Architect. He graduated from the Escuela de Arquitectura de Sevilla in 2008 and then continued his studies by carrying out an MA at the Escuela de Arquitectura de Madrid in 2013. In 2012 he set up, together with Javier Cenicacelaya and Alejandro García Hermida, the Spanish chapter of INTBAU. From then on, he takes part in many initiatives – both in Spain and Portugal – as well as carrying out personal collaborations with INTBAU Italy and INTBAU UK. He has given lectures on classical architecture and Spanish-Muslim architecture in several European and American countries and his articles have been published in different specialized magazines. He currently lives in London where he works as an associate architect at Stanhope Gate Architecture.

Architect from the Universidad de Navarra, he has been a professor at the same institution. He has been an architect at the Historic Heritage Service of the Dirección General de Cultura-Institución Príncipe de Viana of the Navarra Government since 1986. As an architect of that institution, he has been awarded the Restoration and Conservation of Cultural Heritage National Prize in 1998 and the Rafael Manzano Prize in 2012, among others. He is a Member of the Academia del Partal and of the Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi.

Graduated with a degree in Advanced Middle Ages Studies, holds a Ph.D. focused on Hispanic Philology, a Ph.D. on Geography and History and he is Specialist in Theory, History, Legislation and Intervention in architectural restoration. He is a Professor at Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio, teaching History of Architecture and Theory of Restoration. He is Coordinator of the Architectural Composition Area and of the PhD in Architecture and Heritage Program at the same university. He is Activities Vice Chair of the Centro de Investigación de Arquitectura Tradicional of the UPM (CIAT). He is author of several books and essays on Architecture and Heritage, Medieval Studies and Historical Onomastics.

A graduate in Architecture from the Málaga University School of Architecture, she is currently completing an MA in Architecture and Historic Heritage at the University of Seville. She works professionally as an architect with the Bastidas Architecture practice, founded by Sergi Bastidas (Rafael Manzano New Traditional Architecture Laureate 2021). She has worked for Kalam, a specialist firm in historic building conservation and refurbishment, and at various architecture practices in Spain and the Netherlands, as well as on a freelance basis in refurbishment projects. She is part of the coordination team of the Spanish Network of Traditional Building Crafts Masters, and contributed to the coordination of the Azores Traditional Architecture Summer School in 2022.

Philanthropist and businessman who has provided an important support to charitable organizations committed to promoting classical architecture and to those projects regarding the conservation of traditional heritage, architectural and town planning. He was an Honorary Doctorate by DePaul University and Honorary Academician of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid.

Ramón Mayo is the president and founder of KALAM, a specialized company in the conservation of monuments and the rehabilitation of historic buildings, present in Spain since 1987 and later in other countries in Europe, America and Africa. KALAM has a team of over 700 professionals, artisans, masters of traditional crafts and technicians worldwide. He promotes and takes part in actions regarding culture and heritage, having received, among other acknowledgements, the Special Mention in the Category of Dedication to Heritage in the Europa Nostra Awards.

Graduated and Ph.D. in Architecture from the School of Architecture of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Having graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Rome and from the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) in Restoration of Monuments. He is Member of the Royal Academies of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid and of Nuestra Señora de las Angustias in Granada. He has been awarded the National Prize for the Conservation and Restoration of Goods of Cultural Interest in 2016 and the Richard H. Driehaus Heritage Preservation Medal 2019. He has been also a CSIC research professor (Scientific Research Superior Council) and previously an architect within the Directorate for Fine Arts, reporting to the Ministry of Culture. He carried out numerous restoration works, among others, in the Historic Complex of Albarracín.

Was born in Barcelona, and founded his first studio in 1979, “BB-Architects” (currently Bastidas Architecture). He started his professional career in Barcelona, where he worked with Enric Franch Miret (his mentor), with whom he collaborated in several ADI-FAD competitions. During his career, of almost 40 years, he has worked in the Balearic Islands, Barcelona, Paris, New York and Marrakech. His projects are mainly new construction works but also renovations, always using traditional materials and techniques. He also has a special interest in integrating in his buildings the identity of the places they belong to. After many years collaborating, in 2020 finally his two sons, Gerard and Boris Bastidas, joined him in the management team of Bastidas Architecture.

He graduated in Law, and was a diplomat from 1967 to 1981 in the United Nations Headquarters in New York and in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Head of National Heritage between 1997 and 2005. He is a member of the board of trustees of several cultural institutions, such as the Prado Museum, the Naval Museum, Hispania Nostra, Europa Nostra and the World Monuments Fund. Having retired from the Spanish Foreign Service, today, he is actively dedicated to the preservation of heritage and natural landscape. In 2015, the king Felipe VI, awarded him with the Golden Medal of Fine Arts.

Architect from the Universidad de Navarra, he has been a professor at the same institution. He has been an architect at the Historic Heritage Service of the Dirección General de Cultura-Institución Príncipe de Viana of the Navarra Government since 1986. As an architect of that institution, he has been awarded the Restoration and Conservation of Cultural Heritage National Prize in 1998 and the Rafael Manzano Prize in 2012, among others. He is a Member of the Academia del Partal and of the Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi.

Architect graduating from the Universidad de Sevilla School of Architecture, he soon began to work in the Otaisa group (Technical Offices of Architecture and Engineering S.A.), where he would quickly occupy the position of Chief Executive Officer and then President. His work as an architect has obtained important commissions for projects through public competition. In the academic year of 1972-1973 he was professor at the School of Architecture of Seville. His concept of architecture combines modernity and concern for the traditions and architectural culture of its historic city. In this sense, he inherited and maintained the vision of his father, the architect Luís Gómez Estern, a prominent scholar of traditional architecture in Seville. HE was awarded the Rafael Manzano Prize for New Traditional Architecture in 2013.

Graduated in Philosophy and Literature by the Universidad de Zaragoza, with an MA in Territorial Development by the Universidad Complutense. He was the director of the Escuelas-Taller (hands on educational programs on building crafts) in Albarracín and from 1996 onwards, the Director and Manager of the Fundación Santa María de Albarracín, where he coordinates projects oriented to revitalize and develop locally, projects regarding the restoration of architecture and other assets, as well as carrying out cultural events associated to heritage. His work has made him deserving of several acknowledgments such as the Richard H. Driehaus Heritage Preservation Medal in 2019. He is a member of the Provincial Commission of the Cultural Heritage in Teruel, and has written several books and publications on Albarracín and the work carried out by the foundation.

Graduated with a degree in Architecture from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and holds a Ph.D. from the same university. He has devoted his career to the study of Classicism, both in the Western and in the Islamic world, restoring numerous historic buildings and designing new buildings in Spain and abroad. He has been Professor at the School of Architecture of the University of Seville since 1966, where he was also Dean from 1974 to 1978. He was headed to the preservation of both the Reales Alcázares of Seville and the ancient Caliphal city of Medina Azahara in Córdoba and chaired the works commission of the Real Patronato of the Alhambra and the Generalife. He was the recipient of the 8th Richard H. Driehaus International Prize in 2010. He is a member of many national and international academic institutions.

He studied Architecture in the School of Architecture in Barcelona and carried out his Master in Architectural Projects at the Centro Superior de Arquitectura, depending of the Camuñas Foundation, in Madrid. He started his professional career in La Coruña as the partner of Arturo López de la Osa. After that, he came back to his hometown, Écija. He then founded an architecture office along with Javier Madero and José Oliva, with whom he carried out many works. He worked as an advisor for the Institute of Architects of Seville, being the director and co-founder, along with Pedro Górgolas, of the magazine titled Neutra. He also worked with the Town Council of Écija as the director of the department of the Historic City Centre and as representative and lecturer at the Heritage Commission. During this period he became a member of the Real Academia de Ciencias, Bellas Artes y Buenas Letras “Vélez de Guevara” in Écija, of which today he is the vice-president. In 2020 he was awarded the Rafael Manzano Prize for New Traditional Architecture.

Master carpenter-cabinetmaker with broad professional experience, gained in different fields and sectors related to wood. Thus, he holds the knowledge of the former master artisans and industrial-related workers in the field of wood. In 2017 he was awarded the Richard H. Driehaus Building Arts Award in the Category of Wood Works because of his contribution to maintaining traditional artisanal crafts, and was also the selected Master to carry out the tutoring of the Donald Gray Apprenticeship Grant in 2017.

He graduated in Architecture from the School of Architecture of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and holds a Ph.D. from the same university since 1967. He is a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid), of the Academia de San Telmo (Málaga), of the Real Academia de San Miguel Arcángel (Santa Cruz de Tenerife), of the Academia del Partal and a member of the board of trustees of the Alhambra and the Generalife (1986-1995). Since the 80s, he focuses his activity both in restoration and in teaching, becoming an specialist in historic carpentry, having written diverse books and articles on this topic. His work obtained multiple awards such as the Rafael Manzano Prize 2016, among others.

He is a stuccoist and painter master with extensive experience in interior and exterior works of heritage and vernacular buildings. He learned the craft by family tradition and through various courses of crafts in Higher Institutes of Crafts in Spain, Belgium and France. He works traditional techniques with materials artisanally produced. He researches, documents and disseminates these procedures. He has given practical lectures and workshops in many Spanish and foreign crafts schools and universities. He is co-author of the book Artes de los yesos. In 2019 was awarded the Richrad h. Driehaus Building Arts Awards and was the selected master for the Donald Gray Apprenticheship Grant.

Master thatcher, he builds thatched roofs and livable huts. He learned the trade when he was 20 years old from his father and other master thatchers from the Arcos de la Frontera area, his hometown. He completed his training by travelling around the world, visiting and studying other types of hut construction, and working with masters from many countries. He has co-operated with several national and international institutions for the recovery and implementation of this craft both in Spain and in several European and African countries. He also teaches training courses at the Museo de la Cal de Morón (Lime Museum) and the Instituto Andaluz de Patrimonio Histórico. He won the Richard H. Driehaus Building Arts Award in 2020.

He is a master blacksmith who started his career at the age of
13 with the master blacksmith Efraín Redondo at the Art School of Ciudad Real, he continued his metalwork training at the Art School of Toledo while working in his spare time in the forges of various master blacksmiths. Later, he set up his own workshop in San Antonio (La Pueblanueva, Toledo) from where he was researching on traditional techniques and working on many private commissions. Then, he started a very important work of disseminating and promoting his trade through video tutorials on YouTube and later created the School of Blacksmiths. He has recently he set up a mentored workshop in which he supervises and accompanies young blacksmiths who wish to ply the trade. He received the 2022 Richard H. Driehaus Building Arts Award.

Graduated in Architecture from the Universidad de Navarra School of Architecture. He has been Visiting Scholar from the Institute for the Arts and the Humanities of the John Paul Getty Foundation of Los Angeles and has taught at the Schools of Architecture of the Universidad del País Vasco and the University of Miami, in addition to many other national and international centres. He was cofounder of the international architectural magazine Composicion Arquitectonica, Art & Architecture. He practices architecture along with Mr. Javier Cenicacelaya. Together, they have built a number of buildings and have received diverse awards, such as the European Prize for the Reconstruction of the City (Fondation Rotthier) on two occasions, awards from the Basque Country and Navarre Institute of Architects and the Bizkaia Institute of Architects, as well as the Rafael Manzano Prize in 2014.

(1963 – 2023)

He was a master stonemason, sculptor, construction technician and graduate in Art History. He worked as a specialist stonemason in conservation and restoration since 1985, allowing him to be involved in projects on many historic buildings and heritage sites in Spain. As an advisor on monumental restoration projects, he conducted preliminary studies for countless restorations, as well as cultural outreach programmes on historic heritage. He wa also a researcher in the field of specific historical and technological studies of preindustrial construction. He was a member of the Spanish Network of Traditional Building Masters, lecturer in traditional stone and marble cutting at the Regional Crafts Centre of Castilla y León (Valladolid), and winner of the 2020 Richard H. Driehaus Building Arts Award in the ‘Brickwork and stonework’ category.

(1942 – 2022)

PhD in Philosophy and Literature by the Universidad Central de Madrid. He is a Full Professor of History of Art and Architecture at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid School of Architecture. Today, an emeritus professor of the same institution. He is the President of the Architecture Section and of the Commission of Monuments of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. He is Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Coimbra and author of several books and articles on Spanish architecture.

(1935 – 2019)

Donald Gray worked as an Architect in Andalusia, where he arrived from Australia. He did not study architecture at university, but instead learned the trade by studying traditional models directly and collecting teachings from the craftsmen who kept them alive. His projects range from the domestic scale to complete urban complexes on the coasts of Malaga and Granada. In addition, he established and worked as director of the Crafts School of Lebrija. Donald Gray received the 2015 Rafael Manzano Prize for New Traditional Architecture in 2015. He passed away in Atalbéitar (Granada) in April 2019.