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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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