Luis Fernández-Galiano   Contemporary art has moved from the white cube to the factory. The abstract purity of the halls deemed most appropriate to display the art of our time has been replaced with the sturdy materiality and the industrial atmosphere of the latest generatio

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   United States   Con su estética fabril y sus guiños constructivistas, el Museo Whitney se hace eco de su singular entorno urbano y es quizá la mejor obra de la trayectoria reciente de Piano.

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Italy   Cobijada entre los muros de una vieja destilería, la nueva sede milanesa de la Fondazione Prada da lecciones inesperadas sobre cómo intervenir sin complejos en el patrimonio.

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   Originally a southern backwater largely dependent on tourism, over the past fifty years Miami has grown into a Latin American metropolis, a haven for penniless Haitians, Cuban professionals, fugitive plutocrats, and other malefactors of great wealth.

Atelier Deshaus    China   Set over an old coal-hopper unloading bridge, the painstakingly designed vault-umbrellas of the museum generate powerful spaces of an industrial character.

Rahul Mehrotra   Always mindful of social issues, Charles Correa managed to graft the cultural and architectural traditions of his home country, India, into the modern language.

Fernanda Canales   Gone at 84 years of age, the Mexican architect devoted a lifetime to studying brick as both a structural material and an element of composition.

Rem Koolhaas   Architecture is both ancient and modern, each work an amalgamation of elements that have been around for over 5,000 years and others that were invented yesterday. ‘Elements of Architecture,’ an exhibition developed as part of the 2014 Venice Archite

Little over a decade after his death, Ginette Michaud and Joana Masó have chronologically collected in one volume, Les arts de l’espace (Éditions de La Différence, Paris, 2015), all of Jacques Derrida’s writings and interventions on architecture. The

Ausías González   Mobile structures which at first were thought out to be transportable began to be built just after World War II. If we study the work of two of the most important figures in this matter, Buckminster Fuller and Emilio Pérez Piñero, we see that the str

Renato Rizzi   Poland   The two totally collapsible steel wings that form the Elizabethan theater’s roof rise to show an open-air space; the maximum height that these wings reach (24 meters) is a result of the complex’s strict modular make-up.

Urbane Kultur   France   Pierced by round skylights, arranged following a radial pattern, the rectractable enclosure consists of large spheric portions which, if the specific use so demands, slide open as much as 120 degrees on rails.

United States   Arranged in the manner of the petals of a flower, the mobile steel panels of the theater’s roof open up in a helicoidal order, each one unfolding over its neighbor in an impressive kinetic spectacle.

The perpetual crisis of Greece is the real tragedy of a country incapable of escaping its destiny; a destiny which, as in plays by Aeschylus, some believe is imposed by the furious gods of the Troika (the financial Olympus), while others see as a res

Since the day in the year 1826 that the French inventor Nicéphore Niépce took the first shot of history, with a camera obscura, from the window of a granary at his home in Le Gras, photography has held architecture as one of its recurring themes. Far

While in Madrid the ICO Museum takes stock of the artistic and modern facet of architectural photography, the exhibition being hosted until 4 October by the National Library of Spain nearby presents the documentary dimension of the work of 19th-cent

The French architect Françoise-Hélène Jourda, one of the greatest champions of sustainable building in her country, died on 31 May. Born in 1955, Jourda studied in Lyon, and was from the start marked by a militant ecologism and the influence of Pro

The jury of the Venice Biennale, led by Pablo Baratta, announced that the Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena will be directing the next architecture exhibition, scheduled to be open from 28 May to 27 November 2016. The Biennale thus seems to have be

The competition for the Guggenheim Museum of Helsinki has been one of the most talked about here in recent years, at least because of the number of entries that were submitted in phase one (a total of 1,715 coming from all over the world) and because

The design of the Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid for the New National Stadium in Tokyo was one of the strong points of the Japanese capital’s bid to host the Olympic Games of the year 2020, which it won over Istanbul and Madrid. But two years lat

Jeremy Rifkin   A new Third Industrial Revolution manufacturing model has seized the public stage and is growing exponentially. Hundred of companies are now producing physical products the way software produces information in the form of video, audio, and text. It’s