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We are working on the details of the 2024 programme.
The group is already closed, but if you are interested in next year’s summer school,
please register your interest through:
The language to be used during the activities will be mainly English, so at least basic skills using this language are recommended. . Hand drawing and measuring buildings will be the main activity to be developed each day, so a good command of it is also recommended.
Places are limited to 28. We will be developing a selection process among all candidates. Several places will be reserved for students from each participating university.
The registration is 410€. . This fee includes tuition, lodging, meals and transportation during the two weeks of the Summer School. Once applicants are accepted, the payment procedure will be provided.
* The real cost per participant of this course is around 2500€, but, thanks to the support of Richard H. Driehaus, the Arcos de Valdevez Municipality and Kalam, the participation fee has been reduced to 410€.
Those interested in participating must fill in the Application Form and send a selection of drawings and projects, preferably handmade to info@culturasconstructivas.org.
The registration deadline is March 24th, 2024
If you have any question, please, do not hesitate to contact us info@culturasconstructivas.org
University of the Basque Country
Graduated in Architecture from the School of Architecture of Donostia-San Sebastián and holds a MSc in Conservation and Restoration of Architectural Heritage from the same university. He is Predoctoral Fellow at the University of the Basque Country and Visiting Fellow at the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut in Madrid where he is developing his PhD on the evolution of circular architecture since Classical Antiquity to Renaissance; paying special attention to the notions of model and type, urban layout, the meaning of architectural form; architectural mimesis and appropriation. He is similarly interested in Neoclassicism, Nordic Classicism and Italian Tendenza.
As an architect, Imanol has collaborated with Alberto Campo Baeza, and also with Manuel Iñiguez Alberto Ustarroz, taking part in the restoration of the City Walls of Fuenterrabia (Spain) and making a proposal for the Imperial Fora of Rome – finalist of the Piranesi Prix de Rome 2016. Together with Aritz Díez Oronoz, he won the 1st Prize of the Richard H. Driehaus Architecture Competition in 2017 for the restoration of the Renaissance Palace of Grajal de Campos (León) and again in 2018 with his project for the Medieval Walls and surroundings of the Convent of La Coria in Trujillo (Cáceres). In 2019 they received the Award for Emerging Excellence in the Classical Tradition given by the Institute of Classical Architecture Art (ICAA), the Prince’s Foundation (PF), and the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture Urbanism (INTBAU).
University of Miami
Frank Martinez is an Associate Professor at the University of Miami, School of Architecture. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture from the University of Miami, School of Architecture in 1987 and the degree of Master in Architecture in 1991 from Princeton University. His teaching focuses on courses in Design, History/Theory and Drawing; including teaching in Rome, heading the UM Grand Tour of Europe (a university wide summer study abroad program), seminars on selected topics on Early American Architecture along with participating in international summer programs on traditional architecture and urban design research.
He is a partner at the firm of Martinez Alvarez Urban Design, Architecture Interior Design. In the 20 plus years of the firm, the work has ranged in scale and complexity from small, hand crafted houses to campus design and institutional buildings. The larger body of work and on-going creative research includes residential projects in Coral Gables, Coconut Grove, Pinecrest, Bay Point and Palm Beach, Florida; campus buildings at the Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart in Coconut Grove and Florida Memorial University in Miami Gardens; single and multi-family dwellings in the New Urban Towns of Windsor, Alys Beach in Florida, and Tannin in Alabama; and historic preservation projects in the City of Miami, Coral Gables, Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard and Boston, Massachusetts. Through a national RFQ selection process, the firm was recently selected as one of the Preservation Consulting Architectural Firms for the City of Coral Gables and as the Consulting Architects for the Town of Medley providing services in preservation architectural design including historic preservation documentation and assessment.
University of Notre Dame
Lucien studied architecture in Paris, graduating in 1980. He is the principal of Katarxis Urban Workshops asbl., in Luxembourg and a partner at Heure Bleue Architects, London. He is currently Associate Teaching Professor at the University of Notre Dame. He has practiced in Luxembourg, producing a wide range of traditional designs in collaboration with Colum Mulhern. He has taught and lectured in Europe, the Americas, and Asia, and collaborated with the Prince of Wales’s Urban Design Task Force in Potsdam and Berlin, the University of Miami, the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, the University of Bologna, and the Portuguese Catholic University in Viseu, and the University of Notre Dame (Rome Studies Program and US Campus, South Bend, Indiana, University of Buckingham, and University of Luxembourg). He is the author, editor, or co-editor of many publications, including New Palladians, Traditional Architecture: Timeless Building for the Twenty-First Century, The Architectural Capriccio, In the Mood for Architecture and Travel Sketches from Elsewhere Nowhere.
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid | Traditional Building Cultures Foundation | INTBAU Spain
PhD in Architecture and MA in Conservation and Restoration of Architectural Heritage from the Madrid Polytechnic University School of Architecture, where he has been Associate Professor since 2019.
He has been Associate Professor at the Alfonso X el Sabio University (2009-19), Visiting Scholar at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture (US, 2016) and guest lecturer at universities such as Yale, Miami, Colorado, Liverpool or Politecnico di Milano, among others. His professional practice has been devoted to traditional architecture and building and the restoration and study of historic buildings, largely in Spain and Morocco, along with the creation and management since 2012, thanks to Richard H. Driehaus, of the initiatives run today by this Foundation. He is also the CEO of Kalam Corporation in the USA, a board member of the NGO Terrachidia and cofounding Vice-Chair of INTBAU Spain. Recognitions of this work include the 2015 INTBAU Excellence Award, the 2019 Hispania Nostra Award, a Special Mention in the 2019 EU-Europa Nostra Awards, the 2021 Philippe Rotthier European Architecture Prize, and the 2021 National Craft Award.
Traditional Building Cultures Foundation | INTBAU Spain
A graduate in Architecture of the Madrid Polytechnic University, with a degree in Psychology from the UNED University. For over five years he has been General Coordinator of the French cultural centre Domaine de Boisbuchet, where he has organised courses, exhibitions and residential workshops linked to art, design and architecture. He is also responsible for the collection, library and archive of Alexander von Vegesack, founder of the Vitra Design Museum and a renowned collector. Since 2019 he has been part of the team which has created and coordinated the initiatives run by this Foundation. Recognitions of this work include the 2019 Hispania Nostra Award, a Special Mention in the 2019 EU-Europa Nostra Awards, and the 2021 National Craft Award.
Traditional Building Cultures Foundation | INTBAU Spain
A graduate in Architecture, specialising in Precarious Human Settlements, of the Madrid Polytechnic University. She has taken part in various restoration projects in Casamance (Senegal) and collaborated in the coordination of various workshops for the restoration of historic buildings and earthen constructions with the NGO Terrachidia in Morocco. She has been Secretary and Treasurer of INTBAU España since 2016 and, thanks to Richard H. Driehaus, is part of the team which since 2016 has created and coordinated the initiatives run by this Foundation. Recognitions of this work include the 2019 Hispania Nostra Award, a Special Mention in the 2019 EU-Europa Nostra Awards, and the 2021 National Craft Award.
INTBAU Portugal | Traditional Building Cultures Foundation
A graduate in Architecture of the Oporto School of Fine Arts and Lisbon Technical University (UTL), with a PhD from the Basque Country University (UPV). In 1991 he founded his own practice, from which he designed residential, hotel, retail and urbanism projects that continue the traditions of the regions in which he works. He has lectured at the Architecture Faculties of the Portuguese Catholic University in Viseu and Sintra and been a visiting lecturer at several European universities. He founded INTBAU Portugal, cofounded the European Council of Spatial Planners and is a member of the board of the Architectural Heritage Chapter of the Portuguese Institute of Architects. The quality of his work has earned him international awards such as the 2011 European Prize for the Reconstruction of the City given by the Philippe Rotthier Foundation, or the Rafael Manzano Prize in 2017.
Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo / Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto
Graduated in Architecture (2011) and Diploma in Advanced Studies of Architectural Heritage (2013) from the University of Porto School of Architecture (FAUP), where he is nowadays PhD researcher in Architecture, and collaborating researcher at CEAU (Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo, FAUP) in the PACT Group (Património da Arquitectura, da Cidade e do Território).
He focuses his study on traditional architecture in the North of Portugal and Galicia. He regularly lectures in international Seminars and Conferences such as the III International Congress of Traditional Construction, Architecture and Urbanism (Madrid, 2022) or the Savoir-faire traditionnels de la construction dans le sud de la Méditerranée (Tunis, 2023). He is the author of the scientific contents of the Documentary “Das Arquitecturas Tradicionais no Alto-Minho” (AO Norte), and the contents about Popular Architecture of the Rota da Arquitectura Tradicional (Paredes de Coura) and the Soajo Ethnographic Center (Arcos de Valdevez). He received an Honorable Mention in the I Iberian Prize for Research on Traditional Architecture (2012) for his Thesis about the Territory and Popular Architecture in Serra da Peneda (Portugal). He is a founding member of the HORREA Network, an international association for the study and preservation of traditional granaries.
As an architect, he develops his mainly rehabilitation works of traditional buildings and also of classified historical heritage, namely the intervention in the archaeological site of Salto do Boi/Cardina integrated in the Côa Valley, and the rehabilitation of the São João de Cabanas Monastery in Afife, Viana do Castelo.
University of the Basque Country
Graduated in Architecture from the School of Architecture of Donostia-San Sebastián where he graduated with honours. He also holds an MSc on Conservation at the University of the Basque Country and a PhD from the same university «Una bella sfida formale tra Quattrocento e Cinquecento» on the contributions made by the great architects of the First Italian Renaissance to the development of bastioned fortifications. Since 2012 he was teaching assistant of the Chair of Architectural Design of the School of Architecture of San Sebastián and has lectured on Urbanism. Currently he is lecturer on Architectural Design at the same university.
Since 2010 he has worked with the architects Manuel Iñiguez Alberto Ustarroz, with Iñigo Peñalba between 2012 and 2016, and since 2015 he works with Imanol Iparraguirre Barbero. Among his most notorious projects are the collaboration with Iñiguez Ustarroz on the Restoration of the City Walls of Hondarribia and the project for the Imperial Fora of Rome. Together with Imanol Iparraguirre, he won the 1st Prize of the Richard H. Driehaus Architecture Competition in 2017 for the restoration of the Renaissance Palace of Grajal de Campos (León) and again in 2018 with his project for the Medieval Walls and surroundings of the Convent of La Coria in Trujillo (Cáceres). In 2019 they received the Award for Emerging Excellence in the Classical Tradition given by the Institute of Classical Architecture Art (ICAA), the Prince’s Foundation (PF), and the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture Urbanism (INTBAU).
Lantana
Graduated with a Master’s degree in Architecture from ESAP-Escola Superior Artística do Porto. She has been working on cultural heritage rehabilitation, conservation and restoration projects since 2009. Since 2012 she has been managing partner of Lantana Lda, a company dedicated to cultural heritage management. She coordinates and is the author of several projects for the rehabilitation, valorization and restoration of cultural heritage, national monuments and buildings of public interest, such as: Church of the Monastery of Ermelo, Arcos de Valdevez (National Monument); Parish Church of Castro Laboreiro, Melgaço, (Property of Public Interest); Museum and Library Space of the Bom Jesus do Monte Memory Center (National Monument /World Heritage Site); Church of Terceiros, Braga, (Property of Public Interest); Liturgical Furniture for the Cathedral of Lamego, (National Monument); Church and Cloister of the Convent of S. Gonçalo, Amarante, (National Monument); Parish Church of Paderne, Melgaço, (National Monument); Valorization Plan for the Sanctuary of Nossa Senhora da Peneda, Arcos de Valdevez, (National Monument), among others.
Universidade Fernando Pessoa (UFP)
Álvaro is an Antropologist working as Associate Professor at the UFP. He is Integrated Member of the Anthropology Research Network Center (CRIA) and Vice-President of the Portuguese Society of Anthropology and Ethnology. He is the Director of Mealibra Magazine; Member of the Scientific and Coordinating Council of the Antropológicas e Trabalhos de antropologia e Etnologia.
Trabajó como coordinador y director científico del Centro FCT: Centro de Estudios de Antropología Aplicada (1999-2010).
Ha sido Coordinador de Proyectos e Investigador en las áreas de Desarrollo Local, Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial y teoría antropológica.
Ha publicado libros y artículos sobre antropología de la religión, teoría antropológica, antropología política y cultural y antropología de la salud.
Universidade do Porto (FAUP-CEAU)
Álvaro is a Geographer, with a PhD in Human Geography and Associate Professor in the Universidade do Porto (FAUP) School of Architecture , and researcher at the Center for Architecture and Urban Studies (CEAU-FAUP). Among other works, he is the author of: Paisagem Portuguesa (FFMS, Lisbon, 2022, with Duarte Belo), Portugal Possível (Museu da Paisagem, Lisbon, 2023, with Duarte Belo and Rui Lage), Paisagens Transgénicas (Museu da Paisagem 2021), Volta a Portugal (Contraponto, Lisbon, 2017), Território Casa Comum (with N. Travasso, FAUP, Porto, 2015), A Rua da Estrada (Dafne, Porto, 2010), Vida no Campo (Dafne, Porto, 2012) and Políticas Urbanas I e II (with N. Portas and J. Cabral, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 2003 and 2011), Cidade e Democracia (Argumentum, Lisbon, 2006). He is a corresponding member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences. He writes in the Público newspaper.
Apatrigal, Horrea
Graduated in Architecture from the University of Santiago de Compostela, he holds and MSc Conservation at the University of La Coruña and a PhD from the same university.
Since 1988 he has worked as an architect in his professional office and in ALFORO, an office which he is a co-founding partner and executive director of. He has designed and carried out works in Spain and Portugal. In addition, he has held positions in the public sector as architect of some municipalities and in the Official College of Architects of Galicia.
Fernández Coto promotes the dissemination and protection of the cultural, architectural, urban and intangible heritage of Galicia through different forums and activities. Thus, he is President of the Association for the Defense of Galician Cultural Heritage (apatrigal), President of the International Network of Traditional Elevated Barns (HORREA) and a member of the association for the defense of responsible tourism. In addition, he is a specialized columnist in the newspaper La Voz de Galicia.
Universidade Portucalense (UPT) | INTBAU Portugal
PhD in the program of Peripheries, Sustainability and Urban Vitality at the Polytechnic University of Madrid – UPM (2011), Master in Contemporary Architectural Culture and Construction of Modern Society by the Technical University of Lisbon (2002) and Degree in Architecture by the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto – FAUP (1996). He is Assistant Professor at Universidade Portucalense (UPT), Department of Architecture and Multimedia Gallaecia (DAMG), and Researcher in Urbanism and Planning at CIAUD/UL – UPT branch. He was elected for the Board in the Order of Architects (OA, 2023-…), being responsible for several projects and initiatives. Author and editor of books and publications in international scientific journals, on architecture and urbanism. He is coordinator of Municipal Urban Plans and was awarded for the Urban Logic project, from the Smart Cities ideas contest by Cologistics, European program Interreg Portugal – Spain (2022).
Traditional Building Cultures Foundation | INTBAU Spain
A graduate in Architecture of the Navarra University School of Architecture, where he was later a lecturer and Coordinator of the Architectural Refurbishment and Restoration specialisation programme. He has served as an architect in the Historic Heritage Department of the Navarra Government’s Directorate General for Culture–Príncipe de Viana Institute since 1986. During his time in this body his restoration work on various Navarran historic buildings and ensembles has been honoured with the National Prize for the Restoration and Conservation of Cultural Assets (1998), the Silver Medal of the Spanish Association of Friends of Castles (2000), the 2012 Europa Nostra EU Cultural Heritage Award, and the 2012 Rafael Manzano Prize for New Traditional Architecture, among other distinctions. He is a member of the Partal Academy and of the Catalan Sant Jordi Royal Academy of Fine Arts.
Santuario de Nossa Senhora da Peneda
Graduated in Theology, he is a priest in the Diocese of Viana do Castelo since 2008. Parish priest in several parishes in the Municipality of Melgaço and Gavieira in Arcos de Valdevez. He is the Rector of Diocesan Sanctuary of Nossa Senhora da Peneda and in this capacity accompanied the development of the Sanctuary’s classification process as a National Monument.
Traditional Building Cultures Foundation | INTBAU Spain
An graduate in Architecture of the Madrid Polytechnic University, and since 1966 professor of General Art History at the Seville University School of Architecture, where he is also Dean. He has devoted his life to the study of Classicism and in particular the Islamic world, and he has built new traditional buildings and restored numerous historic constructions in Spain, the US and the Middle East. He was Director-Conservator at the Reales Alcázares palace in Seville and the caliphal town of Medina Azahara near Córdoba, and chaired the works committee of the Royal Board of Trustees for the Alhambra and the Generalife. He is a member of many Spanish academic bodies, including the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts. His work has been distinguished with the Gold Medal for the Fine Arts, among other awards, and he is also Commander (with a plaque) of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise. He also won the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture in 2010, prompting Richard Driehaus to institute a prize in Spain bearing his name – the Rafael Manzano Prize – and thereby originating the initiatives run today by this Foundation and giving rise to all that we do.
ISCTE-IUL
António is an anthropologist, professor at the Department of Anthropology at ISCTE-IUL and researcher at the Center for International Studies – IUL (Lisbon). Previously he lectured at FL at the University of Porto and at Árvore II (current Escola Superior Artística – Porto). He carried out most of his research in the North of Portugal and Galicia, since the beginning of the 1990s. He is the author and editor of various books, articles and other editions, published both in Portugal and abroad.
Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto
António was born in Matosinhos, in 1930. He graduated in Architecture from Escola Superior de Belas-Artes do Porto and interned with architects Fernando Távora and João Andresen afterwards. He lectured in the Universidade de Porto School of Architecture until his retirement, and he worked in his own office as well, and regularly he made research works about architectural heritage. António Meneres participated in the Survey of Portuguese Regional Architecture in 1955-60.
He has also participated in Colloquiums and Congresses in the area of study and revitalization of architectural heritage in Portugal and the Azores, as well as in Brazil (the Schools of Architecture of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Campinas , Fortaleza, Florianópolis, Goiânia, Salvador, São Luís do Maranhão and Vitória). In 2008 he was distinguished with the Grand Cross of the International Order of Merit of the Discoverer of Brazil Pedro Álvares Cabral. He is an Honorary Member no. 333 of Ordem dos Arquitectos (Portugal).
Universidade Portucalense (UPT) | INTBAU Portugal
PhD and MA in Conservation Sciences from the Nova University of Lisbon, with a specialization in the conservation and restoration of stone and earthen materials. She is a Professor at the Portucalense University in Porto (Portugal).Besides academia, she also developed her professional career as a conservator-restorer of built heritage, having performed several works on different national monuments. She has published several papers in specialized journals and book chapters, participated in conferences and seminars as a speaker, and organized workshops. Additionally, she is a founding partner of the Portuguese chapter of the international association INTBAU (International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture, and Urbanism) which protects and promotes traditional architecture in Portugal.
Universidade Portucalense (UPT)
PhD at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Prehistory (2013). Having previously completed the DEA in Archeology, Ancient History and Historiographical Sciences and Techniques, and in 1998, the Degree in History – Educational Branch, at the University of Porto. Presently is the Director of Admissions and Student Suport Services at Portucalense University (UPT). Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture and Multimedia Gallaecia (DAMG-UPT), and Researcher at CIAUD/UL – UPT branch. Between 2005 and 2018 she actively integrated the research team of 5 RD projects, four of which European projects and one national project (FCT). Since 2003 she is an external researcher in the Department of History group of the Santiago de Compostela University. She has published about archeological heritage, earthen architectura and vernacular architecture. As a second line of research, she has published about gender and architecture.
Lantana
Graduated with a degree in History and Archaeology from the University of Minho and a master’s degree in Cultural Heritage Management from the School of Arts of the Catholic University. Since 2002, she has developed projects in the field of archaeology and cultural heritage management, collaborating with entities such as Peneda-Gerês National Park, various town halls and some research projects funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology. Since 2012, she has been managing partner of Lantana Lda, where she coordinates various studies and surveys of architectural, artistic and archaeological heritage for classification as cultural heritage, such as the Sanctuary of Nossa Senhora da Peneda, Arcos de Valdevez, (National Monument), the Cultural Landscape of Sistelo, Arcos de Valdevez, (National Monument), the cultural practice “Vezeira de Vilar da Veiga”, Terras de Bouro (inscribed on the National Inventory of Cultural Heritage). She is also the coordinator of various investment projects for cultural heritage and other endogenous resources, co-financed by national and/or EU support programs.
National Park of Peneda-Gerês
Graduated with a degree in Landscape Architecture from the Universidade do Évora. Her professional practice for almost four decades has been devoted to the planning and management of Protected Areas working on the implementation of urban planning, public space design, landscape integration of large infrastructures and biophysical recovery. Among other task, she has leaded the preparation of Landscape Analysis/Diagnosis Studies and Management Support through the issuance of technical opinions within the scope of licensing, with EIA (environmental impact assessment), of quarries and mines, large infrastructures (hydroelectric plants, wind farms, network road, electrical network, etc.), she has prepared and coordinated thematic studies, as well as monitored Special and Municipal Territorial Planning Plans.
Associação de Produção e Animação Audiovisual
He graduated in Cinema and Video from the ESAP, Escola Superior Artística do Porto. He also helds a degree in teaching (Portuguese Language and History and Geography of Portugal) and worked as a teacher till 2020. Thanks to a scholarship from the French government, he attended two internships on cinema at the VARAN Ateliers in Paris (initiation in 1982 and improvement in 1986). He was a founding member, in 1994, of AO NORTE – Associação de Produção e Animação Audiovisual, an organization of which he is director. He has coordinated, since 2001, the Viana Cinema Meetings, and, since 2014, the MDOC-Melgaço International Documentary Festival.
Early in the morning, the group will depart from Porto towards Arcos de Valdevez, where the welcome ceremony by the Arcos de Valdevez City Hall and the introduction of all professors, participants, and hosts will take place. After lunch, the group will be taken to the Sanctuary of Nossa Senhora da Peneda, the site that will host the Summer School. Throughout the day, participants will have time to settle in, and a series of introductory talks will be organized.
A bus will take the group during the full day to visit and analyse diverse towns and places in Arcos de Valdevez such as Brandas de São Bento do Cando e Busgalinhas (Gavieira) and Soajo. Every stop will be long enough to study, photograph and draw local architecture and building details as well as to analyze the urban fabric. In the evening there will be brief lectures on local history and landscape.
A bus will take the group throughout the day to visit and analyze various towns and locations in Arcos de Valdevez, including the town of Arcos de Valdevez itself, Vilarinho do Souto, and Ermelo. Each stop will be long enough to study, photograph, and draw the local architecture and building details, as well as to analyze the urban fabric. In the afternoon, there will be lectures on the vernacular architecture of the area.
A bus will take the group throughout the day to visit and analyze various towns and locations in Arcos de Valdevez, including Sistelo, Padrão, and Branda do Alhal. Each stop will be long enough to study, photograph, and draw the local architecture and building details, as well as analyze the urban fabric. In the afternoon, there will be brief lectures on the culture and current situation of the area.
The entire day will be dedicated to measuring, drawing, and studying Peneda, in order to produce the necessary foundation for the design work that will take place the following week. In the afternoon, there will be a roundtable discussion about Peneda and a debate.
In the morning, there will be demonstrations of traditional construction techniques (stone masonry, lime mortar finishes, timber framing, and carpentry). In the afternoon, the group will gather, review, and complete the work already developed. The manual of traditional building and architectural patterns will also be finalized.
Free day. In the afternoon, there will be a watercolor workshop and an introductory lecture on topics that will be relevant for the work of the second week.
Various design case studies will be identified and assigned to different groups to develop several improvement proposals for the urban areas of the Peneda region. In the afternoon, there will be brief lectures on new traditional architecture and urban design.
Throughout the day, participants, divided into several groups, will use the work completed to design different improvement proposals for the studied areas. In the afternoon, a series of brief lectures will be organized.
In the morning, final edits of the design proposals and the patterns manual will be carried out. In the afternoon, a public presentation of the design proposals will be scheduled. In the evening, a final group dinner will be organized.
A bus will take the main group to Porto.
The Traditional Building Cultures Foundation seeks to foster and promote the study, protection, teaching, dissemination and conservation of the traditional building, architecture and urbanism characteristic of the various regions of the world
TheMunicipality of Arcos de Valdevez seeks to create awareness concerning the rich architectural and cultural heritage of the numerous towns that make it up. It supports and actively participes on this course.
Traditional Building Cultures Foundation | INTBAU Spain develops its initiatives to promote traditional building, architecture and urbanism and serves as a platform for collaboration and exchange of information, contributing to the promotion of other related initiatives organized by its members and other institutions linked to the network itself.
The Portuguese section of the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture, and Urbanism (INTBAU) is an active network of individuals and institutions dedicated to creating human and harmonious buildings and places that respect local traditions. It brings together those who design, build, maintain, study, or appreciate traditional construction, architecture, and places.
The Fundação Serra Henriques was established in Portugal in 1997 for the promotion of education, culture and science; paying special attention to the study of the national territory for local development and improvement of cultural heritage.
Kalam is a leading international company specializing in the field of heritage restoration and the rehabilitation of historic buildings. In its commitment to the quality and rigor required in its work, it preserves the traditional trades through its own consolidated workforce and continuous training.
Robert Adam, director of Robert Adam Architectural Consultancy, has been a leading figure in the advancement of traditional architecture and urbanism in the UK and worldwide. He was a founder of INTBAU and the UK Traditional Architecture Group. While continuing in practice and writing, he is also dedicated to the support and education of up-and-coming traditional designers.
The Fundación Arquia was created in 1990 and, since its inception, its objective has been to promote and disseminate projects of a cultural, social, welfare, professional and educational nature in the field of architecture, building, design and urban planning.
The King’s Trust Australia is part of The Prince’s Trust Group, a global network of charities transforming lives and building sustainable communities across the Commonwealth. This charity helps young people prepare for the rapidly changing world of work, inspires veterans and their families into entrepreneurship and self-employment, and champions resilient sustainable communities.
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