Enrique Molina / Manuel Collado / Juan Luis Rivas y Jose Luis Gomez / Roque Calero / Mirallave, Pescador, Casas arquitectos / Proyecto Guiniguada-Gesplan / Patrimonio Hidráulico del Monte–Emilio Navarro / Reserva Natural Integral de Inagua / Ruta de los cetáceos -Manuel Carrillo / Recuperación del cultivo en Gavias–Diana Rodriguez / Tindaya – Eduardo Chillida / Frente marítimo de Arrecife– Jerónimo Junquera / Finca de Viñedos Montaña de Miguel Ruiz–Juan Francisco Rosa / Ampliación de la Fundación Cesar Manrique–Palerm-Tabares de Nava Arquitectos / Intervención en el entorno del Charco de San Gines-Juan Antonio Gonzalez

Ever since 1970 there has been an exponential rise in our knowledge of our surrounding environment on each and every one of the islands in the archipelago. This is mainly due to the extension of planning and the subsequent awareness of the future of natural, rural, peripheral and even suburban spaces. A detailed correlate of all these proposals, projects and interventions covers practically the whole territory, and in some areas they overlap, thus offering a systematic premeditated vision of what is happening at any given geographical point.

A detailed correlate of all these proposals, projects and interventions covers practically the whole territory, and in some areas they overlap, thus offering a systematic premeditated vision of what is happening at any given geographical point.

Through this knowledge, the islands have become so measurable that they would almost seem to hold no more surprises and, as a consequence, the fate of each and every corner of the complex insular orography is the object of collective concern.

Perhaps the least known factor is the set of planning laws and documents exercising control and protection of all these spaces, in their multiple variants and diverse contents. As such, a thorough revision of all these projects and works, ordered and summarised, is what might offer the best explanation and the most positive focal point of interest for many decades in delimiting the factors to be intervened in order to act on the conditions influencing the conservation and deterioration of the landscape.

Among all these projects, a selection of examples have been chosen to demonstrate the evolution of contexts and the reach of initiatives, in such a way that one can observe the enormous distance between the source situation and the target goal.

Each project also responds to a specific focus defined by the disciplinary or interdisciplinary team that carried it out and the chosen method has been crucial for its selection and presentation in the exhibition.

From the sea, the coastline, the half-way land and the peaks, ordered spaces are exhibited where the environment, pre-existences, human activity and conservation all converge, configuring a landscape with a profile and form, geology and fauna, nature and artifice, and, in short, all that territory in which the meaning or rhythm of abandonment seems to coincide with a desire for occupation.