Luis Fernández-Galiano   Designed architecture should not be mixed up with ‘design’ architecture. Here we borrow the title from Victor Papanek to introduce the work of fifty studios from Africa and Asia that design for the real world. The sometimes precarious conditions, the

Diébédo Francis Kéré, Kéré Architecture   Burkina Faso   Health is a luxury in Africa, especially for the rural population, which lives so far from the few hospitals and healthcare centers of quality that exist in the countryside, such facilities tending to concentrate in capitals and large cities. 

RAW Architecture   Indonesia   The warped roofs formed by braiding innumerable sticks and stems of bamboo together are supported by steel pilotis that raise the building over a swamp and paddy field. 

Rural Urban Framework RUF   China   The 22 one-family houses are arranged to form a complex of medium density, always opening up to the landscape; the idea is to combine the best of city and countryside. 

TAO | Trace Architecture Office   China   Kept open on its longer sides in order to maximize ventilation, the factory is built with cheap and locally available materials, such as bamboo stalks and concrete blocks and tiles. 

Vietnam   With their simple thatched roofs and intricate bamboo structures shaped like baskets, the pavilions together evoke the image of a traditional Vietnamese village.

1+1>2 International Architecture   Vietnam   The building adopts the traditional typology of a house laid around a courtyard, and uses vernacular construction solutions including brick walls and bamboo roofs.

feat.collective   Sri Lanka   Placed, on plan, on the sides of a pentagon, and protected with lattices and ventilated roofs, the pavilions of the school are laid out around an inner courtyard for the community. 

Urko Sánchez Architects   Djibouti   A compact layout, narrow shaded streets, and use of vernacular materials and solutions make this compound of social dwellings a medina perfectly adapted to te environment. 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The moderate modernity of Madrid’s 1925 Generation built two exemplary campuses, the one located by the former racetrack and the Ciudad Universitaria.  

Salvador Guerrero   Carlos Arniches and Martín Domínguez together built republican Madrid before going into exile separately, the former in Spain and the other in America.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   This promenade through Córdoba, Seville, and Granada is also a walk through the intellectual journey of its author. Rafael Moneo brings together three texts, written in successive decades, that examine three monumental works built in the period betwe

Eduardo Prieto   An academic void created by political tribulations led Rafael Moneo to Barcelona in 1971. This was good for Barcelona’s architecture school but perhaps bad for Madrid’s. As for Moneo, the Barcelona years saw the full ripening of his professional geni

Josean Ruiz Esquíroz   Peter Eisenman at 85 is on his way to being the longest-living architectural heretic ever. Since the 1960s, when he set about to rock the discipline, he has kept producing texts, disciples, and designs. Proving his continued relevance are an antholog

Shinsuke Fujii Architects   Japan   The shape of this concrete residence designed by Shinsuke Fujii Architects, known as the Oriel Window House, meets two objectives which are contradictory to a certain extent. On the one hand, to make the most of the 42-square-meter area of the plot o

According to the hyperurban Koolhaas, the future of humanity is in the countryside. Not so with the present. Which is why he continues to work in places that can hardly be called rural: the poleis of Europe, the megacities of China, or the kingdoms o

One of the three members of MBM, a fundamental practice in 20th-century Spanish architecture, died in Barcelona at 92. The son of a prestigious educator, Josep Maria Martorell was born in the Catalan capital in 1925, attended the Institut Escola – wh

Shortly before the University of Mexico pinned on him the Attolini Medal, the Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza received this year’s COAM Award for the Sports Center of Francisco de Vitoria University in Pozuelo de Alarcón, in Madrid. It is an i

Between a motorway and a Mediterranean forest located outside Madrid, Jacobo García-Germán has completed what is Europe’s largest cactus garden. The most unique thing about the project is that instead of pursuing the usual, predictable image of a dom

Marcio Kogan (MK27) is a leader among architects involved in designing luxury homes in Latin American countries, and if this is so, it is because he has known how to combine the refinement of modern abstraction, the warmth of the finest materials, a

Since 1932 the Spanish Government has given the National Award for Architecture, which has gone through many ups and downs and changes of direction over the years. Since 2001 it has been bestowed not upon a work, but upon an entire career, and since

Since 2011 the Spanish Association of Architecture Institutes (CSCAE) has been giving honorary medals to individuals and entities it considers to have contributed significantly to the advancement of architecture and the profession.

The Chinese are masters of watercolor and discovered gunpowder. Cai Guo-Qiang has gone farther: he paints with gunpowder. Some months ago the Prado Museum invited the artist to carry out in the Hall of Realms a series of pyrotechnical works through a

The work of the South African William Kentridge, born in Johanessburg in 1955 and winner of this year’s Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, will be on view at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid through 19 March 2018, in an exhibition whose subtitl

After one on Carsten Höller, ‘Julie Mehretru. A Universal History of Everything and Nothing’ is the Botín Centre’s second exhibition since its inauguration in June of this year. A selection of thirty paintings and sixty drawings rendered with graphit

Luis Fernández-Galiano   In the old liturgy of Holy Week, candles were extinguished one at a time until the church was left in darkness. For the history of architecture this has been a somber year, as the nonagenarian flames of five exceptional figures have died out. On New