Luis Fernández-Galiano   Cheap oil is at once temptation and opportunity: the temptation to preserve a land use and technical model that consumes huge amounts of energy, because the incentives associated with scarcity and shortage have vanished; and a historic opportunity to

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The debates of the last decade on energy have brought the controversies sparked by the oil crises of 1973-74 and 1979 up to date, and throw new light on architecture and the city.

Sébastien Marot   Along with the histories of architecture inspired in form or space, there are other critical essays that focus on how the ways of using energy in building construction have evolved.

Eduardo Prieto   Though energy is indeed one of the fetish words of architecture nowadays, it is still far from having become a natural participant in the aesthetic debate of the discipline.

William W. Braham   The measurement of architecture’s energetic and enviromental impact depends on complex analyses having to do with thermodynamics, but also with economics.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Scientific research and critical thought on climate and architecture began with early modernity, and multiplied exponentially under the impact of the oil crises of the 1970s.

Julia Ramírez Blanco   The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao proposes a thematic approach to the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, unique artist of primitivism, pop, and blackness.

Emmanuele Jardonnet   The dreary theme park built by Banksy in the vicinity of Bristol has become a coveted destination for followers of the enigmatic street artist.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The container has changed the world, and perhaps also the way we think. Goods are moved around the planet in metal boxes of standard size, and the radical drop in transport costs has transformed economic geography, enhancing trade and furthering glob

Juan Manuel Rojas   A casual stacking of containers makes many architects think of buildings. It’s like the game of spotting figures in the shapes of clouds. This leads not only to erecting buildings with containers, but to seeing container buildings as a source of solu

Arcgency   Denmark   The building reuses transport containers to give them a new life as basic elements of a project where almost all the materials are recycled, making it possible to reduce costs and the ecological footprint.

Playze Architects   China   The visitor center of the ecological farm is formed by stacking containers, whose surfaces are perforated in accordance with geometric patterns and which are connected to one another by bridges of iron structure.

GRAFT Brandlab   Germany   With their capacity to bear a weight of 26,000 kilograms, the containers are piled on top of one another to form a volume that is perforated to form double spaces or controlled openings to the exterior.

They are not barbarians, and yet we guard against them as though they were. Countries have been mobilizing their armies, erecting fences interwoven with concertina wires, restricting rail traffic, and reinstalling border checkpoints that the Schengen

On 24 September the Consejo Superior de Colegios de Arquitectos de España (CSCAE, or Higher Council of Architects in Spain) announced that the winners of the 2015 Medals are the Fundación Arquia, the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad, and the ETSAB (

The French Dominique Perrault is among those distinguished in the 2015 edition of the Praemium Imperiale, given yearly since 1989 by the Japanese imperial family and the Japan Art Association, with a prize of 15 million yen (approximately 111,000 eur

The British David Chipperfield worked with his compatriots Norman Foster and Richard Rogers during the decade of the 1980s, but there are hardly any marks of the influence of these masters that remain visible in his buildings. His particular austere

Visitable until 10 January 2016 at the CaixaForum of Madrid is ‘Alvar Aalto, 1898-1976: Organic Architecture, Art and Design,’ a major exhibition which first went on view in Barcelona during the summer, after a first run at the Vitra Design Museum in

Ever since their 2002 Blur Building, a cloud suspended over Lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland, the career of the partnership of Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio (joined by Charles Renfro in 2004) has been dotted with projects which are always surpri

The partners Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano, based in Madrid and Berlin, have capped the first prize in the invitational competition for a new Science Museum in the Chinese city of Guangzhou. The design presents nine enormous ceramic vases whic

The project ‘Between Earth and Sky,’ carried out by the consortium formed by MGP in Bogotá and Estudio Entresitio in Madrid, is the winner of the international competition to build the National Museum of Memory in the Colombian capital, instituted i

Aurora Galán   Management is the least visible part of a project, besides the weakest link of the chain. Project management refers to a fundamental matter: the ‘weaving’ of a process that makes it possible to pass the baton of a new infrastructure, as planned and w