Luis Fernández-Galiano   In the last decade we have dealt with China often, and the succession of monographic issues maps an itinerary that can be summed up in three movements: the first one reported on the arrival of prominent international firms in the country; the second

Li Xiangning   In the past decade, the tabula rasa of Chinese economic development has given way to a generation of architects seeking in tradition the motifs for constructing a new national language.

Wang Shu   China   In Canton, southern China, Wencun has become a typological experiment inspired in traditions and aiming to provide a sustainable model for rural growth anywhere.

Rural Urban Framework RUF   China   Intended to bring adequate modern medical care to the rural world of China, the building presents a public ramp clad with recycled bricks and concrete blocks.

Scenic Architecture Office   China   Located at the confluence of two rivers, not far from the city of Shanghai, the building is laid out around a courtyard, and its design follows the dictates of an old Chinese treatise.

ArchStudio    China   Modern spaces are combined with traditional types and materials in a tea café built over several houses dating back to the Qing dynasty and located in an old ‘hutong’ of Beijing.

ZAO / standardarchitecture   China   Massive walls of volcanic stone form a building firmly embedded in the hill and so hermetic as to open up only enough to capture views of the Himalayan mountains.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   A critical intellectual, architect, and artist, this witness of his time moved from organicism to history, laconically building and teaching with matter and words.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Firmly rooted in his native Galicia, where he has built all his works, the architect has renewed the modern language with stern discipline and rough poetry.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Controversial and multifaceted, the author of the work which materialized the spirit of 1968 has also promoted a classicist and postmodern urbanity.

Justo Isasi   Daniel Torres takes on a huge task: a graphic discourse where a cartoon of history and a sequence of small stories together form an interminable comic strip on the house, in chronological order. Huts, houses, and apartments are the leading characters

It has been more than fifteen years since Naomi Klein, with her nologo, began a crusade against big brands. The cultural model of brands, their omnipresence, the ideas and lifestyles associated with logotypes and brands, advertising bombardment, have

Raúl González Bravo   The use of thin sheets of malleable metals to solve the problem of waterproofing roofs is a deep-rooted, centuries-old practice in western construction, especially in countries of plenty of rain. Because they are so easy to bend and fold, building tr

Zaha Hadid Architects   United Kingdom   Flanked by two bands of services, the central inner bay connects the city to the riverbank, and appears as a large sinuous volume characterized by the metallic materiality of cross-seam zinc panels.

Erick Van Egeraat   Russia   Laid out around a central atrium, the inner volume of the building is clad with a skin of rhomboidal plates of painted zinc whose joints allow for dilations caused by temperature changes.

JUNG Architectures   France   The intervention involved consolidating the old stone walls and erecting a pavilion. This new element serves to connect all the preexisting parts and is given a skin of zinc characterized by a special matte finish.

Spanish political life finds itself at a crossroads. The institutional silence of days when the two houses of the nation’s legislature – the Congress of Deputies and the Senate – are not in session is perhaps of the same nature as the calm in the eye

Conceived as a project that breaks away from the usual residential typology of vertical apartment towers, The Interlace – designed by Rem Koolhaas’s Office for Metropolitan Architecture and built by its partner Büro Ole Scheeren – was recently named

The Irish firm of Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, operating since 1978 as Grafton Architects, has been much acclaimed for the Luigi Bocconi University in Milan, a half-buried civic box of concrete – completed in the year 2008 – that strikes an i

Ana María Rigotti   The amazing and much awarded Rafael Iglesia, born in Rosario, Argentina, has left us at the age of 63. Brilliant and incisive, profound and ironic, prone to take risks, he maintained his sharp and sly gaze up to the very end, even through a heartrend

Twenty-three years after his mediatic partner, James Stirling, James Gowan died in London last 15 June. Born in Glasgow in 1923, after studies divided by World War II (between the Glasgow School of Art and the Kingston School of Architecture) he team

The author of an extensive body of work spread out throughout Spain passed away in Segovia on 21 September at the age of 88. After graduating from the Madrid School of Architecture in 1957, he began to work in the capital with José Carlos Álvarez de

Fernando Valderrama   It is taken for granted that China’s competitive edge is partly due to its lack of concern for safety at work and for the environment. But building in Shanghai requires 25% prefabrication, replacing traditional methods, and is aiming for 50% in the m