Castroferro Arquitectos   Spain   The Vigo practice of Jordi Castro and María G. Ferro was commissioned for this dwelling with views over the estuary of Pontevedra, in the Galician municipality of Bueu. The site was chosen by the client, who wanted a place in which to retire, a house

Gramática Arquitectónica   Spain   Labelled in the 1970s by the Australian ecologists Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, the term permaculture makes reference to a system of agricultural design principles based on the patterns and characteristics of the natural ecosystem, which seeks s

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   The Madrid practice of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano has won the international competition to refurbish, restore, and expand St.Clare’s Convent as the new home of the Pontevedra Provincial Museum. Their scheme was selected over those of the ot

Müller Feijoo Santiago García Camacho   Spain   The old building of the Mariñamasa School Home – a student residence in Ourense, built in 1970 by the architects Emma Ojea and Walter Lewin – was turned into a center for research and innovation in vocational training. After an analysis of the abando

María Fandiño   Spain   The Galician architect María Fandino’s intervention at the Explanada del Horizonte of Portocelo reconditioned a degraded zone of El Rosal, a municipality in the province of Pontevedra. Between the sierra of Groba and the Atlantic Ocean, this part o

AGI Architects   Spain   Based in Madrid and (Safat) Kuwait, the firm headed by Joaquín Pérez-Goicoechea and Nasser B. Abulhasan AGi Architects won a public competition organized by the Spanish Ministry of Transport, Mobility, and Urban Agenda to find designers for projects

Díaz y Díaz TAU   Spain   The practice of Gustavo Díaz and Lucas Díaz – working out of offices in A Coruña and Madrid – and that of Naiara Montero and Jon Montero (TAU) – A Coruña and Barcelona – together designed a new judiciary building for the city of Pontevedra. The 23,48

Ensamble Studio   Spain   The Truffle is a piece of nature built with earth, full of air. A space within a stone that sits on the ground and blends with the territory. It camouflages, by emulating the processes of mineral formation in its structure, and integrates with the en

David Chipperfield Architects   Spain   The houses of the village of Corrubedo contain the pounding of the waves of the Atlantic just a few meters from the water, using stone as their natural foundation. As an extension in height of the precipitous Galician coast, the houses, of different

César Portela   Spain   Topography and toponymy seem to marry in Finisterre to define a place predestined to be a scene of sorrow. On this cape of the ‘Costa de la Muerte’ (Coast of Death) – where the Romans thought the world to end – a plot of land exposed to the tempests

Chipperfield in Galicia

David Chipperfield figures on the world scene through his offices in London, Berlin, Milan, and Shanghai. And his architecture has addressed the demands of the most prestigious clients. Nevertheless, for twenty years now the British Pritzker laureate

Created early in 2020, the Barbanza Ecosocial Laboratory is a project for research in and promotion of environmental, social, and economic sustainability in the Barbanza Peninsula of Spain’s Galicia region. It is an initiative of Fundación RIA – set

David Chipperfield Architects   Presented at a ceremony in Santiago de Compostela by the President of Galicia, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the award was given in recognition of David Chipperfield’s commitment to the region and the work of Fundación RIA. During his acceptance speech David

On one of the bays forming the peninsulas that separate the riverbeds from Galicia’s coast, in a horizontal landscape filled with ocean breeze and alternately burnt by the sun or buried in the fog, tucked into a corner as if in search for shelter, li

El País   Luis Fernández-Galiano   Don't say it was a dream. The bird’s eye view of the City of Culture of Galicia is a near-tactile testimony of ongoing construction, and yet the landscape molded by the moving of soil gives an oneiric impression. Set between the highway and the histo

César Portela   El territorio gallego está formado por cientos, miles de valles, de diverso tamaño y configuración, que se van acoplando los unos a los otros, y articulando, en tanto que descienden desde las altas montañas del interior hasta el mar. También cientos,

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The promise and the risk of global culture have been expressed in Spain through three cosmopolitan feasts and a parochial funeral. The inauguration of the Domus in La Coruña, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona and the metro of Bilbao contras

Anatxu Zabalbeascoa   Como ocurría en el tiempo de los antiguos monasterios, cuando religión y cultura se entretejían para formar los estilos de los edificios, las fiestas de los calendarios y la organización de los días, habitamos un mundo que funde y confunde saber y en

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Siza, Meier y Gehry construyen en España tres nuevos museos que expresan una voluntad de legitimación simbólica a través de las instituciones del arte de vanguardia. 

Alexander Tzonis   Liane Lefaivre   Prólogo a posteriori después de las conferencias del curso Regionalismo arquitectónico y políticas autonómicas celebrado en octubre de 1985 en el marco de la Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo. El regionalismo crítico es un concepto acuñado a

Manuel Gallego Jorreto   Escritos en torno a la arquitectura

Nueva aruitectura de Galicia