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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Creating Coromandel: Marco Zanuso in South Africa

  • Creating Coromandel: Marco Zanuso in South Africa

Creating Coromandel (Artifice Press, 2022) by Peres and Zamboni, is more than an in-depth monograph documenting a nearly forgotten masterpiece of regional architecture. Among the book’s themes is the design of the house that is now praised as an early exploration of sustainable design, as well as the partnership between the clients, the architect and prominent personalities, including the Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994) and the Italian landscape architect Pietro Porcinai (1910-1986). Featuring archival drawings and extraordinary photos, including a collection by photographers David Goldblatt (1930–2018) and Margaret Courtney-Clarke (born 1949), the monograph is rich in visual materials to accompany the scholarly text, peer-reviewed by academics in Italy and South Africa. The volume documents the extraordinary skill of architect Marco Zanuso (1916-2001), but also offers a glimpse into the design process and the collaboration entailed. This work expands the modernist canon and reflects on contemporary practice.

Category

Disclosure

Edition

7
Shortlisted

Year

2022

Author

Edna Peres
Andrea Zamboni

Project team

Fulvio Irace, Christian Sumi, Arthur Barker, Salvatore Barba, Carla Ferreyra, Anna Sanseverino

External collaborators

Publisher: Artifice Press.
Archives: Fondo Marco Zanuso - Archivio del Moderno Mendrisio, Archivio Pietro Porcinai, Sydney and Victoria Press Archive.
Photography: David Goldblatt, Margaret Courtney-Clarke, Christoffel Mentz, Dewald van Helsdingen, Justin S. Coetzee, Moir Family Archive.

City

London

Country

Others

Client

Public
Artifice Press

Programme

Book

© Photographer

Artifice Press - Christoffel Mentz