Estudio Rafael Manzano

Rafael Manzano Martos Estudio Manzano de Arquitectura y Servicios S.L.

CURRICULUM

Rafael Manzano Martos Estudio Manzano de Arquitectura y Servicios S.L.

Professional career •

Born in Cadiz (Spain) on November 6th, 1936.

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Degree in Architecture from the Superior Technical School of Architecture in Madrid in 1961.

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Doctorate in Architecture in 1963.

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As a student under Professors Gómez-Moreno, Torres Balbás, Chueca Goitia and Íñiguez Almech, he specialized in historic studies and in the Theory and Techniques of Monument Restoration.

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Collaborator at the School of Arab Studies in Madrid from 1956 to 1963, where he cultivated his interest in Islamic history and archaeology.

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Architect at the Service for the Defence of Spain’s National Artistic Heritage from 1962 to 1982.

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Architect at the Service for the Organization of Cities of National Artistic Interest within the Directorate-General for Architecture from 1962 to 1970.

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Lecturer at the Superior Technical School of Architecture in Madrid from 1962 to 1966, and appointed in charge of the Chair in 1965.

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Numerary Professor of General Art History at the Superior Technical School of Architecture in the University of Seville from 1966 to 1968.

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Numerary Professor of History of Architecture and Urban Planning and the Theory and Techniques of Monument Restoration at the Superior Technical School of Architecture in the University of Seville from 1968 to the present, where he continues to teach as a “professor emeritus”.

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Director of the Superior Technical School of Architecture in the University of Seville from 1974 to 1978.

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Course in Monument Restoration at the School of Architecture in the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1966.

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Summer courses at the University of Santander during 1970, 1971 and 1972.

Advisor to the restorations at Textour (Tunisia) in 1971.

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Director-Curator and Governor of the Royal Fortresses in the City of Seville from 1970 to 1981. This role led to the discovery of the of the alMuwarak Domestic Palace, the residence of al-Mutamid in Seville, on the premises of the former “Casa de la Contratación” (Trade Hall) and its subsequent anastylosis, as well as the finding of the remains of the baptistery of a palaeo-Christian basilica, possibly that of Saint Vincent the Martyr, in the “Patio de Banderas” (Parade Ground) of the Alcázar Fortress or that of the mediaeval belvedere in the “Palacio de don Pedro” (King Peter’s Palace), and also the restoration of the courtyards known as “Patio del Asistente”, “Patio de Levíes”, “Patio del Crucero”, “Patio del Sol”, “Patio del Alcaide”, “Patio del Yeso” and “Patio de las Doncellas”. In this historic enclave, numerous ancient remains emerged in the course of the explorations and restorations, to add to the wealth of the “Salón del Almirante”, the “Sala del Yeso”, the former Armoury, the exterior of the Alphonsine Gothic Room or the Justice Hall.

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Director and Restorer for the excavations of the City of the Caliphs in Medina Azahara (Cordoba) from 1975 to 1985, where he give the definitive appearance to such important areas of the monument as the “Salón Rico”, the former “Dar-al Chund”, the “Salón Occidental de Velázquez-Bosco”, the “al-Muzara” and the Viziers’ House. .

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Awards & recognition •

AWARDS

Royal Academy of Science, Fine Arts and Literature. Écija, with special honour distinction.

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Richard H. Driehaus Prize 2010

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Gold Medal for Spanish Fine Arts

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Shiller Prize for Building Restorations 1980

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Royal Spanish Academy in Rome.

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Order of Alphonse X the Wise. Commander with Plaque

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Member of the Royal Board of Patrons of the Alhambra and the Generalife in Granada, between 1971 and 1980.

City of Cádiz. Favourite Son

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Council of The Alhambra and Generalife.

Creation by the Driehaus Foundation of the Prize for Classical Architecture and Restoration of Monuments RafaelManzanoMartos (delivered for 2012, 2013 and 2014).

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Institute Valencia de Don Juan of Islamic Arts. Madrid.

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Medinaceli Foundation.

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Seville`s Official College of Architects. Advisor .

PATRONAGE MEMBERSHIPS

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European Architecture Prize Philippe Rotthier, 2017 to the reconstruction of the Cevico Navero monastery.

ACHIEVEMENTS •

Medina Azahara. UNESCO’s World Heritage. July 2018

ACADEMIES MEMBERSHIPS •

Royal Academy of Fine Arts San Fernando. Madrid, holding medal No. 12 & Architectural Section President

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Royal Academy of Fine Letters . Seville

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Royal Academy of Fine Art Saint Isabel of Hungary. Seville

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Royal Academy of Fine Arts.Cadiz, with honor distinction.

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Saint Denis Royal Academy of Arts and Letters. Jerez.

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Saint Cecilia Academy of Fine Arts. Puerto de Sta. María.

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Deutsches Archäologisches Institut . Berlin.

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Royal Academy of Fine Arts and History Sciences. Toledo

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Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Galicia

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Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Granada

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Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Noble Arts. Córdoba

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Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Saint Elmo. Málaga C/ Zaragoza, 21 41001 Sevilla (Spain)

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Selection of works and proyects •

He has restored and consolidated the following monuments, among others:

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Church of Saint Dionysius with reconstruction of its lost roofing and discovery of its Gothic-Mudejar brickwork in Jerez de la Frontera (Cadiz).

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Squares and Cathedral at Castelló de Ampurias, in Gerona.

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Cathedral Square in Tarragona.

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Restoration of the Old Town Hall in Jerez de la Frontera (Cadiz).

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Squares and roads on the Way of Saint James in Estella (Navarre).

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Fortress of the Old Cathedral in Lérida.

Reconstruction of pinnacles and flying buttresses as well as consolidation work on the Cathedral of Seville after the 1969 earthquake.

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Church of Mary Magdalene in Tarazona.

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Castle of Alcañiz in Teruel.

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Squares, streets and Churches of the Virgin Mary and Saint Francis of Morella in Castellón de la Plana.

Reconstruction of the Church of Saint Marina after the fire in 1956, and restorations and consolidations in the churches of All Holies, Saint Mark, Saint Catherine and Saint Julian, all in Seville.

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Parador-Castle, churches, squares and streets of Alarcón, Cuenca.

“Palacio de las Dueñas”, “Casa del Rey Moro” and other major buildings in Seville.

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Church of Saint Michael, in Cuenca.

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Restoration and enlargement of the “Cilla del Cabildo” (Council Granary) for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Seville.

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Church and square of Arcas, in Cuenca.

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Complete external reconstruction and new interiors for the Royal Academy of Pharmacy, in Madrid.

Consolidations of the ruins of Itálica in Santiponce, and construction of its monographic museum.

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Consolidation and re-organization of the Collegiate Church of Osuna.

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Reconstruction of the top apse of the Church of Saint Francis in Vivero (Lugo).

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Restoration of the Walls and Church of the Virgin Mary in Marchena.

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Restoration of the Cathedral in Mondoñedo (Lugo) and organization of its square.

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Restoration, enlargement and construction of bell towers for the new Cathedral in Huelva.

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Reconstruction of the cloisters, tower, chapter room, stairway and other parts of the “Sobrado de los Monjes” Monastery in Corunna.

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General restoration of the town walls in Niebla, and excavation and reconstruction of the courtyard and chapels of Saint Mary of the Pomegranate.

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Restoration of the Collegiate Church in Toro (Zamora) and organization of its surroundings.

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Restoration of the Castle and Mosque of Almonaster la Real (Huelva).

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Total reconstruction of the former Palace of the Dukes of Medina Sidonia in Cordoba for Mr. Nahmias and wife.

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Restoration of the Churches and Castle in Aracena; and construction of its free-standing bell tower.

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Alcazaba fortress in Malaga (Restorations and anastylosis of the housing nearby).

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General restoration of the Monastery at La Rábida.

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Walls of Tarifa (repairs).

Total restoration of the Church of Saint George in Palos and organization of its surroundings.

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Reconstruction of sunken areas and restorations in the Monastery and

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Church of Saint Claire in Moguer.

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Designer, together with the architect Fernando Chueca Goitia, of three major projects for the enlargement of the Prado Museum (1972-74 and 1990).

Andalusian-style single-family residence for Mr. Georges Abou Nassar in Marbella (Malaga).

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“Los Pilares” estate for Mr. José Maria González de Caldas in Castilblanco de los Arroyos (Seville).

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Designer, together with the architect Fernando Chueca Goitia, of a major five-star hotel in Mosul (Iraq). This project, contracted by the Iraqi Tourism Ministry, was never built due to the Iran-Iraq war.

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Single-family residence for Ms. Esther Koplovitz on the “La Gata” estate in Ruidera (Ciudad Real), in collaboration with the architect Mr. Fernando Chueca Goitia.

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Excavation of the site of the former “Casa de Contratación de las Indias” (Indies Trade Hall), with reconstruction of its Almohad courtyard and garden and a new façade.

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Residential palace for Faisal Hassan Jawad in Bahrain (United Arab Emirates).

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Designer of several urbanization projects of a certain magnitude on Majorca (Cala Ferrera), in Chipiona, Barbate, and the refurbishment and construction of a major inland area (“Conjunto el Santo Ángel”) in Jerez de la Frontera (Cadiz).

“La Paz” estate for John S. Blazevich in Los Angeles, California (with the decorator M. Gavira).

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Restoration and interior decoration of the palace at Paseo Recoletos nº 27 in Madrid for Mapfre.

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Residence and guest house for Mr. and Mrs. Cortés in Cadima (Castanhede-Coimbra), Portugal.

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Conversion of a modern building at an advanced stage of construction into a neo-Hellenic residence in Tarancón (Cuenca).

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Conversion of a building under construction in a castellano-manchego regional style in Villarrobledo (Albacete).

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In Marbella, he took part in the first constructions in the area of “Las Lomas del Marbella Club” (continued by others).

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Reconstruction of the former Royal Courthouse in Seville and its enlargement and adaptation to the corporate headquarters of the “Caja de Ahorros San Fernando” savings bank (now known as Cajasol savings bank).

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He also designed a Golf-Hotel development together with an American team in Castilblanco de los Arroyos, Seville (not built).

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Headquarters for the Official Professional Association of Civil Engineers in Seville (under construction).

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Designer, in 1991, of the total restoration and decoration of King Alphonse XIII Hotel in Seville for Ciga-Hotel-España.

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San Pelayo de Cerrato Monastery: archaeological exploration and reconstruction for Siro Foundation.

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He has completed a set of buildings, riding club, golf and country club as well as several hotels, in addition to the NMAC Centre for Contemporary Art at Dehesa de Montenmedio in Barbate (Cadiz).

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Hotel in the “Pazo de Vieite”, in Boymorto. Galicia

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In the residential area, special mention must be made of major individual homes in an almost palatial style, such as the large rural manor of the Carasso family in Peratallada (Gerona), the palace for the Nahmias in Cordoba (Plaza de Jerónimo Páez), the design for the residence of Mr. Matías Cortés in Guadarrama (Madrid) (not built), or the group of three large residences (Fernández del Villar, Kanoui and Babiano) in Sotogrande (Cadiz).

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In all of his works, he has expressed his faithfulness to the classical idiom and to the integration of his work in the urban setting or in the rural landscape. In his restorations of monuments, he has avoided any aggressive approach to the buildings of the past, respecting the architecture handed down and complementing it with a simple yet academic architecture that integrates into the monument without any visual aggression or turning it into a pretext for creating a contemporary work of questionable quality.

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Publications •

BOOKS •

El lenguaje clásico de la arquitectura (Classical Language in Architecture). Speech given at the inauguration of the 1993-94 academic year in the University of Seville (Superior Technical School of Architecture). Rafael Manzano Martos.

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Los Alcázares Españoles al Final de la Edad Media (The Spanish Fortresses at the End of the Middle Ages). Segovia. Board of Patrons of the Alcázar Fortress in Segovia. 2000.34 Rafael Manzano Martos.

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Casas y Palacios de al-Andalus. Siglos XII y XIII (Houses and Palaces in al-Andalus: 12th and 13th Centuries). Barcelona. Lunwerg/el Legado Andalusí. 1995.366. ISBN:84-7782-342-1. Rafael López Guzmán, Rafael Manzano Martos.

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La Qubba, Aula Regia en la España Musulmana (La Qubba, Royal Classroom in Muslim Spain). Madrid. “Saint Ferdinand” Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. 1994-95. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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La Alhambra. El Universo Mágico de la Granada Islámica (The Alhambra. The Magical Universe of Muslim Granada). Madrid. Anaya.

1992. 196. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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El Jardín en la España Musulmana (Gardens in Muslim Spain). Seville.

“Saint Elizabeth of Hungary” Royal Academy of Fine Arts. 1990. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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Tres Estudios Sobre Sevilla (Three Studies on Seville). Seville. Sevillian Royal Academy of Fine Letters. 1984.106. ISBN: 84-600-3475-5. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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Poetas y Vida Literaria en los Reales Alcázares de la Ciudad de Sevilla (Poets and Literary Life in the Royal Fortresses in the City of Seville).

Seville. Sevillian Royal Academy of Fine Letters. 1982. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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Cuadernos Departamento de Estética, Composición e Historia (Notebooks of the Department of Aesthetics, Composition and History).

Seville. University of Seville, Superior Technical School of Architecture.

1970. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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Enciclopedia del Arte (Encyclopaedia of Art). Barcelona. De Gassó.

1956. 374. Rafael Manzano Martos.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS •

La Arquitectura Omeya (Umayyad Architecture). Obras Singulares de la Arquitectura y la Ingeniería en España. (Unique Works of Architecture and Engineering in Spain). Madrid. Cinterco S.A. Vol. 16000. 2004. pp. 64-78. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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La Catedral de Cádiz (Cadiz Cathedral). Obras Singulares de la Arquitectura y la Ingeniería en España (Unique Works of Architecture and Engineering in Spain). Madrid. Cinterco S.A. Vol. 16000. 2004. pp.

307-309. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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La Mezquita de Córdoba (The Mosque in Cordoba). Obras de la Arquitectura y la Ingeniería Españolas (Unique Architecture and Engineering in Spain). Madrid.

Construcciones y Contratas S.A. 2004. pp. 64-78. Rafael Martos.

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Las Catedrales de Granada, Málaga y Jaén (The Cathedrals of Granada, Malaga and Jaén). Obras Singulares de la Arquitectura y la Ingeniería en España (Unique Works of Architecture and Engineering in Spain). Madrid. Cinterco S.A. Vol. 16000. 2004. pp. 247-257. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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Los Patios del Alcázar de Sevilla y de la Alhambra de Granada (The Courtyards of the Alcázar Fortress in Seville and the Alhambra Palace in Granada). Obras Singulares de la Arquitectura y la Ingeniería Españolas (Unique Works of Architecture and Engineering in Spain).

Madrid. Fomento Construcciones y Contratas S.A. 2004. pp. 122-143.

Rafael Manzano Martos.

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La Edad Media en la España Islámica. Un Paréntesis en las Instituciones Municipales Españolas (The Middle Ages in Muslim Spain. A Parenthesis in Spanish Municipal Institutions). El Municipio. Historia de los Servicios Urbanos (The Municipality. A History of Urban Services). Madrid. FCC. 2003. pp. 36-87. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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Singulares Works of Fomento Manzano

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De la Villa Romana a la Almunia Islámica (From Roman Villas to Muslim Farms). Haciendas y Cortijos. Historia y Arquitectura en Andalucía y América (Estates and Farmhouses. History and Architecture in Andalusia and America). Seville. University of Seville. 2002. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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Los Jardines en la España Islámica y Cristiana (Gardens in Muslim and Christian Spain). Historia de los Parques y Jardines (History of Parks and Gardens). Madrid. Cinterco S.A. Vol. 16000. 2001. pp. 39-139. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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Apuntes Sobre la Arquitectura Almorávide (Notes on Almoravid Architecture). Historia de las Técnicas Constructivas (History of Building Techniques). Madrid. Cinterco S.A. Vol. 16000. 2000. pp. 121-147. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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El Mundo Medieval (The Mediaeval World). Historia de las Técnicas Constructivas (History of Building Techniques). Madrid. 2000. pp. 79-108 / 147-154-163-173. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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La Arquitectura Asturiana (Asturian Architecture). Historia de las Técnicas Constructivas (History of Building Techniques). Madrid.

Cinterco S.A. Vol. 16000. 2000. pp. 86-88. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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La Arquitectura de la Alta Edad Media Española (Architecture in the Spanish Late Middle Ages). Historia de las Técnicas Constructivas (History of Building Techniques). Madrid. Cinterco S.A. Vol. 16000. 2000. pp. 82-83. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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La Arquitectura Gótica y Mudéjar (Gothic and Mudejar Architecture).

Historia de las Técnicas Constructivas (History of Building Techniques).

Madrid. Cinterco S.A. Vol. 16000. 2000. pp. 163-203. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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La Arquitectura Hispanomusulmana (Spanish Muslim Architecture).

Historia de las Técnicas Constructivas (History of Building Techniques).

Madrid. Cinterco S.A. Vol. 16000. 2000. pp. 89-120. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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La Arquitectura Mozárabe (Mozarab Architecture). Historia de las Técnicas Constructivas (History of Building Techniques). Madrid.

Cinterco S.A. Vol. 16000. 2000. pp. 88-89. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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La Arquitectura Romana. (Roman Architecture). Historia de las C/ Zaragoza, 21 41001 Sevilla (Spain)

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Técnicas Constructivas (History of Building Techniques). Madrid.

Cinterco S.A. Vol. 16000. 2000. pp. 13-24. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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La Arquitectura Románica (Romanesque Architecture). Historia de las Técnicas Constructivas (History of Building Techniques). Madrid.

Cinterco S.A. Vol. 16000. 2000. pp. 147- 163. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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La Arquitectura Visigótica (Visigothic Architecture). Historia de las Técnicas Constructivas (History of Building Techniques). Madrid.

Cinterco S.A. Vol. 16000. 2000. pp. 83-86. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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Las Estructuras Arquitectónicas de la Roma Paleocristiana y de Bizancio (Architectural Structures of Palaeo-Christian Rome and Byzantium). Historia de las Técnicas Constructivas (History of Building Techniques). Madrid. Cinterco S.A. Vol. 16000. 2000. pp. 79-82. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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Los Grandes Prototipos Constructivos Romanos (The Great Prototypes of Roman Building). Historia de las Técnicas Constructivas (History of Building Techniques). Madrid. Cinterco S.A. Vol. 16000. 2000. pp. 25-44.

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Orígenes Prerromanos (Pre-Roman Origins). Historia de las Técnicas Constructivas (History of Building Techniques). Madrid. Cinterco S.A. Vol. 16000. 2000. pp. 3-12. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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Los Palacios (Palaces). Sevilla Almohade (Almohad Seville). Madrid.

University of Seville – Seville City Council). 1999. pp. 63-75. ISBN: 84-8095194-X. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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Las Ciudades Españolas Durante la Edad Media (Spanish Cities in the Middle Ages). La Ciudad, Recorrido Por su Historia (The City, A Journey through its History). Madrid. 1998. pp. 67-141. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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Los Caminos en la Historia de la Edad Media Española(Roads in the History of the Spanish Middle Ages). Viaje Por la Historia de Nuestros Caminos (A Journey through the History of our Roads). Madrid. 1997. pp. 65-125. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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Entre el Nido Humano y la Arquitectura (Between the Human Nest and Architecture). Arte y Arquitectura en la Vivienda Española (Art and Architecture in Spanish Dwellings). Madrid. Cinterco S.A. Vol. 10000.

1996. pp. 9-47. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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El Hombre y el Agua en la Geografía y en la Historia de España (Man and Water in the History and Geography of Spain). Madrid. Fomento Construcciones y Contratas S.A. 1995. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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Tres Estudios Sobre Sevilla (Three Studies on Seville). Seville. Royal Sevillian Academy of Fine Letters. 1984. ISBN: 84-600-3475-5. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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Darabenaz: una Alquería Nazarí en la Vega de Granada (Dadarabenaz: A Nazari Farm on the Plains of Granada). Madrid.

Board of Patrons of the Menéndez y Pelayo University and Miguel Asín Institute. 1961. pp. 202-218. Rafael Manzano Martos.

Conference of the Royal Academies of Fine Arts of Spain and Portugal in June, 2009, held at the “Saint Ferdinand” Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid (in press). Rafael Manzano Martos.

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Annual Doctorate Course in Spain: The origins and evolution of the language of Spanish- Muslim Architecture. Rafael Manzano Martos.

PUBLICATIONS IN JOURNALS •

Crónica Arqueológica de la España Musulmana. Arquitectura Medieval Islámica (Archaeological Chronicle of Muslim Spain.

Mediaeval Muslim Architecture). Al-Andalus-Magreb. 1998. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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El Palacio Poético de al-Mutamid en el Alcázar de Sevilla (The Poetic Palace of al-Mutamid in the Alcázar Fortress of Seville). Reales Sitios.

1981. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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La Arquitectura Sevillana en el Siglo XIII. Sevilla Almohade - Sevilla Cristiana (Sevillian Architecture in the 13th Century. Almohad and Christian Seville). 1979. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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El Alcázar de Sevilla (The Alcázar Fortress in Seville). Apud Museos de Sevilla, Patrimonio Nacional 1976. 1976. Rafael Manzano Martos.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO CONFERENCES •

Los Jardines de Crucero en la Sevilla Almohade (Cross Gardens in Almohad Seville). Granada Conference on Islamic Gardening.

Granada. 1973. Rafael Manzano Martos.

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El papel de las Reales Academias de Bellas Artes en la Conservación y Transmisión del lenguaje clásico de la Arquitectura (The Role of the Royal Academies of Fine Arts in the Conservation and Transmission of the Classical Language of Architecture). Paper read at the C/ Zaragoza, 21 41001 Sevilla (Spain)

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WORKS

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Alcázar of Seville Sevilla Director-Conservator (1970, 1988) of the palatial complex of the Real Alcázar of Seville for more than twenty years. Interventions in the Courtyard of the Maidens, Courtyard of the maidens, Courtyard of the Prince, Courtyard of the Assistant, Courtyard of Levi, Contract House, Tennis Court, Patio del Sol, Courtyard of the Far North of the Cruise, Patio del Yeso and Hall of Justice, Gothic Palace and Palace of King Don Pedro The Alcázar of Seville is a royal palace in Seville, Spain, built for the Christian king Peter of Castile. It was built by Castilian Christians on the site of an Abbadid Muslim residential fortress destroyed after the Christian conquest of Seville. The palace, a preeminent example of Mudéjar architecture in the Iberian Peninsula, is renowned as one of the most beautiful. The upper levels of the Alcázar are still used by the royal family as their official residence in Seville, and are administered by the Patrimonio Nacional. It was registered in 1987 by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, along with the adjoining Seville Cathedral and the General Archive of the Indies.

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Medina Azahara Córdoba During 10 years, Rafael Manzano worked on the Medina Azahara site where he performed numerous interventions that included reconstruction and the organization of the monument’s visitor experience.

On July 1, 2018, Medina Azahara was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site with the inscription name "Caliphate City of Medina Azahara".

Medina Azahara (Arabic: ‫ ﺍﻟﺯﻫﺭﺍء ﻣﺩﻳﻧﺔ‬Madīnat az-Zahrā: literal meaning "the shining city") is the ruins of a vast, fortified Moorish medieval palace-city built by Abd-ar-Rahman III (912–961), the first Umayyad Caliph of Córdoba, and located on the western outskirts of Córdoba, Spain. It was a medieval Moorish town and the de facto capital of al-Andalus, or Muslim Spain, as the heart of the administration and government was within its walls.

Building beginning in 936-940, the city included ceremonial reception halls, mosques, administrative and government offices, gardens, a mint, workshops, barracks, residences and baths. Water was supplied through aqueducts.

The main reason for its construction was politico-ideological: the dignity of the Caliph required the establishment of a new city, a symbol of his power, imitating other Eastern Caliphates. Above all, it demonstrated his superiority over his great rivals, the Fatimids of Ifriqiya in Northern Africa, as well as the Abbasids in Baghdad.

Legend also says it was built as a tribute for the Caliph's favourite wife: Azahara. The complex was extended during the reign of Abd ar-Rahman III's son Al-Hakam II (r. 961-976), but after his death soon ceased to be the main residence of the Caliphs. In 1010, it was sacked in a civil war, and thereafter abandoned, with many elements re-used elsewhere. Its ruins were excavated starting from the 1910s.

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Casa de la Contratación (Contract House) Sevilla This building is an example of the work of Rafael Manzano in a historical setting where he adapts the designed to its historical location.

The building is located behind and attached to the “Reales Alcázares” of Seville, and it is known as “La Casa de la Contratación”. Rafael Manzano, the conservative architect at that time of the palatial enclosure that includes the alcazars and its gardens, discovered the remains of the Old Contract House and designed and built the current building.

In the sixteenth century, the building that then occupied this same site was integrated into the Reales Alcázares, and was the Contacting House of the Indies, an institution founded to encourage and control trade and navigation with newly discovered lands in the New World, and whose official name was "House and Audience of the Indies."

The current building began to be built in 1973, and was intended to host the delegation of the Ministry of Public Works in Seville.

The great façade of the Plaza de la Contratación hides an interesting patio, the result of the studies and archaeological excavations carried out before the construction of the new building.

It is a space that responds to the classic Islamic garden of the so-called "cruise", organized according to a walkway or perimeter platform in addition to two others that cross at the centre forming a cross. These platforms or walks surround four large pools of rectangular plant that appear excavated in the land, delimited by brick walls carved with the mentioned blind arquillos, and in whose interior small orange trees grow that grant shade and refresh all the enclosure. For its part, the four central paths that form the cross contain a linear pond at its centre that allow the free circulation of water through them, merging into a central circular bowl where a fountain was located, as it existed in its origin.

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Monasterio Sobrado de los Monjes La Coruña (Galicia) The Monasterio de Sobrado de los Monjes is an example of the restoration work carried out by Rafael Manzano.

The abbey was founded in 952 by Count Hermenegildo Alóitez and his wife Paterna. In 958, the founders transferred the county of Présaras to the monastery and, in that same year, Hermenegildo retired there where he lived as a monk the rest of his life and where he was buried. The abbey was inherited by his descendants and nearly two centuries later, in January 1142, the brothers Fernando and Bermudo Pérez, two of the most distinguished members of the House of Traba, handed it over to the Cistercian monks from Clairvaux. The abbey flourished during the 12th and 13th centuries and was able to undertake the foundations of its own daughter house, Valdedios Abbey in Asturias. Sobrado was also given the supervision of Monfero Abbey after it joined the Cistercian Order.

The monumental new Baroque abbey church was dedicated in 1708. Most of the conventual buildings were also rebuilt at this time.

In 1954 the Cistercian monks of Viaceli Abbey in Cóbreces, west of Santander, began reconstruction, having already refounded and restored Huerta Abbey in 1929, and resettle the monastery with a new community in 1966.

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Monasterio Sobrado de los Monjes La CoruĂąa (Galicia)

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Museo de Arte Contemporรกneo (antigua Cilla del Cabildo) Sevilla This building was created for the storage of grain at the service of the Church, similar to other "Cillas" or granaries existing in different localities of the province. The original building was built in 1770 and is attributed to the architect Pedro de Silva.

In 1972, the building was adapted by Rafael Manzano to house the Museum of Contemporary Art, for which an additional floor with attic was added, while it was extended on the rear area. Between 2000 and 2004, it was renovated to form part of the Archivo de Indias, with which it communicates through an underground passage under the street.

The building houses the consultation rooms of digitalized documentation, library, conference rooms and all the administration service of the Archive.

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Conjunto de edificios en la Dehesa Montenmedio.

Barbate. (Cรกdiz) Dehesa Montenmedio Golf & Country Club is an estate with golf course, equestrian activities, and tourism in nature, business meetings, lunches and celebrations in Vejer de la Frontera, work of Rafael Manzano.

The NMAC Foundation was created as a place of interaction with social, cultural and territorial context.

Following the current model of relational centre, this project was conceived as a mediating museum, committed to supporting contemporary artists on specific projects that promote dialogue and understanding of society through art. The meaning of a management model of a relational institution is linked to establishing connections with various public groups, their interests and defined participatory potential. The NMAC Foundation works as an experimental institution in the public domain, which has developed several projects that proposes new models of art in the public sphere.

NMAC understands relational management as a space for art that explores new ways of interacting with the social sphere. They look for ways in which art can make a significant contribution through their specific nature. Since an independent management and institutional autonomy NMAC wants to open a new experimental social structures. The NMAC Foundation works on projects involving new forms of communication with society and in turn establishes the headquarters of the foundation as a platform for the exchange of ideas in continuous process of change and dialogue with the public. NMAC has created a place of contemporary creation, brainstorming and views and dialogue through creativity and imagination.

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Antigua Real Audiencia de Sevilla.

Sevilla. “La Real Audiencia de Sevilla� was completely restored and remodelled by Rafael Manzano. It was a jurisdictional organ that depended on the Crown of Spain. The headquarters was in the Plaza de San Francisco. The building that housed this Real Audiencia is located in the Plaza de San Francisco in Seville, and is currently the headquarters of the Cajasol Foundation.

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Proyecto con el arquitecto D. Fernando Chueca de la Ampliaciรณn del Museo del Prado.

Madrid.

EXTENSION OF THE PRADO MUSEUM A number of extensions were performed in the 1970s in collaboration with Fernando Chueca, up to three very different studies for the expansion and modernization of the Prado Museum.

The project here presented was designed to duplicate on the other side of the back street of the building, two other blocks similar to those executed by Chueca and Lorente in the 50s, linked by a central "tholos" in correspondence with the volume of the apse of the vilanovina basilica. Over the street, the bridge-links would turn into an interior courtyard articulated by these open stretches. The section presents the restitution of the basilica as paraninfo

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Hacienda la Paz for John Blazevich Los Angeles, California.

It is inspired by the olive groves around Seville.

It rises on top of an underground basement that hides in its interior a large two-storey grandstand with a central tennis court to hold competitions and big parties. The other half of the immense basement is occupied by an Andalusí style Hamman around a large heated pool inspired by the large residential baths of the Umayyad caliphs of Cordoba.

On the upper floor, the house is inspired by these rural palaces of Mudejar tradition that are composed by large residential areas next to their oil mills in which oil was pressed from olives, the rich fruit of the olive trees that surround the orchards of this “Californian hacienda”.

The living room and dining room are roofed with a “pair and knuckle” coffered ceiling of Andalusí style that had been built in Granada by specialized craftsmen under the direction of the architect, and have been shipped in containers to “Los Angeles”, as to Bahrain for the another residence where they proceeded assembly them.

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Faisal Jawad’s Private residence Bahrein Large house, preceded and surrounded by orchards and gardens of Andalusí and Eastern-Islamic tradition.

It is mounted on two axes that intersect in the centre of a central square courtyard, whose elevations are inspired by the courtyard of the Palacio de Dueñas, residence of the Dukes of Alba in Seville, a sixteenth century construction in the Mudejar style in which the Andalusian Muslim tradition merges with forms of the early Renaissance period arrived from Italy.

The main hall has its façade to a portico inspired by the Sevillian Almohad tradition initiated by Ali al-Gomari who erected the famous minaret “La Giralda”. It closes a garden in Andalusi style with a large pool that ends at its opposite side by a bathroom and a food pavilion. The façade is framed by two “qubbas”. One of them is the vestibule of access to the axis that connects living room, dining room and bedrooms of guests and children of the palace, following a passage that comes from the garage and ends at the garden. The transversal axes are highlighted with larger spaces.

The master bedroom is topped with the other qubba (dome) and decorated with carved plaster called yeseria. The dome of the vestibule is identical on the outside but decorated with Andalusí style woodwork, like the main hall.

The large dining room, which overlooks another courtyard, has a BaroqueMudejar vault inspired by one at the Alcazar of Seville

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Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos.

Sevilla.

It is a building for the headquarters of the Official College of Engineers of Roads, Canals and Ports of Western Andalusia, designed by Rafael Manzano.

The program was quite extensive, consisting of parking, archives, auditorium, offices, meeting rooms and library. The building was conceived to be fully integrated into the group already built and fully consolidated in the urban sector in which it is located. For this reason, it was necessary to study the regulations of the General Urban Plans of Seville immediately prior to the current one, from which the already constructed buildings derived and which constituted a homogeneous and consolidated residential complex.

The emerging set is situated parallel to the side boarder, concentrating the maximum amount of landscaped area next to its southern dividing wall, the most useful as a resting and outdoor area.

The exterior facades were raised with a discreet and severe classicism, in order to integrate them into the dominant environment in the area, giving greater emphasis to the tiled roof with a slightly curved tile, as is common in the Portuguese Algarve, to give it the sense of a Palatine garden pavilion.

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Monasterio de San Pelayo de Cerrato.

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Palencia.

The San Pelayo de Cerrato Monastery With the intervention of Rafael Manzano, the Siro Foundation Group has succeeded in revitalising and restoring dignity to the ruins of the San Pelayo de Cerrato Monastery, while also contributing to the development of the local community.

Today, the Monastery is a unique monument, headquarters of the Siro Foundation Group, and a building that exudes over a thousand years of history while revelling a modern structure that is fully networked and has state-of-theart installations.

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