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2nd Afro Hispanic Cultural Week
Attendees:
Ramon Estalella y Manso de Zuñiga, Laida Memba Ikuga and Montserrat Villaverde Rey
La Galleria Pall Mall
30 Royal Opera Arcade, London

EQUATORIAL GUINEA: LIVED ARCHITECTURE
1757-2014

Equatorial Guinea’s wealth of architectural, urban and landscape heritage is one of the country’s fundamental values, and its restoration one of the pillars of sustainable development. The territory has been a place of transit and welcome for many peoples and cultures, and its heritage allows us to trace a journey through the country’s history.

For this reason and for its great value, coinciding with the 2nd Afro-Hispanic Week, devoted to Hispanic heritage in Africa, the Equatoguinean Embassy in the United Kingdom hosts the exhibition “Equatorial Guinea: Lived Heritage”, organized by PATRIMONIO GUINEA 2020.

The exhibit spans three centuries of urban history and built heritage, centring on the result of urban and architecture projects associated with the different moments of occupation and closing with the present-day period and its interventions to revalorize heritage by means of contemporary interventions or restoration of architectural heritage and the urban revitalization of historic centres.

Three centuries summarise the outside influences among which Spain’s was fundamental, to understanding heritage today. Governmental, administrative and religious authorities, and buildings devoted to leisure, commerce, industry and services form the material legacy of the Spanish colonial, provincial and decolonisation eras. This sequence, spanning centuries, saw the participation of architects, engineers and construction companies, with international projection.

CREDITS
Curators
Laida Memba Ikuga y Montserrat Villaverde.
PATRIMONIO GUINEA 2020

Collaboration
Grupo de investigación GAMUC
Jordi Rogent i Albiol, arquitecto
Ramón Estalella y Manso de Zúñiga, arquitecto

Model-making
Dani Granados, arquitecto

Photographic reproductions
Pep Parer, fotógrafo

Translation from the Spanish
Elaine Fradley

Design
PATRIMONIO GUINEA 2020

Printing
MULTITEXT.CAT

Documentary holdings
Archivo Histórico del Ministerio de la Vivienda. Madrid. AHMV
Archivo General de la Administración. Alcalá de Henares. Madrid. AGA
Archivo General Militar. Madrid. AHGM
Arxiu Històric del Col.legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya. Barcelona. AHCOAC
Archivo Histórico Instituto Nacional de la Vivienda. Madrid. AHINV
Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino. Lisboa. AHU
Biblioteca Nacional de Catalunya. Barcelona. BC
Biblioteca Nacional de España. Madrid. BNE
Biblioteca del Colegio Claret. Luba. BCC
Centro Geográfico del Ejército. Madrid. Español. CGE
Instituto Cartográfico de Cataluña. Barcelona. ICC
Archivos particulares. Malabo, Luba, Madrid y Barcelona