The hottest year in history has also marked a turning point in the political and social climate of the planet. On the one hand, confronted with the colossal challenge that climate change poses for humanity, over two hundred countries have agreed to r
How does one get to Denmark? This is the question that drives the colossal work of Francis Fukuyama, Political Order and Political Decay. The culmination of an endeavor begun in 2011 with The Origins of Political Order, this second volume describes t
We need mayors for the big and the small. The coming municipal elections will be taking place in the terrain of political trademarks rather than in that of civic programs, because they are perceived as the first round of the general elections schedul
Half a century after his death, Le Corbusier still stirs the waters of debate. The major exhibition held at the MoMA in 2013 emphasized the landscaping aspect of an oeuvre that tends to be perceived as being removed from context; the no less importan
The energy crises of the seventies left their mark on the generation which entered the architectural profession then, and the current climate crisis is having a similar effect on architects starting their practice in the first decade of the 21st cent
On a vantage site of Madrid’s cityscape, by the Royal Palace and overlooking the Campo del Moro from the plaza of the Almudena, the museum is surrounded by heterogeneous and complex heritage. The project is based on two fundamental principles on an u
The project for the new Museum University of Navarre started out with the donation of the art collection of María Josefa Huarte – daughter of the Navarrese entrepreneur Félix Huarte Goñi –, who promoted the construction of a center to display these w
The Francisco Giner de los Ríos Foundation was established in 1916 with the mission of safeguarding the heritage of the Free Educational Institution (Institución Libre de Enseñanza or ILE), created by the educator Francisco Giner de los Ríos together
Listed as Historic Artistic Monument in 1941, the castle is now a museum and houses the headquarters of the Fundación de Arte y Pensamiento Martín Chirino, devoted to the legacy of the Gran Canaria-born sculptor. The Castillo de la Luz is for the ci
The new headquarters for BBVA go up on a site facing the A1 highway on the periphery of Madrid, surrounded by newly built offices, commercial buildings, and scattered residential developments. The site is placed on the north of the Paseo de la Castel
Popularly known as “the Cathedral,” the old stadium of the Athletic Club of Bilbao dated back to 1913, and was one of Spain’s oldest. In 2004 the City Council began to plan its replacement with a more modern facility with greater capacity, located pr
The Mercat del Ninot of Barcelona, built in 1928, sits on an elongated plot which is accessed through Mallorca street. Its light, metallic structure was the most characteristic existing element of the building, so it has been maintained. In this way,
A strong snowfall in the 1950s destroyed a group of houses in the historic center of Cehegín, in Murcia, leaving a large empty space that interrupted the flow of the adjacent streets. When crossing this urban fracture – known as ‘El Coso’–, citizens
The New hospital of Olot is on the outskirts of the city, on the boundary between the urban center and the forest landscape of La Garrotxa, in Girona. The building blends with the topography, which descends towards the Ridaura River banks. The uneven
Located in the UAB campus in Cerdanyola del Vallès, the ICTA-ICP building is a research center in environmental science and paleontology. In tune with its function, from the beginning the building was designed according to sustainability criteria. Th
The new headquarters of the Property Registration Office is located in the historic center of the city and remodels a space previously occupied by four old domestic buildings. Following refurbishment, restructuring, and partial replacement strategies
The new Town Hall of Escatrón, a municipality on the lower banks of the Ebro River, goes up on a site consisting of two adjacent plots: one where the former Town Hall building used to stand, and the other where the dwelling adjacent to the old buildi
Located in Realejo, on the southeast end of Granada’s historic quarter, the new School of Architecture goes up in an architectural complex that was once a Military Hospital. This large block, which took shape throughout a long period of urban transfo
With a strong sculptural presence, the new building of the German School makes up for the lack of distinctive features in the Montecarmelo neighborhood north of Madrid, generating a new geometric landscape that engages in dialogue with the natural en
On the boundary between the Tagongers Campus and the urban center of Valencia, the Centre d’Idiomes is a hinge between these two fabrics reserving a large space in the west area of the plot, which functions as an outdoor lobby for the university comp
On the San Francisco campus of the University of Zaragoza, the Center for Biomedical Research takes up a narrow plot between the Hospital Clínico and the sports complex. Because of its location, this space had a residual character, without a defined
The New Carles Rahola Public Library of Girona goes up in the city center, on a site that is surrounded by tall residential blocks. This urban condition, aside from the fact that it is the largest building in the network of public libraries of Catalo
The municipality of Begues, in the Garraf Natural Park, is the location for the new mixed-use cultural building that houses El Roure Civic Center and La Ginesta Library, aside from a multipurpose theater for 336 people. The project is the result of t
Inspired in the traditional tobacco drying sheds, La Gota Cultural Center is constructed as a set of five stacked boxes that are clad in a permeable ceramic skin. The project wishes to create a new urban center in Navalmoral de la Mata – capital of t
The new Cipi (center for innovation and promotion of Iberian products) takes up the complex known as Tiro a Pichón, which was built in three phases – at the beginning of the 20th century, between 1936 and 1941, and in the 1950s decade – and used orig
The La Salle University Campus takes up an unevenly shaped plot in a low-density urban district located northwest of Barcelona, in the Bonanova neighborhood. The elevated ground level of this peripheral area offers extraordinary views over the city,
Winner of the competition held in 2009 for the construction of 177 social housing units in Valdebebas – a new residential area in the northeast of Madrid –, the project is based on different principles. In relation to the public space, it tries to e
The project foresaw the construction of a residential complex containing 108 social housing units in L’ Hospitalet de Llobregat, a municipality of Barcelona. The apartments go up on a conveniently located site both for its closeness to the city cente
The plot where this residential building goes up is located in the city of Seville, within the perimeter of its historic center, and more specifically in the east sector – between the Jardines de Murillo and the San Bernardo quarter. Its main facade
ODonnell + Tuomey The Irish firm established by Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey received the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), an award that is presented yearly, since 1848, in recognition of the career of professionals
Dominique Perrault The Imperial House of Japan and the Japan Art Association give yearly since 1989 the Praemium Imperiale to five artists in the categories of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Music, and Cinema or Theater. In 2015 the awards – endo
Frei Otto The Pritzker Prize concession to Frei Otto (1925-2015) was publicly announced one day after his death, and so the German architect became the first to receive the award posthumously. In its citation, the jury commended “his visionary ideas,
Moshe Safdie The Israeli, Canadian, and American architect Moshe Safdie has received the 2015 AIA Gold Medal at the age of 77. This prize, given annually by the American Institute of Architects, “honors an individual whose significant body of work ha
Escuela Burntwood Awarded yearly by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) to a work built by a British architect or studio within the European Union, the Stirling Prize is presented to “the architects of the building that has made the grea
Filarmónica de Szczecin The Philharmonic Hall of Szczecin in Poland, by the Spanish studio Barozzi Veiga, has won the 2015 Mies van der Rohe Award for Contemporary Architecture. Presented every two years and endowed with 60,000 euros, the prize recog
David M. Schwarz David M. Schwarz is the winner of the thirteenth edition of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize. The yearly award, endowed with 200,000 USD and presented by the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, since 2003, recognizes the work of a living
Madrid Río The 2015 Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design, awarded by Harvard University’s GSD, went to Madrid Río, the project that has transformed the banks of the Manzanares River, a work of the team led by Ginés Garrido, including Madrid st
Nieto & Sobejano The jury based its decision to grant the Alvar Aalto Medal to the Madrid-based architects Nieto & Sobejano on their effort to understand the local context and culture. This award, given jointly by the Museum of Finnish Architecture,
Museo Soulages Promoted by the Foro de la Arquitectura Española (Spanish architecture forum) of the CSCAE (Spanish Association of Architecture Institutes), the International Spanish Architecture Prizes were presented during a ceremony held at the Ple
Arquia / FAS / ETSAB / ETSAM The Consejo Superior de los Colegios de Arquitectos de España (Spanish Association of Architecture Institutes) has given its Medal to the Fundación Arquia, the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad, and the ETSAs (schools of
Casa Bastida / Hotel Ozadi Tavira The Bastida House in Begur (Girona) by Ramón Bosch and Elisabeth Capdeferro, and the Ozadi Tavira Hotel in Tavira (Portugal) by Pedro Campos Costa shared first prize in the FAD Architecture Awards. The jury presided
1962 - 2015 After a long illness, Antonio Jiménez Torrecillas passed away in Granada at the age of 52. A graduate of the School of Architecture of Seville, and later professor there, the career of Jiménez Torrecillas started out in 1987 with Juan Dom
1934 - 2015 Born in Indianapolis in 1934, Michael Graves studied at the University of Cincinnati and at Harvard University. After setting up his studio in 1964, Arthur Drexler invited him to the Conference of Architecture for the Study of the Environ
1950 - 2015 With the death of José Miguel Iribas on 20 April, Benidorm and, in general, the Mediterranean model of intensive tourism, have lost their main champion. Born in Vergara (Guipúzcoa) in 1950, Iribas arrived at Benidorm in the early 1970s, w
1925 - 2015 The eclectic Portuguese architect Pancho Guedes died in South Africa, where he lived, at 90 years of age. Born in Lisbon in 1925, he moved to Africa when he was still a child. He studied in both continents but developed most of his work i
1930 - 2015 Carlos Mijares Bracho, one of the most unique Mexican architects, passed away on 19 March, at the age of 84. Born in 1930 in Mexico City, Mijares was chair professor at the UNAM, where he had graduated in 1952. His whole academic career i
1952 - 2015 The Argentinian architect Rafael Iglesia passed away in Rosario, his home city, at 63 years of age. He graduated from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario in 1981, after there he founded, with Marcelo Villafañe and Gerardo Caballero among
1930 - 2015 Born to a well-to-do family of Goa – thereby his Portuguese surname –, Correa soon felt an interest in architecture, a calling that took him to the universities of Bombay and of Michigan, completing his studies at the latter. He obtained
1925 - 2015 Born in 1925 in Chemnitz (Germany), Frei Otto began his studies at the Technical University of Berlin shortly before being drafted during the last years of World War II. After being captured in Nurnberg and taken prisoner to a camp in Fra
1925 - 2015 Jürgen Joedicke, one of Germany’s most renowned architectural historians, died in Stuttgart on 6 May, a few weeks after turning 90. After completing his studies in Weimar in 1950, Joedicke embarked on a long and fruitful academic career,
1955 - 2015 The French architect Françoise-Hélène Jourda, one of the main advocates of sustainable construction and ecology applied to architecture in her country, passed away on 31 May. Born in 1955, Jourda studied in Lyon – the city where she was b
1923 - 2015 Twenty-three years after the death of his mediatic partner James Stirling, the Scottish architect James Gowan passed away on 15 June in London. Born in Glasgow in 1923, his architecture studies – at the Glasgow School of Art and the Kings
1940 -2015 The American architect Jon Jerde died in Los Angeles on 9 February, after a tough battle against Alzheimer’s disease. Jerde was known for having redefined, through this works, the concept of contemporary shopping center. Born in Alton (Ill
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