Eduardo Prieto   “One must be absolutely modern.” Since the time Rimbaud wrote this intimidating phrase in 1873, we have been turning it around in our heads. Also in architecture, which was quick to equip itself with the instrument it needs to make good judgments on

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Since the year 1907 the American Institute of Architects has given its Gold Medal to professionals deemed influential in architectural theory and practice. The prize for 2015 goes to Moshe Safdie, born in 1938 in Haifa (Israel) but based abroad since

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Luis Fernández-Galiano   We pretend to be citizens of the globe, but in truth we live in a small world. AV/Arquitectura Viva set out, from their birth almost a quarter of a century ago, to cover the architecture of the planet, and the choice of Berlin as theme of the maiden

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Spanish children of the fifties were denied all whims with a bold sentence, ‘this is not America!’, which was often followed by another that said more or less the same, ‘we are not millionaires!’ Half a century later, these kinds of exclamations are

Adela García-Herrera   El MoMA y el Whitney han coproducido el acontecimiento expositivo del año: las retrospectivas de ‘Mies en Berlín’ y ‘Mies en América’, simultáneamente exhibidas en los dos grandes museos neoyorquinos. Tras la lectura de las reseñas escritas por, ent

Chrysanthe Broikos   Donald Albrecht   El edificio de oficinas ha sido el rostro del mundo de los negocios americano para el resto del mundo a lo largo del siglo XX. ¿Quién puede imaginar la ciudad de Nueva York sin evocar el Empire State o las Torres Gemelas del World Trade Center? ¿O Sa

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Just as the annals of twentieth-century architecture began drawing to their close, a thrilling and largely unexpected denouement was provided by Frank Gehry. The completion of his Guggenheim Museum Bilbao of 1991-1997 in the Basque country’s largest

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Since transformations in architectural style often follow major economic, social, political, or technological upheavals, it is not surprising that the building art in this century has been so marked by change. And certainly few periods in modern hist

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Martin Filler   In Henry R. Luce’s hortatory 1941 editorial “The American Century,” which appeared in his Life magazine a few months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor drew the United States into World War II, the publisher urged his countrymen to abandon th

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Martin Filler   We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals of interest in even the most obscure ones tend to reveal more about those who make revisionist assessments

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