Casa Árabe at Architecture Week
For yet another year, Casa Árabe will be taking part in the events to commemorate Architecture Week, to be held from September 30 through October 7, by the Architecture Foundation of the COAM (Madrid’s Official Association of Architects).
October 04, 2013
TOUR OF CASA ÁRABE’S NEO-MUDEJAR STYLE BUILDING (THE FORMER ESCUELAS AGUIRRE)
Architects: Emilio Rodríguez Ayuso and Luis Bellido González
Date: Monday, September 30
Tour times: From 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., and from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Address: Calle Alcalá, 62. Metro stop: Príncipe de Vergara or Velázquez (Lines 2 or 9)
No prior registration required. The building will be explained by COAM guides who will form groupS at the entrance as people interested in taking the tour show up. The COAM guides who will be giving the tour explanations are Susana González García, Moisés Casasola González and María Garcés Esteban (or Ainhoa I. Gacio Martín).
ALONG CALLE DE ALCALÁ: A TOUR OF MADRID’S ECLECTICISM
Casa Árabe’s emblematic headquarters in Madrid, built in the Neo-Mudejar style, will be the starting point for a tour all along Calle de Alcalá up to the beginning of the Gran Vía, with explanations and analysis of a series of especially representative works: Casa Árabe (the former Escuelas Aguirre) by architect Emilio Rodríguez Ayuso, as an example of a typical Neo-Mudéjar style building; the Church of San Manuel and San Benito, by Fernando Arbós, which is a sample of the Neo-Byzantine style; Casa Palazuelo and the Palacio de Cibeles, by architect Antonio Palacios, both examples representing the eclecticism of the early twentieth century; the Bank of Spain, authored by Eduardo de Adaro as a Neo-Renaissance work; the Palacio de Linares and the buildings of La Unión y El Fénix, which are different samples of the Neo-Baroque style, and the whole first stretch of the Gran Vía, because it is a very important ensemble of buildings in terms of Madrid’s eclecticism.
Date: Saturday, October 5 and Sunday, October 6
Time: 11:00 a.m.
Address: Calle Alcalá, 62. Metro stop: Príncipe de Vergara or Velázquez (Lines 2 or 9)
Prior registration required at the COAM’s headquarters (c/ Hortaleza 63), as of September 23, Monday through Friday, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. The tour is limited to 25 people and will last approximately two and a half hours. The tour will be guided by Óscar da Rocha Aranda.
