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 30. We will be developing a selection process among all candidates. Several places will be reserved for students from each participating university.
The tuition fee is 420 euros. 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 actual cost per participant for this course is around 2,500 €, but thanks to the support of Richard H. Driehaus, the City Council of Ronda, and Kalam, the participation fee has been reduced to the 420 € mentioned.
Those interested in participating must fill out the Application Form and send a selection of drawings and projects, preferably hand-made, to info@culturasconstructivas.org
The deadline for the submission of applications is 30 March 2025.
If you have any question, please, do not hesitate to contact us info@culturasconstructivas.org
Martinez Alvarez Architects
She received a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Miami and a Master in Design Studies from Harvard University. She is a member of the American Institute of Architects, served on the Board of Architects of Coral Gables, Historic Preservation Board of Coral Gables and volunteers as a member of several committees at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center in Miami, Florida.
Ana is a partner at Martinez Alvarez Architects. The office work has focused primarily on architectural and urban projects that contribute to the art of making cities. In the 20+ years of the firm’s existence, their work has ranged in scale and complexity from small houses to campus and institutional building design. The broader body of work and ongoing creative research includes residential projects in Coral Gables, Miami, and Palm Beach in Florida; single-family and multi-family housing in the new towns of Windsor and Alys Beach in Florida, and Tannin in Alabama; and historic preservation projects in Coral Gables and Miami in Florida, as well as Martha’s Vineyard and Boston in Massachusetts. The firm has been recognized by four Addison Mizner Awards – in the categories of Historic Preservation, Residential Design, and Renovations & Additions. The office’s work has also been featured in various publications, including the Journal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism.
University of the Basque Country
Architect by the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Donostia-San Sebastián, where he graduated with honors. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Conservation from the University of the Basque Country and a PhD from the same university, with the thesis “Una bella sfida formale tra Quattrocento e Cinquecento” on the contributions of the great architects of the First Italian Renaissance to the development of bastioned fortifications. He has been since 2012 assistant professor of the Chair of Architectural Projects at the School of Architecture of San Sebastian and has taught Urban Planning. He is currently professor of Architectural Projects at the same university.
He has worked since 2010 with the architects Manuel Iñiguez & Alberto Ustarroz, with Iñigo Peñalba between 2012 and 2016, and since 2015 with Imanol Iparraguirre Barbero. Among his most notable projects are the collaboration with Iñiguez & Ustarroz in the Restoration of the Walls of Hondarribia and the project for the Imperial Forums in Rome. Together with Imanol Iparraguirre they won 1st Prize in the Richard H. Driehaus Architecture Competition in 2017 for the proposal for the restoration of the Renaissance Palace of Grajal de Campos (León) and, again in 2018, with their project for the Medieval Walls and the surroundings of the Coria Convent in Trujillo (Cáceres). In 2019 they received the Emerging Excellence in Classical Tradition Award from the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA), the Prince’s Foundation and the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU).
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.
University of the Basque Country
Architect by the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Donostia-San Sebastián and Master in Conservation and Restoration of Architectural Heritage by the same university. He is a Predoctoral Fellow at the University of the Basque Country and a Visitor at the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut in Madrid, where he is developing his PhD on the evolution of circular architecture from Classical Antiquity to the Renaissance. In it he pays special attention to the notions of model and type, urban layout, meaning of architectural form, architectural mimesis and appropriation. He is also interested in Neoclassicism, Nordic Classicism and Italian Tendenza.
As an architect, Imanol has collaborated with Alberto Campo Baeza and Manuel Iñiguez & Alberto Ustarroz, with whom he collaborated on the restoration of the Walls of Fuenterrabía (Spain) and on a proposal for the Imperial Forum in Rome – finalist of the Prix Piranesi in Rome 2016. Together with Aritz Díez Oronoz he won 1st Prize in the Richard H. Driehaus Architecture Competition in 2017 for the proposal for the restoration of the Renaissance Palace of Grajal de Campos (León), and again in 2018 with their project for the Medieval Walls and the surroundings of the Coria Convent in Trujillo (Cáceres). In 2019 they received the Emerging Excellence in Classical Tradition Award from the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA), the Prince’s Foundation and the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU).
University of Miami
He 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 in the core of both undergraduate and graduate programs; including teaching in the Rome Program, where he lectures and leads courses on Roman Villas and Gardens, Renaissance and Baroque Architecture and Urban Design. He also teaches seminars on selected topics on Early American Architecture and heads the UM Grand Tour of Europe (a university wide summer study abroad program), along with participating in the INTBAU International Summer Programs on traditional architecture and urban design research. Professor Martinez is the recent recipient of the ICAA Addison Mizner Award in Pedagogy in 2024.
Frank is a partner at Martinez Alvarez Architects. The office work has focused primarily on architectural and urban projects that contribute to the art of making cities. In the 20+ years of the firm’s existence, their work has ranged in scale and complexity from small houses to campus and institutional building design. The broader body of work and ongoing creative research includes residential projects in Coral Gables, Miami, and Palm Beach in Florida; single-family and multi-family housing in the new towns of Windsor and Alys Beach in Florida, and Tannin in Alabama; and historic preservation projects in Coral Gables and Miami in Florida, as well as Martha’s Vineyard and Boston in Massachusetts. The firm has been recognized by four Addison Mizner Awards – in the categories of Historic Preservation, Residential Design, and Renovations & Additions. The office’s work has also been featured in various publications, including the Journal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism.
University of Notre Dame
Lucien studied architecture in Paris, where he graduated in 1980. He is a director of Katarxis Urban Workshops in Luxembourg and a partner at Heure Bleue Architects in London. He is currently an associate professor at the University of Notre Dame. He has worked in Luxembourg, where he has carried out a wide range of traditional designs in collaboration with Colum Mulhern. He has taught and lectured in Europe, America and Asia, and has collaborated with the Prince of Wales Urban Design Working Group in Potsdam and Berlin, the University of Miami, the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, the University of Bologna, the Portuguese Catholic University of Viseu, and the University of Notre Dame (Rome Study Program and U.S. Campus, South Bend, Indiana, University of Buckingham and University of Luxembourg). He is the author, editor or co-editor of numerous publications, among them. 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.
Architect
Architect from the University of Westminster and in 1973 won a Rome Scholarship. He has practised since 1977 and founded Adam Architecture in 2000. His projects include major private houses, historic buildings, public and commercial buildings and urban design. He is a leading figure in modern traditional and classical architecture, pioneer of contextual urban design, furniture designer, author and scholar.
He has written historical, critical and theoretical papers and his books include Classical Architecture (Viking, 1990), The Globalisation of Modern Architecture: The impact of politics, economics and social change on architecture and urban design since 1990 (Cambridge Scholars, 2012), y Time for Architecture: On Modernity, Memory and Time in Architecture and Urban Design (Cambridge Scholars, 2020). He lectures widely in the UK with tours of the USA, Russia, China, Iran and Brazil.
Ronda City Council
Technical Architect and Building Engineer from the University of Seville, he began his professional career in the private sector with various companies in the construction industry, both at the national and local levels, working as a construction company manager while also practicing as a freelance professional. He has worked as a Technical Architect at the Mancomunidad de Municipios de la Sierra de Cádiz, the Excmo. Ayuntamiento de Grazalema, and since 2020, at the Excmo. Ayuntamiento de Ronda.
He was a co-founder of the Urban Sketchers Group (Urban Sketchers Xerez Sketchers), whose activities have extended to participating in and collaborating with the organization of events, along with other drawing groups, such as those held by the Excmo. Ayuntamiento de Ronda and its Urban Planning department. He was also part of the editorial team for the innovation of the POPROCH during the event “Ronda, a landscape to draw”.
INTBAU Spain
Spanish Architect and Interior Designer based in London, currently working as Associate Director at Katharine Pooley Ltd and Director of Education at the Classic Planning Academy. Pablo began his multinational career studying in Seville and Madrid where he developed a deep knowledge of history of architecture and precedents. His interests in traditional Spanish, English, Scottish, Mediterranean, and Islamic architecture and construction underpin his passion for designing and managing complex classical and traditional projects in Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia.
Pablo has published articles in indexed magazines, lectures, classes, and has participated as a member of the jury in different Competitions and Architecture Summer Schools in Europe. Pablo also teaches Classical Architecture online at the Classic Planning Academy, leading semestral programs in Classical Architecture and Classic Planning.
Pablo worked for 12 years at Stanhope Gate Architecture where he developed strong project management skills in a multinational environment, from concept inception to completion, including presentations, planning, and client/contractor relations and construction site supervision.
Universidad de Málaga
Historian from the University of Málaga and Master in Archaeology from the University of Granada, he is an honorary professor of the practice in the Department of Art and Architecture at the School of Architecture of Málaga. He is a board member of the Association for the Defense of Industrial Heritage of Málaga (APIDMA) and the founder of Lagares y Cortijos, a platform dedicated to promoting the rural architecture of the province.
Throughout his career, he has specialized in the documentation and cataloging of architectural heritage. His most recent work includes contributions to the Master Plan for Rincón de la Victoria and heritage studies in Villanueva del Rosario and Camas (Seville), as well as the development of an inventory of traditional hydraulic structures in the Axarquía for the Málaga Provincial Council.
He combines his research work with teaching in Secondary Education for the Junta de Andalucía. Additionally, he is pursuing a doctoral thesis at the University of Málaga on traditional architectural typologies related to the production of wine, raisins, and aguardiente.
Ronda City Council
Architect from the University of Seville. He completed a Master’s degree in Urbanism, Planning, and Urban Design. He is a career civil servant for the City Councils of Tarifa and Ronda, where he has served as head of the Urban Planning Unit since 2019. He currently holds the architecture seat on the Municipal Technical Commission for the Historical Heritage of the city of Ronda.
Traditional Building Cultures Foundation | INTBAU Portugal
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
Architect from the University of Porto, he is a researcher at the Centre for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism (FAUP) and a member of the UNESCO Chair “Heritage, Cities and Landscapes.” His work focuses on traditional architecture in northern Portugal, especially in the Alto-Minho region. He is the author of the documentary Das Arquiteturas Tradicionais and co-founder of the Red Horrea network. He received an Honourable Mention in the 2024 Philippe Rotthier European Architecture Prize for his intervention in the Monastery of São João de Cabanas. He combines professional practice with teaching and research in heritage and cultural landscapes.
He was part of the organizing committee of the International Colloquium on Vernacular Architecture in Arcos de Valdevez (2013) and the 2nd International Meeting of Red Horrea (2023). He participated as a student in the Traditional Architecture Summer School in Cantabria (2019), and as a teacher and organizer in the Arcos de Valdevez edition (2024).
Farfán Estudio – Bioarquitectura
Architect from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. In 2001, he founded his own studio, specializing in the restoration of historical heritage and the execution of contemporary architecture with a bioclimatic approach and the use of locally sourced ecological materials. He is currently developing the concept of New Mediterranean Architecture, which integrates traditional construction systems, such as rammed earth and Mudejar carpentry, into new-build projects, including residential, tourism, and public developments. He has restored more than twenty heritage buildings and, as a researcher, has designed and coordinated the European Cross-Border Cooperation Project “Biourb”. He has also collaborated as a bio-construction expert with the University of Granada, the Pablo de Olavide University, ETH Zurich, the Ministry of Culture, and the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge. In addition to his work as an architect, he researches Nasrid vernacular architecture and its presence in the villages of Axarquía and the Sierra de Bentomiz.
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 been Architect of the Historical Heritage Service of the General Directorate of Culture-Príncipe de Viana Institution of the Government of Navarra 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.
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Architect and urban planner, Silvia Grünig Iribarren is a lecturer in the Master’s Program in City and Urbanism and a member of the LabCiudades research group at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). Her research focuses on the relationship between space, community, and autonomy, with an emphasis on critiquing contemporary urbanism and exploring alternatives based on conviviality and social justice.
Together with sociologist and Ph.D. in economics Silvia Pérez-Vitoria (Université Paris 8), she co-founded the International Research Center on Peasant Agroecology and Territory, based in Ronda (Málaga). The center aims to study the relationships between urban and rural areas, as well as the conditions necessary for a balanced articulation between the two. It also seeks to identify, support, and recover knowledge, skills, crafts, techniques, and methods that are useful and well-adapted to their application in fields such as craftsmanship, construction, agroecology, and environmental practices.
Universidad de Málaga
Architect from the University of Granada (UGR) and PhD from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), he is a Tenured Lecturer at the University of Málaga (UMA) and in the Master’s in Architectural Rehabilitation at UGR. His work integrates teaching, research, and practice in architectural restoration, rehabilitation, and traditional landscape preservation. He has led the restoration of the Church of San Juan de los Reyes in Granada, awarded the Europa Nostra Prize 2006, as well as interventions in the Cuarto Real de Santo Domingo, the Castle of Moclín, the Castle of Baena, and the Bañuelo of Granada, among others. His research focuses on fortified architecture, vernacular construction, and the Andalusian hammam, with studies on earthen architecture in southern Morocco and the walls of the Alhambra and the Albaicín. He has coordinated international cooperation projects in Morocco and Bolivia and is the president of Lógicas Locales: Arquitectura y Cooperación. He is also a member of ICOMOS and the Ibero-American Network PROTERRA.
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.
De Cal y Canto
Technical architect specialized in traditional building, with practical, research, and teaching work focused on the recovery of historical techniques, particularly in traditional mortars and concretes. His ongoing research has led him to develop extensive experience in rehabilitation, heritage studies, and architectural restoration, combining theoretical training with hands-on learning alongside skilled craftsmen..
His lines of work also include cross-cutting themes such as energy efficiency, approached with respect for historical construction systems and their material and environmental logic.
INTBAU Brazil
Bruno is a Brazilian architect from the Unicesumar, with a postgraduate specialization in Art and Architectural History from Birkbeck, University of London. He is currently undertaking a Master’s degree in Historic Preservation at the University of Notre Dame (2024–2026). He is the founder and current president of the Brazilian Institute of Traditional Architecture, serving also as the national chair of INTBAU in Brazil. His work focuses on the promotion and dissemination of traditional architecture through academic publications, summer schools, and cultural events. In parallel to that, he also acquired professional experience in interior design and antique furniture during his time at Paolo Moschino Interiors in London.
Architect
Architect from the University of Seville and founder of his own studio in 2008, he specializes in architectural heritage restoration and public space intervention. He has been involved in key projects in Ronda (Málaga), including the rehabilitation of Paseo de los Ingleses, the Cuenca Gardens, and the Roman Theater of Acinipo, as well as the restoration of the Historic Albacar Path. His career has been recognized with several awards, including the Málaga Architecture Award (2020 and 2022) and the Puente del Turismo de Ronda Award (2017). His work has also been published in specialized journals such as Arquitectura Viva, Diseño de la Ciudad, and Planur-e. In the academic field, he has been a speaker at conferences on heritage and architecture, a professor at the University of Málaga, and a member of master’s thesis evaluation committees at the ETSA of Málaga.
Early in the morning, the group will depart from Málaga to Ronda, where the introduction of the faculty and participants will take place. They will have a brief time to accommodate and a series of introductory lectures will be held.
A bus will transport the group throughout the day to visit and analyze various towns and locations around Ronda. 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, lectures will be offered on the local history and landscape.
The day will be dedicated to measuring, drawing, and studying Ronda, with the aim of laying the foundation for the design work to be carried out the following week. In the afternoon, a panel discussion on Ronda will take place, followed by a debate.
In the morning, there will be demonstrations of traditional building techniques. In the afternoon the group will put together, review and complete the work already developed.
Free day. In the afternoon, an introductory lecture will be held on topics that will be relevant for the work in the second week.
Various design case studies will be identified and assigned to different groups, who will develop several improvement proposals for the urban areas around Ronda. In the evening there will be brief lectures on new traditional architecture and urbanism design.
During the full day participants, divided into several groups, will use the developed research and manual to design different upgrade proposals for the studied areas. In the evening there will be brief lectures on new traditional architecture and urbanism design.
Final edition of the design proposals and the patterns manual in the morning. In the afternoon, a public presentation of the design proposals will be scheduled. In the evening a final group dinner will be organised.
A bus will take the group to Málaga in the morning.
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
INTBAU Spain aims to promote traditional construction, architecture and urban planning. It serves as a platform for collaboration and information exchange, while 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 Municipality Ronda has among its objectives the promotion of the rich architectural and cultural heritage of the town. To achieve this, it actively supports and participates in the course.
Kalam is an international company specialized in the field of heritage restoration and rehabilitation of historic buildings. In its commitment to the quality and rigor that are necessary for the work they carry out, they give continuity to the traditional trades through their own consolidated staff.
The Fundação Serra Henriques was created in Portugal in 1997 for the promotion of education, culture and science. To this end, it pays special attention to the study of the national territory for local development and the enhancement of cultural heritage.
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.
Robert Adam, director of RobertAdam Architectural Consultancyhas been a leading figure in the advancement of traditional architecture and urbanism in the UK and around the world. He was one of the founders of INTBAU and the UK Traditional Architecture Group. As well as continuing to practice and write, he is dedicated to the support and training of young architects specializing in traditional architecture.
‘HEURE BLEUE’ Architecture.
