My first design course at the Madrid School must have been Rafael Echaide’s last year as department deputy head. In the lack of architecture books, I had only managed to get hold of Pevsner’s Outline of European Architecture and Giedion’s Space, Time
Through a major graphic presentation a retrospective shows the prolific work of the Belgian cartoonist and the influence of his most famous creature.
Two hundred pages for 12 essays and a prologue, and almost as many for projects, drawings, and biographical notes, celebrate the oeuvre of the Madrid architect Luis Cubillo. This profuse anthology and tribute covers the works carried out by his prac
What was the counterculture? This aesthetically vintage ‘notebook’ which presents the works of the architect Banchini and the curator Feireiss for the 2021 Biennale, ponders 1970s tendencies, the idea of change in the face of the architecture and the
The science teacher at the board holding a piece of chalk is a scene much seen in movies. Students take down notes as he or she fills the slate with white math symbols. In the fun variant it’s a crackpot scientist; in documentaries or biopics of the
2 September 2022 marks 100 years since the birth of the Galician architect Ramón Vázquez Molezún. The centenary will be celebrated, among other initiatives, with a retrospective exhibition at the Madrid Institute of Architects (COAM) ...
It is fitting to use the name of the nurse Isabel Zendal, a key figure in the extraordinary expedition that took the smallpox vaccine to the confines of the Spanish Empire early in the 19th century, for the Community of Madrid’s new hospital for epid
The Spanish translations of Housing by People and The Timeless Way of Building resurrects two 1970s takes on the political and philosophical aspects of housing, the city, and architecture. These against-the-grain testimonies deserve attention today,
On 25 April a Portuguese cartoonist’s drawing in the international edition of The New York Times sparked off a universal storm of controversy. Moreira’s silent but scathing commentary on the bond between President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu w
Professor Forster’s study on the German architect and his art is written with deep admiration and exquisitely edited with nostalgia, with a deployment of small illustrations of a slight sepia tone; the only concession to current tastes is in the thi
It’s been several generations since cinema was first thought of as something engaged with the poetic contents of ‘traditional’ arts. Then the futurists raised it to the status of seventh art. Also since then, in synchrony with the celluloid strip, so
Daniel Torres takes on a huge task: a graphic discourse where a cartoon of history and a sequence of small stories together form an interminable comic strip on the house, in chronological order. Huts, houses, and apartments are the leading characters
The Madrid exhibition on Alvar Aalto presents not only plans, photographs, and models, but also a carefully selected collection of chairs and domestic objects.
Obsession with geometry, precision, and clear lines characterizes the work of Ezra Stoller, one of the great photographers of architecture.
With works in original format, the exhibition throws light on the role that photography played in the dissemination, in Spain, of modern architecture.
This book presents lessons given in an Architecture and Hospital Administration master course, but is not the usual compilation of historical data on a building type. On the contrary, it gives final form to reflections matured in the author’s twenty
With the recent death of Moebius, comics has lost one of its most personal creators, the creator of a vast dreamlike world in which the architectural settings are as important as the heroes who inhabit them.
Como un barco varado sobre bolos graníticos: así es la casa que Francisco Burgos, Ginés Garrido, Justo F. Isasi y Alberto Pieltáin han diseñado en la sierra madrileña, con vistas magníficas sobre el valle del Lozoya y las cercanas cumbres de Guadarra
Arquitectura escrita: una traducción quizá demasiado libre de Architektur wie sie im Büche steht, pero razonable para un experimento universitario híbrido de gentes de Múnich y de Granada. Trabajos de estudiantes que intentan maquetar la utopía y la
Innovación para este nuevo siglo XXI, en la arquitectura y en la construcción, quiere decir nuevos materiales, otros proyectos y una novísima virtud, inspiradora de actitudes y de resultados: sostenibilidad. Una nueva y exigente musa para el arte edi
Hubo un tiempo de baños públicos en la ciudad y de balnearios en el campo. Agua caliente compartida higiénicamente en la ciudad moderna de 1900 y baños terapéuticos para la sociedad burguesa de la Belle Époque... [+]
Un revestimiento de planchas de acero cortén perforadas con láser distingue el primer hotel de cinco estrellas de la ciudad califal, firmado por el equipo de Alfonso Casares en colaboración con el estudio Isasi y Pieltain, sobre el solar del antiguo
Para el desarrollo de la ciudad el gran hospital representa un reclamo y constituye un activo motor de su economía. Para la actualidad política es un poderoso artículo de propaganda que acapara titulares en la prensa diaria. Su arquitectura, sin emba
Justo Isasi
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Justo Isasi Alberto Pieltain La arquitectura del Insalud, 1986-2000
Justo Isasi Alberto Pieltain La arquitectura del Insalud, 1986-2000
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