Architecture and Local Identity International Seminar 2014

Results

Presentation

The Architecture and Local Identity International Seminar was organized by the Rafael Manzano Prize for New Traditional Architecture and the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid School of Architecture, with the collaboration of the Notre Dame University School of Architecture (Indiana, EEUU), the Centro de Investigación de Arquitectura Tradicional (CIAT) and INTBAU Spain. It took place in October 2014 in the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM).

Rafael Manzano, Leopoldo Gil Cornet (Rafael Manzano Prize 2012), Luis Fernando Gómez-Stern (Rafael Manzano Prize 2013 along with Ignacio Medina), Javier Cenicacelaya (Rafael Manzano Prize 2014 along with Íñigo Saloña), Alireza Sagarchi, Pier Carlo Bontempi, Fernando Vela Cossío, José Baganha, Melissa DelVecchio, Samir Younés, Alejandro García Hermida, Julio Jesús Palomino Anguí, Salma Samar Damluji, José Luis García Grinda, Léon Krier, Maurice Culot, Jaime de Hoz Onrubia and MIchael Lykoudis participated as lecturers.

It was also shown the proposal for the Plaza de la Cebada (Madrid) as a result of the work carried out in the Traditional Architecture and Urbanism International Workshop.

The seminar was a success, becoming an excellent platform for the exchange of ideas and generating interesting debates among the attendees.

Publication

In this publication Architecture and Local Identity, an abstract of each lecture, as well as information on the initiatives developed by Richard H. Driehaus in Spain and Portugal, have been gathered, as every year. It can be downloaded for free here.

Videos of the lectures

The record and digital edition of these conferences has been made by the audiovisual services team of the School of Architecture of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

First Day

Presentacion del Seminario Arquitectura e Identidad Local
Rafael Manzano Martos
La pinceladura. Una modalidad pictórica inédita
Leopoldo Gil
La recuperación de las casas de la judería de Sevilla
Luis Fernando Gómez-Stern
Local Identity as Universal Value
Javier Cenicacelaya
Recent works
Alireza Sagharchi
Tradition, the treatment for architecture and cities
Pier Carlo Bontempi
El Plan Nacional de Arquitectura Tradicional
Fernando Vela

Second Day

Tradition and contemporaneity
José Baganha
Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University in Beijing
Melissa DelVecchio
Reintegrating two urban quarters in Madrid and Palermo
Samir Younés y Alejandro García Hermida
Restauración de las iglesias de la Comarca de la Arquitectura Negra
Julio Jesús Palomino
Earth Architecture in Hadramut, South Yemen: Recent Projects 2014
Salma Samar Damluji
Materiales y sistemas constructivos tradicionales
José Luis García Grinda
Recent works and mythogenesis
Maurice Culot
Le Corbusier after Le Corbusier
Leon Krier
El origen de las identidades vernáculas
Jaime de Hoz
Neoclassical Architecture in Greece, Architecture and Urban Unity
Michael Lykoudis