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We share here the latest news about our activities, as well as those that, organized by our members, share our goals and objectives.
Award Ceremony for the Rafael Manzano Prize and the Richard H. Driehaus Heritage Preservation Medal
On November 17, the award ceremony of the Rafael Manzano Prize for New Traditional Architecture and the Third Richard H. Driehaus Heritage Preservation Medal took place at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.The Rafael Manzano Prize for New Traditional...
Publication of the second issue of the Journal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism
The second issue of the Journal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism has been published. Through this link you can download the complete issue, or any of the articles separately. It includes both original academic articles, peer-reviewed and evaluated...
2021 Winners of the Rafael Manzano Prize and the Heritage Preservation Medal
2021 Rafael Manzano Prize The Rafael Manzano Prize for New Traditional Architecture is mainly aimed to promote traditional architectureOn November 17, the tenth Rafael Manzano Prize for New Traditional Architecture , will be awarded with € 50,000. The jury, made up of...
Master craftsperson of November
Salvador Gomis Aviñó has been selected by INTBAU Spain as master craftsperson of the month for November 2021. Salvador Gomis Aviñó is a master mason specialized in the construction of traditional timbrel vaults. He has more than twenty years of experience in the...
Open call for submissions for the 2020-2022 Richard H. Driehaus Architecture Competition
The Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda and INTBAU, with the collaboration of the Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Council of Architecture Institutes of Spain, are organizing this competition aimed at teams of architects from all over the world. This...
New call for the Richard H. Driehaus Building Arts Awards
The 2022 call for entries for the Richard H. Driehaus Building Arts Awards is now open. The deadline for entries is 12 January 2022. Traditional building works have been grouped into four categories for these awards, each with an annual prize of 10,000 euros and a...
Master craftsperson of October
Miguel Sobrino González has been selected by INTBAU Spain as master craftsperson of the month for October 2021. Miguel Sobrino is a specialist in the traditional methods of stone carving based on direct carving, both for stonemasonry and sculpture. His work is based...
Arquitectura Verata, La Comarca de La Vera
Arquitectura Verata is a project initiated this year in La Comarca deLa Vera with the intention of helping to preserve and disseminate the rich popular construction of the region. It is a project committed to the landscape, life, culture, history, architecture and...
Master craftsperson of September
Oriol Garcia Alcocer has been selected by INTBAU Spain as master craftsperson of the month for September 2021. Oriol Garcia Alcocer is part of the fifth generation of stuccoists in the family firm Estucs Oriol Garcia, established in 1860, and which is one of the few...
Breixo Arufe Salgado will be awarded the 2021 Donald Gray Apprenticeship
The training apprenticeship awarded in the 2021 Richard H. Driehaus Building Arts Awards went to master blacksmith Santiago Martínez Otero, better known as Chago. This master craftsman has his workshop in Santiago de Compostela and throughout his career has worked on...
Second International Conference on Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism: Timeless Architecture
The conference will take place at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and will also be streamed virtually on November 17th and 18th, 2021. Academic papers and works selected for presentation may also be published in...
Master craftsperson of July
Ramón Recuero has been selected by INTBAU Spain as master craftsperson of the month for July 2021. After years of training and researching, Ramón Recuero masters a great number of techniques regarding traditional forging. In his workshop not only works for...
