Lys Villalba   Japan   Fifteen years after the publication of Made in Tokyo, a book-guide by the Japanese studio Atelier Bow-Wow that reflected the hybrid and changing quality of Japan’s capital, the Madrid architect Lys Villalba proposes a new research that brings that wo

Luis Fernández-Galiano   We do not want to forget Aldo Rossi. This month of May he would have turned 90, but he died after a car accident at the absurd age of 66, and his figure has faded in the perception of recent generations. For mine, however, he was the giant who is now

Llátzer Moix   The Barcelona architect Carme Pinós is the subject of the ICO Foundation’s exhibition ‘Building for Life,’ and the figure ‘8-80’ appears on the cover of the accompanying book. While the title is generic, the numerical formulation refers specifically

Luis Fernández-Galiano   In his preface José Manuel Sánchez Ron recalls the bitter words that Nicolas Masson de Morvilliers had to say about Spain in the Encyclopédie (“Qu’a t-elle fait pour l’Europe?”) and though he claims not to wish to mediate in controversy, his monument

Marina Otero   “Architecture is not about space, nor about containment,” writes Andrés Jaque. “It is not possible for architecture to spatially contain the transscalar societal compositions where life, politics, knowledge, and interactions happen.” Many have looked

Alberto Ballesteros   The ideas of Vitruvius have been questioned for some time. The figure inscribed within a perfect geometry sums up the worldview that since Leonardo has kept the human being at the center of existence, but on a planet of increasing degradation and ine

Eduardo Prieto   Among the heroines of architectural modernity, Eileen Gray was perhaps the most talented, but also the most slippery. Slippery because of her age: born in 1878 into Irish aristocracy, Gray was eight years younger than Loos but nine older than Le Corb

Alberto Ballesteros   Like the children of Oedipus, the San Giorgio Bridge is the fruit of tragedy. That of 14 August 2018, when the Morandi Bridge collapsed, killing 43 and leaving hundreds homeless. The destruction dramatically cut two neighborhoods apart and eliminated

Alejandro Bernabeu   Hamburg is harbor and city. A harbor 130 kilometers from the sea along the Elbe, which through a network of canals reaches all of inland Europe, linking it to overseas trade. And a city Free and Hanseatic, as its official name states, asserting the t

Eduardo Prieto   Ever since evolution gave the human being prehensile thumbs, humanity has left marks on the world. Many show its tendency to destroy, others its tendency to create. Humans leave marks in many ways, and drawing is one. Scratched on a cave wall, traced

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Ivorypress celebrates its 25th anniversary with three exquisite volumes, living up to its eminent trajectory in the artistic and editorial sphere. Since the classical world, anything made with gold and ivory has been called chryselephantine, and the

TLS   Joyce Carol Oates   Of great American photographers of the approximate first half of the twentieth century – a distinguished group that includes Alfred Stieglitz, Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, Paul Strand, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams,