Luis Fernández-Galiano   Photography is both document and fiction, faithful register of reality and deliberate narration of a story. The same can be said about the photography of architecture: from silver salts to digital bytes, its means and tools have allowed us to portray

Luis Fernández-Galiano   From the engravings of the Renaissance to the digital photography of our century, the tools for disseminating images have always forged a fertile partnership with architects and architecture. 

Iñaki Bergera   From Wright to Venturi through Le Corbusier or Perriand, photography was for modern architects both a mediatic instrument and a personal vehicle for aesthetic exploration.

Office of Ryue Nishizawa   Japan   Aside from domestic spaces such as a room for each owner, a restroom, a living area and a guestroom, this house for two editors also contains several office spaces for professional use. The small size and shape of the plot, a rectangle of 8 x 4 meter

Coop Himmelb(l)au   China   A bulbous shape wrapped in scales, this building – photographed by Duccio Malagamba – endeavors to be a commercial lure for the historic enclave of Port Arthur.

Gerber Architekten   Saudi Arabia   For solar protection, a light skin of Teflon clads the glazed facade, producing beautiful light effects captured with precision by the camera of Christian Richters.

Rudy Ricciotti   France   Millenary Marseille welcomes the Museum of Mediterranean Civilizations, a Cartesian prism with a seemingly random envelope, portrayed here by photographer Roland Halbe.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The books of Hénard and Hilberseimer show to what extent the urban debates waged a century ago were premonitory. 

Ginés Garrido   An exhibition at the Institute for Jewish Research in New York shows the work of Lazar Khidekel, author of rare visions where city becomes territory.  

Montse Zamorano   Two of the most important photographers in the dissemination of modern architecture were Ezra Stoller and Balthazar Korab. The parallelisms between their careers stem from their being contemporaries, from their prior training as architects, and from

Antonio Fernández Alba   The narration of architectural space through words and drawings is sometimes marked out by the abstract flow of the line and the aesthetic vividness that is always present in poetry. The first of a new series being put together by Ricardo Lampreave,

Eduardo Prieto   We are what we see. But our gaze is not innocent; cultural tradition intervenes. This is the starting premise of an erudite and excellently illustrated book that traces an intellectual history of the axonometry. In Massimo Scolari’s approach, art an

Daniel Díez Martínez   Can domestic space be a platform for an architect’s personal investigations? Francisco González de Canales analyzes five cases of ‘domestic selfexperimentation’: homes designed and built for and by the same individual, who in first person puts his ow

Macarena de la Vega   Why reopen the first historiography of architecture? What for? Every new study of histories must be seen as a continuation of previous ones, and this book is a case in point. In the wake of the ‘structuralist’ revision of The Historiography of Modern

Manuel Gallego Jorreto   Spain   Across the Platerías facade of the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, and nestled in the shadow of the Berenguela Tower, stands the new Museum of Pilgrimages. A part of it is incorporated into the stone facade of the Banco de España building, erected

Consuelo Acha, Anna Moll   On June 1 a new certificate of energy efficiency in buildings comes into force, complementing other measures intended to make the real estate market more flexible.

Eduardo Prieto   The future lies in small things. Aware as they are that the days of the technological and productive model associated with conventional materials (plastic, silicon) are numbered, scientists are like bygone alchemists in search of the philosopher’s st

Everyone knows about the paradoxes inherent in the idea of a glazed skyscraper in the Persian Gulf, so it is not surprising to hear of solutions such as those that have been developed by Aedas, in collaboration with Arup, in the Al Bahar Towers, two

Energy flows everywhere but is invisible, as generally are the buildings where it is produced. One exception is the power plant of Wedel, near the city of Hamburg, which is soon to undergo transformation in accordance with a project drawn up by the L

Organized by the Danish company Velux and under the title of ‘New Eyes on Existing Buildings’, the fifth biennial Congress on Natural Lighting was held on the 15th and 16th of May at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. If previous ed

The Japanese photographer and editor Yukio Futagawa passed away on 12 March in Tokyo. He was born in 1932 in Osaka, where he studied architecture and took an interest in vernacular construction on discovering photos by Yoshio Watanabe that establish

A leading portrayer of urban landscapes died on 13 February at 69. Born in Milan, Gabriele Basilico studied to be an architect but became a photographer, undertaking his first shoots soon after graduating, when he completed ‘Portraits of Factories’,

Since the first of them in 2000, the summer pavilions that the Serpentine Gallery raises beside its building in London’s Kensington Gardens have been an exceptional year-by-year showcase of the marriage of art and architecture. Designed by the Japane

Rafael Gómez-Moriana   Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China.” The underside of the laptop computer I am using to write this displays those very words alongside the model name, serial number, and safety norm compliance symbols. Funny, because until not too lo