Along the Bay of Algeciras the sea is divided into Spanish waters and British ones belonging to the Gibraltar peninsula. The Strategic Action Plan on Bordering Geographies GeoFront 1.3 is devised as a fiction strategy to create the Neutral State of t
País Pandereta analyzes the real estate bubble in Spain through a detailed study of the residential developments that emerged after the urban action programs (Programas de Actuación Urbanística or PAU), undertaken in Madrid in the years before the ho
The Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM-UPM) has the tradition of having its veteran teachers give a final lecture prior to retirement, but Luis Fernández-Galiano, who retired as chair professor of architectural design during the pandemic, could not
Madrid It is not often that the ideas of young architects can be heard. This exhibition presents the work of a group of recent graduates of the ETSAM
There are many great architects, but only very few get to be ‘masters.’ Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza did, thanks as much to the quality of his architecture as to his sharp sensitivity in tuning in with the contemporary, and especially to his teachi
Madrid’s recovery is a bittersweet one. Ten years after the real estate bubble burst, the city is experiencing a vibrant growth, but the return of the cranes has not brought competitions back, and architects with a cultural dimension have had to turn
After a long illness, Luis Maldonado Ramos passed away in Cádiz on 21 August. Chair Professor of Architectural Construction and Technology at Madrid Polytechnic (UPM), Maldonado was a leader in the field of architectural restoration and rehabilitatio
Arquia / FAS / ETSAB / ETSAM The Consejo Superior de los Colegios de Arquitectos de España (Spanish Association of Architecture Institutes) has given its Medal to the Fundación Arquia, the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad, and the ETSAs (schools of
On 24 September the Consejo Superior de Colegios de Arquitectos de España (CSCAE, or Higher Council of Architects in Spain) announced that the winners of the 2015 Medals are the Fundación Arquia, the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad, and the ETSAB (
A ceremony was held on 8 May in Madrid to announce the winners of Archiprix International, an award given biennially to the best graduation projects submitted from architecture schools all over the world. In this edition, coordinated by the Madrid Sc
Es cierto: no hay que hacer mudanzas en tiempos de tribulación. Al menos no hay que hacerlas en aquello que funciona, o incluso funciona bien. Tal puede aplicarse en la enseñanza de la arquitectura en España y, en particular, en su escuela más antigu
Sometimes they ask us how the concept of thermodynamics is brought into our design process and why we are so reluctant to show the operational ‘kitchen’ of these processes, probably because the sustainable cliché seems to ask for diagrams with arrows
Siete intervenciones utiliza esta monografía para resumir la etapa más reciente de la obra del arquitecto vasco y catedrático de la ETSAM José Ignacio Linazasoro (San Sebastián, 1947); una carrera iniciada hace casi cuarenta años con la Escuela Vasca
While I am aware that architectural education may need restructuring in order to bring it into line with the societal needs of the next century, I feel that in the case of the ETSAM a certain discretion is in order. The record of the Madrid school ha
