In line with Cevisama, a trade fair held in Valencia (26 February – 1 March) for the ceramic tile, bathroom equipment, and natural stone sectors, the Architecture Forum was headlined by Néstor Montenegro, Matthias Sauerbruch, Fuensanta Nieto, Max Arr
If the gilded moment of Vienna ended with World War I and the artistic protagonism of Paris with World War II, the cultural scene of New York blurred from 1968 on. A good number of the abstract expressionists had died young. Peggy Guggenheim had retu
If Paris found itself at the close of the war caught between the euphoria of the city’s liberation by the American army and the trauma of the horror of the Holocaust, the United States saw the termination of hostilities under the dark shadow of the n
If the Vienna of the Belle Époque has been presented in three movements – the Oedipal rebellion of the Secession in pursuit of naked truth, the stripping-down of ornament in architecture, and the sensual and irrational paroxysm of expressionism – so
If we could sum up fin-de-siècle Vienna with an image, it would be the Nuda Veritas that Gustav Klimt painted in 1899, a representation of the naked truth that the members of the Secession chose as an emblem. Defenders of a new way of creating and in
The Pritzker Architecture Prize, in partnership with the National Technical University of Athens, presents The Role of Practice, on Tuesday, May 23rd at 3:40PM EEST, with the participation of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University of Pa
The Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM-UPM) has the tradition of having its veteran teachers give a final lecture prior to retirement, but Luis Fernández-Galiano, who retired as chair professor of architectural design during the pandemic, could not
Titled 'The Spanish language, mixing, and interculturalism,' the 9th Spanish Language International Congress in Cádiz took place from 27 to 30 March 2023. Organized every three years by the Cervantes Institute and the Royal Spanish Academy in collabo
In the context of Cevisama, the leading trade event for the ceramic, bathroom equipment, and natural stone sectors, David Chipperfield, Francis Kéré, and Anne Lacaton lectured on 28 February in Valencia. Lectures
On 10 October, with King Felipe VI presiding, the Royal Academies of the Institute of Spain (IdeE) commenced the 2022/2023 course with a ceremony held at the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts, It fell upon Luis Fernández-Galiano, a full-fledged
In this TED talk the Brazilian influencer Isabelel Boemeke debunks the principal objections to nuclear energy and explains how it is the safest and cleanest source of power, as well as a way to fight climate change... TED: Nuclear power is our best h
On 5 March 2015, Ricardo Bofill visited the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. In a lecture he gave, Bofill did a run-through of his professional career, explaining his work methodology and his concerns.
Luis Fernández-Galiano was twice on a scholarship program of the Fundación Juan March – in Spain in 1976-1977 and abroad in 1966-1968 – but his first lecture at the foundation headquarters took place in 2010. In the course of a decade thereafter, he
Luis Fernández-Galiano gave a series of lectures over different years for the Friends of the Prado Museum Foundation: ‘Jerusalén y Babilonia en el siglo XX’ ‘Del Gabinete al Campus: las transformaciones de la sede del Museo del Prado’ ‘El clasicismo
In this lecture given by Luis Fernández-Galiano at the Juan March Foundation in Madrid, the theme is the Bilbao branch of the Guggenheim Museum, which opened in 1997. Grand in scale and clad in titanium, this work of Frank Gehry had been seen as a sp
