Project Description
TOURS IN SEVILLE
– ARCHITECTURE FOR THE SENSES –
In words of Mike Mense, 2012 Chair AIA Committee on Design: ‘Seville is a place that testifies to the irrelevance of style. Style after style after style coexist and are loved equally here’.
Place of confluence and extraordinary cultural hybridization along centuries, bridging the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in a broad sense, both urban pattern and architecture layout are fully impregnated with this unique mixture in Sevilla.
The importance of the Roman ‘Hispalis’; the strong influence of Middle-East cultures linked for more than 800 years by Al-Andalus; and the Spanish activity in America and the Pacific, that settled the capital towards the ‘new world’ in Sevilla -making it the first city operating truly globally- has resulted in three major Unesco World Heritage Sites (Cathedral, Trade House and Reales Alcázares) and a large number of public buildings (Atarazanas Reales), palaces (Pilatos House) and merchant houses (Pinelo House, Salinas House) of extraordinary interest.
Radically rooted on the exuberant and cheerful character of the city, the contemporary architecture offers furthermore a great bunch of works from renowned architects (Rogers, Calatrava, Pelli, Miralles- Tagliabue, Moneo, Cruz y Ortiz, Vázquez Consuegra), combined with an emerging local generation that manages to design, with economy and precision, architecture with sense and for the senses (Sol89, Af6).
‘What do we mean when we speak of architectural quality? Quality in architecture does not mean inclusion in architectural guides or histories of architecture getting my work into this or that publication. Quality architecture to me is when a building manages to move me’ (P. Zumphor). Sonorous waterscapes, mysterious gardens, delicate lattices, labyrinthine whitewashed walls… shared elements of our southern palette, the material substance of our places and memories, that we kindly offer you to explore with us. Welcome to Sevilla and its architectures of senses.
We do not offer programmed tours, but just on demand. We suggest some key itineraries, however we are pleased to tailor-made your architectural tour for you and your group. Enjoy our tours in Seville focused on architecture and urbanism, perfect for architecture lovers, experts and professionals as well as groups and student trips. We can also extend your experience in Andalusia with additional excursions to Córdoba, Granada, Cádiz or Málaga on demand.
TOURS IN SEVILLE
Location: Seville, Spain
Our associate in Seville
ARCHITECT GONZALO CANTOS
Bachelor in Architecture at Seville University. Awarded with a Talentia Fellowship, his formation was later completed with a Master Degree in Urban Studies obtained in a unique interdisciplinary program, ‘4Cities Euromaster’ (2009-2011), spread along 4 European capitals and 6 Universities including Université Libre de Bruxelles, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Universität Wien, Copenhagen University, Universidad Autónoma and Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
He is lecturer in many universities and institutions as the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the European Regional Science Association or the American Institute of Architects, as well as visiting professor at Seville University (Spain), Iberoamerican University (Mexico) and Da-Yeh University (Taiwan).
Gonzalo has also accumulated an extensive experience as commissioner of exhibitions (‘Die Gumperdoferstrasse’, Vienna, 2010), forums (‘Re-encuentros’, 2003) , workshops (‘The Architectures of Senses’, 2017; ‘The Possible Housing’, 2018) other events related to architecture and urban affairs.
Founder partner and principal at his own firm MA | arquitecturas, he has been formed in key influential offices like OMA-Rem Koolhaas (where he joined CCTV Headquarters in Beijing and Cordoba Congress Center), Actar-Manuel Gausa and Coll-Leclerc (Barcelona), and Eddea (Sevilla, where he joined large scale developments as Design Manager in Moscow).
Last posts on our Seville Blog
September 2019
ARCHITECTURE WEEK SEVILLA
(source: www.coasevilla.org) With occasion of World Architecture Day, which commemorates UNESCO every first Monday of [...]
August 2019
EXHIBITION: COSMOPOLITAN GARDEN
From August 28 to October 6, 2019. Caixafoum Sevilla Jardín Cosmopolita, a project carried out [...]
NUNONINA: ECOLOGICAL TEXTILES MADE IN SEVILLA
Exhibition. Coa Sevilla. www.nunonina.es On September 3, the opening of the Nunonina textile exhibition [...]
June 2019
FUTURE MAGALLANES CENTER IN ARTILLERIA
AN EXCEPTIONAL PLACE THAT RETURNS TO LIFE The Artillery factory in Seville is one [...]
SEVILLA, SCENE OF GAME OF THRONES
The undeniable worldwide impact of the HBO Game of Thrones series has indirectly generated [...]
ARCHIVE OF INDIAS: AMONG THE THREE ESSENTIAL WORKS FOR MONEO
THE LIST OF HIS MOST ADMIRED WORKS For Rafael Moneo, in his book published [...]
Our clients in Seville
Tours in Seville
TOUR SEVILLE
Mi familia y yo quisieramos agradeceros las visitas tan estupendas que nos habéis realizado. Ha sido fantástico poder atender todas las completas e interesantes explicaciones de Gonzalo y vuestra buena organización.
Y repito muchas gracias de nosotros tres. Esperamos poder repetir.
TOUR SEVILLA
I hope everything is fine in Spain,
I write you in order to thank you for the great tour we had in Sevilla! Gonzalo was a very good guide who tailored the tour according to our needs and interests! We would like to send to him a mail as final thank you but I lost his mail address…may I ask you to send it to us in order to contact him?
Thank you in advance for your time, have a nice day!
Best Regards
TOUR SEVILLE
Me dijeron que el grupo había quedado encantado con la visita 🙂 Así que mil gracias por vuestra rápida reacción y por adaptaros a la petición de último minuto.
Contamos con vosotros para la próxima!
Trips to Seville
TRIP FROM HOLLAND TO SEVILLE
Hola Marta,
Sevilla estuvo increíble, que ciudad tan linda! Seguro volveré para ver todo un poquito más tranquilo, me encanto!
Los guías también eran muy buenos y amables, el tour del sábado de verdad ha sido muy bueno!
Saludos y gracias por todo!
Nancy
TRIP FROM SWITZERLAND TO SEVILLE
Hola Marta!
Ya estamos de vuelta en tierras suizas. El viaje ha estado perfecto, tanto el tema de los autobuses como los Tours con Jule 😊, fue un puntazo que fuese del estudio que había reformado el Centro de Cerámica, incluso luego nos enseñó fuera del programa otro proyecto que han hecho cerca, un Hotel también en una antigua fábrica de cerámica. Dale de nuevo las gracias por todo de nuestra parte.
Y muchísimas gracias a ti por todo, ha sido un placer organizar contigo el viaje, sin duda os recomendaremos y volveremos a contactaros en el futuro.
Saludos!
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