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Exorcity Granada Monumental
This volume is part of the Exorcity series, which began with Madrid Monumental and continued with Porto Monumental. The series proposes architectural design as a critical tool for intervening in cities with strong historical heritages. This time, Granada becomes a new laboratory for exploring the tensions between heritage, territory, and contemporaneity through the project.
Rather than viewing architecture as the production of objects, the book presents an approach grounded in commitment — in the etymological sense of exorkismos, "to be under oath" — and in the discipline's capacity to identify, challenge, and transform aspects of the city that are ineffective. In this context, the architect broadens his field of action, positioning himself at the intersection of environment, landscape, culture, and infrastructure.
One of the book's fundamental themes is the idea of relevance as a design tool. In contrast to decades of accumulation, the projects brought together here are constructed from a conscious decision about what not to do: not to add, not to occupy, and not to demolish.
Within this conceptual framework, Granada emerges as a complex and evocative setting defined by its topography, multiple historical layers, and the ever-present elements of water and a productive landscape. The projects, developed in an academic setting, address this reality through various strategies but share a common approach: precise intervention, akin to microsurgery, where the existing and added elements are nearly indistinguishable.
The result is a set of heterogeneous proposals that raise broader questions about the role of architecture in the contemporary context, despite their specificity.
- Collection
- Exorcity
- Language
- Spanish/ English
- Size
- 21 x 29,7 cm
- Format
- Soft Cover
- Page number
- 224
- ISBN
- 978-84-17753-78-8
- Authorship / Editorial coordination
- Adelino Moreira, José Mayoral y José María de Lapuerta. Coord. Javier Elices Ríos, Ainhoa Church, Victoria Dafos Aller
Exorcity. Exorcism · José María de Lapuerta Montoya
Pertinence as a design tool · Adelino Moreira Magalhaes
Granada, backdrop · José Mayoral Moratilla
How I love you green · Eugenia Abejón Matamoros · Islamic productive garden interpretation center
The reactivated ravine · Natalia Ávila Caballero · Barranco del Abogado
Hoyo de la campana · Pepa Barrero Carrilero
Impassable wall · Miriam Bellido Palau · Zirí wall
Rehumanization · Cecilia Carbajo Ameijeiras · Northern slope
Witness · Jaime Catalina Morales · Abandoned industrial landscape
Mechinal · Ainhoa Church Vidal
The fifth wall · Javier Elices Ríos · Zenete
Overflow · Jimena Domínguez Garayzábal · GR-30
Beiro gate · Alberto González Cubilla · Beiro river
San Isidro hub · Javier Galindo López · San Isidro
Loop · Jorge López-Jurado Reynolds
The vizier’s palace · Blanca Hernández Díez
Based on real events · Elena López de Coca Hernández · Albaicín
Dar al-Zayt · Andrea Lorenzo López
New Cervantes · Fernando Martínez Blanco
Traces and strokes · Ana Miguélez Vara · Alhambra
Connecting the slope · Judit Mendoza Velásquez · Barranco del Abogado
Flood thresholds · Cristina Montoro Renedo
Sound itineraries · William Mulvihill
Romance theatre · Belén Parrondo Candela
The rebirth of the Vega · Manuel Pérez Aguilar · Vega
Por soleá · Isabel Ridruejo Tuñón · Sacromonte
Landmarket · Alba Pérez Crespí · Vega
Overflowing memory · Marta Quintanilla Pastor · Darro valley
Relic · Paula Sanabria Gavín · Sacromonte Abbey
Cárcava 11 · Inés Ríos Sala · Former gold factory
Threshold of Granada · Carlota Sola Gonzalvo
The lost bridges of the Dauro · Jaime Sánchez Molina · Dauro river
Arquea-TEC · Carmen Torres Seara
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