José Morillo García has been selected by INTBAU Spain as master craftsperson of the month for December 2023. José Morillo specializes in the restoration of traditional wall finishes. In recent years he has focused on the restoration of the characteristic Extremaduran...
Jesús Alba Mansilla has been selected by INTBAU Spain as master craftsperson of the month for October 2023. Jesús Alba Mansilla is a blacksmith from Checa, in the province of Guadalajara, a town that had an important iron and steel industry since the 15th century, of...
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,...
Artesanía Nazarí has been selected by INTBAU Spain as master craftspeople of the month for October 2023. Ramón Rubio and Julio Jiménez are the master yesaires who run Artesanía Nazarí's workshop in Granada. They are specialized in the design and production of new...
Diego Rodríguez has been selected by INTBAU Spain as master craftsperson of the month for June 2023. Diego, master painter from Toledo, started in the trade at the age of thirteen, working with his father, the master Diego Rodríguez López, author of a large number of...
Centro Cerámico Talavera has been selected by INTBAU Spain as master craftsperson of the month for June 2023. Centro Cerámico Talavera is a firm created in 1992 by Juan Carlos Albarrán Montealegre, Ramón González Colilla and Ana Fernández Pecci. All three are...
Amara Carvajal Pérez has been selected by INTBAU Spain as master craftsperson of the month for May 2023. Amara Carvajal has been working since 2006 in the conservation and restoration of historical and artistic assets. Specifically, due to its unique character, she...
Sebastián Pérez Gómez has been selected by INTBAU Spain as master craftsperson of the month for April 2023. Sebastián Pérez Gómez is one of the few extant specialists in clay-brick carving. His work includes pieces such as carved mouldings or corbels to be included as...
Francisco Aguilar has been selected by INTBAU Spain as master craftsperson of the month for March 2023. Francisco learnt his trade in a self-taught way, studying and reproducing models of traditional architecture. He was also mentored by Donald Gray, with whom he...
We are saddened to learn of the passing of Rodrigo de la Torre, one of the best stonemasons in Spain and with whom we have had the immense pleasure and honor of collaborating since the creation of the Network of Traditional Building Crafts Masters. Rodrigo also...
