The workshop was organized with participation from major stakeholders of traditional architecture in Jordan. This included Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, Ministry of Municipalities and other government organizations dealing with traditional buildings. In additions there were participants from Greater Amman Municipality, Jordanian Universities, Private sector and local community.There …

The RehabiMed project and its results were presented in Turkey between 10 and 13 January 2008.A conference was held at the Technical University of Yildiz on 10 January, organized by the university and the Turkish Chamber of Architects. Over 100 people attended the talks by RehabiMed’s Project Manager, Xavier Casanovas, and the architects Irem Yaylal, Aynur Ciftçi and Banu Celebioglu. A …

On 20 February, coinciding with the exhibition “Living in the Mediterranean”, the RehabiMed project was presented at La Salle School of Architecture (Universitat Ramon Llull) as part of the talk by Xavier Casanovas and Montserrat Villaverde on Mediterranean Architecture: the Legacy of Tradition. On 11 March, the project was presented at the EPSEB in the lecture “International Rehabilitation …

September the 11th saw the inauguration of RehabiMed’s pilot operation in Marrakech, with the presence of local authorities and government representatives, the RehabiMed team in Morocco and Xavier Casanovas, director of the project.The operation consisted of the rehabilitation of three historic buildings in the Medina, home to 150 people, with a view to improving their living conditions and …

Jraba Square, in the Medina of Kairouan (Tunisia), is the site of one of RehabiMeds most significant pilot operations to improve the quality of the urban space, rehabilitating a rather run-down square that is a stop on tourist routes of the town. The Medina of Kairouan was declared UNESCO world heritage in 1989 and has received many illustrious visitors in the course of its history, but today it …

The Conference through photographsFouad MaazouzClose of the RehabiMed ConferenceRehabiMed has been three years of intensive work, meetings, encounters, debates, missions, creation of contents… Like Braudel’s …

On the cover the winning photograph of the Crossed Perspectives competitionAuthor: Fouad MaazouzRehabiMed will contact the authors of the selected works so that they can send them the photographs in their original format and with the highest possible resolution. Failure to send the originals will constitute cause for exclusion from this competition. These works will be presented to the …

On 16 and 17 May 2009, in the framework of an international workshop to establish guidelines for the restoration of the city wall around Bab Antakeya, RehabiMed presented the work carried out by its team on Bab Antakeya in Aleppo. The results of the historical study conducted by RehabiMed provided key elements for drafting recommendations and the subsequent decision of the Governor and Mayor of …

Sunday 17 February 2008 saw the inauguration of rehabilitation work on El Magrabi wekala, presided over by Hany Mahfouz Helal, Minister for Further Education and Research, and attended by Montserrat Casanovas, European Union Cultural Delegate in Egypt, and José Lorenzo, Director of the Spanish International Cooperation Agency (AECI). A large group of architects, university lecturers, other …

On the 10th of February 2007 the inauguration of the Pilot Operation took place in Lefkara, Cyprus, after the completion of the works. The event was organized by the Department of Antiquities, in the aim of making the project known to the general public. In this context, the media were invited to the event, as well as the heads of the relevant authorities such as the Ministry of Communications …