Werner Oechslin   What are the most important books on architecture since 1965? The question is both absurd and justified; stimulating, in any case. Is there a Towards an Architecture of the Sixties, Seventies or Eighties, a book in which the convictions of a decade t

Richard Ingersoll   It is not easy for me to answer the question of what have been the twenty-five most important architectural books of the last twenty-five years - the twenty-five years since the publication, in 1966, of the first original editions of Robert Venturi's

Ignasi de Solà-Morales   Around 1968, the publisher Gustavo Gili Torra contacted me to commission me to translate another book: Changing Ideas in Modern Architecture, by Peter Collins, which had also been published in London in the significant year of 1965. The publisher had

Stanislaus von Moos   Twenty-five years ago, language, communication, and iconography began to emerge as programmatic interests in the abundant terminology of postmodern architecture. Along with them came the rediscovery of the facade as a privileged locus of architectura

Richard Ingersoll   A black and compact shadow cuts – free of any obstacle – across the grid-patterned surfaces of the new square built by Aldo Rossi in Perugia, as if this empty urban space were the face of an immense sundial. The design of this deserted square and the

Jorge Sainz   Rafael Moneo has just added another success to his long list of achievements: on April 10, his victory in the international competition for a new museum complex in Stockholm was announced. When built, it will be the only building by a Spanish archite

Josep Maria Montaner   The new Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm —which will be built according to Rafael Moneo's project— logically stems from the requirements of the program and the location. The new museum complex is situated among the existing buildings and open spaces

Aurora Herrera   The British Edward Gordon Craig (1872–1966) —actor, draftsman, engineer, engraver, designer, art theorist— emerged at the beginning of the 20th century as the great prophet of modern theater. The crucial period of his work took place between 1900 and

Josep García Cors, Francisco López Pavón   Despite the notable differences that separate their respective productions, the Italian scenographer Adolphe Appia, who died in Switzerland in 1928, and the architect and theorist Edward Gordon Craig (see the article by Aurora Herrera in this same is

Off with their heads!

Gerardo Ayala   Spain   In the rehabilitation of the Camarena Palace, Gerardo Ayala has sought the balance between the old and the new without giving up establishing the fact of stylistic difference as a starting point...

José Ignacio Linazasoro, Luis Sese   Spain   Coinciding with the beginning of his maturity, José Ignacio Linazasoro is experimenting, like so many other architects, with a transformation whose outcome is still difficult to foresee. Accompanied in recent projects by Luis Sese – in what has prove

Briales y del Amo Arquitectos, José Luis Ramón Solans   Spain   In all cultures, there is a long tradition of garden pavilions: sometimes to expand the living space; other times, to isolate oneself within the residence and enjoy the landscape. Perhaps they are the adult translation of dollhouses, where they inven

Bart Prince   United States   We could start with the Gothic, or perhaps with some Roman extravagance, or even better, with Hellenism, to begin a relationship with fantasy architecture, understanding these as movements that break with the tectonic, rational, and geometrically pur

Ramón Gutiérrez   Ten years ago, a congress on the Latin American Baroque was held in Rome, convened by Paolo Portoghesi and Marcelo Fagiolo. This congress – which aspired to be a culmination of the vision of the European and American Baroque – was, however, a startin

Adela García-Herrera   The list of Spanish collegiate journals is quite significant and manages to cover relatively well the entire peninsular territory, including the islands. The publication we are now commenting on arose from the activities programmed by the Almeria del

Pilar Vázquez   The architecture that is not produced in the centers of the country (Barcelona, Madrid and Seville) is, in general, almost unknown, by Valencian institutions have been launched to promote theirs. Last year, the Spanish House in Holland hosted an exhi

Jorge Sainz   In 1989, the second and third volumes of the opera omnia of the British architect Norman Foster were published, coordinated by architect and photographer Ian Lambot and designed —even with a special typography for the occasion, the Roos— by the Germa

Adela García-Herrera   What kind of contribution can contemporary architecture make to garden design? Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, along with the recently deceased Alvin Boyarsky, were responsible for selecting and coordinating the construction of small pavilions for

Jorge Sainz   John Pastier, author of a previous monograph that covered up to 1979, Mario Gandelsonas, and Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New York Times, are the authors of this new compilation of the work of the Argentine architect in the United Sta

Adela García-Herrera   In this compendium of Argentine architecture from the 1980s, Adriana Irigoyen and Ramón Gutiérrez select works that reconcile with their roots and attempt to rediscover their origins and the variety that accompanies them —and reject— “what merely mim