Luis Fernández-Galiano   We begin to celebrate the centenaries of those who were our masters, and the many anniversaries in 2013 prompts a pixelated portrait of architecture after the First World War with ten biographies of figures born on the eve of the Second. In my case,

Roberto Segre   Marked by fruitful contradictions, the work of the longest-living master of the Modern Movement transcended architecture to become a symbol of Brazilian culture.

Carmen Martínez Arroyo, Rodrigo Pemjean   Few Spanish architects of the 20th century can be said to have had as great an influence on generations coming after him, and been as fervently admired, as Alejandro de la Sota.

Marta García Carbonero   Inquisitive and tenacious, Fisac abandoned academicism for a spiritual and technical architecture that he developed with organic masonry, beam-bones and padded skins.

Josep Maria Montaner   With his rigorous synthesis of vernacular organicism and minimalism, Coderch was among those who led the return to the critical orientation of modern architecture in Franco’s Spain.

Óscar Miguel Ares   Marked by his exile in Argentina, where he brought the Modern Movement, Bonet produced a complex and eclectic oeuvre that embraced industrial design, architecture and urban planning.

Iñaki Bergera   In spite of early successes, Aburto preferred to withdraw into a discreet background, and from there develop a silent and complex body of work as both an architect and an artist.

Silvio Plotquin   Trained in early rationalism, Álvarez was one of those responsible for introducing into Argentina the language of modernity, to which he remained faithful through seven decades.

François Chaslin   In partnership with Alexis Josic and Shadrach Woods, Georges Candilis undertook major social and urban projects in which modular rigor was put at the service of flexibility and adaptability.

Panayotis Tournikiotis   Connected to politics at the start of his career, Doxiadis founded one of the first international urban planning firms and was the author of theories that anticipated globalization.

Luis Müller   With an oeuvre that combined technical rigor and visionary sensitivity, Amancio Williams counts among the leading champions of the ideas of the Modern Architecture in Latin America.

Álvaro Varela   A link between East and West, Kenzo Tange was one of the authors of Japan’s transformation in the wake of World War II, and the master of a whole generation of architects.

Estrella de Diego   The Reina Sofía Museum exhibition Metonymy comprises fifty sculptures that present the entire artistic career of Cristina Iglesias.

Ángel Martínez García-Posada   On view at the CAAC in Seville, Resistance and Tradiction is the first anthology on the artist Ai Weiwei ever to be offered in a Spanish Museum.

Eduardo Prieto   What Nietzsche said to the effect that the purpose of philosophy lies in its going againt the current in an inopportune way could be relevant to Patrik Schumacher’s The Autopoiesis of Architecture, a book that is inopportune in length – 1,234 pages o

Roberto Segre   The veteran professor at Madrid’s School of Architecture and specialist in Spanish architecture and urbanism, Carlos Sambricio, began the 21st century by indulging in a new passion, Latin America, participating in the book Arquitectura de la ciudad d

Julia Ramírez Blanco   Concrete Invention captures in book form the like-titled exhibition on view at the Reina Sofía Museum until 16th September. The first major European showing of the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, curated by Manuel Borja-Villel and Gabriel Pér

Ángel Martínez García-Posada   This interesting and didactic study alternates rigor and documentation with other added values that reveal an understanding of architecture in accordance with Mendes da Rocha’s statement to the effect that we ought to think with technique if we are t

Pablo del Ser   Being under forty and already with such a record in one’s name, crowned by two skyscrapers, the Absolute Towers in Toronto, is uncommon. Curated by Menene Gras and organized by the ICO Foundation and Casa Asia, ‘Ma Yansong. Between Modernity (Global)

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Austria   Throughout history architecture has tended to be expressed through volumes in difficult relationship with their urban surroundings. The enlargement of the Joanneum Museum, on the contrary, arose with the express intention of acting within the limits

Luis Maldonado   Thanks to its environmental benefits and also to its aesthetic qualities, the different techniques applied to construction with mud still have a future in architecture. 

Luis Maldonado   Compressed Earth Block (CEB) is a building material that is habitually used to raise walls using conventional construction techniques. It can come it different sizes, but the most common one is 15x15x30 centimeters. The most unusual aspect of the CEB

One of the main challenges of building with earth today is that of transforming its artisanal character, and begin using it in industrialized building processes. Such was the goal pursued, for instance, in the design and construction of the Gugler P

The news that the Madrid municipality of Alcorcón (population 170,000) will be home to Eurovegas put an end to months of speculation concerning the location of the megacomplex of casinos and congress centers run by Sheldon Adelson – first the heated

On view at the ICO Museum in Madrid from 20th March to 6th June are two parallel and complementary exhibitions: ‘Spain mon amour’ – inspired by the like-named performance that was presented at the last Venice Biennale, now enriched with large photogr

Richard Ingersoll   Roberto Segre, one of the greatest historians of Latin American architecture, met his demise in Niterói on Sunday 10th March. I remember meeting him in 1977 in Berkeley where I was a student. He had been invited by some left-wing planners intent on h