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...
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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...
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...
Terrachidia, winner of the Philippe Rotthier Prize
The Philippe Rotthier Prize for "The Reconstruction and Enhancement of the Local Heritage" has been awarded to the Spanish association Terrachidia for its action in the renaissance of the M’Hamid Oasis in Zagora, southern Morocco. The jury praised the project for its...
Hands-on Building Arts Workshop
During the weekend of July 9-11, 2021, an intensive hands-on workshop on the different traditional building arts took place in Boceguillas, delivered by four of the master craftspeople who have been awarded in recent years with the Richard H. Driehaus Building Arts...