Luis Fernández-Galiano   We will always have Italy. The grande bellezza of this second home for all architects often evokes the sweet melancholy of decadence, but the tireless vitality of this Mediterranean peninsula cannot be blurred by the overwhelming presence of history.

Fulvio Irace   Liberated from the yoke of typology and history, the new generation of architects integrates contemporary languages in the artisanal and contextual tradition of Italy.

Renzo Piano   Each year, Renzo Piano puts the salary he receives as a senator for life into developing projects addressing one of the major challenges of Italy’s cities: the degrading outskirts.

Fuksas   China   Designed on the basis of the extrusion of a standard section, the huge 1.5 kilometer tube and the two perpendicular wings of the terminal form a figure of biomorphic echoes.

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   United States   Since the opening of Louis Kahn’s building in 1972, the Kimbell Museum has been enlarging its collection, and with that, its needs have increased. It eventually became necessary to raise a pavilion that would accommodate a spacious gallery for tempor

Werner Tscholl   Italy   The 2,500 square meters of the school program are organized underground, so the only visible elements outside are a green roof, three square courtyards, and a silent stone wall.

Cino Zucchi, Park Associati   Italy   Constructed with post-stressed slabs of concrete and clad with a subtle skin of glass and aluminum, the mineral forms of the new building echo the surrounding mountains.

Cappai + Segantini architects   Italy   Besides providing new offices for the Law Courts of the city of Venice, the building becomes an urban infrastructure in freeing up ground area and giving it up to the street.

Labics   Italy   Opening on to the public space by means of two large pedestrian ramps, the compact building accommodates a complex program arranged in the manner of a miniature city.

Archea Associati   Italy   To blend the construction into the landscape and preserve the continuity of the vineyards, the entire functional program of this winery in Tuscany’s Chianti area is set underground.

Andrea Dragoni, Francesco Pes   Italy   The Gubbio Cemetery in Umbria has been enlarged with a dense scheme organized like a city whose open-air squares are inspired in the skies framed by the artist James Turrell. 

M. Centellas, P. García, J.P. Sanz   A promoter of the avant-gardes and a key figure in architecture, Fernández del Amo combined rationalist language with vernacular types.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The most important Dutch architect of the postwar period combined the large scale with iconic works that showed faith in technique and unbound optimism.

Léon Krier   Robert Stern’s work and influence as an architect, urbanist, historian, publisher, cultural patron, and educator are unique in the panorama of contemporary culture, breathtaking in their sheer output, consistent in their Olympian quality and professi

José Antonio Flores   What should good professors do when they retire? Put into writing everything they devoted their academic life to, before their teachings fall into oblivion. This is what Colin Rowe did with the original version of this book (2002), based on notes his

Abel Fernández   The history of modern architecture began with the demolition of long-held certainties. With foundations pushed away by enlightened ideas, architects went in search of a legitimizing principle for their discipline. The only certainty we can make out,

Ana Esteban Maluenda   Fernando Távora would tell his students that drawing was as natural as breathing. But what was truly natural was the way he taught and his ability to inoculate in his students the ‘virus’ of good architecture. His disciples have tried to explain what

Edgar González   Continuing the saga of the most prolific architects of recent times, the editor of the Architecture Now! series, Philip Jodidio, has now published a monograph on Zaha Hadid (Baghdad, 1950) that updates one of 2009 and is to date the most ambitious an

Pepa Cassinello   What’s worth more, a kilogram of stone or a kilogram of gold? With this question Adolf Loos began his famous text about building materials. The answer is simple. If the kilo of stone belongs to the Pantheon in Rome, Michelangelo’s Pietà, the Venus de

Max Dudler   Germany   Although a good part of the loss of Germany’s monumental heritage can rightly be attributed to the massive devastation inflicted during World War II, there are certain instances where the destruction took place centuries back. In the case of the medi

Kengo Kuma   South Korea   Located in the Korean Strait, the island of Jeju is a natural wonder whose unique ecosystem is the result of the eruptions of Mount Halla. Subjected to the action of meteors, solidified lava eventually begins to present the small and medium-sized ear

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   Near Oxford (England), on the campus of Ripon Theological College, the Bishop Edward King Chapel replaces a 19th-century temple. In terms of form the chapel is the result of a number of influences. The interior space has clear echoes of English Gothi

Terry Pawson   Austria   The new opera house of Linz is located between the station and the center of this historic Austrian city. Its form was determined by the shape of the lot, which borders on its short side with a public park, and on the other side with the railway trac

AbCT / Ramin Mehdizadeh   Iran   This apartment building is located in Mahallat, an ancient small city of Iran’s central region. As much as fifty percent of its economy is dependent on the stonecutting industry. The process of transforming stone continues to be extremely inefficient

Real Madrid finally has its icon. This time the club’s much-awaited new star is the stadium that after a long, two-phased competition full of twists and turns has been commissioned to the team formed by GMP Architekten, L-35, and Ribas & Ribas, perha

Manuel de las Casas died on 7 February in Madrid. He was born in 1940 in Talavera de la Reina, where he built his first work shortly after graduating in 1964. De las Casas had a long teaching career in the Madrid school, starting as assistant profess

With a ceremony not lacking in copious fireworks and dazzling performances, as the canon for big festivities rules, on 7 February the Winter Olympics opened in the Russian city of Sochi, a popular tourist center located on the Black Sea coast, culmin

New York’s MoMA announced its intention to demolish the American Folk Art Museum, a 2001 work of Tod Williams Billie Tsien. The decision has caused bewilderment because the champions of the campaign in defense of the building, Diller Scofidio + Renfr

Calatrava’s architecture gets a lot of media hype even when it fails. At the same time that cranes surrounded the Palau de les Arts opera house in order to strip it of its Gaudiesque mosaic cladding, other cranes and scaffolds – no less spectacular –

David Dobarco   The Gamonal neighborhood of Burgos was headline news for days. It was the scene of a residents’ rebellion provoked by municipal construction works that would supposedly improve the neighborhood and substitute 254 new underground parking spots (at a c