Luis Fernández-Galiano   We are tourists, and pretend being travelers. Mass tourism used to be depicted with a cruise ship overwhelming the delicate scale of Venetian palazzos, but today the best representation of excess is the exceptional photograph of a jam on the Everest.

Having both graduated from ETH Zurich, and after a training period that saw them working for Rem Koolhaas and residing in cities like Rotterdam, Los Angeles, and Seoul, the brothers Piet and Wim Eckert (born in 1968 and 1969, respectively) returned t

E2A   Germany   Due to its prominent street corner location, the new TAZ building must mediate between the urban fabric of a traditional Berlin block and solitary buildings from the IBA era. The design combines the urban block and the corner, adopting the height of

E2A   Switzerland   The planar building – a slender volume 75 meters long, 15 meters wide, and with 12 levels – can be interpreted as a solitary gesture. The orthogonal form of the plane dialogs with typologies present in the surrounding urban fabric, which is character

E2A   Switzerland   With its massive walls of unfaced reinforced concrete and its subtly composed windows, the building rises on an exact 25x25-meter footprint in order to leave the preexisting trees as they are.

Juan Bordes   The Juan Bordes Collection includes pieces that show the importance of 19th-century pedagogy in forming the visual culture of the avant-gardes.

Delfín Rodríguez   The National Library of Spain presents until 22 September a little-known-about but exceptional collection of etchings and drawings by G. B. Piranesi.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The Wright factory produces publications without pause, and most are dispensable. Not so the two Yale University Press books that explore the architect’s ambivalent relationship with New York City. Written by two excellent historians, they deal with

Josep M. Rovira   The biography is a difficult genre. Anyone daring to write one is in for a chain of musts: articulate the narrative, use firsthand material, match it up with what has already been said, have a broad view of the biographee’s field, strike a balance be

Joaquín Medina Warmburg   The centenary of the Bauhaus coincides with the fiftieth death anniversary of its founder and director, the architect Walter Gropius (1883-1969). The double celebration seals the association between the figure and the school, however true it is that

James-Simon-Galerie, Chipperfield in Berlin

Rafael Moneo   Buildings need not be isolated, independent, autonomous objects. Nevertheless, we tend to see them as such when they are canonical works, like Greek temples, Gothic cathedrals, or Renaissance palaces, or when we think of the notion of type. Architect

David Chipperfield Architects   Germany   The inauguration of the James-Simon-Galerie marks the endpoint of the redevelopment of Museum Island, which began with the Neues Museum renovation project.

Dellekamp Arquitectos   Mexico   Conceived as a refuge, the Cabo House stands on a series of platforms built with local earth that descend adapting to the slope of the site. From these telluric platforms, walls of the same material, rammed earth, rise in parallels to frame views tow

RCR Arquitectes   France   Located in the city of Bordeaux, the project renovates an old warehouse with vaulted spaces that were once cellars for storing fish and supplies. The intervention seeks to reactivate the area by making the most of its central location and the existen

One consequence of German reunification in 1990 was collective acceptance of memories of the 20th century through a symbolic deed: Berlin’s reinstitution as capital of the State, and the subsequent restoration of a good part of its most emblematic bu

Two words describe the Serpentine Gallery’s summer pavilion this year, built by the Japanese architect Junya Ishigami: picturesque and polemic. It is picturesque because, of all the Serpentine Pavilions raised in London’s Kensington Gardens to date,

The combination of biomimetics, computer design, and robotic construction continues to bear fruit, waiting for the moment that it becomes a more or less feasible model to apply in everyday architecture. This is demonstrated by the two pavilions that

Among young Spanish practices, the studio set up in Barcelona in 2004 by Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga is one of those that have most gone international, and the recently finished Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne, Switzerland, is the lar

In the Swiss city of Lausanne, and in collaboration with the local firm Atelier Cube, the Barcelona-based practice of Esteve Bonell and Josep Maria Gil recently completed the new parliament of the Canton of Vaud. Reinterpreting the typical volumes an

Having gone through 616 entries, the jury of the 61st FAD Awards, with Fuensanta Nieto chairing, named the winners. The FAD Award for Architecture went to the Playa Flamenca Secondary School in Orihuela (Alicante), by Alfredo Payá, praised for addres

The winners of the four categories of the fourth European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention (AADIPA), given in a ceremony held in June at the Catalonia Institute of Architects (COAC) in Barcelona, are: under Intervention in Built Heritage

The recipients of the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards were announced on 21 May. These are among the most high-profile prizes in the profession, and the year 2019 has reaped a total of twenty-five recognitions in sixteen countries of t

Justo Isasi   On 25 April a Portuguese cartoonist’s drawing in the international edition of The New York Times sparked off a universal storm of controversy. Moreira’s silent but scathing commentary on the bond between President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu w