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...
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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...
Donald Gray: The most beautiful designs of traditional neighbourhoods in Andalucia
The book Donald Gray: The most beautiful designs of traditional neighbourhoods in Andalucía is now on sale. The book, written by Javier Cenicacelaya and Alejandro García Hermida and published by ORO Editions, describes in detail the neighbourhoods that the architect...
Winners of the 2022 Richard H. Driehaus Building Arts Awards
For the sixth 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,...
2021 Donald Gray Apprenticeship: Progress
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...
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...