Inauguration Conference, Tuesday, May 7th at 10:00 AM

Gunny Harboe, FAIA, Fellow US/ICOMOS, is an internationally recognized architect dedicated to the recognition, preservation, and conservation of the world’s cultural heritage. He has over 30 years of experience and currently runs Harboe Architects, his own small architecture firm in Chicago, Illinois, USA with a focus on historic preservation and sustainable design. He has worked on many iconic modern masterpieces including numerous works by Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan.

Gunny Harboe’s projects have received numerous awards, and he was named a “2001 Young Architect” by the American Institute of Architects (AIA), “Chicagoan of the Year” by Chicago Magazine in 2010, and received the 2015 Award for Excellence in Heritage Conservation from the Society of Architectural Historians.

He was a founding member and is the current President of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on 20th Century Heritage, and was a founding member of DOCOMOMO_US where he remains on the board. He is also a current board member of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy and a past Regional Director of AIA National, and President of AIA Chicago.

Gunny is a General Services Administration (GSA) Peer Professional, and a Fellow of the AIA and US/ICOMOS. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Gunny is NCARB certified and is licensed in five states and the District of Columbia.

He received his Master of Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (including study in Copenhagen, Denmark); a Master of Science in Historic Preservation from Columbia University in New York, NY; and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Brown University in Providence, RI. He also completed the ICCROM Architectural Conservation Course in Rome, Italy.

Debate, Tuesday, May 7th at 17:45 PM

Ángela García de Paredes (Madrid 1958, PhD ETSAM) and Ignacio Pedrosa (Madrid 1957, PhD ETSAM) founded the architectural firm Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos in 1990. Professors of the Department of Projects of the School of Architecture of Madrid, they are visiting professors and guests, jurors and lecturers in national and international academic and professional contexts of architecture.

They have won first prizes in competitions from which their built work derives, recognized with the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts 2014, the European Prize for Intervention in Heritage 2015 and the Spanish Architecture Prize 2007, among others.

Invited to the International Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennial 2018: Freespace. The exhibition The dream of space produces forms was shown in 2019 at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada and currently at Troy’s RPI in New York.

Their work of intervention in heritage includes projects in the historic building of the Bank of Spain, awarded at the Spanish Architecture Biennial 2018; the Roman Villa La Olmeda, recognized with the Eduardo Torroja Architecture and Engineering Award 2016; the Library of Ceuta, which incorporates a meriní site, is Finalist of the Aga Khan Award 2016 and the Torner Space in the Church of San Pablo in Cuenca is a Special Mention Europa Nostra 2008.

In new works, they’ve done the Library of Cordoba that incorporates a caliphal wall, and they have in project the City of Justice of Jaén that integrates the archaeological site of Marroquíes Bajos and the Visigoth Museum of Mérida that incorporates Roman and caliphal excavations.

Speaker 6, Wednesday, May 8th at 11:45 AM

Mohamed Es-semmar, Director of Cultural and Archaeological Heritage at the Agence pour l’Aménagement de la Vallée du Bouregreg, since 2011, holds a Degree in History and a PhD in Islamic Archaeology from La Sorbonne University.

He served as Commissioner of the Directorate-General and Cultural Adviser of the Agence pour l’Aménagement de la Vallée du Bouregreg between 2006 and 2011, Head of the Department of Culture and Curator of DAR EL MRINI at the Rabat City Council between 2003 and 2006, Head of the Department of Culture and Curator of DAR EL MRINI at the Hassan Municipal Council between 2001 and 2003, and Commissioner of the Rabat Regional Deputy Office of the Ministry of Culture between 1994 and 2001. He directed the archaeological excavations at the Ribat Tachfine site, beside the Kasbah of the Oudayas, in Rabat, between 2002 y 2006.

He is the author of a great number of articles on the history and archaeology of Rabat. He has taken part in numerous international symposiums and read papers on heritage, culture and archaeology. He has made several documentaries and given interviews to national and international TV channels on heritage issues, as well as on the history and archaeology of the City of Rabat.

He is a member of several civil society associations for the preservation and enhancement of cultural and archaeological heritage, including the Ribat Al fath Association, the Bouregreg Association and the Rabat Salé Mémoire Association.

Speaker 8, Wednesday, May 8th at 13:15 PM

Jaime Navarro holds a Degree in Architecture from the University of Seville and was granted the Extraordinary PhD award by the University of Seville for his Doctoral Thesis “Sobre Iluminación Natural en Arquitectura”.  He is a Professor of Outfitting and Installations at the Seville Higher Technical School of Architecture.

His former roles include Head of the Seville Higher Technical School of Architecture (2005), Head of the University Institute of Architecture and Construction Science (1990), and Head of the Department of Installations of the University of Seville (1983). More recently he was Head of the Department of Architectural Constructions I of the University of Seville.

Until 2017 he headed TEP Research Group 130 “Arquitectura, Patrimonio y Sostenibilidad”, whose major lines of research include Natural Lighting, Architectural Acoustics, and Energy Efficiency. He is the author of several books on these subjects and has published numerous articles in JCR and SCi indexed journals. He has also delivered papers at numerous specialised conferences at the national and international levels.   He has been head researcher and participated in numerous research projects financed through competitive calls for projects. He has supervised thirteen doctoral theses and numerous Master’s Final Projects. He directed the Doctoral Programme “Rehabilitación Arquitectónica y Urbana”, which received a Quality mention from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science.

He has been involved in the drafting of various official rules and regulations and as referee for a number of prestigious publications, evaluator for several Spanish central and regional government project evaluation agencies, and a member of several scientific societies.

He was awarded the National Prize of the “Vivienda Rural en España” architectural competition and received honorary mentions in several other competitions. He is the author of a number of singular single-family homes and has been involved as a specialised installations consultant in major projects across Spain. In 1993 he received the Premio Fundación Toledo for his involvement in the rehabilitation of the Santa María de las Cuevas Convent in Seville. He has taken part in the rehabilitation of all the Andalusian theatres comprised in the Andalusian Theatre Rehabilitation Plan, including the region’s most important theatres, such as Teatro Lope de Vega in Seville, Teatro Falla in Cadiz, Gran Teatro in Córdoba and Teatro Isabel la Católica in Granada. He has likewise participated in the rehabilitation of major buildings in Andalusia, such as the Anunciación Church in Seville.

Since 2015 he is the conservation architect of Seville Cathedral and El Salvador Church, also in Seville.

Speaker 11, Thursday, May 9th at 11:45 AM

Tim Lynch is a New York State licensed Professional Engineer and certified Site Safety Manager with over 30 years of structural engineering design and construction experience. He is the Chief Engineer for the Enforcement Bureau for the City of New York’s Buildings Department where he has worked and served in a number of senior titles since 2005. The duties of the Chief Engineer involve building code development (currently they are on the complex NYC Existing Buildings Code), assisting with writing local laws and technical bulletins, inter-agency initiatives, engineering audits, training programs, overseeing our teams of engineers and inspectors, and outreach to our professional and contracting community regarding the current and prior codes governing the structural behavior of the New York City’s 1.1 millions existing buildings. Tim Lynch works on complex court cases, special assignments such as enforcement of legal actions, collapses, fires, building’s related fatalities and building damage resulting from large weather events, most recently evaluating essential facilities in hurricane damaged Puerto Rico.

Prior to becoming the Chief Engineer of Enforcement, Tim Lynch was the Assistant Commissioner of Investigative Engineering Services. This portfolio includes teams of engineers, architects, inspectors and administrators that oversee daily operations of  Forensic Engineering, Façade and Local Law, Retaining Wall, Compromised Building, Concrete Enforcement and Cooling Towers Units.

Paper 4, Safety in the Renaissance façade of the University of Alcalá,Asset of Cultural Interest, Wednesday, May 8th at 16:00 PM

Juan Manuel Vega Ballesteros is Technical Architect (2002) and Building Engineer (2012) from the University of Alcalá. He also holds a Master in Restoration and Rehabilitation of Heritage (2006) and a Master in Integral Management of Buildings and Services in Architectural Heritage (2016).

Aware of the importance of continuous and specialized training, he has attended numerous specialization courses and continues to attend and participate in congresses, conferences, and events of various kinds related to Cultural Heritage. His vocation for this field, the Architectural Heritage, has been a constant in his professional career, clearly marked by this fact.

He is a specialist in building pathology, diagnosis, technical valuations, intervention in building, and especially in the field of restoration, management and preventive conservation of immovable cultural property.

He has also been an Associate Professor at the School of Architecture of the University of Alcalá since 2008, and is a member of the Research Group “Intervention in Heritage and Sustainable Architecture”, as well as various forums related to Cultural Heritage, such as the Forum-UNESCO University and Heritage Network (FUUP), or the International Network of Heritage Education (RIEP-INHE).

In recent years he has combined his teaching work with professional practice, as a Technician of the Office of Infrastructure Management and Maintenance of the University of Alcalá, from which he has directed numerous interventions, including the Rehabilitation of the old Cuartel del Príncipe for Resource Centre for Learning and Research (CRAI), City of Alcalá award in 2014, or the recent Restoration of the Renaissance Façade of the Colegio Mayor de San Ildefonso for which received the 3rd Prize of the General Council of Technical Architecture for actions in World Heritage cities, and whose intervention has received numerous recognitions, including the prestigious European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards 2018.

Chairman Thematic Area 1, Tuesday, May 7th

Juan Miguel Hernández León is the Chairman of Madrid’s Círculo de Bellas Artes. He graduated in Architecture from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid in 1974 and holds a PhD in Architecture since 1982. He has taught as Professor of Architectural Composition at that same School since 1987 and is currently the coordinator of the Moncloa International Excellence Campus Heritage Cluster. He was the founder editor of the Pasaje de Arquitectura y Crítica magazine (awarded the Santiago Amón award for architectural dissemination) and is currently the editor of “Iluminaciones. Revista de arquitectura y Pensamiento”. He is a regular contributor to several specialised Architecture and Art magazines. He is also the Science Editor of the Textos de Arquitectura collections at the Editorial AKAL publishing house, and the Arte y Arquitectura collection at Editorial ABADA. He is a member of several indexed journal Scientific Committees.

He is the author of several books, including, “Arquitectura Española Contemporánea: La otra modernidad”, “Conjugar los vacíos”, “La casa de un solo muro” y “Autenticidad y Monumento. Del mito de Lázaro al de Pigmalión”, “Ser paisaje”. He is a former evaluation committee member of ANECA (National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation) and CNEAI (National Commission for the Evaluation of Research Activity).

He has been guest lecturer at a number of Spanish and foreign universities, with five six-year periods of outside research activity officially recognised by CNEAI.

Former director of the International Cultural Heritage Study Centre of the Polytechnic University of Madrid. He represents universities as a council member at the Community of Madrid Regional Heritage Council.

Member of the Scientific Committee for the Intervention Management Plan at San Pietro in Montorio Church in Rome.

As an architect, he is the author of projects like the Recoletos-Prado Special Plan in Madrid (in conjunction with Álvaro Siza), the Museum and restoration of the City Walls in Ceuta, and the Contemporary Art Centre in Vélez-Málaga, among others.

Chairman Thematic Area 2, Wednesday, May 8th

Fernando Espinosa de los Monteros has directed since 1983 his own architecture firm, Espinosa de los Monteros y Arquitectos asociados, EMA, with a large number of young professionals of different nationalities and multidisciplinary work teams. He has participated in numerous projects and competitions across Spain, the EU, America and the Middle East, and has worked for more than 200 public and private clients within the residential, tertiary, public use and services, interior design, and landscape architecture sectors, including both new-build projects and restoration of historical sites.

He has taken part in a great number of competitions and won the first prize in more than 15, of which the following are particularly worthy of mention: first prize  in the call for projects for the Restoration of the Palacio de Viana in Madrid, to house the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the Restoration and Extension of the Orto Botanicus Patavinus in Padua, Italy, where he was shortlisted in the international competition; Special Mention in the Europa Nostra Awards 2007 for the Restoration of the Palacio de Tabladillo; the Colegio Mayor Argentino in Madrid, designed by Argentine architect Horacio Baliero, an example of an intervention on 20th century heritage; first prize for the Alcobendas Municipal Police Station  and for the University Research Institute of the University of Huelva, and the more recent project for the Al-Turath Foundation in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

His work has been widely recognized and published in various media and specialist publications and he has taken part in conferences, congresses and round tables, organised exhibitions and directed summer courses, debating on heritage and architecture.

He is especially involved in the protection, conservation and recovery of architectural and cultural heritage, as a founding member of ISC20C – ICOMOS (the ICOMOS Twentieth Century Heritage International Scientific Committee) and chairman of AEPPAS20 – Spanish Association for the Protection of Twentieth Century Architectural Heritage. Recently, in 2011, he promoted, through ISC20C and AEPPAS20, the drafting and signing of the Madrid Document, the first doctrinal document laying down the intervention criteria for 20th century architectural heritage.

Speaker 7, Wednesday, May 8th at 12:30 PM

Bob Combs has been with the Getty since 1986. He served for a number of years as Manager of Technical Systems and was responsible for the design and implementation of security and fire safety systems at the Getty Center and the Getty Villa In 2000, he was promoted to Director of Security for The J. Paul Getty Trust and in 2011 added responsibility for the Visitor Services Department. He manages a proprietary staff of several hundred security and visitor services professionals responsible for security, life safety, technical systems, transportation, visitor services, call center, box office, and parking operations.

A native of Chicago, Combs also previously served as Associate Director of Security at the Art Institute of Chicago, from 1979 through 1986. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management from the University of Redlands, and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the Anderson School at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).

Chairman Thematic Area 3, Thursday, May 9th

Alfonso Muñoz Cosme holds a PhD in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. A specialist in architectural heritage restoration, he has followed postgraduate studies in Munich and Madrid. Since 1988 he is a tenured lecturer at the Architectural Projects Department of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and since 2009 he is an ANECA accredited professor.

He has been Deputy Director-General for Information and Research at the Spanish Minister of Culture, ICCROM Council Member, Head of the Cervantes Institute in Munich and Rome, and Manager of the COAM Cultural Foundation. He has also been guest lecturer at the Ludwig Maximilian Universität in Munich and lecturer of the Official Conservation and Restoration Masters Degree course at the Polytechnic Universities of Madrid and Valencia.

Between 2009 and 2017 he headed the Spanish Cultural Heritage Institute at the Ministry of Culture and Sports, which is responsible for the preparation and execution of heritage conservation and restoration plans, research on cultural asset criteria, methods and techniques, documentation on heritage, and specialised training.

He has taken part in the following research and conservation projects Herakleopolis Magna (Egypt); Oxkintok (Mexico); Percorsi della memoria (Italy); La Blanca (Guatemala); Archivos de Arquitectura, Catálogo Monumental de España, Programa de Conservación Preventiva y Accesibilidad a la cueva de Altamira, and El dibujante ingeniero al servicio de la monarquía hispánica (Spain).

He is the author of numerous articles published in specialised journals and several monographic works, among which it is worth highlighting the following books: Viaje a través de la arquitectura (1986), La conservación del patrimonio arquitectónico español (1989), Iniciación a la arquitectura (2000), Los espacios del saber. Historia de la arquitectura de bibliotecas (2004), La vida y la obra de Leopoldo Torres Balbás (2005), Los espacios de la mirada. Historia de la arquitectura de museo (2007), and El proyecto de arquitectura. Concepto, proceso y representación (2008).

Speaker 12, Thursday, May 9th at 16:00 PM

Ana Tostões is PhD architect, architecture critic and historian, president of Docomomo International and Docomomo Journal Editor. She is Full Professor at Técnico, University of Lisbon, where she teaches History and Theory of Architecture disciplines and coordinates the Architectonic Culture research group. Since 2012, she is in charge of the Architectural PhD program. She has been invited professor at worldwide universities, such as the University of Tokyo, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Katholik University Leuven, Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona and Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura – Universidad de Navarra. Since 2013, she is professor of the Architectural PhD program at University of Porto.

She has a degree in Architecture (ESBAL, 1982), a master’s degree in History of Art (UNL, 1994), with a thesis entitled Os Verdes Anos na Arquitectura Portuguesa dos Anos 50 (FAUP Edições, 1997) and a holds a PhD (IST-UL, 2003) on culture and technology in Modern Architecture (Idade Maior, FAUP Edições, 2015), awarded with the X Bienal Ibero-Americana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo Prize 2016.

Her research field is the Critical History and Theory of the twentieth century Architecture, focusing the relations between European, Asian, African and American cultures. On these topics, she has published 13 books and 95 scientific articles, curate 10 exhibitions and organised 41 scientific events. She also has coordinated 14 research projects, supervised 21 phd thesis (12 concluded and 9 under development) and 30 MSc thesis, taken part in 47 juries and 40 scientific committees and given 72 lectures in European, American, Asian and African universities. She coordinated the research project Exchanging World Visions (PTDC/AUR-AQI/103229/2008) focused on the Sub-Sahara African architecture during the Modern Movement period which publication was awarded with the Gulbenkian Prize 2014. She currently coordinates the research project CuCa_RE: Cure and Care_the rehabilitation (PTDC/ATPA-QI/2577/2014) focused on healthcare facilities.

She has been invited as keynote speaker at some leading universities such as ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland), University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture (US), Rice School of Architecture (US), Chitkara School of Planning and Architecture (India), Xi’an University of Architecture & Technology (China), University Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo (Mozambique), Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura – Universidad de Sevilla (Spain), Faculty of Architecture, Brno (Czech Republic), Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Brasilia (Brazil), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Universidade Nacional Autónoma México (México), Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio (Switzerland), Università di Bologna (Italy), Science University of Tokyo (Japan), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Chile), Tongji University, Shanghai (China), University of Navarra (Spain), University of Mantua (Italy).

Tostões has been vice-president of the Portuguese Order of Architects and the Portuguese section of the International Association of Art Critics. In 2006, his Excellency the President of the Portuguese Republic distinguished her with the Commander degree of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique for her work on behalf of the Portuguese architecture and its international promotion.

Paper 6, Safety in the rehabilitation of structures in Madrid, May 8th at 16:40 PM

Enrique Nuere Matauco (1938) is an Architect from the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (1962) and PhD. Architect from the Technical University of Madrid (1967). During his studies in architecture, he was awarded First Prize for the project Museo de Arte para Muebles la Fábrica in Barcelona (1960), the Second Prize for the chairs submitted to the competition organised by the Ministry of Housing for furniture for subsidised housing (1961) and the Second Prize for the preliminary project for the Johanisberg Congress Centre in Bielefeld (1962).

He belongs to several prestigious institutions such as Academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, (Madrid), Corresponding Academician of the Academy of San Telmo, (Malaga), Corresponding Academician of the Royal Academy of San Miguel Arcángel, (Santa Cruz de Tenerife), Member of the Board of Trustees of the Alhambra and Generalife (1986-1995) or Chairman of the Subcommittee on Standardisation of Structures (SC 6 Wood Structures of the CTN 56 Wood).

Apart from activity of the free exercise of the profession, from the investigation in 1980 on the manuscript of “La carpintería de lo blanco”, by Diego López de Arenas, he begins his activity restoring monumental architectural heritage, emphasizing on historical carpentry, activity for which he has obtained numerous prizes:

In relation to this activity it has obtained the following prizes: the Research Prize of the Official College of Architects of Madrid (1980); the nomination, by the Spanish Commission before Unesco and by the Hispanic-Arab Institute of Culture, candidate for the Baghdad Prize on behalf of Spain (1985); Europa Nostra Prize, for his intervention in the Convent of Santa Clara in Salamanca (1988); the nomination for the award of the Aga Kahn Architecture Prize (1988), the Europa Nostra Prize, for participation in the restoration of the Paraninfo of the University of Alcalá (1995); the CICOP Prize (International Centre for the Conservation of Heritage) in its “Architectural Heritage” category (2006); or the Rafael Manzano International Prize for Classical Architecture and Monumental Restoration (2016).

Regarding the restoration of historic carpentry, he has carried out numerous works, including the recovery of the coffered ceilings of the National Museum of Hispano-Muslim Art in the Alhambra, the Auditorium of the University of Alcalá de Henares, the Ducal Palace of Pastrana, the Palace of Miguel de Mañara in Seville, the Buenavista Palace in Malaga, converted into the Picasso Museum, and the Villalón Palace in Malaga, now the Thyssen Museum.

He has developed his teaching activity in the Department of Projects of the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (1998-2008), and as specialist in architectural wood in the Masters of Restoration of most Spanish schools of architecture and in Rome Tre.

Speaker 1, Tuesday, May 7th at 11:45 AM

Fátima Fernandes and Michele Cannatà (Cannatà & Fernandes Architects) have been working together since 1984.

They have been invited to participate in national and internacional exhibitions such as: ”Biennale de Venezia”; ”Triennale de Milano”; ”Construir, Habitar, Pensar” IVAM Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderna, Spain; ”Arquitectura de Autor” ETS de Arquitectura de la Universidade de Navarra, Spain; ”Portugal Now” Departament of Architecture, Cornell University, New York, USA; Internacional Expositions of Architecture ”Andrea Palladio” Basílica Paladiana, Vicenza, Itália. C&F have participated in lectures, seminars workshops and have published in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Slovenia, USA, Brazil, Mexico, China, and Japan.

Since 1999, they are the Commissioners of Architecture events at AEP-CONCRETA. In 2003, they were responsible for the Scientific Coordination of ASA Editions’ Architecture Department. From 2004 to 2006, they were responsible for the Scientific Coordination of CIVILIZAÇÃO Editions’ Architecture Department.

Moreover, they have received several awards e.g.: 1989 – Andrea Palladio Honourable Mention Prize with the 27 Council Housing Homes, Vicenza, Italy; 1996 – Piranesi Prize with Nicolas Green Square attribution of the Sciences and Arts Academy of Slovenia; 2004 – Singular Residency 2nd Prize, with the Intelligent House attribution of the Superior Council of Spanish Architects; 2005 – Nominee Work Prize FAD Interiors and Architecture with Self-Sufficient Modules, Barcelona, Spain; 2006 – Accésit Prize, with Conjunto Habitacional of Via Senigallia, attribution of the Superior Council of Spanish Architects, Madrid, Spain. In 2008 they received the 1st Prize in the Pole II for the Serralves Museum Competition, in collaboration with SANAA/Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa.

Speaker 4, Wednesday, May 8th at 9:45 AM

Gabriel Ruiz Cabrero graduated in Architecture from Madrid’s Technical School of Architecture (ETSAM) in 1971. He was named Emeritus Professor of Architectural Projects of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) in 1995. He has been head of the Department of Architectural Projects of the ETSAM between 1998 and 2007. Guest lecturer at the following universities: Harvard, Columbia, Glasgow, Milan, Venice, RISDI. He received the “Ciudades patrimonio de la humanidad” National Award in 2010. He was Head of the “Nuevas Técnicas Arquitectura Ciudad (NuTAC)” research group at the UPM, up to 2016.

He has published many books, amongst others “Spagna, Architettura 1965-1988”, published by ELECTA, Milan, 1989, “Una tesis dibujada”, Ediciones Pronaos, Madrid, 1993, “L’arquitectura i l’art dels anys 50 a Madrid”, published by Fundación la Caixa, Barcelona, 1996, “The Modern in Spain”, The MIT press, Cambridge USA, 2001, and “Dibujos de la Catedral de Córdoba, Visiones de la Mezquita” Published by Cabildo Catedral de Córdoba, Madrid, 2009.

He has been editor of the “Arquitectura” magazine published by the Professional Architects’ Association of Madrid between 1980 and 1986. He has published more than 100 articles in several Spanish and international publications.

His major works include the Headquarters of the Western Andalusia Professional Architects’ Association, with Enrique Perea, the Restoration of the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba, from 1978 to the present date, with Gabriel Rebollo and Sebastián Herrero, the Community Social and Civic Centre and Sports Centre on Antonio Machado Street in Madrid, 1990, with Enrique Perea, Three housing blocks with a total of 250 dwellings in Valdebernardo, 1999, and the Hotel Conil Park-hotel in Conil, Cadiz, 2001.

Other restoration works include the Management Plan for Malaga Cathedral, 2016, the Restoration of Malaga Seminary, 2012-2016, the Project for Accessibility to the Malaga Cathedral Rooftops. Project completion, 2015, the Restoration of the “Torre de los Luxanes” building, Madrid, 2015, the Restoration of the Collegiate Church in Santillana del Mar, Cantabria, 2012, the Restoration of the Las Bernardas Convent in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, 2009, the Restoration of the Spanish Embassy in Algiers, Algeria, 2001, the Restoration of San Juan Church in Castrojeriz, with Enrique Perea, 1980, the Restoration of the Madres Carmelitas Convent, with Enrique Perea, 1979.

Speaker 7, Wednesday, May 8th at 12:30 PM

Antoine Wilmering is a senior program officer at the  Getty Foundation and oversees grant initiatives related to the conservation of cultural heritage around the world. His portfolio includes Keeping It Modern, and international grant initiative aimed at advancing the care and conservation of 20^th century architecture.

Wilmering received his training as a conservator of wooden objects in the Netherlands and in the UK, and prior to joining the Getty in 2004, he taught conservation at the Graduate Institute of Conservation of Cultural Relics at the Tainan National University of the Arts in Taiwan (2000-2004) and was a conservator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1987-2000).

His publications include Italian Renaissance Intarsia and the Conservation of the Gubbio Studiolo (1999), and he was awarded a Getty Conservation Institute guest scholarship in 2003.

Speaker 9, Thursday, May 9th at 9:45 AM

go and also attended Northwestern University. For twenty years, Mr. Miller worked at Vinci-Hamp Architects, Inc. (formerly Office of John Vinci), where he was the Project Architect and Manager for restoration projects, including Holy Family Church, by architects Dillenberg & Zucker, John Van Osdel and John Huber, dating from 1857, The Episcopal Church of the Epiphany by architects, Burling & Whitehouse and the Heller House by Frank Lloyd Wright to name several. He also worked with John Vinci on numerous temporary and permanent art installations at The Art Institute ofChicago and other museums.

For over twenty-five years, Ward Miller has been an advocate for historic preservation and has been involved in campaigns to encourage restoration and reuse of many of Chicago’s historic buildings. He is now Executive Director of Preservation Chicago, a local not-for-profit historic preservation advocacy group, dedicated to protecting Chicago’s rich architectural heritage and legacy.

In 2010, Mr. Miller completed the long-awaited book, “The Complete Architecture of Adler & Sullivan,” along with co-author, John Vinci. Begun in the 1950s by photographers, Aaron Siskind and Richard Nickel at The Institute of Design in Chicago, the project was published under the direction of Miller and the Richard Nickel Committee, a not-for-profit foundation, dedicated to caring for the photographs of Richard Nickel and completing the book. The publication contains essays on each of the projects, along with large format images of the buildings of Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan. A catalogue raisonne of the 256 buildings and projects of these two seminal architects is included, along with a description and references on each commission. Photographs and floor plans are also part of the catalogue raisonne portion of the book. The 472 page publication contains 815 photographs, printed in a high-quality format to best convey the work of Adler & Sullivan by Nickel and Siskind.

“The Complete Architecture of Adler & Sullivan” has received both national and international accolades and reviews and also awarded the Gold Medal from the Independent Publishers of America. The book also received an Honor Award from AIA Chicago in addition to receiving the Book of the Year Award by Atlantic Magazine in 2010 and 2011.

Closing Conference, Thursday, May 9th at 18:15 PM

José Mª Ezquiaga holds a PhD in Architecture from the Superior Technical School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, where he is a lecturer in Urban Planning.

His involvement in cities and urban projects dates back to the start of his professional career. In recent years he has focused his academic and professional interest on theoretical research into, and the project integration of, the various geographical and social scales of territories and cities. His projects have served as a means of experimenting and researching on the contemporary landscape formation process.

He has been a guest lecturer at numerous universities including the University of Rome (La Sapienza), Venice University School of Architecture, Polytechnic University of Milan, Polytechnic University of Turin, Delft University of Technology, Oxford Brooks, Oporto, Lisbon, Tongji (Shanghai), Rochester Institute of Technology in Dubai, UNAM México, Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro Federal University, National University of Colombia (Bogotá and Medellín), los Andes and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana of Bogota, UBA Buenos Aires, La Plata, Montevideo, Piura and Lima (Peru), Catholic University of Chile, Concepción, San Sebastián in Puerto Montt (Chile), and Panama.

He has held several urban planning positions at the municipal and regional level in Madrid: Planning Director at the Madrid City Council’s Urban Planning Department (1985-88), Director-General for Urban Planning of the Community of Madrid (1988-91) and Director-General for Urban Development Planning and Agreements of the Community of Madrid. (1991-95).

He has authored and directed a number of singular urban projects including the extension of the Avenida de la Castellana main thoroughfare in Madrid, the remodelling of the Campamento military facilities in Madrid, Madrid’s Green Railway Corridor, La Marina Park in San Sebastián de los Reyes, in conjunction with architects Richard Rogers and Luis Vidal, the River Manzanares Linear Park in Madrid, and the Valdebernardo, Fuentelucha, El Juncal, Alcorcón Norte and El Bojar public housing development areas. He directed the UNESCO World Heritage Management Plan for Panama City’s Casco Antiguo historic district and Panamá Viejo archaeological remains in 2013, and the UNESCO World Heritage Management Plan for the San Lorenzo and Portobelo fortresses in Panama, in 2013.

Throughout his career he has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Premio de la XII Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo 2013, the European Council of Spatial Planners European Planning  Award 2012, Premio Nacional de Urbanismo 2005, Premio de Investigación de la Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo 2012, Premio Europeo Gubbio, awarded by Italy’s Associazione Nazionale Centri Storico-Artistici de Italia in  2006 and 2012, and the Extraordinary Doctoral Award by the Polytechnic University of Madrid.

He has published more than two hundred essays and research works in books and specialised journals in the United States, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Switzerland, Netherlands, Spain and Latin America.

Currently, as an independent professional, he heads the firm Ezquiaga Arquitectura, Sociedad y Territorio, he is the Dean of the Professional Architects’ Association of Madrid, Chairman of the Fundación Arquitectura foundation, Deputy Chairman of the Inter-Professional Union of the Community of Madrid, and Chairman of the Spanish Association of Urban Planning Experts.

Paper 8, Design of a Plan to Safeguard the Collections of the Spanish
Anthropology Museum from catastrophic risk, Thursday, May 9th at 16:50 PM

María Pérez Ruiz is a conservator at the Faculty of Conservators of the Museums of the Spanish State. She has a degree in History and holds a PhD in Prehistory and Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula from the Autonomous University of Madrid.

Up until she joined the Faculty of Conservators, she has been active in academia and research primarily in the university setting. She completed her studies as visiting scholar in Germany and Italy, in research centres such as the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin, The Sapienza University of Rome and the archaeological sites of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

She has been on the faculty of the Autonomous University of Madrid as well as on the teaching staff of the degree in History and Geography at the Isabel I University in Castile. She has also been a visiting lecturer in courses and seminars offered by Spanish and foreign universities and research centres such as the University of Cambridge, the Spanish Scientific Research Council, the Spanish National University of Distance Education and the Complutense University of Madrid. She is chair of the Spanish Association of Friends of Archaeology and one of the members responsible for its bulletin.

As a result of her research in archaeology she has authored more than 25 scientific publications including books, articles and contributions in collective works. Furthermore, she has participated in national and international congresses as well as organised research seminars and spoken at educational lectures and conferences. She has also taken part in research projects at institutions such as the Spanish National University of Distance Education and the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology.

She has coordinated temporary exhibitions and has served as scientific editor of various books, some of which have been published by the publishing house of the Spanish Scientific Research Council.

Her work as a conservator has led her to the Spanish National Anthropology Museum where she is currently responsible for the Asian collection and coordinator of infrastructures and conservation. Her tasks include coordinating and executing the Plan to Safeguard the Collections of the Museum, which has been partially communicated in internal working fora in the Ministry of Culture and Sports and openly in the most recent edition of the summer courses of the Complutense University of Madrid.

Speaker 2, Tuesday, May 7th at 12:30 PM

Ángela García de Paredes (Madrid 1958, PhD ETSAM) and Ignacio Pedrosa (Madrid 1957, PhD ETSAM) founded the architectural firm Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos in 1990. Professors of the Department of Projects of the School of Architecture of Madrid, they are visiting professors and guests, jurors and lecturers in national and international academic and professional contexts of architecture.

They have won first prizes in competitions from which their built work derives, recognized with the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts 2014, the European Prize for Intervention in Heritage 2015 and the Spanish Architecture Prize 2007, among others.

Invited to the International Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennial 2018: Freespace. The exhibition The dream of space produces forms was shown in 2019 at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada and currently at Troy’s RPI in New York.

Their work of intervention in heritage includes projects in the historic building of the Bank of Spain, awarded at the Spanish Architecture Biennial 2018; the Roman Villa La Olmeda, recognized with the Eduardo Torroja Architecture and Engineering Award 2016; the Library of Ceuta, which incorporates a meriní site, is Finalist of the Aga Khan Award 2016 and the Torner Space in the Church of San Pablo in Cuenca is a Special Mention Europa Nostra 2008.

In new works, they’ve done the Library of Cordoba that incorporates a caliphal wall, and they have in project the City of Justice of Jaén that integrates the archaeological site of Marroquíes Bajos and the Visigoth Museum of Mérida that incorporates Roman and caliphal excavations.

Speaker 5, Wednesday,  May 8th at 10.30 AM

In 1988, Glenn Boornazian started what would become Integrated Conservation Resources and Integrated Conservation Contracting (ICR & ICC), in order to combine investigative architectural conservation services with high-quality conservation contracting. His expertise includes specialized conditions investigation, materials testing, analysis, and the implementation of architectural conservation treatment programs.

After studying at Columbia University’s Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, he served as Staff Conservator for the Center for Preservation Research at Columbia University, and Director of Restoration for the Nantucket Historical Association.

He was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, and speaks widely on historic preservation issues. He currently serves as a Trustee on the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation and as the Chairman of the Planning Board of Advocates for the College of Design, Construction and Planning at the University of Gainesville, Florida.

His major works include the Exterior Concrete Conservation of the Guggenheim Museum, NYC, the Exterior Masonry Conservation The United Nations Campus, NYC, Architectural Conservation and Stabilization of Four Temple Sites in Angkor, Cambodia, Exterior Marble Conservation and Interior Finishes of the US Capitol,  Washington DC, and the Exterior Conservation of the Morgan Library & Museum’s Mckim Building, NYC.

His work has received numerous awards, amongst others the DOCOMOMO Modernism in America Award, the Honor Award of the United States General Services Administration, the Award of Excellence, by the AIA-New York State, the award Excellence in Preservation, by the Preservation League of New York State, the Chairman Award and the Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award, both by the New York Landmarks Conservancy.

Speaker 8, Wednesday, May 8th at 13:15 PM

Eduardo Martínez Moya is an architect from the University of Seville and teaches at the School of Architecture of the University of Seville from 1991 to the present day.

He is the founder and Director of Edartec Consultores (EC), an architecture and engineering firm that has been involved in the field of its speciality in approximately two thousand works since 1996. EC is a specialist in design engineering, calculation and control of foundations and structures, issuing reports-expert opinion on construction pathologies and structural projects, reinforcements, underpinnings, rehabilitations and intervention in heritage and monumental buildings.

He has given more than thirty conferences, lectures, developed courses and participated in conferences and workshops on his expertise field in rehabilitation, heritage and construction for different institutions, universities and companies in different Spanish cities. Also noteworthy is his participation in courses given at universities and professional colleges in Bolivia during the trip sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of Spain (AECID) during the summer of 2011, in which he participated in the World Heritage conservation program of the Jesuit Missions of the Bolivian region of Chiquitanía. He has also given classes in different Masters of the University of Seville, highlighting the Master of Expertise, Repair and Heritage Intervention on Contemporary Buildings. He has participated in scientific publications, articles and books.

As Director of Engineering, he is responsible for nearly two thousand files (works and interventions) and more than eight million square metres built of new or refurbished floor space, from its foundation in 1996 to the present day. These works have been carried out both for public administrations (state, regional and local) and for private developers. He has carried out works, collaborations and interventions mainly in Spain, but also in Europe (Portugal, Italy and the United Kingdom), Africa (Morocco and South Africa), Asia (Jordan, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Egypt) and America (Mexico, Bolivia and Panama).

In Monumental Heritage, he has carried out interventions in numerous relevant works in research on their state of structural work and/or foundations, in their reinforcement and/or underpinning, in their restoration/rehabilitation project, and/or in their assistance or direction of works. Among his numerous works, stand out according to their historical era: Puerta de Sevilla de Carmona (Punic); Vía Augusta, Puente de los Cinco Ojos Carmona, Teatro Romano de Itálica, Casa de Cultura Lebrija, Puerta de Córdoba (Roman); Baños Reina Mora Sevilla, Biblioteca Colombina Catedral de Sevilla, Sacristía del Sagrario Catedral de Sevilla, Giralda de Sevilla (Islamic-Almohad); Castillo Constantina, Castillo Pruna, Castillo Trebujena (Mudejar-Medieval); Royal Cathedral Chapel of Seville (Renaissance); Palace Marqués de las Torres, Palace Marqueses de la Algaba, Palacio Villapanés, Palacio San Telmo Sevilla, Capilla de los Marineros Triana, Oratorio San Felipe Neri Cádiz (Baroque); Church and College of the White Fathers of Seville, Puerta de la Carne Market of Seville (rationalism).

Speaker 10, Thursday, May 9th at 10:30 AM

Pedro Salmerón Escobar holds a degree in architecture from the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid, a PhD in architecture from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, with the doctoral thesis “Optimización de procedimientos científico-técnicos aplicados a la restauración del patrimonio cultural” and director of Pedro Salmerón Estudio.

In the early years of his career, he combined his architectural practice with teaching, first as a lecturer in Decoration and Interior Design at the Arts Teaching Institution of the University of Alcalá, and later at the School of Technical Architecture of the University of Granada (1973-1987), where he teaches Construction and History of Architecture, among other subjects.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s his career took a major turn with his appointment as conservation architect of the cathedral complexes of Granada and Jaen in 1987 and 1990 respectively. His growing involvement in historical heritage matters ever since has strongly influenced his subsequent career.

The restoration projects for the Alcázar Genil, the Archbishop’s Palace and Ecclesiastical Curia, and the Museum and art collection of the Royal Chapel of Granada marked the beginning of an extensive collaboration with the Andalusian culture authorities, a particularly fruitful example of which are the projects commissioned by the Andalusian Historical Heritage Institute and the Alhambra and Generalife Trust. These include the Guide to the Landscape of the Bay of Bolonia, in Cadiz, and the Guide to the Urban Historical Landscape of Seville, the projects for the consolidation and enhancement of the La Rauda archaeological remains, the restoration of the Silla del Moro, the refurbishment of the Hydraulic System and paving of the Patio de los Leones, and the intervention on the reverse of the painted leather-lined domes in the Sala de los Reyes.

His commitment to historical heritage is not only restricted to interventions, but also encompasses other domains, including management, renovation and urban planning. In managing, he played a major role as technical director of the First and Second General Plans for the Cultural Assets of Andalusia, and as director of the Management Plans for the cathedrals under his charge, as well as for the Alhambra in Granada and the Alcazaba in Almeria. Also worth noting is his role as co-director of the Andalusian Museums Archives and Quality Plans. With regard to analysis and town planning instruments, mention must be made of the Special Plan for the Protection and Cataloguing of the Central Area of the Granada Historical Complex.

He has received numerous awards, including the Premio Andalucía de Patrimonio Andrés de Vandelvira in 1999, the Premio CICOP de Conservación y Restauración del Patrimonio Arquitectónico in 2007, the Premio Centro Albaicín de Granada a la Conservación y Restauración del Patrimonio Cultural in 2007, a Special Mention under the Studies Category of the Europa Nostra Awards 2010 for the Alhambra Management Plan 2004-2007, and the Europa Nostra 2013 Restoration Award under the Conservation Category for his projects for the Restoration of the Hydraulic Circuit and Paving of the Patio de los Leones.

Paper 4, Safety in the Renaissance façade of the University of Alcalá,Asset of Cultural Interest, Wednesday, May 8th at 16:00 PM

Fernando da Casa Martín is Architect since 1991 and PhD. Architect since 2000, by the Technical University of Madrid.

Teacher at the University of Alcalá since 1995, and University Professor since 2000, he currently teaches at the School of Architecture of this University. He is also the Academic Director of the Master’s Degree in Integrated Management of Buildings and Services in Architectural Heritage since 2014, in which he also teaches as responsible for the subjects of Heritage Management.

Principal Investigator of diverse projects of research, as competitive as with private entities, resulting diverse papers, books and patents, and author of indexed publications, on Architectural Heritage, Geotechnical Engineering, Architectural Sustainability and Integral Heritage Management. He is member of the Research Group of the UAH “Intervention in Heritage and Sustainable Architecture”, of which he was the first coordinator.

He has held various academic positions, such as Director of the Department of Architecture (from 2000 to 2003), Director of the University School of Technical Architecture (from 2004 to 2010), or Director of the Office of Infrastructure and Maintenance of the University of Alcalá (from 2010 to 2018).

Member of the Board of Directors of the Alcalá World Heritage Consortium since 2011. He is also member of the Spanish Association of Geotechnics Applied to Engineering, and within the same designated Spanish representative in the Commission 16 – UNESCO World Heritage, of the International Association Engineering Geological (I.A.E.G.).

As a professional and manager of the University of Alcalá, it stands out the concession in the period in which he was in charge of the Office of Infrastructures Management and Maintenance of several recognitions to the institution related to the work developed in this field, as the Prize Hispania Nostra to good practices in the conservation of Cultural Heritage, in the category of Conservation of Heritage as factor of economic and social development, or the Medal of Honour of the Royal Academy of San Fernando to the University of Alcalá for its work in the protection and conservation of Heritage. More recently, it is worth highlighting the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards in 2018, for the management carried out in the restoration of the Renaissance façade of the Colegio de San Ildefonso, the current rectorate of the University, or the special Prize of the Foundation of Historical and Singular Houses for this same intervention.

Paper 7, Safety in modern heritage, Thursday, May 9th at 16:30 PM

Celestino García Braña has been professor of Architecture Theory, Introduction to Architecture and Composition at the ETS of Architecture of A Coruña (1981-2015), Director of the Department of Composition of the UDC (1993-2005), and continues his academic linkage as Honorary Professor. His didactic and research activity has led him to participate in numerous congresses and seminars in different countries, and he has given conferences and specialized courses in Germany, Argentina, Spain, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Dominican Republic and USA.

As an architect, his work has been recognised with numerous prizes and exhibitions, including the Spanish Architecture Exhibitions (in 1990 and 1993), the 3rd Spanish Architecture Biennial (1993-1994), the COAG Prize (1994), the Julio Galán Carvajal Prize (1997), Winner of the Intervention in the Wall of San Lorenzo in Gijón (2001), Finalist of the Spanish National Architecture Prize (2005), and the European Rehabilitation Prize AADIPA (2015).

He is author and co-author of numerous books and publications, among the most recent and related to this congress Architecture of the modern movement in Spain. Revisión del Registro DOCOMOMO Ibérico, FQ- Fundación DOCOMOMO Ibérico (co-editor) in 2019 (in print); Alejandro de la Sota o la búsqueda de lo esencial, Academia de Bs As de Galicia, and Arquitectura do movimiento moderno en Portugal, Revisao do Registo DOMOMO Ibérico, FQ-Fundación DOCOMOMO Iberio (co-editor), in 2018; “Territorios e valor patrimonial” in Paisaxe e patrimonio. Un percorrido polo Territorio a través do Arquivo de Galicia, Xunta de Galicia, in 2017; “DOCOMOMO Ibérico y el patrimonio arquitectónico moderno en España” in El patrimonio cultural del siglo XX, una riqueza en riesgo, Mº de Educación, Cultura y Deporte in 2015; or La moderna fragua de Vulcano, Academia de Bs As de Galicia in 2006.

He has been dean-president of the College of Architects of Galicia between 2005 and 2011, and Vice-president of the Superior Council of the Colleges of Architects of Spain between 2010 and 2011.

He is a member of the registration committee of the DOCOMOMO INTERNACIONAL Brasilia (2000), Vice-president of the Fundación DOCOMOMO Ibérico since 2007, and Vice-president of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Galicia.