of Architects for the Defence and Intervention in Architectural Heritage (AADIPA), has, through the years become a platform that includes four actions that are both independent and transversal.
 
The European Award, a biennial event that brings together and showcases the multiple approaches of intervention in Europe.

The International Biennial, a framework that serves to compare and gain closer insight of quality interventions in architectural heritage in non-European countries.

The digital Archive, a live and open window that provides a panoramic view of interventions in the history of our surroundings.

The Forum, a meeting place where you can participate in on-going debates about the main preoccupations and lines of thought about interventions in architectural heritage in Europe.

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New/Old. Fernando Távora. Works

  • New/Old. Fernando Távora. Works

Fernando Távora (1923-2005) is unquestionably a landmark figure in the culture of the 20th century. This book focuses on his architectural heritage interventions, which express a particular pedagogy with respect for cultural heritage. Under the motto “continue-innovating” Távora conveys a subtle modernity within the preservation of the identity of the places. This research is based largely on unpublished documentation collected in public and private archives, oral history, in situ observation, and the use of drawing as a research tool. The volume presents a critical narrative of the design and construction process (before, during and after the intervention), reaching beyond the final result, as is often the case in architectural publications. In this way, the book conveys a renewed perspective for the dissemination of a set of representative architectural heritage interventions, in some cases hitherto poorly publicized, that may constitute pedagogic content for teaching and professional practice.

Category

Disclosure

Edition

7
Shortlisted

Year

2023

Author

Teresa Cunha Ferreira
David Ordoñez-Castañon
Eleonora Fantini

Project team

Porto: FAUP/FIMS/Afrontamento

External collaborators

Design: Ana Resende and Clara Luz

City

Porto

Country

Portugal

Client

Public
FAUP/FIMS

Programme

Book

© Photographer

Luis Ferreira Alves