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Museo Patio Herreriano
Juan Carlos Arnuncio Pastor, Clara Aizpún Bobadilla, Javier Blanco Martín | |
| location | Valladolid |
| function | museum |
| contributed by | Jose_Garcia |
The Patio Herreriano, Museum of Spanish Contemporary Art, takes its name from the rehabilitation and expansion of the former Monastery of San Benito, founded in the 14th century and located in the historic centre of Valladolid. The Patio Herreriano is one of three cloisters and the one of greatest interest. It was designed by Juan de Ribero Rada between 1582 and 1584, according to the model of the Evangelists Patio of the Monastery of El Escorial. The chapel of the Counts of Fuensaldaña (1453), which was in ruins, is intervened too. The project combined circulations and spatial values of the cloister. The criteria for intervention are the fidelity to the architectural logic of the courtyard, a scrupulously neutral space that meets the museum. The project extends to the space prior to entry, and the composition generates a square that turns its back on an ugly apartment block practically attached to the monastery.
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