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,
At his induction into the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in January, Miguel Aguiló gave a discourse titled ‘Caring for Earth, Recreating the World,’ in which he tackled heritage, the landscape, and the planet. Three spheres of civil engineering that expl
MMM did lots of things, but will be remembered as the engineer who executed the big urban projects that Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón launched as president of the Community of Madrid from 1995 to 2003 and as mayor of the city from 2003 to 2011. Of strong Ar
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
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
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
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
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
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
The recent opening of a Torroja Museum in Madrid’s Zarzuela Racecourse will help to improve his recognition in the histories of modern architecture.
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
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
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
The centenary of the birth of Eduardo Torroja recalls the life and work of the most important figure of modern Spanish engineering.
Pierluigi D'Acunto Patrick Ole Ohlbrock Roland Pawlitschko Connecting Engineering and Architecture
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
