Clifford’s Tower, York
27/03/2023

Clifford’s Tower, York

Hugh Broughton Architects   United Kingdom   The efforts to preserve a Norman castle have concluded with the insertion of a timber platform that covers the ruins while tracing a more accessible interior visitor route. The framework raised over four solid pillars also holds up a series of suspended catwalks, which serve to connect spaces that had long been hidden and allow the...

15/03/2023

AV Monografías 249-250: Rafael Moneo

With a prolific career spanning more than five decades, Rafael Moneo is considered a key figure in contemporary Spanish architecture, and his work has inspired several generations of architects around the world. Born in Tudela (Navarre) in 1937, the first Spaniard to receive...

24/03/2023

Digital edition 12 € until 31 March

Respectful with the history and the genius loci, but radically contemporary; based on a language of clean geometry, but essentially material; signature architecture, but at the service of the community. This is how we could describe...

24/03/2023

Demas Nwoko, Golden Lion

Demas Nwoko, Nigerian born artist, designer and architect, is the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia...

23/03/2023

Building & Architecture Institute (BAI)

The deputy vice-president of the government of Navarre, José María Aierdi, and the secretary-general for Urban Agenda and Housing of Spain's central government in Madrid, Iñaqui Carnicero, presided over an encounter with the construction...

Vo Trong Nghia architects

Just like the rest of the countries in Southeast Asia, Vietnam has experienced a deep transformation over the last three decades, from a rural and agricultural economy to an urban and industrial one. This fast metamorphosis has brought along huge economic...

Francis Kéré. Complete Works

Pritzker Prize laureate of 2022, Francis Kéré has become a symbol of social and sustainable construction. Born in the Burkinabè village of Gando in 1965, Kéré studied in Germany and set up his office in Berlin, from which he returns time and again to his country...

Arquitectura Viva 250: Useful Utopias

Arquitectura Viva celebrates its 250th issue with a special edition that presents utopias as an optimistic alternative to the dim panorama marked by economic decline, epidemic threats, and the devastation of war, all this in the context of a climate emergency...

‘Debates’ series

On these covers, the rough strokes of nine female painters illustrate the intellectual and social mutations that have marked recent times. The transformation is the theme of ‘Debates,’ the latest addition to the book...

Highlights

21/03/2023

‘Necropolis of Egypt,’ by Manuel Álvarez Diestro

A decade after his series of dense urban landscapes juxtaposed with cemeteries of Hong Kong, the photographer Manuel Álvarez Diestro presents images of graveyards in the Egyptian desert. Necropoli of Egypt captures surrealist compositions...

10/03/2023

Eugene Kohn (1930-2023)

American architect A Eugene Kohn, who co-founded Kohn Pedersen Fox, has died of cancer aged 92. Architect Kohn led KPF, which is responsible of designing six of the world's twelve tallest towers, including the Shanghai World Financial Center and Hong Kong's International...

09/03/2023

Norman Foster retrospective at Pompidou

From 10 May to 7 August the Centre Pompidou in Paris will be hosting an exhibition on the six-decade career of Norman Foster. Taking up almost 2,200 square meters of floor space, the retrospective will present 130 of the architect's projects in seven themed sections...

07/03/2023

A Disciplined Heart

Luis Fernández-Galiano   David Chipperfield has a disciplined heart. Like Charles Dickens’ almost homonymous character, he tenaciously strives to temper his sensibility with rigour; however, unlike David Copperfield, the architect has disciplined his heart...

06/03/2023

Rafael Viñoly (1944-2023)

The Guardian   Rafael Viñoly, the Uruguayan-born and New York-based architect known for designing landmark buildings around the world, has died aged 78. Viñoly’s sometimes controversial work included more than 600 structures...

Rafael Moneo

With a prolific career spanning more than five decades, Rafael Moneo is considered a key figure in contemporary Spanish architecture, and his work has inspired several generations of architects around the world. Born in Tudela (Navarre) in 1937, the first Spaniard to receive the Pritzker Prize (1996) is the author of major works in his country like the Bankinter Headquarters in Madrid, the Museum of Roman Art in Mérida, the Kursaal Auditorium in San Sebastián, and the Prado Museum extension; and of buildings abroad like the Los Angeles Cathedral, the extension of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm...

Mario Cucinella

The visible head of one of Italy’s busiest architecture practices, Mario Cucinella is the author of numerous projects which, more than a distinctive style, share a fundamental idea: the use of technology in making headway towards the goal of environmental sustainability and a better society. Arquitectura Viva now presents four of his public works that attest to this ecological and civic commitment: offices in Ferrara, a community center in Peccioli, a church in Mormanno, and a museum in Milan. This issue’s dossier, for its part, features four English projects representing different approaches to the challenge of working on...

COBE

AV Proyectos 115 brings together the most recent projects by Cobe, the Danish studio led by Dan Stubbergaard, which applies Scandinavian tradition to intervene in all the dimensions of the city. Next, four timber dwellings, of different scales and located in Europe and South America, show the versatile character of this material. The construction section analyzes BIG’s proposal for a new factory for S. Pellegrino in Bergamo. The pages after this are devoted to the work of Andrés Reisinger, the Argentinian designer based in Barcelona who shapes the Metaverse with a style recognizable for its dreamlike yet precise color palette...

In Construction 2

Arquitectura Viva presents —in Spanish-English and digital format only— the second compilation of buildings published in the ‘In Detail’ section of AV Proyectos. The volume, of over 200 pages, features twelve works covered with comprehensive sets of technical plans, details, and photographs documenting the different stages in the construction process of some of the most prominent buildings completed in recent years around the world. The new selection includes cultural infrastructures like the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg by Herzog & de Meuron or the Contemporary Creation Center of Córdoba by Nieto Sobejano...

Other publications

17/02/2023

19th-Century Artistic Brotherhoods

Carlos Reyero   We tend to think that young people are rebels. In truth, all they want is a change of order. At no other age does one rely so much on peers for recognition in the face of a vague adversary. In the final analysis, what they...

17/02/2023

On Radical Pedagogies

Eduardo Prieto   The battle of ‘modernity’ was waged not only in the field of forms and techniques, but also in that of ideals. It has been necessary to acknowledge that modernity was ‘ideological’ for it to be assessed with detachment...

10/01/2023

Moshe Safdie, Robert Stern

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Moshe Safdie (Haifa, 1938) and Robert Stern (New York, 1939) are almost the same age, come from middle-class Jewish families that originated in Europe, and run major practices on the U.S. East Coast, but no modern Plutarch would...

Future

24/01/2023

Multidecadal variation of the Earth’s inner-core rotation

Nature Geoscience   Differential rotation of Earth’s inner core relative to the mantle is thought to occur under the effects of the geodynamo on core dynamics and gravitational core–mantle coupling. This rotation has been inferred from...

04/01/2023

Casa Rio in Madrid

Hanghar   Spain   This project in Madrid’s Carabanchel district creates an 85-square-meter unfinished space that the inhabitants can renovate on a limited budget, saving on construction costs. The bareness allows future interventions where...

16/12/2022

Aesop store in Barcelona

Barozzi Veiga   Spain   At Consell de Cent 349, in the Eixample, the first Barcelona store of the Australian cosmetic firm Aesop, founded in Melbourne in 1987, has opened. The firm of the Italian Fabricio Barozzi and the Galician Alberto Veiga...

Pérgola series of Grupo Ayuso

Grupo Ayuso presents its Pérgola series for terraces and gardens. With mixed aluminum and canvas coverings, it is designed to provide spaces where one can enjoy the open air while being sheltered against adverse weather...

New black PVD finish by Comenza

The Galician company Comenza, which specializes in developing industrialized railing and handrail systems, presents the PVD Black Finish for its GlassFit CC-800 and GlassFit CC-775 glass railings, offering it as an...

15/02/2023

Robert Geddes (1923-2023)

The New York Times   Fred A. Bernstein   As an educator, Robert Geddes worked to put architecture on an equal footing with other disciplines. As an architect, he was known for buildings at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton...

06/02/2023

Arno Lederer (1947-2023)

Arno Lederer passed away in Stuttgart at 75 years of age. He opened his practice in 1979, to be joined by Jórunn Ragnarsdóttir in 1985 and Marc Oei in 1992, and developed a humanistic approach to the profession, upholding...

24/01/2023

Balkrishna Doshi (1927-2023)

In Ahmedabad on 24 January, Balkrishna Doshi died at the age of 95. Trained under Le Corbusier, he was an educator of several generations of Indian architects and the nexus between European modernity and that of his country...

09/01/2023

Renée Gailhoustet (1929-2023)

Le Figaro   The French architect Renée Gailhoustet, recipient of the 2022 Royal Academy Architecture Prize, has died at the age of 93. A defender of public housing, she designed numerous residential projects in the Paris suburbs as well...