Luis Fernández-Galiano   Architecture needs industry, but industry does not ask for architects too often. More than a century after the Werkbund’s foundation, the necessary cross fertilization between art and industry is, in many geographical areas, a purpose rather than a p

Ramón Araujo   Recent times have been closely bound to cement production and cheap energy sources, but only industrialization will enable us to meet the environmental challenges of today.

Hombre de Piedra, Buró 4 Arquitectos   Spain   Completely constructed with shipping containers transformed beforehand in the factory, the new cruise terminal of the city of Seville was set up in less than fifteen days.

Shigeru Ban   Switzerland   On a site measuring 1,000 square meters, beside the Sihl Canal in Zurich, rises this seven-story block that is meant to be the seat of a local enterprise offering multimedia services and built with a single wooden structure that is the largest of its

Picharchitects/Pich-Aguilera   Spain   An efficient U-shaped floor plan distributes the program of a school whose structure and enclosure were executed with components of prefabricated concrete.

Huggenbergerfries Architekten   Switzerland   Pieces of special clinker bricks – sinterized and resistant to humidity, and fixed to a total of 171 frames – form the facade of this clinic located up in the Swiss Alps.

Mecanoo   Netherlands   With its double ceramic and botanical facade, three small towers contain 186 room modules that were preassembled in the factory and set up on site on a structural steel grid.

Hugh Broughton Architects   Antarctica   Raised on pneumatic legs and transportable by means of skis, the modules of this station were preassembled in South Africa and installed in the Antarctic in a matter of twelve weeks.

Antonio Almagro   It sometimes happens that a work of restoration does not exalt heritage, but is an alibi for subjecting it to the dictates of the modern language. 

Léon Krier   In a foreword to the Spanish edition of his book ‘The Architecture of Community’, Léon Krier condemns the excesses of recent urban development.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Ten years ago the architect and professor José Joaquín Parra Bañón published his doctoral thesis on architectural thought in the work of José Saramago, and almost simultaneously sent to the printer’s his treatises on poliorcetica (siegecraft), two co

Enrique Encabo   It was in 1997 that MVRDV took the architectural world by storm by presenting, in a few months, four unquestionable works: the cantilevered WoZoCo in Amsterdam, Villa VPRO and the half-buried RVU tablet in Hilversum, and the Double House in Utrecht.

Daniel Dávila   Does archit ectural theory need a neurobiological base? If so, what are the consequences? Harry Francis Mallgrave of the Illinois Institute of Technology has published Architecture and Embodiment to offer an overview of this perspective that is not a

Javier García-Gutiérrez Mosteiro   A study on perspective raises the question of whether it is still possible to throw new light on this technique of depicting volumes and space that from the Quattrocento to the early 20th century much determined how architecture and painting were con

Arquitectos Ayala   Spain   The building on Abelias street belongs to the first construction phase of a larger complex consisting of two buildings located on either side of the A-2 highway, to the northeast of Madrid. The compound spreads from one plot to another in a natu

Alejandro Bernabeu   The idea of defying the law of gravity has moved architects and engineers, who use subtle strategies of structural illusionism to make buildings appear to ‘float’. 

The prefabricated, light and transportable module has deserved a lot of attention and research in modern architecture, but today its presence is rather modest, not to say scarce. The account of this elementary type could perhaps begin with Charlotte

Designed by Miguel de Guzmán and the studio Veidimanna Protum, the single-family house is located in El Espinar, a small town in the mountains north of Madrid. The plot has a privileged location, on the boundary of the town next to the Natural Park o

Designed by the Murcia-based architecture studio Adhoc msl, the Prefab Home draws inspiration from the typical cottages found on the Spanish Mediterranean coast, which are quite successful at addressing the basic dwelling requirements. This system ai

Industrialized construction has many advantages: it enhances building quality, improves work conditions, reduces building time and, in theory, also costs. All this without giving up typological freedom and achieving a good energy efficiency. These as

In spite of unfounded expectations, Madrid’s bid to host the Olympic Games of 2020 turned out the loser in a race with Tokyo and Istanbul where the Spanish capital was weighed down, most of all, by the economic and political difficulties afflicting a

In recognition of a six-decade career, the critic and historian Joseph Rykwert has been given the RIBA Gold Medal, awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects since 1848. Born in Warsaw in 1926 and an emigré to London at the outbreak of Wor

Luis Fernández-Galiano was named a RIBA International Fellow, a for-life distinction given to non-UK architects who have contributed significantly to the field. The RIBA also granted fellowships to the Spaniards Alberto Campo Baeza and Fernando Márq

Luis Fernández-Galiano   We cry out for transparency while clamoring for privacy. The blurred lines between public and private, however, make it hard to address these opposed demands. On one hand, the political conflict extends to the personal lives of elected and appointed