César Manrique's Lanzarote
Canary Islands, Spain
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Jameos del Agua
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César Manrique's Lanzarote
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César Manrique was born in Arrecife on 24 April 1919, exhibited abroad, and came home for good in 1966 just as tourism was arriving on Lanzarote. What he did next shaped an entire island: he made the volcanic landscape itself the architecture. Jameos del Agua, built from his idea in 1968, is a collapsed lava tube turned into an auditorium, pool and garden. The Mirador del Río, finished in 1973, is cut into a 479-metre cliff and is invisible until you are inside it. He died in a car crash on 25 September 1992, near the foundation in his old house at Taro de Tahíche that had opened that March.
Required Activities
1
of 5
Go down into Jameos del Agua and work out that the building is a collapsed lava tube with as little added as he could manage
2
of 5
Find the jameítos — Munidopsis polymorpha, a blind albino crab barely a centimetre long that lives in this lake and nowhere else on earth
3
of 5
Go to the Mirador del Río, built into the Famara cliff 479 metres above the sea between 1971 and 1973, with no right angles in it and nothing visible from outside
4
of 5
Go to the Fundación at Taro de Tahíche — his own house, built into five volcanic bubbles
5
of 5
Work out his actual argument: no high-rise, no billboards, houses white with green or blue paint, and the landscape left to do the work
Go down into Jameos del Agua and work out that the building is a collapsed lava tube with as little added as he could manage
Find the jameítos — Munidopsis polymorpha, a blind albino crab barely a centimetre long that lives in this lake and nowhere else on earth
Go to the Mirador del Río, built into the Famara cliff 479 metres above the sea between 1971 and 1973, with no right angles in it and nothing visible from outside
Go to the Fundación at Taro de Tahíche — his own house, built into five volcanic bubbles
Work out his actual argument: no high-rise, no billboards, houses white with green or blue paint, and the landscape left to do the work
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Challenge XP
275 XP
Spain country bonus
+100 XP
Potential total
375 XP
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