Dr. Antonio Orihuela
Research Professor and former Director of the School of Arabic Studies (Escuela de Estudios Árabes, Granada, Spain), an institution integrated in the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).
Graduate in Architecture (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, 1979). Doctorate in Islamic Architecture (University of Seville, 1994). Professor of Master courses at the University of Granada.
Principal Investigator of the national research projects I+D+i: “Morisco Houses in Granada: Research and Restoration” (HUM2006-12446); “Nasrid cities” (HUM2011-30293) and “The medieval walls of Almería. Chrono-typological analysis and scientific dating” (HAR2015-71609-P).
Member of the Scientific Board of the journals Al-Qantara and Miscelánea de Estudios Árabes y Hebraicos. Member of the Advisory Technical Commission of the Council of the Alhambra and the Generalife.
His areas of expertise are Architecture of al-Andalus (focused in residential and military building), Urbanism of Granada and others main Nasrid cities and Restoration of Monuments.
He has directed the restoration projects of 23 historical buildings in Spain and Jordan (palaces, houses, castles, city walls, etc).
Author of some 100 research articles in scientific journals and collective books, and 8 books, including Aljibes públicos de la Granada islámica (1991), Casas y palacios nazaríes. Siglos XIII-XV (1996) and La Casa del Chapiz (2013).
Dr. Antonio Orihuela
Research Professor and former Director of the School of Arabic Studies (Escuela de Estudios Árabes, Granada, Spain), an institution integrated in the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).
Graduate in Architecture (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, 1979). Doctorate in Islamic Architecture (University of Seville, 1994). Professor of Master courses at the University of Granada.
Principal Investigator of the national research projects I+D+i: “Morisco Houses in Granada: Research and Restoration” (HUM2006-12446); “Nasrid cities” (HUM2011-30293) and “The medieval walls of Almería. Chrono-typological analysis and scientific dating” (HAR2015-71609-P).
Member of the Scientific Board of the journals Al-Qantara and Miscelánea de Estudios Árabes y Hebraicos. Member of the Advisory Technical Commission of the Council of the Alhambra and the Generalife.
His areas of expertise are Architecture of al-Andalus (focused in residential and military building), Urbanism of Granada and others main Nasrid cities and Restoration of Monuments.
He has directed the restoration projects of 23 historical buildings in Spain and Jordan (palaces, houses, castles, city walls, etc).
Author of some 100 research articles in scientific journals and collective books, and 8 books, including Aljibes públicos de la Granada islámica (1991), Casas y palacios nazaríes. Siglos XIII-XV (1996) and La Casa del Chapiz (2013).