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2025 IBERIAN SUMMER SCHOOL | We present the design proposals developed for Ronda during the Iberian Summer School, held from July 7 to 20, 2025. Based on previous documentation and analysis, and taking into account the observations made by the municipal team and local residents, the participants of the Summer School collectively developed a proposal for the improvement of Ronda’s urban environment. The proposal addressed the relationship between the historic city and the landscape, the rehabilitation of key public spaces, as well as specific interventions in the residential fabric and certain public facilities, such as the bus station. All interventions were conceived with the aim of ensuring continuity with the local building tradition, its materials, and its constructive logic, seeking a coherent and sustainable evolution of Ronda’s architectural identity. Participants: Sohaib Ahmed Javed (Pakistan) Mada Aldeeb (Australia) Emilia Avendaño Granados (Mexico) Nikolai Brummer (Finland) Joana Cardoso Peixeiro de Freitas (Portugal) Ricardo Castellano Anderson (Spain) Lucía Chamorro Carrasco (Spain) Shariq Che Ramsubhag (Trinidad and Tobago) Paola Lizette Cruz Garay (Mexico) Maria Rosa Da Costa Marques (Portugal) Vlad Damian Mocanu (Romania) Jon Eguizurain Trejo (Spain) Alejandro Fahrenbach (Spain) Anastasia Frawley (United States) Zainab Himeur (Morocco) Devlin Hose (United States) Yining Jin (Australia) Andreas Bruno Mendes (Portugal) Alexandra-Ioana Milu (Romania) William Mulvihill Duque (Spain) Mackenzie Pittman (United States) Saira Rana (Pakistan) Juan Requena Aragón (Spain) Carolyn Simmons (United States) Pietra Viola Siquieroli (Brazil) Daniel Skinner (Australia Mariia Solovei (Ukraine) Alexandra Turac (Austria) Khostsetseg Tumurbat (Mongolia) Santiago Urrutia Campomanes (Spain) Rabianur Yılmaz (Turkey)  Rimsha Zubair (India) Faculty: Aritz Díez Oronoz, University of the Basque Country Alejandro García Hermida, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid | Traditional Building Cultures Foundation | INTBAU Spain Guillermo Gil Fernández, Traditional Building Cultures Foundation | INTBAU Spain Rebeca Gómez-Gordo Villa, Traditional Building Cultures Foundation | INTBAU Spain Imanol Iparraguirre Barbero, University of the Basque Country Frank Martínez, University of Miami Lucien Steil, University of Notre Dame Larisa Hățiș-Condoiu | Traditional Building Cultures Foundation