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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Quaderns 275: The Ambiguity of Heritage

  • Quaderns 275: The Ambiguity of Heritage

Quaderns is a well reputed magazine in Spanish architectural debate: this monograph proves how heritage, a topic traditionally seen as highly specialistic, has become crucial in recent urban policies. The publication has been curated by an interdisciplinary team (a geographer and an architect) and presents the wide range of current positions and experiences in heritage, a field more and more linked to ecological and social sustainability, well beyond the traditional dilemma about the admissible level of intervention. The monograph gathers contributions by architects, conservationists, administrators, urban planners, cultural activists and scholars, following a dynamic structure with articles, a theoretical ping-pong on Sagrada Familia, interviews and an informal round table. As far as the illustrated projects and works, instead of specific case-studies, we have a kind-of intellectual photographic journey (with the essential technical data for each item) which casts an unconventional light on the recent experiences on heritage in Catalonia.

Category

Disclosure

Edition

7
Shortlisted

Year

2024

Author

Alessandro Scarnato
Francesc Muñoz

Project team

-

External collaborators

Marc Aureli Santos, Chiara Curti, Ramon Faura Coll, Adelita Araujo, Joaquim Sabaté Bel, Antonio Paolo Russo, Rania Ghosn, El Hadi Jazairy, Pietro Laureano, Joan Closa, Daroa de Seta, Sebastià Jornet, Marc Manzano

City

Barcelona

Country

Spain

Client

Public
COAC

Programme

Book

© Photographer

Alessandro Scarnato