The
history of the Monasterio de la Cartuja is conditioned by
its proximity to the river and the almost annual floods. In tribute
to this, the architect José Ramón Sierra created this intervention
in 1992, by submerging architectural fragments from the building
itself such as shafts, bases or capitals, thus conferring poetic
expression to the link between the place and the river.
The
history of the Monasterio de la Cartuja is conditioned by
its proximity to the river and the almost annual floods. In tribute
to this, the architect José Ramón Sierra created this intervention
in 1992, by submerging architectural fragments from the building
itself such as shafts, bases or capitals, thus conferring poetic
expression to the link between the place and the river.
