Silvia Álvarez López-Dóriga has been selected to train for a period of eight months with scagliola master and painter Luis Prieto. Silvia has 18 years of experience working in the field of heritage. She has trained and worked in institutions such as the Instituto de...
News on Donald Gray Grants
Training grant with scagliola master and painter Luis Prieto
This grant is part of the initiatives that INTBAU Spain and the Traditional Building Cultures Foundation are developing to enhance the value of traditional architecture and traditional building trades. It has been organized with the support of the Instituto de...
Launching of the Traditional Building Cultures Foundation
The Traditional Building Cultures Foundation has been established to consolidate and expand all the initiatives organized since 2012 in Spain and Portugal The Traditional Building Cultures Foundation seeks to foster and promote the study, protection, teaching,...
2023 Donald Gray Grant Call for Entries
These grants have been announced in the framework of the Richard H. Driehaus Building Arts Awards and are aimed at training two apprentices for a period of four months each: Grant for training with master shingle-maker Javier Goicoa. Grant for training with...
The exhibition “Living Heritage: Traditional construction in the 21st century” has been inaugurated
The exhibition Living Heritage will be on display from June 2 through September 24, 2023, at the Museo de Santa Cruz in Toledo. It features the work of the winners of the 2023 Richard H. Driehaus Building Arts Awards, the 2022 Donald Gray Grant and some of the most...
2022 Donald Gray Apprenticeship – Ramón Recuero and Miguel Ángel Martínez Luque
Ramón Recuero is a master blacksmith who does important work in disseminating and promoting his trade. He is the founder of a blacksmiths’ school which as well as being his home and workshop has become an international benchmark for the learning of traditional...
2023 Richard H. Driehaus Building Arts Awards Winners
For the seventh consecutive year, the Richard H. Driehaus Building Arts Awards, endowed with €40,000, have been awarded to four outstanding craftspeople. The aim of the awards is to promote traditional building trades that use environmentally friendly techniques,...
2022 Donald Gray Fellowship: Apprenticeship
Miguel Ángel Martínez Luque was the apprentice selected to receive the 2022 Donald Gray Scholarship and train with master blacksmith Ramón Recuero, winner of the Richard H. Driehaus Building Arts Award in the same year. Miguel Angel has experience in iron work for...
Miguel Angel Martinez Luque has been awarded the 2022 Donald Gray Apprenticeship
The training grant awarded in the 2022 Richard H. Driehaus Building Arts Awards went to master blacksmith Ramón Recuero, who carries out a very important work of dissemination and promotion of the trade through the Escuela de Herreros, of which he is the founder, and...
2022 Donald Gray Building Arts Apprenticeship
This scholarship, awarded in the framework of the Richard H. Driehaus Awards, is aimed at training an apprentice with master blacksmith Ramón Recuero for a period of one year. Ramón Recuero received this year's Richard H. Driehaus Award for the Building Arts in the...