Join your colleagues from the Committee on Design and the Historic Resources Committee this November at our Fall Conference in and around Seville, Spain. Go to the AIA COD website for more information or click here to register.
Seville –
photo by Jordii Puig, Artchitectours
We will spend 6 days, from Sunday November 11 through Saturday November 16 in Seville. For those who would like to stay longer we will continue to Granada, Cordoba, and Morocco from the 17th to the 21st.
We will stay in the old city of
Seville. Our hosts, specialists in Spanish architecture, will introduce
us to local architects, planners, and historians as we learn about the
history and development of the city. We will visit the
Roman ruins at Italica, the Cathedral of St. Mary of The See, the
Medina, and have dinner on a boat as it travels down the Guadalquivir
River.
Schindler Tower -
photo by Mike Mense
Other highlights we’ll see will
include tours of the Metropol Parasol by Jürgen Mayer-Hermann, the 1992
World’s Fair with structures by Santiago Calatrava, SITE, Grimshaw Architects, Tadao Ando, among others. We will visit the Casa de Retiro Espiritual by Emilio Ambasz and the Abengoa Solar Research Facility with buildings by Richard Rogers.
Casa de Retiro Espiritual –
photo by Jordi Puig, Artchitectours
Costurero de la Reina, Seville –
photo by Jordi Puig, Artchitectours
Metropol Parasol -
photo by Fernando Alda
Madinat al Zahra Museum -
photo by Jordi Puig Artchitectours
Seville World’s Fair –
photo by Jordi Puig Artchitectours
Alcázar Seville –
photo by Jordi Puig, Artchitectours
We will then travel to the
historic cities of Granada and Cordoba to visit the Alhambra, The Grand
Mosque and the Aga Kahn Award-winning Museum of Madinat-al-Zahra. The Madinat al Zahra is considered one of the most significant early Islamic archaeological sites in the world.
We will visit the Madinat al Zahra Museum, by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos S.L.P.
Completed
in 2008, the Museum won a 2010 Aga Khan Award for Architecture and
provides a research and interpretive center for the historic site and a
display of the archaeological findings.
An additional side trip will have us cross the Mediterranean to spend
two days in Chefchaouen, Tétouan, and Fez, Morocco before returning to
Seville to end our trip.
Chefchaouen was founded in 1471 by Moorish exiles from Spain and is distinct for its blue-rinsed houses and buildings.
Alhambra –
photo by Jordi Puig, Architectours
Fez, Morocco –
photo by Jordi Puig, Architectours
Chefchaouen, Morocco –
photo by Will Adams
Early Registration is open until August 10, 2012
Like all of the COD Conferences, the adventure will recharge your batteries!