Luis Fernández-Galiano   If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. Deep in a systemic crisis that is far from over, Lenin’s old quote maintains its abrasive force. Business schools use it to boost positive thinking and choral responsibility in compani

Eduardo Prieto   With or without optimism, the panorama that the Spanish architect has to face continues to be discouraging. Protracted and profound, both economic and ideological, perhaps systemic, the crisis, which came suddenly and devastatingly, has taken on near

Richard Ingersoll   It should come as no surprise that as the ‘crisis’ reveals itself to be less cyclical and rather endemic, the demand for architecture declines. Spain, one of the hardest hit since 2008, in particular because of the exponential growth of its construct

Ensamble Studio   United States   Cyclopean House completes a journey from the place of its manufacture – Madrid – to the place where it can definitely lie, atop an existing garage in a residential neighborhood of Brookline. The one-story building accommodates the parking, workshop,

Harquitectes, dataAE, Joan Ramon Pascuets, Maira González   Spain   Located in the UAB campus in Cerdanyola del Vallès, the ICTA-ICP building is a research center in environmental science and paleontology. In tune with its function, from the beginning the building was designed according to sustainability criteria. Th

amid.cero9   Spain   The Francisco Giner de los Ríos Foundation was established in 1916 with the mission of safeguarding the heritage of the Free Educational Institution (Institución Libre de Enseñanza or ILE), created by the educator Francisco Giner de los Ríos together

Xavier Vilalta   Ethiopia   The Lideta Mercato was destined to be a shopping mall like the many others that, under the impact of globalization, already exist in Addis Ababa: a simple glass container with large shops for wealthy customers. However, the attention given to local c

Barozzi Veiga   Switzerland   The commission involved the extension of the old home of the Bündner Kunstmuseum in Chur, an eclectic Palladian-style building raised in 1876, known as Villa Planta. The design is a double exercise in maximum integration within an urban ensemble, mak

José María Sánchez García   Spain   At approximately 100 kilometers from the capital of Badajoz, in the northern part of the province, the city of Don Benito is, with Villanueva de la Serena, the economic center of the Vegas Altas region in Extremadura. The industrial complex of San Is

Elena Vozmediano   There is no question that the exhibition on Joaquín Torres-García (Montevideo, 1874-1949) now on view at the Telefónica Foundation in Madrid, and from October on at the Picasso Museum of Málaga, ratifies his inclusion in the Latin American art canon.

Francisco Javier San Martín   Louise Bourgeois was a retrospective artist. Acknowledgment of her by her equals in the world of art came when she was already sixty years old, and popularity in the sphere of the general public, at ninety. As if in service of poetic justice, when re

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The latest essays by Peter Handke and Enrique Vila-Matas address architecture and art from unusual angles, but deliver less than we would expect from writers of their talent. The Austrian quotes Junichiro Tanizaki, whose In Praise of Shadows provide

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Iván Moure Pazos   For the thirtieth anniversary of one of the most widely circulated books by Juan Antonio Ramírez, Architecture for the Screen: A Critical Study of Set Design in Hollywood’s Golden Age (English edition 2004), originally published in Spanish in 1986 by

Óscar Liébana, Adolfo Nadal   In the digital transformation process that is already happening in all production sectors, a new fabrication model has been developed, based on digital information; one that yields objects on site, eliminating the need for transport, through an addit

TEd’A arquitectes   Spain   Located in Montuïri (Mallorca) by TEd’A arquitectes (Jaume Mayol and Irene Pérez), this house takes up all of a square lot, rising from the very edge of the street in order to free up space inside for an inner garden and give it as much sunshine as p

In the presence of the king and queen of Spain and the feel of being at the threshold of turbulent times, the fourth congress organized by the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad in collaboration with Arquitectura Viva brought a cast of leading archite

Author of fragile, evanescent, powerfully poetic buildings, Junya Ishigami has won the BSI Swiss Architectural Award, bestowed by the Accademia di architettura di Mendrisio in collaboration with the Archivio del Moderno of the same city, with an endo

The Unesco Commitee that gathered in Istanbul on 10 July only to cut short its stay because of the 16 July coup d’etat attempt has added five new enclaves to its Heritage of Humanity list, among them seventeen buildings by Le Corbusier and the batter

One way to deal with the crisis has been through a change of scale. This, not necessarily through a shift to the world of the small. In fact it has sometimes been in the world of the large, even very large, that an alternative field has been found. A

Among the new quarries that Spanish architects are looking to for the obtainment of new commissions, Africa is still the least exploited. Because of this, the success that some pioneering firms have garnered there is newsworthy and cause for celebrat

Sergio del Molino   It may be a good idea to map out the country I call empty Spain. The first thing one notices is that it is a sealess country. Roughly it constitutes what is geographically the peninsular tableland plus the depression of the Ebro. By European standard