Luis Fernández-Galiano   Modernity turned each house into a manifesto, and the history of architecture in the 20th century can be summed up with domestic constructions that became milestones in a journey of discovery. This tradition of expressing the aesthetic intentions of

Ana Tostões   In the fifties and sixties, the house was the experimentation laboratory through which modernity was introduced in Spain and Portugal, but also subjected to revision.

RCR Arquitectes   Spain   Opening on to a garden, life in this residence is freely distributed through a series of platforms which appropriate the void left by the walls and the roof of an old construction.

estudio_entresitio   Spain   Conceived to be an ‘unapparent’ volume, the house is fractured and dislocated in concatenated spaces, bathed in light and open to the landscape, into which it merges.

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   In a marvelous place, a piece of earthly paradise, we have built an infinte plane facing the infinite sea, the most radical house we have ever made. Facing the Atlantic Ocean, on the very water’s edge on a beach of Cádiz, not far from the ruins of Bo

João Paulo Loureiro   Portugal   A concrete slab stretching 84 meters, built with prestressing techniques, engages in dialogue with a stone plinth and shelters two fully glazed pavilions. 

Aires Mateus   Portugal   Dominated by its imposing monastery, one of Portugal’s largest and most beautiful, the town of Alcobaça is a cluttered ensemble of white volumes which tend to open out to an inner court or a backyard. Right in the heart of the old quarter stands this

Fernando Serapiao   A disciple of Oscar Niemeyer, Lelé concentrated his social commitment on the study and development of construction types and systems.

Guilherme Wisnik   Born a hundred years ago, Bo Bardi found in the cultural life of Brazil the humus of an at once festive and socially committed architecture.

Eduardo Prieto   “A legendary magazine of the West Coast.” Thus begins the foreword to the facsimile reprint – in ten volumes and 6,076 pages – of Arts & Architecture, the California magazine published from 1945-1954 and since recently available in ‘pocketbook’ f

Pepa Cassinello   It was she herself, Mother Nature, who first fabricated concrete, and the Stone Age man was first to imitate it. Not in vain. In the beginning it was a material formed simply by mixing natural abiotic elements, small dry stones, conglomerate dust (p

EM2N Architekten   The sheer dimensions of this hangar located in the railway hub of Zurich-Herdern will allow the maintenance of intercity trains of the Swiss train network. It rises two floor heights and stretches 400 meters. The function of the railway facility dete

Buchner Bründler Architekten   Switzerland   Located in Linescio, a small municipality in the remote Rovana valley of the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, this house is built on a 200-year-old construction, of robust stonemasonry walls and a rustic wooden frame, that was originally used as

Tchoban & Kuznetsov   Germany   The facade of what is perhaps the world’s first museum ever to be devoted to displaying architectural drawings, in this case pieces belonging to the Tchoban Collection, is formed by four layers: an inner rendering of cement; an 11.5-centimeter-thick

Tillicharchitektur   Germany   The most iconic feature of this building completed outside Munich for a textile company is its facade, a dark surface characterized by countless folds, but built following a rigorous constructive seriation logic. The enclosure is made of prefabricat

Brasil Arquitetura   Brazil   This new performing arts center in São Paulo is situated on Praça das Artes, a place which gets its character through two representative historical buildings: the Dramatic and Musical Conservatory on the one hand, and the Cairo Cinema on the other. B

Saturado y cada vez menos competitivo, el Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad México (AICM) necesita una urgente ampliación: 470.000 metros cuadrados en un terreno aledaño a la actual infraestructura, que costarán unos 10.000 millones de dólares. L

Cada tres años desde 2004, la Fundación Holcim, con sede en Suiza, convoca los Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction para premiar, por regiones, proyectos de construcción que dan respuestas sostenibles a las cuestiones tecnológicas, medioambient

Frank Gehry returns to Paris with a huge building and a huge exhibition. The Louis Vuitton Foundation Center – a cloud, says the author, or perhaps a kind of armadillo with enormous scales of glass – will be opening its doors a few months after the a

Promoted by the oligarch and collector Roman Abramovich and directed by his wife, Daria Zhukova, the Iris Foundation recently announced the beginning of construction of the new location of the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow’s most inf

Tourists traveling today to the great city of Istanbul will be finding it harder to frame with their cameras and mobile phones the image that the age-old city has had up to very recently: that of a vast, dense, and ancient hamlet marked by the vertic

Having packed up whatever few belongings they had, the illegal residents of Torre de David in Caracas had to come down the stairs. There were no protests heard, not even from those who had been occupying the top floor, the 44th. After all, they had n

Ignacio Paricio   I have no doubt that two substantial vectors of the evolution of 21st-century architecture are sensuality and sustainability. Sustainability is unavoidable for obvious reasons, but architecture is also in debt to comfort. Sensuality, the pleasure of