Luis Fernández-Galiano   Heavy culture has become light. In the past, museums and libraries expressed the permanent character of their contents with the solid nature of their walls; today, art and culture venues reflect the ephemeral nature of their activity with the lightne

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Russia   El Museo Garage en Moscú da cuenta del interés de Koolhaas por el patrimonio, y sugiere un modo desacomplejado de trabajar con las ruinas de la arquitectura moderna.

Diller Scofidio + Renfro   United States   Un panal de piezas de hormigón reforzado con fibra de vidrio envuelve tres espacios segregados y superpuestos: el vestíbulo público, los almacenes y las salas expositivas.

Kengo Kuma   China   Zhang Xiaochun In September 2015, with an exhibition themed ‘Heavenly Creations: A World of Southern Rural Crafts,’ the Folk Art Museum of the China Academy of Arts – a project designed by the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma – officially opened to the

SANAA   United States   Silent and exquisite, a silvery serpentine rooftop slithers down the gentle hillslopes of an estate in Connecticut to be home to a complex devoted to faith, education, and the arts.

In conversation with Vicente Verdú, the master Álvaro Siza contemplates themes like drawing, context, influences, and the teaching of architecture.

The Alhambra and art as a notion of mediation between nature and ideas are the themes of a talk between William Curtis and Juan Navarro Baldeweg.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   If there is a quintessentially anti-urban master, it is Frank Lloyd Wright. After all, his great urbanistic utopia is Broadacre, which he published under the title The Disappearing City, and his militant ruralism has been indistinctly associated with

Richard Ingersoll   It’s difficult to reconsider Pier Paolo Pasolini without remembering his demise. On that 2 November 1975 I was living a rather nomadic existence in Urbino without radio or TV. I heard about the poet’s murder in the piazza and went to the café to read

Pepa Cassinello   The idea of baking clay arose shortly after the discovery of fire. So prehistoric man did the first mutation of this natural material, and obtained something more stable and resistant: ceramic. With it he made small everyday utensils, such as bowls,

Harquitectes   Spain   Flanked by party walls on a lot that stretches deep inward from the front border, this house is composed of a succession of volumes that have been deliberately set back to obtain the best possible light and views, and are arranged amid small courtyar

Camarim Arquitectos   Portugal   Located in Lisbon’s Bairro Alto neighborhood, in the vicinity of the Príncipe Real Garden, the plot between party walls that is the site of this townhouse has an area of only 41 square meters, so there was no choice but distribute the program in five

Ryo Matsui   Japan   The facade consists of two layers: a wall of reinforced concrete behind that incorporates windows, and a fine lattice made of traditional bricks that have been plastered and painted white. 

PMMT Arquitectes   Spain   The example selected to inaugurate this new section of the magazine is a single-family residence designed for a young couple and built on a plot of land on which a home owned by the same family already stood. The objective was to make the new dwellin

That climate change is anthropogenic – and that negotiations to curb it have been ongoing and dragging for already twenty years now – is symptomatic of the globalized nature of our civilization, and the reason why the problem is so difficult to solve

The Chilean Alejandro Aravena is the new winner of the Pritzker, an award which the Hyatt Foundation has given yearly since 1979. In the words of its president, Thomas J. Pritzker, the work of Aravena (director of this year’s Venice Architecture Bien

Last year the Chinese president Xi Jinping condemned the “weird architecture” that was proliferating in the country, often thanks to foreign architects, and announced a period in which buildings would tend to be designed with a certain patriotic spir

Accompanied by Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff and the entire retinue that the consecration of a building slated to symbolize the new Rio de Janeiro deserves, the Spanish architect-engineer Santiago Calatrava inaugurated the Museum of Tomorrow. Tru

The results of the competition for the chance to refurbish the main shed of the old Clesa dairy factory, built in the year 1961 by the master Alejandro de la Sota in Madrid’s Fuencarral-El Pardo district, were announced on 27 November 2015. Promoted

Ever since it started back in 1988, the Europan awards have been a golden opportunity for young architects to build something for the first time, at home or abroad. Nowadays it is less likely that winners can actually land a commission, even with fir

Byung-Chul Han   The slick, spotless, smooth, and spick-and-span is the hallmark of our times. It’s what Jeff Koons’s sculptures, iPhones, and Brazilian waxing have in common. Why is the sleek so attractive to us nowadays? Aesthetics aside, it reflects a general soci