Josean Ruiz Esquíroz   Spain   Ever since the first cargo ship carrying intermodal containers docked in Bremen in 1966, their growth and development in international trade has been spectacular. Shipping containers are icons of our globalized society. Almost everything we buy trave

Josean Ruiz Esquíroz Marta Muñoz Martín   Spain   This conversion of an industrial space into a studio-house is located in the vicinity of Madrid Río. Because of lack of thermal insulation, the first decision was to create a second enclosure of glass, separate from the outer wall. The resulting pass

Josean Ruiz Esquíroz Nacho Ruiz Allén   Spain   En una población rural y minera donde el edificio residencial más reciente tenía 25 años se encargan quince viviendas de protección pública; el volumen propuesto, anguloso y flotante sobre un zócalo retranqueado, se reviste de lajas de pizarra; en es

For the headquarters of the sports equipment and accessories manufacturer Amaya Sport in Noain (Navarre), the architect Josean Ruiz Esquiroz – who works from offices in Madrid and Gorraiz – reused ten shipping containers as structural pieces while st

Josean Ruiz Esquíroz   Madrid It is not often that the ideas of young architects can be heard. This exhibition presents the work of a group of recent graduates of the ETSAM

Josean Ruiz Esquíroz   Marcel Breuer died only twenty days before the opening, in July 1981, of his retrospective exhibition at the MoMA in New York. With postmodernity in bloom, his work was lambasted for its unrepentant modernity. Neither as a student at the Bauhaus nor

Josean Ruiz Esquíroz   Fritz Kahn was a gynecologist who became a spreader of medical knowledge, and was instrumental in the birth of science illustration. Sappol defines modernity as the advance from logocentrism to an age where image is the main tool of learning. Body Mo

Josean Ruiz Esquíroz   With a temporary intervention, Anna and Eugeni Bach have managed to make Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion lose its materiality. 

Josean Ruiz Esquíroz   This anthology on Robbrecht en Daem is superlative. It weighs and takes up space like a brick, but is complex like a city. Everything in it is organized by means of a mathematical series until it takes on its physical dimensions. 63 projects are orga

Josean Ruiz Esquíroz   Peter Eisenman at 85 is on his way to being the longest-living architectural heretic ever. Since the 1960s, when he set about to rock the discipline, he has kept producing texts, disciples, and designs. Proving his continued relevance are an antholog

Josean Ruiz Esquíroz Marta Muñoz   Madrid  2012  
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