Darío Álvarez   Architects always needed to subject the design process to a certain order. That modern architects did too is shown in this brief but intense look at a compositional strategy widely used in the 20th century: the grid. With his usual rigor the author d

Darío Álvarez   The dream of Paradise: with this phrase Nieves Fernández Villalobos synthesizes the experimental quest of one of the most exceptional couples of the history of architecture, Alison and Peter Smithson, a quest which had its paradigm in the ‘House of t

Darío Álvarez   “Dear Corbu, everything we have fought for is paralleled in ancient Japanese culture.” With this, written on a postcard of Ryoanji (the legendary karesansui zen garden of fifteen rocks, built in the 15th century as a metaphor of time) sent in 1954, G

Darío Álvarez   In one of the stories of The Secret Gardens of Mogador (where the main character, to be able to sleep with his capricious beloved, has to invent a garden every night), the Mexican writer Alberto Ruy Sánchez narrates how different specialists were gat

Darío Álvarez   Lejos de la uniformidad que le suelen atribuir las visiones estereotipadas, el paisaje castellano-leonés es variado en sus formas y muy rico en sus contrastes. La zona norte de la región presenta abundantes y complejos perfiles montañosos, de un verd