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Axerquía courtyards: heritage and society
April 08, 20216:30 p.m.
CORDOBA
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9) and on social media channels.
6:30 p.m.
In order to attend this in-person event, you must sign up in advance.
The decision on whether to hold this activity in person will depend upon the health situation at the time. The number who may attend has been reduced, and mask use is required. Thank you for your patience.
In Spanish.
The courtyard house model which was developed in the Axerquía neighborhood of Cordoba as of the Islamic period has continued to exist up to the present day, with additions. On Thursday, April 8, we will be giving this conference in Cordoba, which you can watch live through our social media.
The Axerquía area of Cordoba took on special importance from the Islamic period onwards. Since then, a dense urban layout based on a very characteristic courtyard house model developed in that borough, partly continuing on to the present day, with others more recent having been added later. From the very essence of these dwellings arises the intangible nature of this city feature declared a Unesco World Heritage Site in 2012 and now shown off to the world during the “Fiesta de los Patios.”
However, this important historical and anthropological space is undergoing an increasing loss of architectural and human heritage which is strongly affecting the special nature of this part of Cordoba’s historical city center. The “PAX - Patios de la Axerquía” strategy has been created by the community itself in order to propose a solution to this problem, promoting the refurbishment of these courtyard houses (as a tangible form of heritage), through a local population (the intangible heritage factor) that has gradually been expelled from the urban centers of the most important historic cities in recent decades.
The first part of the conference will be given by Dr. Rafael Blanco Guzmán, a specialist in urban planning and Islamic domestic architecture, as well as a professor of Art History at the University of Cordoba. He will provide a diachronic overview of the Axerquía neighborhood as a heritage site, as well as a brief approach to the concept of courtyard house from the Islamic period to the present day.
After this, Dr. Gaia Redaelli, an architect and professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan and University of Seville, and a co-founder of PAX, will specifically address the connection between the urban space in the Axerquía with today’s society, the specific cases raised in this urban refurbishment and social innovation initiative, and its projection locally and internationally.
The conference will be held on Thursday, April 8 at 6:30 p.m. at our headquarters in Cordoba (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9). In order to attend this in-person meeting, you must sign up in advance using this form. The talk can also be viewed live on our YouTube and Facebook Live channels.