Since its beginnings in 1994, the AV Monographs Spain Yearbook sets out to gather, year after year, the best architecture built in Spain, taking stock of the principal issues of debate and of the most significant trends in the field, placing them in

Luis Fernández-Galiano   After the worst part of the pandemic, the Ukraine war shook the world tracing an ominous geopolitical scenario, which only science advances seem to alleviate.  

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The tragic development of the war, with the urban destruction, the flood of refugees, and the nuclear threats, brings up alternative pasts that may have prevented the drama.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Lack of global governance is blocking the adoption of measures that would curb the effects of the planet’s already advanced process of climate change. 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The world has its eyes on the war waging in Eastern Europe, but the continent’s south has its own calamity: the tragedy of hunger, terrorism, and desolation.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The China of Xi Jinping, reelected for a new mandate in time with the centenary of the Communist Party, challenges the West with its own set of values. 

Foster + Partners   Spain   This retrofit project breathes new life into a historic industrial building in Madrid, creating a sustainable exemplar of building reuse and revitalizing the surrounding area. With over 10,000 square meters of new office space, the project unifies a

Tuñón y Albornoz Arquitectos   Spain   Built over different periods starting in the 15th century, the Paredes-Saavedra House is a small-size urban fortress within the walled area of the city of Cáceres. The building is organized on three floors around a small asymmetrical interior atrium

Ignacio Laguillo   Spain   The town of Fuentes is nestled in the Sevillian countryside, in the Guadalquivir valley. Settlements from different periods have left a rich cultural and monumental heritage, further enhanced by its landscape and agricultural history. Within the Prog

Junquera arquitectos   Spain   Continuing with the first refurbishment and conversion into educational and cultural space carried out by the studio in 1984, the intervention on the Madrid headquarters of the José Ortega y Gasset-Gregorio Marañón Foundation (FOM) sought to address

RCR Arquitectes   Spain   As a result of the close collaboration between the architects and the owners – the Suqué-Mateu family –, the project to build the new winery, by fields of vineyards and a country estate, started to take shape a decade ago. The relationship with the l

IDOM   Spain   The rioja alta has the ideal climatic, geological, and topographic conditions for winemaking. Though its production dates back to ancient times, the arrival of the railroad in the 19th century and the interest of French winemakers in the excellent lo

Batlleiroig   Spain   The entegra building is located in the 22@ technological district, on a characteristic chamfered corner of the Cerdà plot. The project’s innovative charred timber facade and ventilation system, along with other energy-efficiency measures, allows it t

Haz Arquitectura   Spain   The first completed building of a new hub of district facilities takes on a warm wooden cladding that has the effect of mellowing the hostility of the area, close to a very busy traffic locus.

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   The CEU campus Moncloa includes several university buildings raised at different times for education and research. The new Faculty of Humanities and Communication Sciences is located on a triangular site in Madrid’s Colonia Metropolitana. The plot’s

Alcolea + Tárrago, Roberto Ercilla, Lecumberri & Cidoncha   Spain   The government Building is located at the Teatinos campus, west of the city of Málaga. It hosts the presidency of the University among several other services, which were scattered through the city until now. The project also includes an additional 80

Estudio Primitivo González | e.G.a   Spain   The building is located by the Convent of Discalced Carmelites. According to historical maps, the plot was part of the convent’s kitchen gardens, and this condition marks the character of the proposal from the beginning. Towards the city it expresses

Arias Garrido Arquitectos   Spain   Addressing two different programs, the complex breaks up into interconnected separate volumes on the banks of the Pisuerga River. The largest, at the site’s north end, harbors the auditorium seating 608. The smaller ones contain the music school’s cl

Andrés Perea, Nexo arquitectura, Gutiérrez-de la Fuente Arquitectos   Spain   The transport Complex (CIT) is the result of a competition called by Metro de Madrid in 2016. The project has a double objective: on one side the urban regeneration through an existing plot, containing an obsolete Metro facility, and on the other ha

SUMA Arquitectura   Spain   The project is located in a dense urban node, and it is precisely the need to adapt to this context that leads to the decision to replicate the chamfer typical of Barcelona’s urban planning. The library appears as a sculptural volume set on a square

Matos Castillo, Néstor Montenegro, Toni Gelabert   Spain   The project to refurbish and convert the Casa de la Cultura de Boadilla del Monte into a new library and municipal theater involved working on a building completed in the 1980s and which housed two uses, but combined in a slightly confused way. The

AIS, BAAS Arquitectura   Spain   The project is based on a reflection on the excessive technification and dehumanization of health centers and, as a consequence, the desire to qualify the interior space, endowing it with adequate architectural conditions based on the section, natura

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation   Spain   The design of Reggio School is based on the idea that architectural environments can arouse in children a desire for exploration and inquiry. The building is thought of as a complex ecosystem that makes it possible for students to direct their own ed

Magén Arquitectos   Spain   The new Kindergarten and Elementary School is located in the Parque Venecia residential area, southeast of Zaragoza. The different types of buildings around it – a police station and a grocery store –, the absence of urban references, and the periphe

Lluís Jubert - Taller d’Arquitectura, Ferran Pelegrina i Associats    Spain   The project is located in La Joncosa del Montmell, in the comarca of Baix Penedés, where the old vineyards come together on the interior slopes of the massif that lends its name to the municipality. At the end of a pleasant promenade from the town c

Aulets, Aixopluc   Spain   Llubí is a small town in the center of Mallorca, 40 kilometers from the island’s capital. Its benign climate and isolated geography have allowed a local architecture based on marés, a sandstone that has its geological origin in the seabed that shaped

OHLAB   Spain   In the heart of the city of Palma, at 15 Passeig de Mallorca, the massing of this residential development addresses the environment. Surrounded by buildings varying in height and typology, it uses visual continuity and local materials to insert itsel

Carbajo Barrios   Spain   Located on the grounds of the old railway station, the development comprises 125 dwellings with 22 different typologies, both single-story units and duplex apartments. The urban plan foresaw the construction of three linear blocks and two open priva

Barceló Balanzó Arquitectes   Spain   The complex is located on Carretera de Ribes, on the northeast of Barcelona, very close to the Nus de Trinitat, which connects Ronda de Dalt with Ronda de Litoral – one of the main and busiest road junctions in the city –, and next to Trinitat Vella

Ripoll Tizón Estudio de Arquitectura   Spain   The building is located between the residential area of the marina of Ibiza and an area of floodable and cultivated land. The urban context is heterogeneous in character, with buildings for leisure and tourism combined with housing blocks and vacatio

SANAA Every year since 1989 The Imperial Family of Japan and The Japan Art Association have given the Praemium Imperiale in five fields, acknowledging contributions to the development and promotion of the arts worldwide. Each of the laureates receive

Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa Echoing contemporary sensibility for social and environmental issues, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) gave its Gold Medal to Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa for their commitment to “architecture that pro

The Hyatt Foundation has granted the 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize to the Burkina Faso architect Diébédo Francis Kéré, the first African architect to receive the distinction. The award is bestowed yearly since 1979, and consists of 100,000 USD (91

Several Works Unveiling hidden talent and x-raying the complex geography of the Islamic world has been the purpose of the Aga Khan Architecture Award since 1977. The prizes, characterized by their ecumenical character, have managed to bring East and

The New Library at Magdalene College Conferred every year by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the Stirling Prize is a recognition of the best new buildings raised in the United Kingdom. The 2022 winner was the New Library at Magdalen

The winners of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award for 2022 have been announced in Brussels. Town House at Kingston Univertsity in London – by Dublin-based Grafton Architects, led by Yvonne Farrell and She

Peter Barber As one of Britain’s most acclaimed architects and founder of Peter Barber Architects, Peter’s practice focuses on social housing and urban planning. He has been widely celebrated for his inventive approach to design, delivering innovativ

Xu Tiantian Since its establishment in 2007, the Swiss Architectural Award, organized by the Accademia di architettura di Mendrisio in collaboration with EPFL-ENAC and the ETH of Zurich, has risen as one of most prestigious international architectura

Shigeru Ban The list of architects with the Princess of Asturias Award was not short, but in the 2022 edition Shigeru Ban joined Niemeyer, Oíza, Calatrava, Foster, Moneo, and Gehry, although not in the category of ‘Arts’ but for ‘Concord.’ As the fou

Llacuna Building The jury of 2022 FAD Awards – Francesc Rifé (chair), Xavier Delgado, Carme Fiol, Uriel Fogué, Patrícia Santos Pedrosa, and Jelena Prokopljević – gave the award in the Architecture category to the Llacuna residential building in Poble

Carme Pinós and Carlos Puente A honorary distinction, the Gold Medal of the CSCAE (Spanish Association of Architecture Institutes) is awarded since 1981 to individuals or entities that have significantly contributed with their work and dedication, am

Spain’s Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (MITMA) has named the architect Emilio Tuñón the winner of the 2022 National Award for Architecture. The National Award for Architecture, which comes with a money prize of 60,000 euros, is give

1927-2022 The Belgian architect and activist passed away on 2 August, at the age of 95. Born in Brussels in 1927, Kroll studied at the Faculté d’Architecture La Cambre at a time influenced by functionalism, and this explains why, after graduating in

1928-2022 As so many architects of all times, José Frutos Vivas could not resist the spell of power, and in 2103 he designed a mausoleum for the recently deceased president of his country, which he gave a name between tropical and classic: La Flor de

1930-2022 Deceased on 11 February at 92 years of age, James Stewart Polshek was one of those archi-tects who, in spite of having completed noteworthy buildings, could not bear the load of me-dia glitz and preferred a quiet and fruitful professional a

1935-2022 On November 30, 2022, the architect Meinhard von Gerkan passed away in Hamburg at the age of 87. He was one of the most influential German architects, a committed university professor, and an astute critic. For more than fifty years he cont

1924-2022 There was a contradictory and fertile moment when Ibero-American countries wanted to merge the codes and principles of the Modern Movement with vernacular traditions, especially pre-Columbian, in which they found a powerful source of indent

1931-2022 Arata Isozaki died on 29 December at 91. He did not have a readily recognizable style; his mood was pragmatic, even eclectic, and this turned him into the best representative of the rich variety that has characterized Japanese architecture

1936-2022 The semiotic wave of the 1960s and 1970s decade, and in general the scientist obsession of those years, bore disparate fruits. Some were engulfed by history, while others maintain, if not the pertinence of that time, an undoubtable interest

1939-2022 Incubated in the 19th century and splendidly developed during the following century, hispanist tradition had in Jonathan Brown its greatest art historian. Born in Massachusetts in 1939, his long career had its seed, as so many art lovers si

1930-2022 A journey to precarious Spain of 1950 changed the life of John Elliott, one of the key British hispanists. It changed it because he discovered the Prado Museum, and in it not just Las Meninas, but another great Velázquez painting: Equestria

1935-2022 The most international name in Portuguese painting, Paula Rego, died in London at 87. She grew up in a well-off family in Lisbon during the dictatorship of Salazar, a situation which prompted this restless young woman to leave the country i

1929-2022 Son of a Swedish diplomat on mission in the United States, Claes Oldenburg studied at the universities of Chicago and Yale before adopting the US nationality and settling in New York. In 1961 he opened a small shop on the Lower East Side wh

1938-2022 Born in the Hiroshima that in few years would be destroyed by the bomb, Issey Miyake graduated from Tama Art University in Tokyo in 1964, before working several years in Paris and New York to learn the principles of couture, and returning i

1939-2022 Master of geometry and of the media, Ricardo Bofill was the closest to a star-architect Spain has ever had. That is not a small merit, if one remembers that the Catalan became a star in the years when Spanish architecture was of interest to

1942-2022 Pedro de Navascués, essential figure in the historiography of architecture in Spain, died of a stroke on the night of 5 December. Graduated in Philosophy and Literature from the University of Madrid in 1965, Navascués soon became interested

1945-2022 Juan Luis Trillo de Leyva passed away in his home town of Seville on 25 November. He was an architect in that broad and humanistic sense of the word that today seems rare because it is scarce. His projects were characterized by an exquisite

1927-2022 The Bilbao architect José Luis Íniguez de Onzoño Angulo died in Madrid at 95 years of age. He studied at the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM), where he met his longtime professional partner, Antonio Vázquez de Castro. Upon graduating,