Alejandra Galache   For centuries, and as a logical response to material availability, the global construction standard has been earth. The rise of industrialization caused this system to lose ground to concrete and steel, but with the current climate crisis earth has r

Alberto Ballesteros   Computers and cell phones entangle our lives with the network more and more every day, and this is possible thanks to a complex support that does not float on a cloud precisely. Professor Marina Otero has devoted a part of her prolific research work

Enrique Morillo   Where most saw nothing but old industrial warehouses, Elena Fuertes, Ramón Martínez, Álvaro Molins, and Jorge Sobejano discovered a field of opportunities to develop their syncretic imaginary. After coinciding at Taller de Casquería, they set up BURR

Beatriz Colomina   Mark Wigley   Benedetta Tagliabue   The Princeton and Columbia professors, busy today organizing the Triennale, talk with the the Milanese architect in her hometown. Beatriz+Mark: This issue documents thirty years of projects. The last time we had a conversation about EMBT was sixteen

Alejandra Galache   Little by little, wood takes on strength as one of the alternatives to brick and concrete, which have for years monopolized the building sector in Spain. The Madrid-based architects Elena Orte and Guillermo Sevillano, co-founders of SUMA Arquitectura

Enrique Morillo   Perhaps too much has been written on the changes occurred in the profession since the economic crisis. More than a decade later, many of the architects who then faced a desolate panorama, lacking in major commissions, have managed to establish their

Luis Fernández-Galiano gave the inaugural lecture, speaking on the healthy city, at the 32nd National Psychiatric Updating Course held in Vitoria from 28 February to 1 March. Here is the interview he gave in line with the event, as published in the n

Enrique Morillo   Since the first modern yearnings to merge architecture and industry, many have tried to replace traditional building with serial production. If the success of these projects has up to now been relative, Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa seek to chan

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Rafael Moneo   Rafael Moneo presentó su monografía de AV el 13 de septiembre de 2023 en la Fundación Arquia, con un acto introducido por el vicepresidente de Arquia Banca Alberto Alonso Saezmiera y la directora de la Fundación Sol Candela, en cuyo coloquio final in

The Guardian   Rowan Moore   The youngest, and first black president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) wants to rebuild the profession with an accent on workers’ rights, the community and sustainability... The Guardian. Architect Muyiwa Oki: ‘We need a diversit

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   He almost failed architecture school. Now he’s netted the profession’s top prize, the Pritzker. Britain’s modernist master talks about the building that changed everything – and running a bar in Spain... The Guardian: ‘I faked it at the beginning!’:

Conversing in Madrid, the two architects go over their trajectory, from the training they received in London to the works that launched their career. 

In the interview, held at the Norman Foster Foundation, Luis Fernández-Galiano explains his relationship with Norman Foster, how his innovative design has changed the world of architecture, and how they worked together for the Norman Foster Foundatio

The Guardian   Rowan Moore   From his 60s utopian housing development to infinity pools in the sky, the Israeli-Canadian architect has always designed larger-than-life buildings. Now 84, he has written a memoir about the obsessional energy that still fuels his career. Once, Mosh

Arquitectura Viva and its director, Luis Fernández-Galiano, understand and regret the discomfort caused by the series Conversations. Filmed between 2013 and 2018, this documentary series of Fundación Arquia, now being streamed on Netflix, was left un

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   Inspired by the kilns of Stoke-on-Trent, the Chicago artist’s Black Chapel will host bands, including his own, and also provide ‘a place of quietude’ where even the British weather is welcome. The Serpentine Gallery’s annual summer pavilion will take

Kosuke Ide   Beijing National Stadium, known as the Bird’s Nest, the main venue for the Beijing Olympic Games. The Tate Modern, London’s famous art gallery and one of the largest museums for modern art in the world. The Allianz Arena, Munich’s football stadium. .

Bloomberg    Norman Foster, the British architect famous for building airports, minimized the aviation industry’s impact on climate change in an interview with Bloomberg. “I would argue that everything has a footprint, and in relative terms, the carbon footprint

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Renzo Piano   My first experiences as an architect were threaded together by a search for lightness. It’s very simple. When you are young, you try to do the opposite of what your father’s been doing. My father was making buildings with sand, concrete, and bricks.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Jacques Herzog   Early on, I had two great masters: an artist, Joseph Beuys, and an architect, Aldo Rossi. With them I began to lay the intellectual and formal foundations of my architecture. Rossi was in our time the best-known professor at the school, and he had pl

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Norman Foster   The library of Manchester is arguably one of the most important buildings of my life in terms of influence. There I disovered Le Corbusier’s Towards a New Architecture, the work of Henry-Russell Hitchcock on Frank Lloyd Wright… I discovered those wor

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Álvaro Siza   I was born in Matosinhos, in 1933, into a large family. We were five siblings, common at the time, and twelve people living at home, starting with my grandmother, who had come from Brazil as a widow with six children. We ate all together and converse

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Memory speaks in these ten interviews with masters. I borrow from Vladimir Nabokov’s autobiography the title for the presentation of these conversations, transcribed as monologues to place the focus on the protagonists, whose voices I hope to have re

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