Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2013: Birzeit, Palestine
Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2013: Revitalization of the Historic Centre of Birzeit, Palestine RIWAQ, a collaborator of RehabiMed, has won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2013 with a project involving the revitalization of Birzeit. The work, lasting five years, centred on 50 villages and forms part of the Rehabilitation Master Plan initiated by RIWAQ. The actions carried out as part of …
RehabiMed in Ouargla, Algeria
The concern with safeguarding traditional heritage in Algeria is being expressed in a series of seminars and congresses with the aim of encouraging debate among national and international institutions, associations and professionals about the way forward. From 10 to 13 March 2013, the international seminar “Ouargla secteur sauvegardé” was organized by the Algerian Ministry of Culture …
RehabiMed present at the LiBaM conference in Barcelona
BaM started its activities for 2013 with the LiBaM conference at the Pou de la Figuera centre, with some 50 participants. RehabiMed was there, bringing its experience in Lebanon; Montserrat Villaverde presented the publications about the maintenance and rehabilitation of traditional Lebanese architecture, and exhibitions of Lebanese heritage.Poster More about the conference LiBaM Handbook …
RehabiMed presented at the Ateneu de Maó, Minorca
At a time when traditional architecture is a value for development and a basis for promotion, the Montada project is at the forefront of its application in the Maghreb, with the foundations of work previously carried out by the RehabiMed and Corpus projects. These many years of work will be presented at the Ateneu de Maó in a talk entitled Historic urban landscapes: the Mediterranean and …
Exhibition “Bioko: Architecture and Memory”
Last May 24, 2012, the exhibition "Bioko: Architecture and Memory" was inaugurated in Malabo, curated by Mercè de Cabanyes Gay and Laida Memba Ikuga. The opening took place at the Cultural Center of Spain in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.The exhibition is part of the project "Puesta en Valor del Patrimonio Arquitectónico y Urbano de Equatorial Guinea", directed by Laida Memba and realized with the …
Heritage for Development (Her4Dev) Team Meets in Jordan for the Inception of the Project
Representatives of RehabiMed Association/Spain, Cultural Technologies and As Salt Municipality in Jordan, Riwaq – Center for Architectural Conservation and Ramallah Municipality in Palestine, and Bethlehem Municipality and the Centre for Cultural Heritage Preservation, the implementing agency of Her4Dev project met in Jordan to initiate the project and set up the action plan and guidelines for …
Eivissa reflects on the setting of its historic centre
Three months ago, the Government of the Balearic Islands passed an act on the rehabilitation and improvement of neighbourhoods, in keeping with steps taken five years ago by the Generalitat de Catalunya Catalan autonomous government. Coinciding with this decision, and with the aim of reflecting on intervention in the historic centre, on 16 and 17 July 2009 Eivissa Town Council organized two days …