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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Domingo de Andrade: Continuity and Transformation in a Compostelan Enclave

  • Domingo de Andrade: Continuity and Transformation in a Compostelan Enclave

This book aims to reflect, alongside the reader, on what architecture "is" as a fundamental human phenomenon. "Building and thinking are, each in its own way, inescapable for dwelling" is the well-known, precise, and emphatic statement by M. Heidegger, which conveys its significance, derived from the radical inevitability that accompanies them. A building is a reality permanently embedded in our daily lives, and some, the most remarkable ones, endure for centuries. This is what happened in Compostela, between the squares of Quintana and Platerías, crystallized over many years: it framed a cathedral entrance with a Royal Portico, which was later relocated; raised a Bell Tower; it built a Sacristy that would later become the Chapel of Pilar; it added a suspended access to the Treasury Building and a space for the Cathedral Guard; it incorporated monumental Staircases; and it provided shelter to distinguished canons in an eloquent Palace.

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Disclosure

Edition

7
Shortlisted

Year

2024

Author

Celestino García Braña
Adrián Alonso Lorenzo

Project team

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External collaborators

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City

Santiago de Compostela

Country

Spain

Client

Public
Consorcio de Santiago

Programme

Book

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