Luis Fernández-Galiano   Half a century after the first moon landing, space is making the news again. After the excitement of the space race that began with the Sputniks of the Soviet Union in 1957 and the Explorer of the United States a year later, and which had as mileston

For years the field of action of Álvaro Siza (Matosinhos, 1933) has extended beyond the boundaries of his native Portugal, transferring the master’s ideas to a variety of contexts in Europe, America, and recently also Asia. It is in this latest stage

Álvaro Siza, Carlos Castanheira   South Korea   Nestled in the dense woodlands of Gyeongsang Province, this refined complex of sculpture-like constructions explores the close relationship between architecture and landscape.

Álvaro Siza, Carlos Castanheira   China   Intended as home for a recently acquired collection of 7,000 original pieces from the Bauhaus, this new museum completes the campus of the Chinese Academy of Art.

Álvaro Siza, Carlos Castanheira   Taiwan   Located on a mountainside overlooking the East China Sea, this mausoleum forms part of Chin Pao San, a private cemetery that belongs to the Jinshan District of New Taipei City.

Norman Foster   ‘Alexandrine Years’ was launched on 19 February with Norman Foster and Rafael Moneo accompanying its author, Luis Fernández-Galiano.

Rafael Moneo   Ivorypress provided the venue for a dialogue about the books, which offer in Spanish and English a selection of texts first published in the newspaper ‘El País.’

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The collection of texts is illustrated with over 2,500 images, and 2,000 protagonists of the years straddling two centuries parade through them.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Engineers built Franco’s regime. Contradicting the convention that sees Francoism distanced from technology and science, the young historian Lino Camprubí shows to what extent National Catholicism was tied to industrialization and scientific investig

It seems natural to associate the term ‘sustainable’ with the image of greenery, although the connection is not at all inevitable. With regard to the links that buildings establish with the environment (evoking the idea of the planet as a vulnerable

Francisco Mangado   Spain   The new headquarters of Norvento, a group that specializes in renewable and efficient energy sources, aims to maximize power quality and respect for the environment.

SUMO Arquitectes, Yolanda Olmo   Spain   Villa Urania is a small residence from the  late 19th century – home of the astronomer Josep Comas i Solà (1868-1937) –, the last example of the garden-city of El Farró in the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district. The redensification of the neighborhood left

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   The Amager Resource Center (ARC) is located in a port and industrial area of Copenhagen which has undergone several reconversion plans over the past years. The port area has turned into an extreme sport destination for thrill seekers. Different sport

Arquitectura-G   Spain   Halfway between Barcelona and Sant Cugat, La Floresta is a low-density residential neighborhood in the Collserola mountain range. Located on a plot with a deep slope, the house replaces a small dwelling that was self-built by the client’s parents in

Invalidating the idea that the times we are living are unconducive to criticism, and heralding the discipline’s future, Luis Fernández-Galiano has published Alexandrine Years. The two-volume bilingual book compiles a good part of the weekly pages tha

When the giant financial services firm Lehman Brothers Holdings filed for bankruptcy in 2008, few in New York imagined that the worst financial crisis of the century would coincide with a skyscraper construction boom comparable even to the one that i

Set amid the tight mass of skyscrapers of Hong Kong, Herzog & de Meuron’s new Tai Kwun Art and Heritage Centre may be modest in size, but certainly not in conceptual aspiration nor in originality. Beyond the talent of its architects, this signals som

London has always been one of Europe’s foremost music capitals, so will not willingly fall behind other great cities – European and Asian alike – in the creation of grand auditoriums, theaters, and opera houses. This is the message conveyed by its de

Among the great Victorian buildings of London, the Olympia events center in the west part of the English capital is one of the oldest, yet not among the most widely known of. The specialist Andrew Handyside built this exhibition venue in 1886, taking

The work of Kazimir Severinovich Malevich – a father of abstraction, alongside Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian – has fascinated artists and unsettled the public since 1915, when he presented his first Black Square. The fascination and unsettlemen

Although in theory his work is associated with that magical and atmospherical naturalism that characterizes a large number of his paintings and photographs, the Madrid-born artist José Manuel Ballester is fascinated by abstraction, in particular by K

Completing ‘Malevich Year’ in Spain is ‘From Chagall to Malevich: Art in Revolution,’ an exhibition on view at the Mapfre Foundation, curated by Jean-Louis Pratt, that through 90 major pieces and 24 publications by 29 authors presents the rich and co

Eduardo Prieto   Energy has become one of the big themes of architecture. Not only because laws, directives, and regulations are increasingly demanding in what concerns standards of comfort and reducing consumption, but also because energy has gone from being a matte