Luis Fernández-Galiano   Milan hasn’t reinvented the expos, but has organized one better than many. The visionary original concept of Jacques Herzog – together with Italian architect Stefano Boeri, British urbanist Ricky Burdett, American green architect William McDonough an

Fulvio Irace   The climate of economic and social austerity has pushed away the gimmicky formulas of previous universal expositions in favor of simpler and more sustainable architecture.

Richard Ingersoll, Simona Galateo   The urbanization layer that globalization has brought to Milan takes the form of trademark buildings which stimulate gentrification and alter the city’s skyline and traditional scheme.

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos   Italy   A good part of the success of Spain’s agricultural production can be attributed to a combination of tradition and innovation: that is the argument proposed at the Spanish Pavilion, illustrated by way of siamese gable-roof sheds, with a markedly elong

Wolfgang Buttress, Tristan Simmonds   Italy   Inspired in the metaphor of the hive, the pavilion is built with 169,300 pieces of golden aluminum which palpitate at the rhythm of a real swarm of bees 1,500 kilometers away.

XTU   Italy   Formed by a very dense scheme of beams of laminated wood, the seemingly closed tree-like building contains a large public square within it.

Nemesi & Partners   Italy   Taking on the appearance of an urban forest, the pavilion unfurls its volume from four stumps around a central clearing, dressing up with a skin that decontaminates the air.

Herzog & de Meuron   Italy   Located in the quietest part of the fairgrounds, the Slow Food pavilion is made up of three wooden-framed cabins arranged around a triangular courtyard.

team.breathe.austria   Italy   An exact wooden prism is mixed with a small forest of plants and trees, misting nozzles, and ventilators with which it succeeds in producing enough oxygen for 1,800 visitors.

Studio Arthur Casas, Atelier Marko Brajovic   Italy   The translucent net of the Brazilian Pavilion evokes the country’s rich agricultural tradition through a panoptic scheme that, however, offers visitors different paths through the interior.

Undurraga Devés arquitectos   Italy   Aunque desde lejos aparenta ser un volumen compacto, de cerca el pabellón chileno revela su rico entramado de vigas de madera que es a la vez su piel y sus huesos.

Atsushi Kitagawara   Italy   The thickly set grid of the facade has been constructed following the principles of the Japanese ‘cidori’ tradition, where neither nails nor glues are used.

Studio Link-Arc   Italy   The waves of the undulating roof, built with laminated wood and bamboo, suggest the fusion of cities and nature, and reinterpret the codes of traditional Chinese architecture. 

Foster + Partners   Italy   Evoking the desert experience, the pavilion presents two large walls stretching sinuously to offer a long exhibition route that ends in a small oasis.

Daniel Libeskind   Italy   The organic form of the building and the 4,000 decontaminating scales cladding its skin metaphorically refer to he dragon, the protector of harvests in Chinese culture.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The first answer to our rhetorical question is indeed that food has always been big. From the struggle for life as a struggle for food to contemporary food crazes, nourishment has always been a big issue for our bodies and our minds. But only of late

amid.cero9   Spain   The Francisco Giner de los Ríos Foundation was established in 1916 with the mission of safeguarding the heritage of the Free Educational Institution (Institución Libre de Enseñanza or ILE), created by the educator Francisco Giner de los Ríos together

Rafael Moneo   Spain   The project for the new Museum University of Navarre started out with the donation of the art collection of María Josefa Huarte – daughter of the Navarrese entrepreneur Félix Huarte Goñi –, who promoted the construction of a center to display these w

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Modern architecture through case studies: so goes the original title of the work of Peter Blundell Jones (complemented in the second volume by a younger colleague, Eamonn Canniffe): ‘case studies’ is different from the term ‘model’ used in the Spanis

François Chaslin   Was Le Corbusier a fascist? This is the question that has made headlines thanks to a combination of events. On the one hand, the opening of the grand exhibition that the Centre Pompidou in Paris devotes to Le Corbusier on the occasion of the fiftieth

David Rivera   Modern Movement architecture was born amid manifestos and controversies, and from the very start came with an impressive retinue of manuals and monographs. Orthodox history itself and the genealogies of modern architecture took off with force in 1923

Erik Gunnar Asplund, GAJD arkitekter   Sweden   The intervention has brought back the original plaster tones that Asplund conceived in 1938 to merge the two parts of the building in an organic whole; tones which had been adulterated by successive repaintings.

Alvar Aalto   Russia   Funded by a Finnish entity and executed by a local team, the scientific restoration of this modern masterwork has made it possible to bring back the original design and materials of Alvar Aalto.

Erich Mendelsohn, Auer Weber Architekten   Germany   While the facade has recovered its old veneer of limestone, in the interior –laid out around a new small atrium –the restoration was limited to a cleaning and a repainting of the original finishes. 

Today the world produces more food than it consumes, and yet 800 million people go hungry. Figures of this nature, and of course the fact that gastronomy is one of the strongholds of the culture and economy of Italy, explain the ‘Feeding the Planet’

The Icelander Einar Thorsteinn was one of the Pythagorean architects: those who see in geometry not a rigid scheme, but an intuitive living tool. This was thanks to his admiration of Buckminster Fuller and to his collaboration with Frei Otto, also re

Six years have passed since the old building of the Whitney Museum on the corner of Madison Avenue and East 75th Street in New York closed its doors for good with a multitudinary retrospective show of Jeff Koons, and now the new Whitney has just open

Few architectural types have evolved as little, in the course of history, as stadiums have. When certain sporting activities began to become mass phenomena early in the 20th century, the answer was to erect buildings which to a great extent were simp

The leadership of the Communist Party is very worried: China is growing by only 7.4%, the lowest rate since the Tiananmen revolt in 1990. Some analysts consider this slow growth proof of the depletion of a system based exclusively on exports and offe

With its population of 82 million, Egypt is not only the oldest country in the world, but the main cultural reference for its neighbors, and until the Arab Spring also an oasis of apparent calm in the powder keg that the Middle East is. Now that the

G. Lipovetsky, Jean Serroy   The 21st-century person is a city person. A person of ever lower cities under a chaotic, aggressive, ‘monstrous’ light. But at the same time, the industrial city of productive capitalism tends to give way to the city of leisure, the shopping city who