In this series, Manuel Álvarez Diestro covers some of the driest places on the planet, journeying through countries likes Egypt, Oman, and Iran. Here the Cantabrian photographer explores the relationship between architecture and geological formations
It is hard to sum up in a brief text our experience of building outside Spain over the years. Each work, each client, and each country is a distinct experience, and each case is unique, so it is not easy to draw up conclusions or synthesize clearly t
It was in the 1970s that Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari formulated their theorem on the “image of thought,” based on the botanical term ‘rhizome.’ Any teaching can be connected to another. All are communicative vessels. In a way, architecture toda
Successive crises in the course of this first quarter of the 21st century have awakened us to the need to make contemporary housing resilient. We try to adapt to the diversity of lifestyles and models of cohabitation by rearranging the conventional d
The magazine AV Monographs has for over three decades been putting together an annual almanac with a rigorous selection of twenty-four building works completed by Spanish practices during the given period. To leaf through any single one of these regu
The British Museum has announced which teams will be competing in the next stage of the international competition to renovate its Western Range galleries, an ambitious project of reimagining over a third of the London institution’s gallery space. The
Koyo Kouoh has been appointed with the specific task of curating the 61st International Art Exhibition to be held in 2026. Koyo Kouoh (Camerun / Switzerland) is the Executive Director and Chief Curator of Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeit
Victor Hugo estableció en Nuestra Señora de París una sugerente tensión entre la arquitectura y el texto. Escrita en el siglo XIX, la novela se ubica en el XV, que asiste a la invención de la imprenta. Hugo compara esta transformación cultural con el
Antes de ser moldeados en una experiencia tridimensional mercantilizada, los bits se almacenan en arquitecturas de habitaciones climatizadas. Filas de servidores zumban incesantemente, mientras que tuberías regulan las temperaturas para evitar su fun
The observance of the centenaries of illustrious people is but a late version of the tradition of paying homage to the powerful, or a cultivated version of the celebration of children’s birthdays, besides a symptom of contemporary superstitions, whic
Filmmakers might cast a city as a backdrop, or as an essential character in their cinematic narrative. I recall Stockholm as a distant, haunting witness in Ingmar Bergman’s early films, just as Tokyo lingers in the interiors of Yasujiro Ozu’s hypnoti
A movie that has just premiered in Venice to much applause tells the fictional life story of an architect who flees from a devastated Europe after World War II…
Anabelle Selldorf is carrying out the revamp of the iconic work of Venturi and Scott Brown.
Through meticulously taken screenshots, Cristian Prieto offers an immersion into the melancholy and poetry that emanates from decadence. His photographs of abandoned spots are a visual tribute to the hidden beauty of forgotten places. These spaces, l
Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature-length film, The Room Next Door premiered at the 81st Venice Film Festival, where it received a 17-minute ovation. Adapted from Sigrid Nunez’s novel What Are You Going Through, it tells the story of tw
How do you properly do justice to the life story of a Hungarian-born Jew who survived the Holocaust and emigrated to the US, where he toiled in poverty and indignity in pursuit of the American dream? According to the director of the highly anticipate
Rosario de Velasco certainly lacks no ingredient to qualify as a ‘one-painting artist,’ that sort of single hit in the career of an artist who, supposedly, produces no further special work, whatever the reason: shortage of talent, marriage, lack of o
When approaching Naples from the sea, one particular building immediately stands out, emerging from the dense fabric of the historic city and dramatically impacting its skyline: the infamous skyscraper that was built for the insurance company Societa
The engineer joined the Royal Academy of Fine Arts with a defense of the territory, and shortly afterwards received the medal of the deceased Javier Manterola. In October 2022, the Royal Academy hosted the commencement of the new academic year of the
The architect joined the Royal Academy of Fine Arts reflecting on architecture projects, to soon afterwards receive the medal of the late Antonio Fernández Alba. The term ‘interpretation’ is not usually used in architecture, but in other disciplines
Javier Manterola always went the extra mile. Mentor to us all, he infected us with his love for bridges, his daring to push farther, his search for new paths, and his aesthetic sensibility. He left us on 11 May at the age of 87, leaving us his ideas,
On view this summer of 2024 at Museo ICO is ‘Moments in Architecture,’ an exhibition originally set up at the Vitra Design Museum. It comes to Madrid as part of the PhotoEspaña festival, but this is not the first time for the spectacular photography
After Sri Lanka became independent in 1948, De Silva returned and set up a studio in her family home in Kandy, becoming one of only two women in the world at the time to establish an architectural practice in her own name. From there she began design
