Architects: Juan Domingo Santos     Photography: Fernando Alda     Construction Period:  2021     Location:  Granada, Spain

The Christian conquest of the Alhambra in 1492 meant the transformation of some of its architecture into private houses. In the case of the Bath of the Mosque, the Islamic construction was radically adapted to a patio house with a garden located on archaeological remains. Between 1883 and 1934 the Barrios family settled in this place, which became a meeting place for artists, poets and musicians such as Sargent, Lorca or Falla, a cultural focus of city life and the Alhambra before the reconstruction of the Islamic Bath. by Leopoldo Torres Balbás at the beginning of the 20th century in a process of historical restitution of the monument. Later, during the 1970s, a new building attached to the Islamic Bath by the architect-conservator of the monument, Francisco Prieto Moreno, was built to house the legacy of the Barrios family as a testimony of their time in that place. The new construction altered the conception of this historic environment and modified the original access and route of the Islamic Bath.

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