THE ARCHITECTURE OF DEFENSE AS ARTICULATION OF TERRITORY AND CONSTRUCTION OF LANDSCAPE:
The medieval Almohad towers of the Sierra de Segura (Jaén).
This exhibition aims to explain how a system of structures built with a defensive purpose articulate a territory and build a landscape, putting in connection: topography, roads, river networks, cultivated territories, etc. It tries to show how these architectures in rammed earth were able to organize regions and anthropize spaces until they became indispensable pieces of the landscape that we admire today.
To teach and disseminate this situation, the exhibition focuses on a specific case study: the system of medieval towers, built during the twelfth century in the valley of the Guadalimar, Hornos and Trujala rivers in the Sierra de Segura (Jaén, Spain). An area where the ancient medieval ways that came from Seville and Granada converged to depart for the peninsular East.
This exhibition, organized and produced by the Healthy Architecture & City research group (TEP-965) Of University of Seville, will disseminate this unknown heritage constituted by this set of isolated towers made of tapial and which, today, construct and define a landscape. Landscape that is not only natural but, above all, is cultural and that now is exposed under this vision at a time.