Luis Fernández-Galiano   Forty years ago, a group of young architects set up a studio and named it ‘Colectivo de arquitectura’. In an office of 3 x 30 meters, located over a garage ramp and with just one window, we aligned tables made with door boards resting on steel tubes,

Iván López Munuera   Recently, artist Lara Almarcegui pointed out that "one does not garden to generate the Great Lettuce but for the pleasure of the activity itself." Promoting and taking charge of a garden is an activity that can challenge the notions of productive hyp

Domenico di Siena   From a general point of view, two essential moments can be distinguished in recent Spanish architecture. One is its international prominence in recent years, the other consists of the development of an emerging movement that involves an opening of ar

Despite the undoubted generational affinities or architectural sensibilities that can often be detected among them, the collectives are a heterogeneous and diverse reality, open and continuously updated in their response to the conditions, also varia

Boamistura   Brazil   Formally, we understand a favela as an agglomeration of low-quality housing, which follows a model of 'self-construction' and a process of spontaneous creation, and which is arranged as a network that grows horizontally and vertically according to ne

mmmm…   United States   Meeting Bowls is a public art project carried out with the support of the Times Square Alliance, Spain Culture New York and the Spanish Ministry of Culture, and was located in the famous New York square between August and October 2011, during which t

Pez Estudio   Spain   .From the stackable dining room with tables and chairs to the hammock trolleys on which the elements are fitted for transport, including the kitchen and the sink, all the project's modules are recyclable. In addition, a network of small sensors monit

PKMN (pac-man)   Mexico   The gazebos, trolleys for reduced mobility, artificial trees, gazebos, seat-backpacks, benches and the portable museum are assembled to form the PAQUIME typography. All the pieces are painted red, to activate the surrounding landscape, evoking the co

Zuloark   Spain   The artifacts designed for 'La noche en blanco' were converted into urban equipment in areas that needed it, such as the Parque del Gallinero.

Ignacio Grávalos, Patrizia Di Monte   Spain   The proposals arise from the analysis of different plots of land located in the center of Zaragoza, empty spaces whose use can open new flows and urban perspectives. In them, the reading of the city is based on the codes of an 'unbuilt' urbanism, cap

Neightbourhood Management of Plaza de la Cebada   Spain   City Island, an ephemeral installation that for two weeks recovered the former use of the site, was the germ of El Campo de Cebada, an open and participatory project that aims to cover the needs of the neighborhood with events and meetings on a tempo

Self-managed Social Center of Lavapiés   Spain   La Tabacalera is one of the leading self-managed social centers in Spain. Organized with open structures in which agents from different disciplines participate, the center offers a wide program of activities, housed in the old industrial architecture

Zoohaus   Collective Intelligences is an open base of non-standardized construction details. While How much cable do you want? allows measuring lengths with an electricity meter and the Drum Lamp reuses plastic bottles, the Inkacycle prototype generates electr

Basurama   RUS addresses the problem of consumption and reuse of waste and waste space in cities through approaches to various cities around the world, of different character, size and population, but which share problems such as urban density or unequal access

Justo Isasi   With the recent death of Moebius, comics has lost one of its most personal creators, the creator of a vast dreamlike world in which the architectural settings are as important as the heroes who inhabit them.

Rafael Vetusto   Uncontrolled urbanism, the aesthetics of waste and the paradoxes of globalization are the target of the hilarious satires of Miguel Brieva, one of the fundamental authors of contemporary Spanish comics.

Estrella de Diego   In what is one of its most political editions, Documenta 13 opens up to cities all over the world, emphasizing the recovery of spaces wounded by history and marginalized by globalization.

Anna María Guasch   Although Rita McBride's formative years (1960), first at Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, New York) and later at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), respond to a minimalist orthodoxy in her use of geometric systems and standardized elem

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Paul Goldberger no escribe para arquitectos. Acaso por ello, algunos de estos le prestan poca atención: hacen mal. En el terreno de la arquitectura, el crítico neoyorquino ha sido la voz más influyente de su país durante varias décadas, con sus artíc

Ana Esteban Maluenda   There was a time when, when talking about journals, nobody considered whether they were indexed or not; they were simply known for their prestige and the quality of their contents. In fact, the days when periodicals were valued, rather than as a meas

Richard Ingersoll   When it was published in 2007, A Global History of Architecture promised to be the answer to a problem present in American architecture schools. While everyone agreed that the Western architectural canon was insufficient to train young architects, th

Jorge Sainz   "I went to Princeton to preach." In May 1930, when he delivered the Kahn Lectures at Princeton, Frank Lloyd Wright was going to be 63 years old; by then, he had already entered history: just for the works built up to 1910 (when he left his family and

Eduardo Prieto   It is true: Frederick Kiesler was a minor figure in twentieth-century architecture. But, as José Luis Luque writes in this exemplary biography of the controversial character, it is precisely the minor figures that set the tone of the times. Born in 1

Pablo del Ser   The turbulence of recent times affects all areas of our society, and of course also architecture. In Spain, the collapse of the economy in general and of the sector in particular has led to the inevitable questioning of professional fundamentals, som

Lys Villalba   Thousands of plastic containers, hundreds of used tires or dozens of pallets are garbage, aren't they? The fact is that not everything that is discarded has to have ceased to have a use, although it may seem that way. Questioning the possibilities of

Eduardo Prieto   Two centuries ago, Immanuel Kant observed, almost in passing, that "the hand is the window of the mind". Modern science has tried to confirm this fruitful idea, as has art and, in many ways, architecture as well. But while for the former the study of

Luis Játiva   When tweets mark the rhythm of a planet overflowing with information and paced no longer by the passing of the seasons, but rather by the periodic presentations of the Iphone, knowing what or who will be able to pass the test of time becomes a critic

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Carlos Arroyo Arquitectos   Belgium   Conceived from a comprehensive recycling strategy, the intervention has transformed the nondescript enclosure of an industrial building into a space with a unique atmosphere.

The aim of the Trash Track program, developed by the MIT SENSEable Ciy Lab, is to find out how much energy needs to be expended to make the waste generated in cities disappear. The project consisted of mapping the paths taken by the waste produced in

Developed by architect Nerea Calvillo in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team, In the Air is a project to make visible in an intuitive but rigorous way the agents - gases, particles, pollen, etc. - present in the air of Madrid, showing how the

Located on an island off the city of Incho, 65 kilometers from Seoul, New Songdo is the world's first city to be built according to smart city criteria. Covering an area of just over 6 square kilometers, the new city - whose construction, begun in 20

One of the technological challenges associated with the broader concept of 'smart city' is to transform urban facilities into information channels -particularly the Internet- of a flexible, registrable and universally accessible nature. iPavement, de

Civis'Termia, developed by Tau Cerámica in collaboration with the Cecatherm Group, is a heated flooring system that allows the emission -by radiation- of low-temperature heat. Civis'Termia is installed with a maximum thickness of 4 centimeters, and c

The recent intervention on the old Conde Duque Barracks, in Madrid, has revealed a history of successive layers that distorted the original building's openings. The work carried out on the old barracks by Carlos de Riaño's studio has tried to recover

Vivix, developed by Formica, is a ventilated facade system whose cladding consists of phenolic panels of thermosetting resins reinforced with cellulose fiber to improve their strength and durability, and which come in formats of up to 366 x 161 centi

Cristina Pardal, Ignacio Paricio   El uso de contraventanas interiores para mejorar el confort acústico y térmico de los espacios no suple a otros dispositivos de protección solar como las persianas o los parasoles.

Julia Ramírez Blanco   June 12 marked one year since the dismantling of that camp that Twitter baptized as #Acampadasol. However, the place is far from being forgotten. At the time, Manuel Borja-Villel chose it in Art Forum as the most important work of art of 2011. Months