In the vast canvas of history, the paintbrush of recognition occasionally chooses to highlight lesser-known artists, who are pulled out of the shadows of anonymity and given the transcendence awaiting them. This past 5 March, the jury of the Pritzke
The myth of the artist Richard Serra begins in his narrative the day that, at the age of four, he was present at the launching of a vessel at the shipyard where his father was employed. With succinct, abrupt eloquence the sculptor would time and agai
Two years ago, while planning a Rice Design Alliance tour of New Mexico’s Santa Fe and Abiquiú, I contacted the Albuquerque architect Antoine Predock to see if he would meet with our group during our visit. Predock graciously agreed to meet at the en
At Museo ICO, the architects and photographers Ana Amado and Andrés Patiño present the Franco regime’s exemplary adventure of rural colonies.
Madrid celebrates the 150th birth anniversary of the architect who built many of the projects that gave the city its image as a modern metropolis.
The Bank of Spain has through an exhibition honored the architect who built its main office, a fine Madrid example of turn-of-the-century academicism…
Stores in 50 Spanish provinces are used to paint a graphic and literary portrait of an urban landscape of traditional charm that deserves to be saved from oblivion.
The Bilbao-born director has adapted a graphic novel for the big screen and masterfully set the action in the Manhattan of part of his youth…
The premiere of ‘The Boy and the Heron’ inspires a recap of the moving filmography of an animator who creates lyrical fusions of the real and imagined.
The Sense of Tuning is a portrait of Bijoy Jain / Studio Mumbai, captured in the vitality of the movement and the moment. The latest feature film of Bêka & Lemoine comes with ‘Breath of an Architect’, an exhibition on the Indian currently on view at
The British historian, theorist, and critic imparted his brilliant teachings as a professor in universities in the United States for over half a century …
The photographer of Sicilian origins had a sharp eye for capturing the most human and the most emotional dimensions of the places he visited …
If the gilded moment of Vienna ended with World War I and the artistic protagonism of Paris with World War II, the cultural scene of New York blurred from 1968 on. A good number of the abstract expressionists had died young. Peggy Guggenheim had retu
If Paris found itself at the close of the war caught between the euphoria of the city’s liberation by the American army and the trauma of the horror of the Holocaust, the United States saw the termination of hostilities under the dark shadow of the n
If the Vienna of the Belle Époque has been presented in three movements – the Oedipal rebellion of the Secession in pursuit of naked truth, the stripping-down of ornament in architecture, and the sensual and irrational paroxysm of expressionism – so
If we could sum up fin-de-siècle Vienna with an image, it would be the Nuda Veritas that Gustav Klimt painted in 1899, a representation of the naked truth that the members of the Secession chose as an emblem. Defenders of a new way of creating and in
One night more than fifteen years ago (we were both still active), I had a bad dream: I had to write an obituary for Andrés Perea and was pressed for time. The stress eventually woke me up and I was much relieved. Arriving at School, the first person
The theorist of classicism Rob Krier passed away in Berlin on 20 November at 85 years of age. Like his younger brother Léon Krier, he defended his traditionalist convictions through drawing, and both added a great deal of graphic eloquence to buildin
The death of Andrés Perea has made orphans of a good number of Spanish architects: those who found in his ethical and intellectual position, in his work, in the pedagogical methods he promoted, and in his defense of plural access to the profession th
A second set of eight architects met at Arquia’s Madrid base to reflect on the state of the profession and outline its challenges for the future.
Vivimos en un mundo nuevo. La sustancia es la misma, pero el mundo es nuevo. Lo vemos de forma diferente. Nuestra forma de mirar ha cambiado. Sobre todo, ha cambiado el alcance de nuestra mirada. En este nuevo mundo todo está expuesto, todo está ilum
Es probable que en este preciso momento estemos recibiendo un wasap: podría ser un mensaje de texto que requiere respuesta, o el hilo de un chat grupal; también podría ser una imagen sugerente, incluso el croquis de un detalle de obra que urge resolv
Como disciplina y como profesión, la arquitectura está sumida en tres largas y profundas crisis que afectan a la imagen que la sociedad tiene de ella, y, como consecuencia, a los distintos papeles que hoy desempeñamos las arquitectas y a la relevanci
