Luis Fernández-Galiano   Ernest Hemingway published The Sun Also Rises in 1926, a novel that would become paradigmatic of the Lost Generation. In it, a group of characters travel from Paris to Madrid with an obligatory stopover at the Sanfermines in Pamplona, described in de

The year 2024 is the birth centenary of José María García de Paredes and Rafael de La-Hoz, two architects who, before embarking on their solid individual careers, took their first steps in the profession together. To commemorate both centennials, Arq

Many masters with extensive careers behind them ‘disown’ their early works, judging them inconsistent with their later output and attributing them to inexperience or young ardor. Such introspective thoughts tend to coincide with critical revisions: h

Kenneth Frampton   The Seville-born master’s birth centenary is being celebrated in Madrid with an exhibition at Museo ICO, for the catalog of which the British critic has written an extensive assessment of his career…

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The architect of Cordovan roots was an exponent of Spanish modernity, and for his centenary we reproduce the speech delivered at the Academy to celebrate his posthumous Gold Medal…

José María García de Paredes , Rafael de La-Hoz Arderius   Spain   Under the influence of Gio Ponti, the sinuous expressivity and exquisite materiality of the interiors seek to turn an administrative program into a genuine experience of space. The efficient layout, the fruit of an exhaustive study of references, is

Rafael de La Hoz, Ángela García de Paredes   Spain   A university residence run by the Dominican order presents a rigorous composition of brick volumes that nevertheless maintain a certain degree of formal autonomy. The bedrooms take up the vertical block, arranged in pairs along continuous balconies,

Estrella de Diego   Rosario de Velasco certainly lacks no ingredient to qualify as a ‘one-painting artist,’ that sort of single hit in the career of an artist who, supposedly, produces no further special work, whatever the reason: shortage of talent, marriage, lack of o

Stefano Corbo   When approaching Naples from the sea, one particular building immediately stands out, emerging from the dense fabric of the historic city and dramatically impacting its skyline: the infamous skyscraper that was built for the insurance company Societa

Luis Fernández-Galiano   First published in French, Le labyrinthe des égarés: L’Occident et ses adversaires (2023) and La défaite de l’Occident (2024) appear simultaneously in Spanish and present opposite versions of the decline of the West. Although both the Lebanese-born F

Eduardo Prieto   One way in which those fragments of cosmic dust we call humans have left traces of their time in the world has been by asking questions about the world: why we are here, what this all is, how it works. The first question has resulted in a trunk of kn

Alberto Ballesteros   As in opera, among architects there have been distinguished deaths. But being struck by a tram, disappearing in the high seas, or collapsing in the toilets of a train station are but the final scenes of existences that on the whole were intense, frui

Enrique Morillo   What makes a house a home? The walls that shape it? The people who live in it? Maybe the objects that adorn it? Answering these seemingly obvious questions has been the obsession or dream of many. So, beyond its purpose as a shelter, ideas on the hou

Kosme de Barañano   the life of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) has been fodder for countless publications and famous films, from Abel Gance’s work of 1927 (with a runningtime of five hours and a half) to Ridley Scott’s of 2023 (four hours), yet little has been written a

Seated on chairs conferred on them by their credentials, professors preached while the students, sitting on long benches or standing on the sides of the room when there was no more space for them, listened with attention, took down notes, or succumbe

Gustav Düsing, Max Hacke   Germany   The organizational principle behind this project was based on the idea of a superstructure allowing for constant reconfiguration of the floor plan. The two-level, glass-clad building raised for the Technical University of Braunschweig, in the German

Beaudouin Architectes, MGM Morales De Giles Arquitectos   France   Located between the main campus avenue and the university’s residential area, the project seeks an open and permeable building, which invites students to a space for collaboration, research, and work that is easy to use and get around. The position a

Selgascano, Diego Cano-Lasso   United States   In Mount Washington, a suburb in the hills of northeast Los Angeles, this house with impressive views of downtown LA adapts to the very steep lot it sits on, which faces southwest, making it necessary to shield the house against strong sunlight. Tube

Gabriel Gallegos Borges   Spain   The architect Gabriel Gallegos Borges (Valladolid, 1956) was commissioned to adapt Villa Fabriciano, completed by Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza in 1994, into a cultural facility for Torrelodones, a municipality of the Madrid metropolitan area. The b

Luis Machuca   Spain   The route acknowledges the writer Antonio Muñoz Molina’s close ties to the city of his birth, Úbeda, which in 2003 was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It goes through architectural pieces and outdoor places that form a backdrop for his literat

Holy, Turism, Barcelona

The word ‘tourism’ is a reminder that there is nothing new about traveling to certain places. Yet it is hard to find many parallelisms between the voyages of those aristocratic scholars and amateurs who passionately surerendered themselves to a long,

Just like Beatriz de Moura and Esther Tusquets, Rosa Regàs belonged to a generation of rich kids – cultivated and naughty at the same time – that made Barcelona a haven of freedom and creativity in the death throes of the dictatorship. A woman of gre

Mestres Wåge Arquitectes, Mendoza Partida, BAX studio   Norway   The Kunstsilo Art Gallery has opened in what was a grain silo raised in the 1930s, in the Norwegian city of Kristiansand. The transformation of the huge agricultural facility built with reinforced concrete to harbor a collection of over 5,500 Nordic

Prokš Přikryl architekti   Czech Republic   Standing on the banks of the Chrudimka River, the Automatic Mills of the city of Pardubice, a work of the Czech architect Josef Gočár, were built in 1909. A grain silo was added in 1924. The mills ran uninterruptedly for over a century, until 2013, a

Assemble, BC Architects & Studies   France   Le Magasin Électrique is part of a complex previously used for the construction and maintenance of trains, built in the mid-19th century, and now harboring the Luma Arles art center. The revamp begin in 2013 and gave rise to the Frank Gehry-designed

Barozzi Veiga   Spain   The firm led by Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga won the competition to build the Astoria Cultural Center in the historical core of Málaga. It will go up at Plaza de la Merced, on the site of the old Astoria y Victoria cinemas, integrating the arch

Frade Arquitectos, Luca Poian Forms   Spain   The ‘San Carlos’ scheme submitted by Frade Arquitectos – Luca Poian Forms has been named overall winner of the preliminary-design competition for the Alicante City Congress Center. Selected from a pool of 121 entries, ‘San Carlos’ takes the defense f

Barceló Balanzó Arquitectes   Spain   The capital of the island of Menorca, Mahón, boasts the Mediterranean’s largest natural harbor, a dynamic hub that day after day sees the coming and going of passengers and merchandise without ceasing to be a place of remarkable beauty. Antoni Barcel

Estudio Acta   Spain   This is a 30-kilometer-long infrastracture that connects the towns of Huelva, Aljaraque, and Gibraleón, bringing them closer to the great environmental, scenic, botanical, zoological, and built wealth that encompasses the vast protected natural space

Colectivo C733    Mexico   San Blas is one of the historical towns of the Riviera Nayarita, which stretches along the coast of the Mexican state of Nayarit. The Secretariat of Agrarian, Land, and Urban Development (SEDATU) sponsored the project to adapt the San Blas Pier to se

SOA architekti, Ateliér Koncept   Czech Republic   The Czech city of Aš – close to the bank of the Ohře, a tributary of the Elbe River, and to the German border – has a Park of Memories that harnesses the area’s geographical and symbolic potential. The objective of the project was to honor the past a

Luis Fernández-Galiano   With the attempt to assassinate him, Trump steps up from history to myth. More than thirty years ago we gave him space in these pages, in line with the publication of The Art of the Deal, part memoir and part property developer’s manual, and his arri