Luis Fernández-Galiano   A double title for a half issue, for what else can we give a city that has lost its self-respect, degrading itself through vulgar muscular growth, unpublishable public works and thematic statues; a minimal issue, not because minimalism is a refuge of

José María Ezquiaga   Great transformations always mark an end and a beginning. In the past decades, the Madrid metropolis has been caught in the conflict between the city that is disappearing for good and the city that is in the process of being created. It is hard to de

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid today is Europe’s third city, after London and Paris; and the second in terms of building initiative, tailing Berlin but ahead of London. No city on the continent can currently compete with Germany’s capital, but many will be surprised to lear

Kenneth Frampton   While I am aware that architectural education may need restructuring in order to bring it into line with the societal needs of the next century, I feel that in the case of the ETSAM a certain discretion is in order. The record of the Madrid school ha

Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos   Spain   At the border between the region of Madrid and the province of Ávila is Valdemaqueda, a small town surrounded by pine forests which faces south and is protected by a mountainside of high ecological value. Its urban area, consisting of small dispersed

Francisco Domouso, Ginés Garrido, Emilio Rodríguez   Spain   Serranillos del Valle belongs to the Sagra region, which is shared between Madrid and Toledo. Its invasion by weekend residences has not altered the rural character of the place, whose urban core still preserves splendid farmhouses. The old Town Hall

Carlos Puente   Spain   Guadarrama is a typical town of Madrid’s outlying mountain range of the same name, close to the border of the province of Segovia. Its splendid location and climate made it a traditional summer spot for affluent people, as well as an ideal place for

Sancho-Madridejos   Spain   The freestanding volume that houses the civic center is situated in a new expansion area of Alcobendas that is mainly reserved for use by the service sector, between the old N-I highway and the borderline of El Soto de la Moraleja. The parcel is a tr

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   The new municipal center of Latina was conceived to provide the district with the administrative and cultural services it needed, and to reaffirm the role of public architecture by defining a disperse and fragmented urban fabric that has been growing

Andrés Perea   Spain   The solution adopted for this health center addresses the desire to simplify routes and optimize the use of space. Two criteria governed the functional layout of the program: the best orientation, and the degree of accessibility deemed adequate to ea

Javier Revillo, María Fraile   Spain   For the construction of a sports center in this locality of south Madrid, a competition was jointly organized by Town Hall and the regional government, and this project came out first. Adjacent to the bullring on the south and to Dalí and Río Manzana

Juan José Medina   Spain   This rock-life center for high-competition athletes rises south of the Complutense University campus, on a prolongation of the artificial topography of its sports fields, and is conceived as a closing for the parcel occupied by the state sports counc

Matos Castillo   Spain   The winner of a competition that was organized by the Municipal Housing Corporation, this project inserts itself in an area defined by low-rise perimetral city blocks. Two parallel buildings unite the facade alignments of Emilio Ortuño and Monte Urgu

Juan Ignacio Mera   Spain   These social housing apartments are situated in the southwest of Fuenlabrada, in the Ciudad Loranca development, specifically on parcel 47-B, which is rectangular and borders to the north with parcel 47-A, to the east with Street 4, to the south with

Francisco Burgos, Ginés Garrido, Alberto Pieltain   Spain   In the Ciudad Lineal area, the owners of a corner lot occupied by a large house of the 1920s decided to raise a new building on the property. After determining the part of the unbuilt land that was to continue to serve the old house, designs were mad

Amann Cánovas & Maruri - Temperaturas Extremas   Spain   These houses are part of a low-density residential strip along Madrid’s northwestern edge. In an area already defined by row constructions, the parcel is organized in bands that join two parallel streets. Besides the usual housing program, the brief

Rafael Torrelo   Spain   The guidelines set by Madrid’s general plan of 1985 to regulate the development of the zone bordered by the M-30 highway, Méndez Álvaro street, the Zardoya-Otis industrial buildings and the railway tracks that stretch from Atocha Station to the south

Equipo AUIA   Spain   The new terminal is a first-class land-air transport center on account of the high-technology equipment it contains, the breadth of its installations, and its capacity and speed in the handling of cargo. Its architecture builds on criteria normally r

Estudio Lamela, Richard Rogers   Spain   Since it opened to air traffic in 1933, the airport of Madrid-Barajas has undergone numerous enlargements and modifications. Its current battery of passenger terminals is working to capacity; thus the decision to build a new one separated from the re

Rafael Moneo   Spain   El edificio de Villanueva debía recuperarse para poder dedicarse casi exclusivamente a las colecciones, mientras que en la cuña entre su espalda y la calle Ruiz de Alarcón y en el claustro de la iglesia de los Jerónimos había que acomodar nuevos espa

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The future of Madrid is the future of Spain. More a capital than a city, this hub of encounters and exchanges shares the future of the entire territory. If centrifugal force prevails, Madrid will unknot and unweave, for this forum and bazaar only exi