AV Proyectos joined the AV/Arquitectura Viva family twenty years ago. To mark the occasion, it is presented now with updated graphics and an approach adapted to the reality of architects, with more articles and works and a greater emphasis on constru

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Sister magazines AV and Arquitectura Viva (born respectively in 1985 and 1988) were advertised for many years with an oil on panel painted around 1594 by an anonymous author belonging to the Second School of Fontainebleau, depicting Gabrielle d’Estré

Eduardo Prieto   The word ‘robot’ evokes certain 20th-century obsessions. For a start, it brings to mind the servile figures if those roboti through which Karel Capek lent weight to the myth, and which found their most amiable expression in the pair of androids of th

Archi-Union Architects, Fab-Union   China   The pavilion is planned as a recognizable gate to the park. Its complex geometry is the result of the calculation and adapts to the flow of visitors and activities nearby, while the color palette is a metaphor of the different programs offered by the

Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architect   France   The main undulating wall, of 7x 80m, is built with blocks of local sandstone carved by a robot, post-tensioned to the foundations and bonded horizontally using stainless steel cables. The blocks are mounted traditionally by a team of stonemasons...

IAAC   Spain   The Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) and the Italian company WASP (World’s Advanced Saving Project), which specializes in 3D printers, present TOVA, a prototype built with earth and a Crane WASP over a period of seven weeks on t

allmannwappner, Menges Scheffler Architekten   Germany   The teaching, research and innovation centre for specialised technologies in the textile industry, known as Texoversum, is part of the campus extension of the Reutlingen University of Applied Sciences. The textile construction is the theme of the des

Zaha Hadid Architects, Block Research Group   Italy   El prototipo de pasarela se construye con piezas de hormigón impreso en 3D sin armar, lo que asemeja su comportamiento a las estructuras tradicionales de piedra, resolviendo los esfuerzos a través de la geometría y no con la acumulación de materiales

Enrique Morillo   Since the first modern yearnings to merge architecture and industry, many have tried to replace traditional building with serial production. If the success of these projects has up to now been relative, Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa seek to chan

José María Sánchez   Much has been written about architecture competitions, and while there is a certain consensus on their many disadvantages, it is still difficult to resist the opportunities for research they offer. As an architect, I include myself among the professi

Francisco Mangado   Spain   The Government of Extremadura has announced that a scheme titled ‘Music and the Earth,’ submitted by the architecture firm Mangado y Asociados, has won the ideas competition for the construction, in the historical quarter of Cáceres, of a museum to h

Pedro Pitarch, Ruiz Barbarin Arquitectos, Soriano y Asociados Arquitectos, Pedro Urzáiz   Spain   A slightly sloping footbridge connects the two buildings located at either side of the river. The ramp meets the main volume, constructed in compressed earth, at an opening that emphasizes the project’s aim of creating a new gate to the city...

Estudio Arquitectura HAGO, DJO Arquitectos   Spain   The large lower surface of the site remains below ground and, therefore, hidden from the street. Towards the city, a horizontal platform is transformed into the main lookout, from which emerge three pieces whose scale adapts to the city, small and co

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   A longitudinal volume with clear and precise geometry opens up to create a covered plaza that functions as welcome space. The natural landscape is framed by a large descending stairway that spans the marked topographical difference...

Luis Martínez Santa-María, Teresa Martínez López   Spain   Several small pieces, articulated between one another, form a unique volume that is camouflaged among the neighboring buildings thanks to its material quality and to its proportionality. The sloping tile roofs help continue this volumetric sequence..

Christian Kerez   Bahrain   At the end of the 19th century, the German mathematician August Möbius discovered his famous strip, a continuous band with only side and one edge. Perhaps influenced by this non-orientable surface, or perhaps fascinated by the infinite folds of Deleu

Design and architecture have always been present in the life of Miguel Milá (Barcelona, 1931). He is the nephew of Pere – developer of Gaudí’s La Pedrera–, and the brother of Alfonso – architect who, in collaboration with Federico Correa, built impor

Renco is an American company, based in South Florida, which spearheads advancements in the renewable composites products industry, from which it takes its name (RENewable COmposites). The huge Lego-like blocks they have patented are manufactured with

The speed at which technology is advancing takes the space race of the 21st century to a higher level. It is no longer enough to just reach and set foot on our satellite, we also want to live on it. The architecture studio Hassell has unveiled the Lu

Roy Nachum (1979, Jerusalem) works across disciplines and is known especially for paintings that go from surrealism to hyperrealism. Nachum rose to fame with the cover design for Rihanna’s Anti album of 2016, a work that included a fragment in Braill

The Essential Induction is the most recent innovation of Gaggenau, the luxury brand for professional quality kitchen appliances. The cooktop and the worktop, two elements that are usually independent in the kitchen, are combined to create a unique ar

After years of research into the qualities and benefits of fibers and other natural materials in the field of construction, the designer Jonas Edvard has taken advantage of the sound-absorbing properties of mushroom mycellium to create the Myx Sail/F