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CENTRE
OF ARCHITECTURE OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY
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The
CVA/EHAI is a cultural institution of independent character
which was born with a distinct inter-universitary and inter-disciplinary
vocation . The objetives are to find, put in order, safeguard, study
and protect a large but fragile architectural and urbanistic documental
heritage, principally centered on the private files of architects.
This heritage is compound of; designs, sketches, projects, scale
models, photos, magazines and various publications The knowledge,
study and diffusion of this rich documental compositive material,
is one of the principal objectives of CVA/EHAI. We try to promote
architectural debate and to make the complex world of architecture
more accesible to the citizen who has interest in its understanding.
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The
CVA/EHAI is an institution belonging to ICAM (Intenational
Confederation of Architectural Museums) which was created in 1994,when
a group of teachers and doctoral students of Architecture (The University
of The Basque Country Technical College of Architecture in San Sebasti·n,
The University of Navarra. Technical College of Architecture in
Pamplona), History (The University of The Basque Country The Faculty
of Philology, Geography and History, The University of Deusto. Faculty
of Philosophy and Leters), Fine Art (The University of The Basque
Country Faculty of Fine Art in Leioa) largely coincided with the
policy which the Department of Culture of the Basque Gouvernement
was carrying out with respect to architectural heritage. Since then,
both iniciatives, independent in the beginning, joined together
and started working in common,collaborating in the creation of the
Center of Architecture of the Basque Country, the first step towards
the for development of the future Museum of Basque Architecture,
approved by the Basque Parliament in 1994. |
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The
CVA/EHAI which thanks to the collaboration of Diputación
Foral of Alava, have always had the necessary infrastructures for
the storage, cataloging, and study of its architectural documents.
The CVA/EHAI carries out its work in a geographical area coincident
with the demarcation of the Official Professional School of Architecture
in the Basque Country and Navarra, centering its objetives as much
on the work of architecture in this region, as on those from other
regions and countries who have built in the provinces of Alava,
Guipúzcoa, Navarra and Vizcaya. |
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The CVA/EHAI since its beginning
had:
A place for the receipt and cataloging of architectural and urbanistic
documents.
A place for analysis and study of these documents
A place for exhibition, diffusion and debate
These are the three fundamental characteristics which the
Architectural Museums have had from the beginning.
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The CVA/EHAI is a study center which acts as
an intermediary of
information and services between private owners and institutions
which have architectural documents, and those students, researchers
or interested people who acces and distribute this information,
with the necessary authorization by means of publications and
computer science media. At the moment, priority is being given
to both the CVA/EHAI, the emerging contemporary heritage, and
the virtual Museum of Architecture. |
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The
CVA/EHAI, faced with the ever-increasing number of
private architectural archives found, and with the lack of existing
space for their storage and treatment, has recently come to
a legal agreement with the State Archives, about the protection
and diffusion of this documental heritage.For this, the Historical
Archive of Alava has given an important part of its modern installations
and infrastructures, to develop the storage and conservation
of this urbanistic and architectural documentation with full
guarantees. |
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