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

The blog of Bill Gates   Bill Gates   When I worked at Microsoft, it was always a thrill to see a product we’d been working on for years finally get released to the public. I’m feeling the same sense of anticipation today. My new book on climate change is available now online and in book

Luis Fernández-Galiano   How did the prosperity of the West come about? Two monumental works by American professors offer unexpected answers. Walter Scheidel, who teaches classical culture, history, and human biology at Stanford, argues that it was the failure of the Roman E

Eduardo Prieto   One attribute of the genius is falling into oblivion. The temporary oblivion to which figures now gracing Olympus descended, from Velázquez to Lautréamont, Borromini to Tesla, and into which also dropped the two blurry architects that two recent book

Alberto Ballesteros   A detour in 1948 led a young graduate on a road trip through the USA to an outlying city where he would live and end his days. Thus began the link between Howard Barnstone and Houston, an urb whose 1950s heyday many architects thrived in, creating a

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The texan cliché of bigness applies to this hefty book. Nevertheless, the work of Miró Rivera – set up in Austin but with roots in Juan Miró’s Spanish and Miguel Rivera’s Puerto Rican education – is more intimate and succinct than this volume, with i

Luis Fernández-Galiano   What do we talk about when we talk about beauty? Peter Sloterdijk and Byung-Chul Han are perhaps the two leading philosophers in the current German scene, and the translation into Spanish of The Aesthetic Imperative, a collection of writings on art t

El Mundo   Luis Alemany   Calatayud, 1950. Arquitecto, catedrático y editor de las revistas Arquitectura Viva y AV. Las grandes esperanzas reúne sus escritos del periodo 1976-1992 en dos tomos: Fracturas y ficciones y Empeños sostenibles.  PREGUNTA. En 45 años de escribir sob

Eduardo Prieto   “May you live in interesting times”: the curse that has fallen upon us resembles the one that befell Europeans in the 1930s. The 1937 Paris International Exposition was the last major cosmopolitan event held in Europe before the apocalypse, and desp

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Late in 2018 we published the two volumes of Alexandrine Years, which presented – in two languages, Spanish and English – a collection of articles that appeared in El País from 1993 to 2006: the first one, The Age of Spectacle, covered architecture d

As part of the Textos críticos series published by Ediciones Asimétricas, Luis Fernández-Galiano has gathered twenty articles that look at architecture and the city from an ecological perspective. The real estate bubble, the transformations in the la

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Aphoristic in his teachings, Louis Kahn was torrential in his letters. Those he wrote to Anne Tyng, his collaborator and lover, mother of his daughter Alexandra, were published in 1977 under a title (The Rome Letters 1953-1954) that alludes to the ti