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Context-Responsive Architecture in Spain: 7 Projects Highlighting Material Strategies

Enrique Tovar — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 01:30:00 +0000

Andanzas y visiones españolas is the book in which Miguel de Unamuno collects his experiences during excursions through Spain's cities and countryside, accompanied by friends and colleagues. More than a precise geographical description, the text consists of narratives in which each region and every feature of the territory leaves a deep imprint on his thought. The literary discourse actively weaves the diversity of setting, climate, and contextualism as foundational threads, presenting the territory not only as a physical place but also as a space for reflection and contemplation. This attentive engagement with the landscape—so diverse within Spanish architecture—also resonates in the built environment, fostering in contemporary practice a sensitive adaptation to the country's varied climatic conditions, both through design strategies and material choices.

Civil Guard Barracks House in Malpartida de Plasencia / MUDAARQUITECTURA

Diego Hernandez — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:00:01 +0000

Architects: MUDAARQUITECTURA Location: Malpartida de Plasencia, Cáceres, Spain Design Team: Pablo Rey Medrano, Federico Rodriguez Cerro, Mª José Selgas Cáceres, Jorge E. Ramos Jular Technical Architect: Miguel Ángel Tierno de Dios Client: Dirección General de la Policía y la Guardia Civil Area: 2,946.65 sqm Project Year: 2011 Photography: Juan Carlos Quindós

40 Homes, Maimona Saints / GAas architecture studio

Fabian Cifuentes — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 09:20:12 +0000

Architects: GAas architecture studio Location: Guadiana Street, 16. 06230 Los Santos de Maimona, Badajoz, Extremadura, España. Design Team: Raúl Gálvez Tirado, José Algeciras Rodríguez Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Fernando Alda