Luis Fernández-Galiano   Fingers save us from the digital. Beyond the etymological paradox, the reality they perceive serves as material support before the unsettling evanescence of the virtual. When the context dissolves into pixels or bits, the tactile recovers the sense o

Richard Sennett   When they are misused, digital media can come to separate human knowledge from the manual, direct, and repetition-based learning on which the crafts have always been founded.

Diébédo Francis Kéré, Kéré Architecture   Burkina Faso   Located on the outskirts of Koudougou, the third most populated city of Burkina Faso, the new Lycée Schorge building draws inspiration from traditional settlements in this part of West Africa, offering reinterpretations of vernacular building materia

Foster + Partners   Switzerland   Abandoned for many decades, to the point of extreme disrepair, the Kulm Eispavilion in the Alpine resort village of St. Moritz – built in 1905 and used as venue of the Olympic Winter Games held in 1928 and 1948 – has been refurbished with two princi

Atelier U20   Germany   The semi-open courtyard and the timber latticeworks with patterns inspired in Islamic motifs, create a warm and friendly atmosphere for refugees arriving in Germany.

Assemble   United Kingdom   Erected with artisanal materials and methods for less than 80,000 pounds, the modular building can be dismantled completely and the reassembled in another location. 

Gabinete de Arquitectura   Paraguay   Built with prefabricated components made with bits of ceramic and recycled glass mixed with mortar, the lattice stretches the whole breadth of the lot without touching the ground. 

Ensamble Studio   United States   Located on around 5,000 hectares of cattle ranch in Fishtail, Montana, at the northern edge of Yellowstone National Park, the Tippet Rise Art Center is a new destination for art, where music, sculpture, and architecture engage in dialogue with the po

Juhani Pallasmaa, Eduardo Souto de Moura   Eduardo Souto de Moura and Juhani Pallasmaa talk about the challenges of globalization and the role of the local in the context of todays architecture. 

Luis Fernández-Galiano, Renzo Piano   Question: Thank you so much for receiving us in your home here in Punta Nave, near Genoa, your hometown, where you were born almost eighty years ago. You turn 80 in September, and this is perhaps a good moment to go through your biography. An asteroi

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The book by Juan Benet is already fifty years old. A half-century has passed  during which the nation Spain has gone from bimillenial to bicentennial and ended up a mythical space not unlike the novelist’s Región or Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha. Myt

Alejandro Bernabeu, Jorge Bernabeu   Footbridges are not just for crossing. They long ago ceased to be mere structures for overcoming obstacles. Footbridges now are experiences, more than constructions. They give places a fresh narrative, creating new spaces, reinterpreting structural t

MVRDV   South Korea   Located in the very heart of Seoul, an overpass for vehicles, 16 meters high at its highest and built with steel and reinforced concrete, has been transformed into a huge elevated walkway almost a kilometer long that is part of an ambitious project t

Rintala Eggertsson Architects   Norway   The design of this footbridge over the river Vosso, in the municipality of Vossevangen, addresses two fundamental requirements: to take advantage of the piers of an old suspension bridge raised on the same spot before being destroyed by floods; and t

Next Architects   China   Designed to connect the two parts of the city of Changsha’s urban expansion by spanning the river, this pedestrian bridge is inspired in the Chinese art of knotting and takes on the form of a Moebius strip. This makes it possible to connect multiple

Fernanda Canales   Mexico   Located in the State of Mexico, the Bruma House had to address three fundamental questions: the first was how to build in the middle of a forest without felling a single tree; the second was how to open up the home to both the morning and the afterno

En 1982 Félix de Azúa daba cuenta de la decadencia cultural que, según él, se iba cerniendo sobre la capital catalana, en un artículo cuyo título no podía ser más explícito: ‘Barcelona es el Titanic’. Con todo, Barcelona no se hundió. Diez años despu

After a long illness, Luis Maldonado Ramos passed away in Cádiz on 21 August. Chair Professor of Architectural Construction and Technology at Madrid Polytechnic (UPM), Maldonado was a leader in the field of architectural restoration and rehabilitatio

Though it was hard for them to escape the long shadows of the men who were their husbands and often also mentors, there were not a few women artists at the Bauhaus who had voices of their own. The most outstanding among them – both because of the fie

It can hardly be said that Robert and Sonia Delaunay are unknown in Spain. Their work has been the theme of exhibitions here since the very first one organized by the Juan March Foundation, in Madrid, in 1982. What distinguishes the current show at t

At this point of his career, Rafael Moneo probably looks upon awards and distinctions with a certain distance. But it is definitely still good news that Spain’s most influential architect, at 80 years of age, continues to garner international recogni

Created in 1961, the Gold Medal of the International Union of Architects (UIA) seeks to “honour professionals whose qualities, talents, and actions have had an international impact on the diverse sectors of architectural practice.” This sounds rathe

Bunkers have always tended to fascinate architects, who have seen them less as having a terrible function than as expressions of powerful and disturbing beauty. The immense faceted or rounded walls of the fortifications and casemates that were suppos

The metaphor of the fold had a big following among architects during the 1990s, owing to the influence of Gilles Deleuze’s abstruse theses on the Baroque. and to their supposed affinity with the faceted architectures wrapped up in themselves that wer

Evoking the events Seville Expo, Barcelona GamesWith the Seville Expo and the Olympic Games of Barcelona, Spain lived in 1992 an annus mirabilis. Twenty-five years later, the two cities have commemorated this anniversary with a crop of exhibitions an

Carlos Jiménez   Naming a storm in the Gulf of Mexico during hurricane season can be like playing Russian roulette. Sometimes an endearing, even musically named storm turns lethal in a sudden atmospheric spin. Take Hurricane Rita, for instance, a category 5 tropical