Variations on a theme are common in art. The genre gives opportunity to test techniques or ideas alongside those of other authors on one same...

The piles of sketches, photographs, press cuttings, invoices, train/ship/airplane tickets, letters, telegrams, separatas, project texts...

The centenary of the Russian Revolution has brought on the inevitable deluge of publications, but perhaps none as exceptional as The House of Government...

The publishers Carmen Jordá and Maite Palomares recently launched Industrias, first of the ‘Arquitectura moderna y contemporánea. Monografías ETSA-UPV’ series on the work of Javier García-Solera...

This anthology on Robbrecht en Daem is superlative. It weights and takes up space like a brick, but is complex like a city. Everything in it is organized by means of a mathematical...

There is a type of Chinese poem called the juemingci, which means, roughly, verses to terminate your life. Almost the poetic equivalent of a suicide note...

When the books one is currently reading accumulate and the pile shows a half-dozen titles crowned by the red band of Acantilado, it is clear that the interest raised by...

Baroque Antiquity: Archaeological Imagination in Early Modern Europe by Victor Plahte Tschudi. For several decades in the early seventeenth century, German-speaking visitors...

Starting in the 1920s, inventive entrepreneurs started creating attention-grabbing buildings to appeal to passing drivers. In Jim Heimann’s new book, California Crazy...

For something so enormous, astronomers know remarkably little about the Milky Way, Earth’s home galaxy. They know its rough dimensions—somewhere between...

In the stream of commemorations of les événements, we should perhaps not forget about the most important countercultural publication, the Whole Earth Catalog, which first appeared ...

This promenade through Córdoba, Seville, and Granada is also a walk through the intellectual journey of its author. Rafael Moneo brings together three texts, written in...

The Loos enigma begins to unravel. A new generation of historians is throwing light on the darkest corners of an architect who half a century ago was famously described...

The 150th anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) has been celebrated with an exhibition at the MoMA and a book on the more than one hundred exhibitions on his work...

The publication of a new biography of a master is always an event; in this case, it is also a disappointment. Penned by an expert writer, endorsed by a...

To celebrate the 45 years that have passed since the International Encounters on Art held in Pamplona, sponsored by the Huarte family and organized by Luis de Pablo and...

‘Wiener Werkstätte, 1903–1932: The Luxury of Beauty’ an exhibition at the Neue Galerie in New York City. On view through 29 Jan...

Despite revisions carried out for decades, the historiography of modernity has not managed to free itself of its operative origins. Movements as influential as...

Juan Benet’s Return to Región is now fifty years old. A half-century has passed during which the nation Spain has gone from bimillennial to bicentennial and ended up a mythical...

Best known for its striking shapes and bright colours, the eclectic architectural oeuvre blends contrasting historic influences...

Spectrum by John Pawson is published by Phaidon. The book features 320 images, shot mostly on his iPhone or a digital camera...

The publication of Werner Hegemann’s great work, Berlin, City of Stone, is a vital contribution to Spanish urban culture, and good news for those devoted...

In 2004 Madrid City Hall published a guide to urban planning in 20th-century Madrid, coordinated by Ramón López de Lucio, that filled two voids. Prior to it...

The term ‘Anthropocene’ alerts us to something we know but tend to forget about: humanity’s greatest enemy is itself. Hegel said that thought, a serpent wound around itself...

The book Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession, by Reinier de Graaf, shows what happens when ambitious plans encounter the buzzsaw of politics...

Half a century ago, the Six-Day War began a new chapter in the troubled history of the Middle East, a shaken geography whose fractures extend far from its epicenters...

Those unrealized structures are the subject of Never Built New York, a book written by architecture critic Greg Goldin and journalist Sam Lubell...

Louis Kahn, who by the time he died in 1974 at the age of seventy-three was widely and correctly considered America’s foremost master builder...

Two publications that serve as refreshers on Jane Jacob and Henri Lefebvre´s works, which continue to inspire contemporary urban movements. However...

Theory gets bad press. Nevertheless, architecture is built with ideas, which is what connects these two titles of Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes...