After the passions of 1992,1993 was a year of hangovers, low profiles and everyday dramas. The emblematic year of the 5th Centenary could have been summed up by four forceful silhouettes in four big Spanish cities: the steel octopus designed by Frank
Las torres inclinadas de KIO, en la madrileña plaza de Castilla, han sido el último ejemplo de la arquitectura del dinero que caracterizó la década de los ochenta.
En la última década ha surgido en Galicia un activo grupo de arquitectos, articulado en el territorio por el eje atlántico que une Vigo y Pontevedra con Santiago y La Coruña.
Siza, Meier y Gehry construyen en España tres nuevos museos que expresan una voluntad de legitimación simbólica a través de las instituciones del arte de vanguardia.
El Palacio de los Deportes de Huesca, la primera obra importante del arquitecto joven español de más talento plástico, se desplomó en la madrugada del martes 13 de abril.
Tanto la independencia de los jueces como la igualdad de los ciudadanos ante la ley requieren escenarios apropiados, autónomos y reconocibles, que permitan a los actores del drama judicial representar sus papeles con convicción.
With a new chamber and office building, the Senate extension designed by Salvador Gayarre radically transformed the convent which since 1814 had been the original headquarters of the Spanish Parliament. A democracy must keep up ap
Las obras seleccionadas para la II Bienal de Arquitectura Española están lejos de ser representativas de la reciente producción de nuestro país.
Un teatro romano, una catedral románica, un palacio barroco y un museo neoclásico: cuatro conflictos recientes muestran la dimensión afectiva de la conservación del patrimonio.
Muchos conocen el chiste del bilbaíno que pide en una librería un mapamundi de Bilbao; pocos saben que la metrópoli vasca se ha propuesto hacer el chiste realidad. Dentro de siete años Bilbao celebra el VII Centenario de su fundación en 1300 por Dieg
El Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo, construido en Santiago de Compostela por el maestro portugués, abre sus puertas en vísperas electorales.
La nueva sede transparente que albergará la Asamblea de la Comunidad de Madrid contrasta con los hábitos subterráneos de las diversas administraciones de la capital.
This Xacobean year has also been one of crisis, redeemed by the fractured profile of a Galician museum and the star shape of the Miró Foundation.
One of the initial criteria in the elaboration of this project for an electric power control unit was that it should be a non-conventional building with an image able to stand out in an area full of singular architectures. Another was that all the fu
This building in Seville housing Television Española ys Andalusian Regional Center stands on the northeastern end of the island of Cartuja, outside the 1992 Expo premises. It was conceived to be a landmark along the river, highlighted as it is by a s
The project comprises a telecommunications tower and a building for telephone services on a lot with three facades, the main one facing the seafront boulevard. Both the organizational distribution and formal composition of the building address the pr
For this bus station complex on a 33-degree angle, wedge-shaped lot with a 200-meter radius, close to the river Odiel, the basic intention was to arrive at a unitary> image, with a single gesture addressing and resolving the difficult conditions of t
The various activities included in the program are distributed in two wings that form an L, creating a plaza in the lot’s interior. A volume containing the passages connects the wings. The Gerona courthouse is a building of consi
To understand this particular project, it is important to consider the overall design of the Puerta de Toledo complex. An obvious intention of the architect, which at the same time serves to explain the shape of both library and social services cent
The brief of the project for the courthouse of Zaragoza is the most extensive and detailed of all those published by Alejandro de la Sota. In it the author accurately describes exactly how the program is organized, with segregated circulations provid
The second project realization of the Portuguese master in Spain is also one of his most successful works of the nineties. Although his fragmented architecture has not always provided the most appropriate setting for the display of contemporary art,
The Casa de las Conchas (House of Shells) is a building that dates back to the 15th century; its original masonry corresponding to a Gothic house with a trapezoidal courtyard and small doors and windows on the facade. In the course of history and for
Like so many other monuments of antiquity, the Roman theater of Sagunto was despoiled during various stages of history, and its materials and architectural elements reused for constructions inside and outside of the city. Historically and geographica
The restoration of the Casa de la Caridad falls within a program which intends to create a cultural enclave capable of guaranteeing the regeneration of a working-class Barcelona quarter, the Raval. The project undertakes the rehabilitation of the exi
A trench has been dug around the old Casa de la Ciudad, with doors and windows bored in its walls. The new staircase providing access to the gate in the Moorish rampart allows for coming and going, and features Itialian-ramp steps.
The large oval exhibition hall constitutes the heart of the project, with the various ancillary premises distributed along the irregular peripheral fringe of the building, on two levels. The Science Museum of Tenerife is located o
This cultural center, which underwent a slow and fractioned building process in several phases, is situated in a poorly consolidated town, as is typical in the dispersed rural habitats of Galicia, and was thought out as an element that would at the s
The site of this educational building is significant, located as it is along the M-30 highway and at the edge of the Ciudad Universitaria, an area of a generally high architectural quality, both on account of the historic buildings that dot Madrid's
The smooth slope of the almond yard where the Foundation is situated, somewhere between the painter’s studio – a work by the architect Josep Lluís Sert – and the road running along the lowest part of the property, keeps the new building from spreadin
Though this site was first assigned a hospital function in 1899, using some secondary pavilions left over from the World's Fair of 1888, the hospital that has undergone rehabilitation here was not built until 1925 by the municipal architect Josep Pla
The project responds to two basic premises, one of an urbanistic nature, marked by contextual conditions, and the other having to do with functional considerations, a reflection on how to teach sailing in a rainy climate. One of the corners points to
Over the base that accommodates the cultural center rise the volume that contains the sport arena and the small cube of the exhibition gallery. This pavilion is an isolated construction at the northeastern end of the Poblenou park
The program for this building is characterized by both the specificity and complexity of its function. It is a eurhythmic competition center with a hall for 4,000, but also an academic institution for the practice and teaching of the sport, with trai
The site of this project for the residence and workshop o f a fashion photographer, the architect's brother, is located in Llampaies, a town in the Alto Ampurdan. It was originally a kind of threshing floor premise with a partly knocked down square-s
A private garden in Barcelona is a difficult thing to aspire to. Real estate is scarce, and whatever few lots are still available are too large for a modest program like this one. But the project became feasible when the private living area began to
This private residence is located in San Gervasio, in a high section of the city of Barcelona, on a lot that used to be part of the nextdoor neighbor’s garden. It comprises two volumes which are aligned with the two streets that front the lot. The la
The century is slow to die. Stabbed in Berlin and gored in Sarajevo, this dismal animal bows his head amid vomits of blood and atrocious fits. The butchery slime of the Great War did away with its predecessor in the bullring, a maroon and reticent 19
Two long volumes - each one slightly shifted with respect to the other, following the slope of the hill - and a third one, in turn comprising several smaller, interlocking boxes and perpendicularly penetrating the first two through its middle part, a
Más puerto y menos aéreo, el aeropuerto de hoy es una representación exacerbada e hiperbólica de la vitalidad, la agitación y el caos de la ciudad contemporánea.
No existen fronteras de escala para el talento plástico de este creador polifónico, que ha obtenido, a los 42 años, un reconocimiento internacional poco común.
En los últimos años, la desilusión con el socialismo de la era Mitterrand ha coincidido en Francia con el resurgir de un brote neomoderno que aspira a resucitar las formas heroicas y las certidumbres plásticas de los años treinta.
The first victim of wars is usually truth; in the Balkans, the first casualty has been memory. Physical and genetic genocide goes with urban and cultural genocide; the extermination of populations and mass deportations happen in simultaneity with the
La concesión del Pritzker y de la Medalla de Oro de la UIA a Fumihiko Maki supone una convergencia provisional de dos premios rivales, unidos en tomo a la personalidad equilibrada y la arquitectura ecuánime de un japonés occidental.
El cambio de clima político y social que anuncian los noventa coincide con la recuperación de las figuras del finlandés Alvar Aalto y del danés Arne Jacobsen.
El Ticino habría necesitado un Juan Benet. Sería imprescindible su erudición geológica e hidráulica para describir el valle, su condición de constructor inconfeso para apreciar las grandes obras públicas que lo hicieron y lo deshicieron, su causticid
Las dificultades financieras de Disney arrojan luz sobre la genuina naturaleza de sus parques de atracciones, auténticos macrocentros comerciales que sirven de núcleo a extensas operaciones inmobiliarias.
En septiembre están aún calientes las brasas del verano y empiezan a soplar las brisas del otoño: se inicia un nuevo curso de la arquitectura.
La identidad vernácula mexicana y su decidida vocación internacional se enredan para tejer una personalidad contradictoria y abundante, que también refleja su arquitectura.
Treinta años después de la muerte de Kennedy, el mito de la casa americana ha sido reemplazado por el florecimiento de los hoteles modestos.
En la encrucijada de tres países, un fabricante de sillas colecciona arquitecturas: Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Tadao Ando y Alvaro Siza son sus últimas adquisiciones.
Fumihiko Maki The fifteenth Pritzker - the most prestigious of all architectural awards, given yearly - went to the Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki (Tokyo, 1928), who got his degree in his native city and did further studies at the American univer
Fumihiko Maki Hassan Fathy of Egypt, Reima Pietila of Finland and Charles Corres of India - architects committed to the cultural realities of their respective countries - are the predecessors of the Japanese veteran Fumihiko Maki in the winning of th
Beatriz Matos Castaño y Alberto Martínez Castillo A factory in the Basque town of Oñate by the Madrid architects Beatriz Matos Castaño and Alberto Martinez Castillo was selected for the 4th edition of these prizes, awarded every two years to young p
Giancarlo De Carlo The Royal Institute of British Architects gave its yearly medal to Giancarlo De Carlo (Genoa, 1919) for his view of architecture as a social practice, as reflected in his interventions within the city of Urbino. De Carlo studied en
Kevin Roche The Dubliner Kevin Roche (1922) arrived in the USA in 1948. In 1950 he joined the office of Saarinen and worked with John Dinkeloo, starting a practice with him on the master's death. The medal of the American Institute of Architects hono
Kenzo Tange With the winning of this prize, granted yearly by the Japan Art Society since 1989, Kenzo Tange (1913) has the world's biggest architectural awards to his name, including the Pritzker and the AIA and RIBA gold medals. All in recognition o
Martínez Lapeña y Torres Of Catalonia's Fomento de las Artes Decorativas awards, granted annually in various categories, the Grand Prizes for Architecture and Opinion bear the most weight. The housing complex of Torres & Martínez Lapeña at the Olymp
Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza The most prestigious prize in the world of Hispanic culture was granted for the second time to an architect - the first time around was in 1989, to Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer - and for the first time to a Spaniard. The jur
Rafael Moneo The architect from Tudela received two awards: a local Navarrese one, the Prince of Viana Prize for Culture, granted yearly since its institution in 1990; and a new international reward called the Schock Prize, awarded by the private fou
Cruz y Ortiz Created in 1993, this prize will be awarded on odd-number years, alternating with the Gold Medal for Architecture of Spain's Upper Council of Architectural Institutes, which thus changes from yearly to biennial, covering even-number year
(1925-1993) Charles Moore died of a stroke on December 16 at the University of Austin (Texas), his last teaching post Dedicated to imparting classes since 1950, he also taught at Yale and the University of California at Berkeley and Los Angeles. As a
(1928-1993) In conjunction with her husband and partner Peter, among the most emblematic works of this British architect who passed away on August 16 is the London headquarters of The Economist (1963-1967). This building sealed the prestige of the Sm
(1922-1993) After a protracted illness, one of the most eminent figures of Spanish architecture in the second half of the century died on October 1. Ramón Vázquez Molezún was born in La Coruña and studied in Madrid, where he eventually settled and as
(1923-1993) The Aaltian tradition of sculptural shapes, metaphorical allusions and use of traditional materials has had one of its most prominent advocates in the Finnish architect Reima Pietilä, who died on August 26. Born in Turku, he studied at th
(1923-1993) In collaboration with César Ortiz-Echagiie, his partner for ten years, San Sebastián-born Rafael Echaide built works that are highly representative of Spanish modernity of the fifties, such as the Seat building in Barcelona. In 1966 he mo
(1955-1993) The Eboli chair, the Andrew Sisters tables and the Egyptian lamp are among the representative products of this Valencian architect who geared his career toward design to become one of the best-known figures of the Hispanic scene. In 1987
(1949-1993) An architect and professor at Madrid's School of Architecture, Mario Bernedo combined his professional practice and teaching activities with stage set design. In 1985 he won the Spanish Theater Award for his work in El amor enamorado, by
(1919-1993) Born in Athens, where he died on September 17, Konstantinidis studied architecture in Munich. His humanistic training linked him to his native country's building traditions. He designed residential projects, with his houses in Crete stand
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