On view through 12 May at Museo ICO in Madrid is ‘Colonization Towns: Glances at an Invented Landscape,’ curated by Ana Amado and Andrés Patiño. The exhibition tells of the transformation process that rural Spain underwent between 1939 and 1971 thank

When the nonagenarian Balkrishna Doshi was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2018, the Vitra Museum decided to join in on this late but well deserved recognition through a major retrospective of his lifework, and opened the show less than a

Enrique Morillo   That images are faster than words is a hard-to-refute fact. But it is just as true that, since the classical ekphrasis, visual representations have appeared together with written comments, turning words into usual companions that stress or alter thei

Rafael Moneo   The master from Navarre recalls his alliance with Pablo Palazuelo, for whom Moneo felt a rapport that made him want the painter taking part in his buildings.

In tune with the sixth Madrid Design Festival, the exhibition 'Pablo Palazuelo: The Line as a Dream of Architecture' is on view through 7 May at Museo ICO. Curated by Teresa Raventós-Viñas and Gonzalo Sotelo-Calvillo, it offers a walk through twelve

On view through 15 January 2023 at the Museo ICO in Madrid is ‘Domestic Dawns: Collective Housing Issues in 21st-Century Europe’, an invitation to reflect on the main concepts on which the new livability of residential buildings is based. Curated by

In the context of the PHotoEspaña 2022 festival, the Museo ICO in Madrid is hosting 'Against All That Glitters: Effects of Time,' an exhibition devoted to the photographer Juan Baraja (Toledo, 1984), on view until 11 September. Curated by Alfredo Pue

The pandemic and all the other crises coinciding with it have been putting a halt to the pillars of our economic, social, and political frameworks. They have also led to an overall revision of architecture. Some say that it’s a matter of resilience,

Heringer at ICO

Lys Villalba   The Museo ICO’s exhibition on Anna Heringer is a celebration of her deep commitment,  in both ideas and actual work, to the planet and to society.

The Museo ICO presents a monographic exhibition on the work of the German architect Anna Heringer and her deep interest in the sustainable development of our society and built environment. Through the use of local materials and techniques, she seeks

On view through 8 May 2022 at the Museo ICO in Madrid is a retrospective show on Anna Heringer (Rosenbeim, Germany, 1977), the first to be seen in Spain. Curated by Luis Fernández-Galiano, it leads the visitor through the work and philosophy of this

This coming Wednesday, 9 February, Museo ICO inaugurates ‘Anna Heringer: Essential Beauty’, curated by Luis Fernández-Galiano and organized by Fundación ICO. For the first time in Spain, an exhibition focuses monographically on Anna Heringer (Rosenh

On view through 16 January 2022 at Museo ICO in Madrid is the first monographic show on the French firm Lacaton & Vassal ever to be mounted in Spain. Curated by the partners Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal themselves, winners of the 2021 Pritzk

On view through 12 September at Museo ICO in Madrid is an exhibition that gathers eleven commissioned photographic reports or surveys – expanded to twenty-nine in the catalog – of the landscape, mostly urban, and the territories of our country. In th

Llátzer Moix   The Barcelona architect Carme Pinós is the subject of the ICO Foundation’s exhibition ‘Building for Life,’ and the figure ‘8-80’ appears on the cover of the accompanying book. While the title is generic, the numerical formulation refers specifically

Like art exhibitions, architecture ones are often as much a celebration of persons as they are of works. This is particularly true in the case of ‘Carme Pinós: Building for Life,’ curated by Luis Fernández-Galiano and on view through 9 May at the ICO

The exhibition walks us through the oeuvre of Carme Pinós, divided into three sections: the bottom level laconically presents the eight works she completed with Miralles; the main floor showcases eighty projects developed on her own over three decade

Rafael Moneo   All architecture exhibitions force the subject to address the question of what they want said about their work and person, and how. Carme Pinós has responded to these questions with commendable honesty and courage, as rather than being an exegete of

Museo ICO   Curated by Luis Fernández-Galiano, the exhibition is a journey through the many works of Carme Pinós that follows a clear guiding thread: the importance of context and environments in the creation of architectural space. Prominent among them are the

La Vanguardia   Fernando García   The ICO Museum in Madrid hosts a retrospective exhibition that the public can view through 9 May, presenting 80 projects by the architect Carme Pinós and the eight she carried out with Enric Miralles. In accordance with the theoretical and spatial ap

Curated by Luis Fernández-Galiano and on view from 10 February to 9 May, the exhibition is a journey through the many works of Carme Pinós that follows a clear guiding thread: the importance of context and environments in the creation of architectura

Escenarios para la vida

Frits Giersberg   European Photography Commissions 1984-2019

Martín Domínguez Pablo Rabasco   Madrid  2017  
Akal Fundación ICO   - 294 Pages 

Alona Pardo Elias Redstone   Fotografía y arquitectura en la era moderna