Luis Fernández-Galiano   We suffer memory disorders. Both individuals and societies need to balance memory and oblivion, defining personal or collective identity and at the same time clearing the mind to let the new come in. However, today we suffer from both excessive and e

Eduardo Prieto   Symbols of a dramatic epoch, modern monuments have had to revive an ancient function of architecture, perhaps its most essential one: remembering the dead. 

AAPP / Agence d’Architecture Philippe Prost   France   Posed on the site of one of the bloodiest battles waged during the Great War, the huge ring lists on its inside the names of the 579,606 of different nationalities who perished. 

BBGK Architekci   Poland   Surrounded by military constructions and connected to a dramatic accessway made of concrete walls, a forest of oak trees grows in Warsaw to commemorate the Katyn Massacre.

SET architects   Italy   Set on a floor of gravel, with its distinct sound when trod on, the stelas of CorTen steel evoke with their rigid modularization the bunk beds that lined the sheds of the extermination camp.

Barclay & Crousse Arquitectos   Peru   Inserted into a cliff in Lima and echoing the surroundings through its materials, the memorial seeks to foster reconcitiation among Peruvians in the wake of decades of violence.

Interviews with Antonio Lamela, Federico Correa, and Antonio Vázquez de Castro make up the third set of the Arquia/maestros audiovisual series. 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The precocious author of the mythical Caño Roto managed to reconcile social commitment and public service with building innovation and urban sensibility. 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Pragmatic and efficient, this builder of large-scale works in Madrid united rational rigor and the visionary spirit that made him a pioneer of globalization. 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Always with his partner Alfonso Milà., this refined designer enriched Barcelona with buildings and shops that combined modernity, history, and the vernacular.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Theory gets bad press. The English-speaking academe has led architectural thought so far from professional practice that ‘theory’ only arouses suspicion. Nevertheless, architecture is also built with ideas, and exploring how these develop in time thr

Richard Ingersoll   Although climate-change-denier recently assumed power in the USA, all knowledgeable sources agree that the planet has entered a new geological phase, defined by Paul Crutzen as the ‘Anthropocene.’ After two centuries of intense human-produced gases r

Esteban Domínguez, David Gómez   The citizen of the 21st century demands to live in an ever more ecological and sustainable environment, where transportation is provided with vehicles that pollute less, where the air that one breathes is cleaner, where large parks and gardens abound

VTN Architects   Vietnam   Vietnam is historically an agricultural country, but accelerated economic changes in the last decades are sending young people out of the countryside and into the cities, which have become increasingly polluted ecosystems. To address the situation th

Studio Marco Vermeulen   Netherlands   Part of a nationwide safety proram of the Netherlands is the Biesbosch Museum Island, located on ground that formerly was the 4,450-hectare Noordwaard polder and which has now been transformed into a water-retention area. The project worked on a pree

Cai Yongjie, Cao Ye   China   The earthquake that hit Wenchuan County on 12 May 2008 was the second deadliest ever to be recorded in China, leaving close to 70,000 dead, 375,000 wounded, and losses estimated at 123,000 million dollars. Built in the locality of Qushan (Sichuan pro

Arquitectura-G   Spain   The revamp of a small agricultural construction in Santa Margarida de Montbui (Barcelona) involved, firstly, an intervention on the lot, creating where there was no preamble between the hut and the fields an artificial transition. This translates int

A symbol of modern tragedies, Guernica turns 80 years old, and to celebrate this, the Reina Sofía Museum has inaugurated a major exhibition titled ‘Pity and Terror: Picasso’s Path to Guernica.’ It has also been twenty-five years since the mural-sized

Photography played a fundamental role in the construction and propagation of the iconography – and also ideology – of modern architecture. In Spain, drawing attention to architectural photography has been the main mission of the research group FAME,

One of the last remaining masters of Spanish modernity died on 1 April in Madrid. A 1954 graduate of the Madrid School of Architecture, Antonio Lamela devoted his practical intelligence to creating a practice of the kind then unknown in Spain, driven

Despite all the media hype surrounding the opening of the CaixaForum of Seville, it’s hard not to succumb to nostalgia if we compare the building with what it could have been: the poetic intervention at the Royal Dockyards that the Caixa Foundation b

Prejudice associates Frank O. Gehry with bulbous shapes and buildings that do not hide their iconic natures, but actually flaunt them. However, it must not be forgotten that Gehry’s career began with a series of Californian collage houses whose pover

Ever incisive when reflecting on the work of fellow architects and his own, Rafael Moneo knows full well that every architectural exhibition is a metonymy, referring to a truly important reality – buildings – through elements that represent them – ph

Felicity D. Scott   Architecture has long served as a means of protection against the environment (both ‘natural’ and man-made) and simultaneously as a discipline whose concern was the materialization, organization, and representation of the life taking place within tha

Miroslaw Nizio   Poland   The German occupation of Poland from 1939 to 1945 was one of the most atrocious episodes of the already in itself atrocious Second World War. Not only did it wipe out the country’s Jewish population; it also carried out the systematic destruction of