Studio.Noju   Spain   The thorough revamp of a 400-square-meter duplex on the 10th and11th floors of Torres Blancas in Madrid is presented as a dialogue with the apartment building that Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza built. Drawing from texts on the project that the archi

Ruiz Barbarin Arquitectos   Spain   Recently declared a Site of Cultural Interest (BIC), in the Monuments category, the former headquarters of the BBVA on Paseo de la Castellana, a work of Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza, has been refurbished by the Madrid firm led by the Navarrese arch

Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza   Spain   The idea that governs the museum is based on an interrelated sequence of different spaces presided by a central double-height one. This proportion and natural illumination of this space recalls the tunnel-workshop that the artist used in Aránzazu whe

Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza   Spain   This spiral-shaped beehive, commonly known as ‘the bullring,’ is counted among the most polemical projects of a mature and monumental Oíza, who performs as an eloquent and uninhibited master. The program of the relocation of more than three hundred s

Fundación Juan March   Luis Fernández-Galiano   “The real Wölfflin is in the classroom.” The great art historian considered his classes superior to his books, and perhaps the classes given by the architect Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza were superior to his buildings: the real Oíza is definitely o

The work of the world’s great architects exceeds the time limits of the anniversaries that the media is in the practice of using to attract readers. A clear case in point of course is Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza, whose centenary was extensively ob

Jacobo García-Germán   Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza was one of the most important Spanish architects of the second half of the 20th century, yet because his work has not been analyzed much, all we have had is a history told in fragments and legends. A new monograph now p

Gabriel Ruiz Cabrero   This year is the birth centennial of Francisco J. Sénz de Oíza, leader of Spanish modernity and master of several generations of architects. 

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

Antón García-Abril   El Atlas Phaidon pesa siete kilos y mide 45x30x6 centímetros. Su volumen es equivalente al que resulta de agrupar los paperbacks de Mies van der Rohe y Le Corbusier, el Delirio de Nueva York de Rem Koolhaas, la Ciudad Collage de Colin Rowe y Fred Koe

Marta García Carbonero   Construido casi al tiempo que el estatuto de autonomía, el Museo de Arte Romano de Moneo marca el punto de partida de esta guía, que recopila las realizaciones de las últimas tres décadas en una región carente de escuelas de arquitectura pero permeab

Marta García Carbonero   (1918-2000) To scan the built oeuvre of Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza is to review the vicissitudes of Spanish architecture of the second half of the 20th century. Besides the declaration of principles underlying the Basilica of Aránzazu in Oñate, M

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Gaudí and Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron or Calatrava play the lead in a year sombered by the simultaneous losses of Miralles and Oíza.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The deaths of Miralles and Oíza, which have coincided with those of the American Hejduk and Dieste, give a melancholy glow to the placidity of summer.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   An eagle dies. This month of July which has burned so many lyrical birds, from Enric Miralles and John Hejduk to today’s José Ángel Valente, has also cut short the flight of an eagle of architecture. When Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza received the P

Luis Fernández-Galiano   El mes de julio fue testigo de la desaparición de dos grandes figuras españolas, el joven Enric Miralles y el veterano Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza.

Adela García-Herrera   Oíza, Távora,Mendes da Rocha, Jiménez, Dieste Spain, Portugal and Latin America have the occasion to strengthen their ties through the Iber- American Architecture and Civil Engineering Biennial, whose first edition was celebrated in Madrid during th

Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza   If education begins when man surrenders himself to the memory of his Paradise lost; if in Northrop Frye’s words, “ever since the times of Milton, building the dream of the lost Paradise continues to be the definition of education, ” the House that Fr

Adela García-Herrera   Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza The most prestigious prize in the world of Hispanic culture was granted for the second time to an architect - the first time around was in 1989, to Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer - and for the first time to a Spaniard. The jur

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