Luis Fernández-Galiano   Gaudí and Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron or Calatrava play the lead in a year sombered by the simultaneous losses of Miralles and Oíza.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Twenty five years after Franco’s death, democratic Spain remembers its recent past as incorporated in works of arts and emblematic buildings.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   In the last quarter of the 20th century, architecture has moved from the Pompidou to the Guggenheim, following a path summarized here with five images of museums.

Santiago Calatrava   Spain   With Frank Gehry's  Guggenheim Museum as landmark, Bilbao has launched an ambitious urban renovation plan that has also resourced to well-known names to design its most significant infrastructures. The extension of Sondica Airport is part of this gro

Santiago Calatrava   Spain   Between the  dry watercourse of the River Turia and the road to El Saler, in the southeastern periphery of Valencia, the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias will consolidate the connection of two hardly related neighborhoods. After a first version of

Coll-Leclerc   Spain   Located next  to one of the roads that leaves from Palma, the area which houses the School of Music and the Professional School of Dance of Baleares is surrounded by development sites. This commission was considered an opportunity to consolidate

Carlos Ferrater, Josep Maria Cartañà   Spain   In a plot next to the Diagonal Avenue, the new Congress Center and the Juan Carlos I Park, form a sort of gate to Barcelona for those accessing the city from the Zaragoza highway. The simple volumes of the building search for a profile that can be ea

Mansilla + Tuñón   Spain   Inscribed within the uniform layout of the urban center of Castellón, the new Museum of Fine Arts is raised over the remains of the old school Serra Espadá, taking up almost the entire plot. The canonical division in four groups of uses exhibition, a

Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra   Spain   In the Velluters quarter – within what used to be the city walls of Valencia –, the Hospital de los Pobres Inocentes used to take up a triangular block which is now occupied by a public library that has been restored in the former infirmary quarters;

Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos   Spain   In the periphery of Doñana National Park, next to the village of Matalascañas, a 150 hectare plot between the coast and Mazagón highway was chosen to raise two buildings that will serve to connect the park and the urban center: a research institute

Juan Navarro Baldeweg   Spain   In the Altamira cave, close to Santillana del Mar, the Stone Age paintings were discovered in 1879 and since then the number of visitors has increased to the extent of putting their conservation in danger. Closed since 1977, these representations of

Sancho-Madridejos   Spain   Within the typical landscape of hills covered in holm and cork oak, a 5000 hectare dry plot of land in the province of Ciudad Real had to be provided with the necessary facilities to exploit its extensive forest, host occasional huntings and serve as

José Ignacio Linazasoro   Spain   As many other small towns of Spain’s geography, Valdemaqueda shows a small and scattered housing whose urban hierarchy can only be intuited through the clear volumes of buildings such as the town hall or the church. In the higher level of town, a lar

Roberto Valle   Spain   Spain literally  rests on the bits and pieces of its own History, and proof of this are thenumerous Greek, Roman and Muslim remains that frequently appear in the subsoil. In the farming region that extends over the prairies of the River Douro, to the

Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres   Spain   High building density, winding layouts and the reduced dimensions of the street pattern recommend to avoid traffic in the historic centers of cities, where passers-by and vehicles are headed towards a difficult coexistence. Besides these traditional

Francisco Mangado   Spain   To provide the small rural sites of the area with sports facilities, the Provincial Government of La Coruña launched the Sports 2000 program, by which swimming pools and gymnasiums have gone up in phases from a series of prototypes that each City Cou

MTM arquitectos   Spain   In La Vall d'Uixò, a locality in the province of Castellón, the plan was to build a sports center to complete an existing pavilion with indoor swimming pools, an additional covered field, and outdoor tracks. Due to the plot’s siting in the urban cent

MBM arquitectes   Spain   The intention to emphasize its role as a service to society inspired the foundation of the Pompeu Fabra University in the nineties, with an urban character that was uncommon to newly built campus. Installed in renovated buildings of diverse origin, t

Javier García-Solera   Spain   Raised in the sixties on the dry terrains of an old airfield, the San Vicente de Raspeig campus has been subject to a gradual congestion that made it impossible to increase its extension. In view of the shortage of land, the plot initially foreseen t

Carlos Quintáns, Antonio Raya, Cristóbal Crespo   Spain   As a direct result of the production needs, few building types are less affected by context as those linked to the industrial process. Displaying a whole catalog of prefabricated construction systems, sheds and factories are usually gathered in visua

Javier Peña   Spain   An almost 4000 square meter plot, inscribed within the grid of vegetable gardens encircling Casillas, was chosen to raise a school-workshop devoted to the construction of ephemeral installations and carriages for festivities. The building’s industria

Rubiño García Márquez Arquitectos   Spain   A whole series of residential developments is taking over the coastline of Cádiz, one of the few areas of the Spanish seaboard that had escaped the real estate speculation brought about by the touristic boom of the sixties. Midway between Rota and Ch

CHS arquitectos   Spain   The new industrial processes, more concerned with the environment and less dependent on large machinery, are leading to a substantial transformation of the buildings in which they are installed. Far away from the great structural displays to which t

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   The presence of  the great transport infrastructures on the limits of the city defines a whole new system of coordinates that calls to reconsider the established premises when building on the periphery. This block of social housing units next to

Tabuenca & Leache, Tabuenca & Saralegui   Spain   Regulations and economic restrictions which determine social housing are counterbalanced by the opportunity that these projects offer – generally of a great volume and through municipal commission – to intervene in the periphery of the city and to de

RCR Arquitectes   Spain   Standing at a bend of the road that connects Camprodón with Olot, the town of La Canya is growing in residential developments that are not very different to those surrounding great cities. But due to its location in this rural region within the prov

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   A rugged spot in the province of Madrid, outlooking the Sierra de Gredos, was the site chosen by a family to build their house. Renouncing to transform the place into the tame landscape of grass fields common to residential developments, the project

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Lost in the crossroads of the century, we look upward for signs to guide us. But in the urban jungle, all our eyes stumble upon are billboards announcing telephones, automobiles, watches, liqueurs or perfumes, orienting our steps toward the basilicas

The current fast growth of the virtual universe is paradoxically accompanied by the hypertrophic proliferation of material facsimiles.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The youngest architectures propose a future of formless blobs: sidereal lumps of rock, inhabitable clusters of tubers and invertebrate organisms.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The project for the new headquarters of Catalonia’s leading company brings together economic and symbolic issues discussed in Spain’s general election.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The dispersed city of individual houses and gardens is the core of the American dream, a suburban way of life both criticized and admired.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Herzog & de Meuron have transformed a power station on the Thames into a new museum for the contemporary collections of London’s Tate Gallery.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The current economic euphoria gives New York City’s Big Apple a shine with new buildings and projects for fashion, culture and sport.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The deaths of Miralles and Oíza, which have coincided with those of the American Hejduk and Dieste, give a melancholy glow to the placidity of summer.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The Hannover Expo combines national identities and architectural manifestos in pavilions which take pride in their own distinctive form.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The works of the Dutch Rem Koolhaas or the Swiss Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron show the reproductive and mutant capacity of forms.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   A replica of the mythical Altamira Cave in the northern Spanish village of Santillana del Mar is lodged in a new museum built by Juan Navarro Baldeweg.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   New York’s Guggenheim and St. Petersburg’s Hermitage are jointly promoting a branch gallery designed by Rem Koolhaas in a Las Vegas casino, The Venetian.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Frank Gehry’s museum in Seattle and Toyo Ito’s media library in Sendai illustrate, on opposite sides of the Pacific, the fluid character of turn-of-century architecture.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Spanish Premier Aznar’s electoral victory and Gaudí’s beatification incites a revision of architecture’s relation to political or religious ideas.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The controversial Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas received the year 2000 Pritzker Prize in front of the ciclopean walls of the city of Jerusalem.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   El mes de julio fue testigo de la desaparición de dos grandes figuras españolas, el joven Enric Miralles y el veterano Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   An eagle dies. This month of July which has burned so many lyrical birds, from Enric Miralles and John Hejduk to today’s José Ángel Valente, has also cut short the flight of an eagle of architecture. When Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza received the P

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Calatrava receives the Meadows Award for the Arts while completing in Bilbao the Sondica airport and in Valencia the Museum of Science.

Marta García Carbonero   Rem Koolhaas On 29 May, with the city of Jerusalem as millenary backdrop, Rem Koolhaas accepted the Pritzker of the year 2000 far from the racket of the metropolitan periphery that, besides being the starting point of his projects, is the theme aroun

Marta García Carbonero   Richard Rogers The awardees in the architecture section of this prize that from the east compensates the absence of a Nobel of the arts often coincide with the Pritzker nominees, but in its year 2000 edition, it hasn’t been so: Richard Rogers is, aft

Marta García Carbonero   Frank Gehry Following a tough battle with the Portuguese Álvaro Siza and the Dutch Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry has capped the gold medal annually awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects, one of the most veteran trophies among those devoted

Marta García Carbonero   Kazuyo Sejima & Martin Steinmann Few international awards distinguish the theory and practice of the profession as impartially as the Erich Schelling Architekturpreis, which biennially acknowledges the career of an architect along with that of a crit

Marta García Carbonero   Rafael de La-Hoz Rafael de La-Hoz died on 13 June and could not pick up the gold medal bestowed on him by Spain’s Council of Architectural Institutes. The widow Matilde Castanys had to do it for him, in a ceremony held at the San Fernando Academy of

Marta García Carbonero   Kursaal, San Sebastián The translucent cubes of the Kursaal – described by their maker as two huge rocks stranded in the bay of San Sebastián – have earned Rafael Moneo the FAD prize for architecture in its 2000 edition, prominent finalists of which,

Marta García Carbonero   Ricardo Legorreta In January, Ricardo Legorreta was added to the list of names engraved in the walls of the headquarters of the American Institute of Architects, in Washington, D.C., along with a roster of gold medalists with predecessors as illustri

Marta García Carbonero   Faculty of Communications, Santiago Álvaro Siza was feted once again with the Secil, one the most prestigious prizes of Portuguese culture, having already received it in 1997 for his meticulous work in the rebuilding of Chiado, after the devastating

Marta García Carbonero   Law School, Pompeu Fabra University  Through a jury including Josep Emili Hernández Cros, Benedetta Tagliabue and Manuel Gausa, among others, this year Barcelona's City Hall honored the law school that the team of Martorell, Bohigas & Mackay built in

Marta García Carbonero   Vázquez House, Sada The Vázquez House at Sada by Carlos Quintáns, Antonio Raya and Cristóbal Crespo was feted by the jury of the 6th Exhibition of Young Architects, held biannually by the Camuñas Foundation in Madrid. This work in La Coruña – a longi

Marta García Carbonero   Student Residence, Coimbra (Portugal) The student hall of the University of Coimbra, by Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus, has won the Iber-American Architecture & Engineering Biennial Award, an event first held in 1998 with aims of tightening th

Marta García Carbonero   (1918-2000) With the death of Bruno Zevi, organic architecture has lost one of its staunchest defenders. Born into a Jewish family in Rome, in 1940 he was forced by Mussolini’s racial laws to seek exile in the United States. While studying with Gropi

Marta García Carbonero   (1926-2000) Far from the Italy that had instilled in him an enthusiasm for the Baroque, Christian Norberg-Schulz died in Oslo before the publication of Principles of Modern Architecture, his last work. Trained as an architect in Zürich's ETH, he was

Marta García Carbonero   (1955-2000) Fleeting and brilliant like fireworks, the life of Enric Miralles ended as precociously and unexpectedly as his talent had burst onto Barcelona’s professional scene in the eighties. A professor at the ETSAB and Frankfurt’s Städel Schule b

Marta García Carbonero   (1924-2000) The generation that incorporated the principles of modernity into postwar architecture has lost its most politicized member. After graduating in Madrid in 1951, Rafael de La-Hoz did postgraduate studies at MIT, where he developed the inte

Marta García Carbonero   (1933-2000) Building bridges was a life’s occupation for José Antonio Fernández-Ordóñez, and many of his works as a civil engineer can no longer be dissociated from the image of their surroundings. The taut structure of Alcoy, the Centenary Bridge of

Marta García Carbonero   (1918-2000) To scan the built oeuvre of Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza is to review the vicissitudes of Spanish architecture of the second half of the 20th century. Besides the declaration of principles underlying the Basilica of Aránzazu in Oñate, M

Marta García Carbonero   (1897-2000) A flu finally squelched the rebellious spirit that for 103 years kept Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky anchored to life. Born in Vienna, against the wishes of her family she studied architecture under the tutelage of Josef Hoffman. Her role in

Marta García Carbonero   (1908-2000) The relation between architectural education, professional practice and theoretical investigation has with the death of Leslie Martin lost one of its driving forces. With a large number of constructions to his credit, this architect born

Marta García Carbonero   (1917-2000) The history of structures in reinforced ceramic came to a halt on 19 July when Eladio Dieste, its principal driving force, expired in Montevideo at the age of 82. This industrial engineer, who discovered his passion for architecture throu

Marta García Carbonero   (1929-2000) John Hejduk was born the same year as Frank Gehry and had a similarly corpulent physiognomy as a shell for an irreverent talent, but unlike the author of the Bilbao Guggenheim, who is prolific as a builder, the New Yorker made the annals

Marta García Carbonero   (1928-2000) On Pacific waters, aboard the Queen Elizabeth II, a heart attack put a fittingly dramatic end to the vital career of Fritz Stowasser, the heterodox artist who under the pseudonym Friedensreich Hundertwasser incorporated his unclassifiable

Marta García Carbonero   (1925-2000) The Turin Architect Roberto Gabetti – who with his partner Aimaro Isola, and from a silent and peripheral position, he took part in the debate of postwar Italian architecture – passed away soon after turning 75. Attached to the Neoliberty