Alejandro Valdivieso   The anthropologist Marvin Harris stressed in his book Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times (1999) how much postmodernity had done to make science and reason – associated with the pressure and oppression of totalitarian regimes – give way to emotio

Celebrating engineering is quite tantamount to celebrating architecture, given that before modernity drew a line between the two disciplines, they were really one same thing. So it is that Arquitectura Viva, using anniversaries, pays tribute to three

Justo Isasi   2 September 2022 marks 100 years since the birth of the Galician architect Ramón Vázquez Molezún. The centenary will be celebrated, among other initiatives, with a retrospective exhibition at the Madrid Institute of Architects (COAM) ...

Herzog & de Meuron, celebrating a career

United in professional practice and friendship, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron together turn 70 this spring, and Basel, the birthplace of both, celebrates with them. Though the best of architects are not always prophets in their own land, these

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Al cumplirse medio siglo del Mayo francés, reproducimos un texto que defiende las arquitecturas de la necesidad suscitadas por la crisis ecológica frente a las arquitecturas del deseo de los jóvenes de mayo. En él se reúnen un artículo publicado hace

Richard Weston   El centenario de Utzon es una buena oportunidad para constatar la actualidad de su obra, inspirada en metáforas naturales y arquitectónicas.

A century has passed since the birth of Bruno Zevi, the critic and professor who upheld the social purpose of architecture and the organicism of Frank Lloyd Wright. Born in Rome in 2018, in 1938 he was forced by Mussolini’s anti-Semitic laws to leave

A hundred years have passed since the birth of Jørn Utzon, the Danish visionary who with one of the most iconic buildings of the 20th century was a pioneer in giving form to the society of the spectacle. The Sydney Opera House, nevertheless, does not

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Generally more visual than literary, architecture books have recorded and chronicled modernity, while helping to shape its ideas and forms.

Revista Kalías, 1989   Luis Fernández-Galiano   The centenary of the artistic movement De Stijl prompts recollection of the theoretical texts by its foremost artist, the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian. 

Joaquín Medina Warmburg   In the work of Eladio Dieste, whose birth has been one hundred years, technical ingenuity was placed at the service of the social program and Catholic fervor.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The films and the photographers of the last half-century convey an often menacing image of the contemporary city and the new urban territories. 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The exhibitions, which marked the emergence of postmodernity or deconstruction, have become more political after the shock of the crisis

The Guggenheim of Bilbao, now 20 years old, is perhaps the most influential building of the latest two decades, not so much because it is Frank Gehry’s greatest work but because it represents a way of transforming and activating the image of cities t

The reader of this magazine knows – as any reader of periodical publications does – that anniversaries are important in the selection of news items. The attentive and faithful subscriber, moreover, will have observed that the contents of Arquitectura

En 1982 Félix de Azúa daba cuenta de la decadencia cultural que, según él, se iba cerniendo sobre la capital catalana, en un artículo cuyo título no podía ser más explícito: ‘Barcelona es el Titanic’. Con todo, Barcelona no se hundió. Diez años despu

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Renzo Piano   Question: Thank you so much for receiving us in your home here in Punta Nave, near Genoa, your hometown, where you were born almost eighty years ago. You turn 80 in September, and this is perhaps a good moment to go through your biography. An asteroi

Evoking the events Seville Expo, Barcelona GamesWith the Seville Expo and the Olympic Games of Barcelona, Spain lived in 1992 an annus mirabilis. Twenty-five years later, the two cities have commemorated this anniversary with a crop of exhibitions an

In 2012 the Avery Library at Columbia University bought from the Wright Foundation the huge archive that the architect put together in the course of his career of almost seventy years: 55,000 drawings, 125,000 photographs, 300,000 letters, and innume

A symbol of modern tragedies, Guernica turns 80 years old, and to celebrate this, the Reina Sofía Museum has inaugurated a major exhibition titled ‘Pity and Terror: Picasso’s Path to Guernica.’ It has also been twenty-five years since the mural-sized

It has been four decades now since the world of architecture, and of culture in general, was shaken by the irreverent forms of the Centre Georges Pompidou, a huge artifact, at once powerful and ingenuous, that seemed to have landed right in the heart

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