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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Architecture and Symbols of Laxedo

  • Architecture and Symbols of Laxedo

«Architecture and symbols of Laxedo. A planned village in rural Galicia» is a process of research, dissemination and social interaction based on the principles of citizen science and collective intelligence on the cultural heritage of a very unique traditional rural center of Galicia. The binomial formed by two of its most illustrious neighbors, the philanthropist Manuel Barreiro Cabanelas, also known as «Count Cabanelas», and the sculptor Alejandro Cabanelas Araujo, carried out an intervention at the beginning of the 20th century that completely changed the spatial, aesthetic and functional configuration of this mountain village. The intervention is marked by two important aspects: the idea of progress applied to the territory and the influence of European and American urban plans, accompanied by a Masonic symbolism embodied at the urban, architectural and sculptural level. This is a unique case of urban planning in a small-scale rural territory that formed a small microcosm. In short, we can say that «the world passed through Laxedo».

Category

Disclosure

Edition

7

Year

2024

Author

BUO ESTUDIO Arquitectura & Paisajismo
Manuel Angel Bugallo Otero, Cristina Villaverde Ruibal

Project team

Cover illustration: María Isabel Blanco Alonso
Spanish linguistic review: Jimena Bugallo Otero
Galician language review: María Dolores Ferro Diz

External collaborators

Co-funding: COAG Colexio Oficial de Arquitectos de Galicia
Art consulting: Carlos de Gredos
Printing: La Imprenta CG
Supporters: O Suído & Gesdogal

City

Laxedo

Country

Spain

Client

Private
Laxedo Neighbors Association

Programme

Book

© Photographer

Chou Pesqueira & authors