Luis Fernández-Galiano   Spanish architecture abroad knows a sweet moment. From large-scale works to ephemeral pavilions, and from Ivy League universities to major exhibitions, talent bred in Spain fertilizes a truly kaleidoscopic cultural scene. Certainly, this phenomenon i

Inmaculada Maluenda, Enrique Encabo   The crisis aside, the success of Spanish architects in other countries can be attributed to a versatile university program and market regulations which, however, are now under duress.

Selgascano   United Kingdom   Occupying an old factory, Second Home is a multifaceted office building whose brick facades conceal a fluid atmosphere full of reflections and botanical accents.

Barozzi Veiga   Poland   Like a glacier splinter trapped in the heart of the city, the building gives character to an area that was much destroyed by bombings of the Allied air forces during World War II.

RCR Arquitectes   France   The museum devoted to Pierre Soulages – artist born in 1919, one of the fathers of informalism in France – rises in a park of his hometown, Rodez, very close to the great Gothic cathedral that lords over the urban fabric. The location determines the

Josep Lluís Mateo   Portugal   On the renovated Largo da Devesa square rise the two cantilevering concrete volumes of a cultural center that harbors an exhibition hall, a museum, and a skating rink.

Linazasoro & Sánchez Arquitectura   France   Compositional rigor, formal abstraction, and contemporary materials define a project that manages to strike up a dialogue with the types and codes of the past.

Rafael Moneo   United States   The complex comprises interconnected spaces for neuroscience and psychology. A solution might have been to break up the complex into pavilions. Instead, the program presents two sections sharing a large entrance foyer, which encourages contact and co

Kenneth Frampton   At his investiture as Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Alcalá, Kenneth Frampton spoke of the virtues that have made Spanish architecture so admired abroad.

Oriol Bohigas   Founder of Grupo R and part of a generation marked by the Spanish Civil War, Sostres remained committed to the principles of modernity.

Guilherme Wisnik   A founder of the Paulista School, Vilanova Artigas built works characterized by the combination of structural power and social commitment.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Author of an extensive body of work that goes from the intímate to the public, the writer and journalist Vicente Verdú has also practiced architectural criticism, and lately even painting, as the canvas illustrating the cover of his latest book attes

Peter Eisenman   Michael Graves was a hero. Let me tell you why that is important. Today, in a time when ‘starchitects’ are denigrated openly and derisively – not only in the media, but also, absurdly, in the profession – to be called a hero is to receive a badge of

Pepa Cassinello   Maybe it was chance, not the consequence of a premeditated search, but over 3,000 years ago, man found a way to make iron more resistant: by mixing it with carbon. Thus was born the alloy that metallurgical engineering calls steel. The oldest known a

ACXT Arquitectos   Spain   The main purpose of this laboratory for the company Arteche in the municipality of Mungia, in the province of Vizcaya, is to accommodate a large space for testing high-voltage transformers. Such a specific and dangerous use made it necessary for the

China   Situated in an upscale shopping center, this building draws inspiration from the watery flow that metaphorically determined the masterplan of the complex. The flow is expressed not only through the warped skin over the entire building, but especially

Ahlbrecht Felix Scheidt Kasprusch   Germany   This archive in Essen addresses two requirements. On the one hand, it had to respect and enhance the preexisting construction, raised in the year 1906. On the other hand, it was to enlarge the existing building with an archive facility that would be

Joliark architects   Sweden   Conceived in the manner of a dollhouse, this building located in the city of Stockholm contains forty-four apartments, distributed in two volumes. Its main points of interest from the point of view of construction are, first, its composition of twent

Tank Architectes   France   A result of the recycling of what was a police station, this media library is divided ito two parts, the entrance area and the reading room. The former is situated in the pavilion that was previously occupied by the police facilities, and the latter,

Es cierto: no hay que hacer mudanzas en tiempos de tribulación. Al menos no hay que hacerlas en aquello que funciona, o incluso funciona bien. Tal puede aplicarse en la enseñanza de la arquitectura en España y, en particular, en su escuela más antigu

One of Mexico’s most exceptional architects, Carlos Mijares, passed away on 19 March. Born in the federal capital in 1930, he held a chair at the UNAM, where he had graduated in 1952 and to which he remained closely linked. Endowed with a sharp artis

First the opening of the Picasso Museum, then the arrival of part of the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, turned the southern Spanish city of Málaga into an art hub on a regional scale. One can now rightly call it an art hub on a national scale

Conceived at the same time that the euro was born, and built in Frankfurt as a concession to a Germany fearful of losing the Deutschemark, the headquarters of the European Central Bank has been inaugurated at the worst possible time. The discrediting

Luis Fernández-Galiano   We need mayors for the big and the small. The coming municipal elections will be taking place in the terrain of political trademarks rather than in that of civic programs, because they are perceived as the first round of the general elections schedul