Archive

The Basque Country Architecture Institute includes since 2023 the Peña Ganchegui Archive, an association dedicated to preserving and popularising the legacy of this key figure in Basque architecture of the second half of the 20th century. The Architecture Institute aims through this archive to showcase and conserve the architectural heritage generated in the Basque Country.

The Peña Ganchegui Archive was founded in 2012 to preserve and popularise the work of Luis Peña Ganchegui (Oñate 1926 – San Sebastian 2009), the most notable figure in Basque architecture over the course of an intense and uninterrupted professional career lasting more than forty years.

The Peña Ganchegui Archive features the whole professional and personal legacy of the architect whose name it bears, including the documentation corresponding to 287 projects, comprising 6,842 architectural plans and 1,651 original sketches, along with 7,233 photographs in various formats, and more than 60,000 pages of written documentation.

The holdings are available to the public in their entirety, and may be consulted by prior appointment. The store of documentation is likewise the subject of monograph publications and temporary exhibitions produced by the Peña Ganchegui Archive, which has its own exhibition space at the Basque Country Architecture Institute.

The Archive was transferred to the Architecture Institute thanks to a partnership agreement with the Ministry of Land Use Planning, Housing and Transport of the Basque Government, which is the body behind this architectural institution, together with the Department of Culture, Cooperation, Youth and Sport of the Gipuzkoa Provincial Authority.