Luis Fernández-Galiano   Once for Spaniards the Pyrenees frontier where Europe began, France is today the frontier between north and south of the European Union, and frontier also of architectural innovation, where the authors of the hexagon and imported stars compete in ach

François Chaslin   Traditionally associated with public bids and big companies, French architecture has in the past decade enriched itself with diverse and experimental languages.

Rudy Ricciotti, Mario Bellini   France   The new Islamic art section of the Louvre Museum in Paris is nestled underground, beneath an undulating and ethereal veil that has been designed by Rudy Ricciotti and Mario Bellini.

Lacaton & Vassal   France   Before the completion of the Centre Georges Pompidou in 1974, the Contemporary Arts Museum was in the Palais de Tokyo, a large building raised on the banks of the river Seine on occasion of the 1937 World Fair. Once the collections had been moved, di

Bernard Tschumi   France   Tschumi has designed a bold cylinder that engages in dialogue with the landscape, and whose geometry and materials evoke the fortifications of the mythical Battle of Alésia.

SANAA   France   Sobre el emplazamiento de una vieja mina a cielo abierto en Lens, SANAA ha construido una nueva filial para el Louvre, tan atmosférica y lírica como precisa y funcional.

Oriol Nel·lo   The impact of the property boom on Spain’s landscape is the theme of the exhibition and book entitled ‘Modern Ruins’, by Julia Schulz-Dornburg.

Julia Schulz-Dornburg   The restoration of the Club Med estate in the Cap de Creus reveals the paradoxes inherent in human interventions on nature.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Juxtaposing Palladio churches and brain sections may seem like a surrealistic operation, “the chance meeting on a dissecting-table of a sewing-machine and an umbrella”, in Lautréamont’s words, or an exquisite corpse, as Breton would have it. But Harr

Enrique Rabasa   In a short period of time, the Juan de Herrera Institute has published new editions of two books of major interest for the history of building. One of them opens the classical period of the discipline. During the 19th century, beginning with the trea

Eduardo Prieto   That climate has a bearing on architecture is a commoplace. Nevertheless, to explain how this bearing has come about is an achievement, and for this the latest books published by Professor Dean Hawkes deserve recognition: two histories of architectur

Ábalos + Sentkiewicz   Spain   The Solar Tower in Sociópolis, Valencia, is based on the same preliminary sketch as the Tour Porte de la Chapelle project, in an attempt to distance social housing developments from the anonymous iconographies by exploring the possibilities of a towe

Irene Cuerda, Beatriz Rivela   Life-Cycle Assessment allows determining the environmental impact buildings produce over time, but it is still not among the tools used during the architectural design process. 

Eduardo Prieto   Like the discovery of so many other materials, the invention of aerogels came about through a bet, or better, through a streak of serendipity. In the year 1930, the chemical engineer Samuel Stephen Kistler was challenged by a friend to extract liquid

Rem Koolhaas has been named curator of the Venice Biennale of 2014 and sums up his intentions for the grand exhibition with the idea that the time has come to think of architecture instead of architects. Following the lines of the previous curator,

Alberto Campo Baeza of Spain has won the Tessenow Gold Medal, an award instituted in 1963 in memory of the German architect Heinrich Tessenow (1876-1950) to honor professionals who have achieved distinction for works characterized by sobriety. A nati

It has been announced that Emilio Tuñón will be building the Wine Dome and Francisco Mangado, in collaboration with Juan Herreros, the Technology Dome, having won the latest competitions for Duero Domes, a phased project of the autonomous government

Luis Fernández-Galiano   It’s not the economy, stupid. Spain’s current situation calls for an inversion of the campaign slogan that gave Bill Clinton the White House in 1992. Our main problem is not the economy, but our institutions. An unemployment rate exceeding 50% is a t