ORGANIZING ENTITIES

INTBAU

The International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU), whose patron and founder is HRH the Prince of Wales, is an international educational organization which, by means of education and training in traditional architecture and urbanism and in the traditional construction crafts, encourages professionals to maintain and restore traditional buildings and to build new ones in order to contribute to the creation of beautiful and coherent architectures while improving the quality of life in cities and villages around the world.

INTBAU brings together those who design, manufacture, maintain, study or simply enjoy anything related to construction, architecture and traditional locations. Today the network has over 5.000 members spread throughout the entire world. 33 national chapters have been created so far: Afghanistan, Albania, Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, China, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, Germany, India, Iran, Ireland, Island States, Italy, Malaysia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, UK and USA. Each chapter works in its own territory to develop, to give support or to carry out the dissemination of programmes and initiatives which, thanks to traditional architecture, preserve the different local characters and create better places to live in.

Among its many activities, each year there is an INTBAU World Congress, a forum which gathers professionals of the sector with different perspectives and knowledge who present and discuss about the problems that the built environment faces in the different communities throughout the world. Together with the exchange of knowledge and experiences, the awards ceremony for the Excellence Awards takes place, which acknowledges the most outstanding projects in the four established categories: New Constructions, Urban Design, Community Engagement and Emerging Talents.

Moreover, it annually promotes competitions, conferences, seminars and workshops on drawing, architecture and urbanism in different parts of the world as well as training programmes in crafts in the United Kingdom. In Spain, it calls for the Rafael Manzano Prize for New Traditional Architecture, the Richard H. Driehaus Architecture Competition and the Richard H. Driehaus Building Arts Awards.

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The Institute for Spanish Cultural Heritage

The Institute for Spanish Cultural Heritage (Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural de España (IPCE)), is a General Sub-directorate belonging to the Department of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, Archive and Libraries of the Ministry of Culture and Sports. Its aim is the research, conservation and restoration, documentation and dissemination of the goods which are part of Spain’s Cultural Heritage. In other words, the guarantor of the preservation and enrichment of Spanish Cultural Heritage, derived from the social commitment acquired by the State.

The IPCE elaborates the intervention criteria and develops adequate action protocols adapted to the nature of the different types of cultural goods. It also designs, manages and supervises conservation and restoration interventions in the cultural goods. As part of these interventions, it is worth noting those which can be found within the framework of the National Plans. The National Plans are tools which appeared when the competences regarding Heritage were transferred to the Autonomous Regions with the aim of studying the heritage goods and coordinating the actions to be taken for their conservation. Some of these plans include: the Plan for Cathedrals, Industrial Heritage, Defensive Architecture, of Cultural Landscape and Abbeys, Monasteries and Convents as well as of Traditional Architecture, within which this specific project can be found.

The IPCE has a vast bibliographic and documental legacy preserved in its Archive, Library and Photographic Library. This material is widely disseminated and put to the service of researchers and specialized technicians. Moreover, they also carry out training activities to bring Spanish Cultural and Historic Heritage closer to those interested in it.

In the field of research, their aim is to improve treatments, identifying risk factors for the different works, evaluating and implementing new preventive conservation techniques, archaeological studies, anthropological ones, etc.

All these tasks are possible thanks to a multidisciplinary team of specialists in different fields: architects, archaeologists, ethnographers, restorers, physicists, geologists, chemists, biologists, documentalists, IT technologists, librarians, archivists and conservation specialists, among others.

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The Rafael Manzano Prize for New Traditional Architecture

Is aimed at architects who are still carrying out their professional activity and who do so in the Iberian Peninsula. It is organized by the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU), with the collaboration of the Fundaçao Serra Henriques, the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and Hispania Nostra.

It aims to reward works where traditional architecture has been used as a referent to build the architecture of our time, both in the restoration of monuments and urban complexes of historic and artistic value as well as in the creation of new buildings. It is an acknowledgment to the trajectory and works of the most outstanding architects within this field. Thanks to the generosity of the American philanthropist Richard H. Driehaus, it is awarded with a 50.000€ prize and a commemorative plaque. It was on 16 October 2012 when it was first awarded in a solemn act which took place at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, in Madrid.

The prize is named after the architect Rafael Manzano Martos, who has dedicated his entire professional career to the preservation of the Spanish architectural and urban heritage both in restoration works and in the design of new architectures based on that heritage. This led him to be awarded in the year 2010 with the Richard H. Driehaus International Prize. With it, he became the first and, up to this moment, only Spaniard who has received this award.

The jury of the Prize is formed by architects and other people who have developed significant works in the field of defending traditional architecture and its restoration, among them: Michael Lykoudis, Rafael Manzano Martos, Leon Krier, Melissa DelVecchio, Leopoldo Gil Cornet, Stefanos Polyzoides and many more.

The Rafael Manzano Prize annually organizes as well two educational activities:

An International Seminar, which gathers for two days important people within the field of traditional architecture and a public formed by students, teachers and other professionals. This seminar always leads to interesting discussions and exchange of experiences.

A Summer School which has taken place in different locations throughout Spain and Portugal and which has received the collaboration of different universities and institutions, such as the University of Notre Dame, the University of Miami, the Universidad de Sevilla, the Universidad de Alcalá, the Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio, the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, the Escola Superior Gallaecia (ESG) and the Centro de Investigación de Arquitectura Tradicional (CIAT).

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