Izaskun Chinchilla   Italy   Anyone going to a house party knows that the interesting things often happen in the kitchen, not in the living room. This can easily be extrapolated to large events like the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, around which other events have ar

Izaskun Chinchilla   Spain   In Barcelona, at Calle Bretón de los Herreros 9, this coworking office building opens out southward to a courtyard presided by a tree whose fruit, the clementine, gives the facility its name. For the design, the Madrid practice of Izaskun Chinchilla

Izaskun Chinchilla   Spain   The Madrid architect Izaskun Chinchilla has designed an installation for the firm Sunbrella to display at the 54th Casa Decor exhibition, on view in the Spanish capital through 10 March. Based in Glen Raven, Florida, Sunbrella manufactures textiles f

Izaskun Chinchilla   United States   Put together in the factory, the bars that form the tree-like lattice were taken from recycled camera tripods, and they hold up a dense canopy of bicycle rims and umbrellas of different colors.

Izaskun Chinchilla   Spain   The functional flexibility of this apartment for a graphic designer is achieved by means of mobile screens and embedded or rotating furniture elements, placed on a continuous and figurative pavement.

Izaskun Chinchilla   Spain   The castle of Garcimuñoz is located in the municipality of the same name, southwest of the province of Cuenca – some 70 kilometers from the capital, at kilometer 156 of the A-3 highway. It goes up on the southern side of a hill, which is not too tall

Izaskun Chinchilla   Spain   Three years after its foundation, the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture moves its location from the semi-industrial neighborhood in the north of Moscow to one of the city’s best known public spaces, Gorky Park; from the former bus garage designe

Izaskun Chinchilla   Spain   Historically, ancestral homes are the properties that have fostered the coexistence and represented the families that owned them. Regardless of their location, their grandeur, their time or their site, all of them have borne the signs – names, herald

A second set of eight architects met at Arquia’s Madrid base to reflect on the state of the profession and outline its challenges for the future.

Izaskun Chinchilla   Como disciplina y como profesión, la arquitectura está sumida en tres largas y profundas crisis que afectan a la imagen que la sociedad tiene de ella, y, como consecuencia, a los distintos papeles que hoy desempeñamos las arquitectas y a la relevanci

Text description provided by Izaskun Chinchilla Architects Cosmowomen show the design works of 65 women architects (over 20 different nationalities) who have taken the master’s degree programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture in the past ten y

Until 8 September the Museo Centro Gaiás in Santiago de Compostela’s Cidade da Cultura de Galicia hosted ‘Thinking With Your Hands: Basketry, Pottery, and Jewelry of Galicia,’ for which the curator, Verónica Santos Farto, selected 250 objects made by

Luis Fernández-Galiano   When he woke up, the crisis was still there. Paraphrasing Augusto Monterroso’s micro story, we seek shelter in the fertile territory of projects and dreams to avoid having to face the desolate state of a professional and personal landscape that has s

Covadonga Lorenzo   La presente monografía recoge el trabajo del arquitecto colombiano Giancarlo Mazzanti ofreciendo una muestra de las obras que ha venido desarrollando en los últimos veinte años. Se trata de un libro de referencia para entender su arquitectura, caract

Izaskun Chinchilla   Viendo los titulares con los que a algunos ‘periodistas de arquitectura’ les gusta exhortar en los últimos tiempos, puede haber quien piense que la arquitectura contemporánea y la moderna se han llevado bien con la controversia, incluso la han buscad

Manuel Ocaña   Rehabilitar con recursos materiales y económicos comunes una vieja casa en un pequeño pueblo de la provincia de Toledo lleva siempre implícita la sospecha de devenir en encargo-tara. Sin embargo, se comprueba una vez más que un lugar tan claramente e

Magda Anglès   Dividida en cinco capítulos de títulos sugerentes, esta ilustrada monografía recorre el periplo vital y profesional de José María Torres Nadal desde sus principios como arquitecto en 1973 en Cieza, Murcia, hasta sus últimas obras como el Teatro Audit

Izaskun Chinchilla   Por adelantar conclusiones, empezaremos por el final: propondremos un cambio de sentido en el vector que dibuja la influencia de la casa en su medio. La psicología cognitiva define la vida humana como una escalerita que permite dar coherencia a las c

Adela García-Herrera   Almost ten years after its first issue on young Spanish architecture, Arquitectura Viva takes a new look at what the latest generation of professionals are thinking and building. The cover of that issue, which was titled ‘Fresh Blood,’ was a poetic i

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