Oscar Niemeyer   Brazil   The south american postwar has little to do with the European one. Whereas the Old World bore witness to a return to the basic and biblical religiousness – in a society shaken to its foundations and in need of a new Christian humanism after the hecat

Celebrating engineering is quite tantamount to celebrating architecture, given that before modernity drew a line between the two disciplines, they were really one same thing. So it is that Arquitectura Viva, using anniversaries, pays tribute to three

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Expert on hybrid structures, honored with the National Engineering Award, and author of twenty-six bridges and an endless list of works with architects like Foster, Isozaki, Ando, Pei, Navarro Baldeweg, García de Paredes, Cruz & Ortiz or Miralles, Ju

Jorge Bernabeu   Lightness characterizes the work of the German engineer Jörg Schlaich, who passed away on Saturday, 4 September, at 86 years of age. Aiming for weightlessness makes it possible to reduce materials and dimensions, but it also to make the most of resou

The Economist   Since the Romans began doing it with great panache more than 2,000 years ago, road-building has been a sweaty, grubby business, involving heaving great quantities of rocks and stones into place and, in more recent times, covering the surface with asp

Harvard University   Leah Burrows   In a new paper published in Nature Materials, the researchers showed that the diagonally-reinforced square lattice-like skeletal structure of Euplectella aspergillum, a deep-water marine sponge, has a higher strength-to-weight ratio than the traditio

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Engineers built Franco’s regime. Contradicting the convention that sees Francoism distanced from technology and science, the young historian Lino Camprubí shows to what extent National Catholicism was tied to industrialization and scientific investig

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The recent opening of a Torroja Museum in Madrid’s Zarzuela Racecourse will help to improve his recognition in the histories of modern architecture. 

Miguel Aguiló   Una nueva edición del Razón y ser de los tipos estructurales es una buena ocasión para reflexionar sobre el libro de estructuras más conocido e influyente en todo el mundo. El Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos y el Consejo de Investigaciones Científic

Miguel Aguiló   Si hay algo que caracteriza la obra de tan gran y fructífero ingeniero es la búsqueda de la ligereza. En sus obras, sus escritos y sus clases, Jörg Schlaich concreta sus ideas en torno a la bien establecida tradición ingenieril de reducir la materia

Jorge Sainz   Dice Sutherland Lyall, con mucha razón, que la mayor parte del tratado de arquitectura de Vitruvio trata de lo que hoy llamamos ‘ingeniería’. Y es que realmente la historia de la arquitectura, sobre todo la del Movimiento Moderno, se ha apropiado de

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The centenary of the birth of Eduardo Torroja recalls the life and work of the most important figure of modern Spanish engineering.

Paul Scott Hanif Kara   Berlín  2022  
ArchiTangle   - 336 Pages 

Rob Nijsse   Dialogues and sketches leading to new buildings

Lino Camprubí   Barcelona  2017  
Criticat   - 320 Pages 

Miguel Aguiló   Madrid  2018  
ACS   - 323 Pages 

Javier Manterola   Madrid  2017  
CICCP   - 341 Pages 

Adrian Forty   A Material History

Sutherland Lyall   Londres  2002  
Laurence King   - 224 Pages