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.

The Award closes its registration consolidating its international vision

The Award closes its registration consolidating its international vision

14 May 2015

The European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention AADIPA closes its 2nd call with figures that confirm its international vision and consolidate its continuity


May 2015_ The second edition of The European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention AADIPA, a biennial contest organized by COAC (Association of Architects of Catalonia) and AADIPA (Association of Architects for the Defence and Intervention in Architectural Heritage), closes its registration with international participation 4 times greater than that of the first call.

The number of registered projects in this second edition, reaching almost 200, coincides with the first call, ensuring its stability and permanence. Likewise studios from 25 different countries have registered, compared to 8 registered for the previous event, serving to validate the international character of the award, whose main purpose is to distinguish patrimonial good practices and contribute to their disclosure.

From April 24, registration period closure, until the end of May, the international jury consisting of leading experts in the field of intervention in Architectural Heritage, will perform the task of assessing the works in each of 4 categories eligible for the award. In category A –Intervention in built heritage–, the architects Antón Capitel, Toni Gironés and Malgorzata Rozbicka will assess 117 projects. In Category B -Exterior spaces-, the experts Joaquín Pérez, Jose Luis Infanzón and Giuseppe Lonetti will analyze 32 proposals. In category C –Urban planning– the professionals Antoni Vilanova, Sonia Puente Landázuri and Cristopher Graz will assess 8 projects and in category D –Disclosure– Raquel Lacuesta and Miguel Ángel Troitiño will study 27 pieces of work. 

The Jury decision will be released on the 13th of June, at the headquarters of COAC Barcelona and in the framework of the 2nd International Biennial of Architectural Heritage organised by the Award management in conjunction with the COAC, AADIPA and Generalitat de Catalunya. The presentations and interventions in the technical sessions will culminate with the official award ceremony, focusing on the theme "Architectural Heritage at the Turn of the 19th into the 20th Century" and will feature Morocco as the guest country.

About the Award 
The Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention AADIPA, held its first call in 2013 and arises from the belief that heritage is imperative in the current context, in which architectural heritage is considered not only to be a fundamental instrument of knowledge but also a first rate socio-economic resource for the sustainable development of cities, the disclosure, distinction and recognition of works and quality projects contributing to the preservation of the collective memory.

Directed by Ramon Calonge, Oriol Cusidó, Marc Manzano, and Jordi Portal, architects and members of the Association of Architects for the Defence and Intervention in Architectural Heritage AADIPA, the contest is aimed at consolidating itself as a catalyst and observatory of new challenges added to the conservation and intervention in built heritage.

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