Luis Fernández-Galiano   The current critique of meritocracy questions merit itself. Until very recently, the rejection of technocracy censored the one-dimensional character of its politics, but did not question technique itself; today, the attack on meritocracy rejects not

Luis Fernández-Galiano   How did the prosperity of the West come about? Two monumental works by American professors offer unexpected answers. Walter Scheidel, who teaches classical culture, history, and human biology at Stanford, argues that it was the failure of the Roman E

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The year 2021 begins with three black swans, sounding like drum beats after the Christmas truce: the assault on the United States Capitol by a mob devoted to still-President Trump, the historic snowstorm that has paralyzed Spain, and the sudden spike

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The texan cliché of bigness applies to this hefty book. Nevertheless, the work of Miró Rivera – set up in Austin but with roots in Juan Miró’s Spanish and Miguel Rivera’s Puerto Rican education – is more intimate and succinct than this volume, with i

Luis Fernández-Galiano   From virus to vaccine, 2020 has been a year on pause. From the detection of the first cases of Covid-19 in Wuhan to the announcement of the efficacy of vaccines, we have lived a period of virtual life, locked up in domesticity and our contact with ot

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Patience is the sister of hope. The philosopher Ernst Bloch, who wrote the three volumes of The Principle of Hope while exiled in the United States from 1938 to 1947, often spoke of the importance of optimism. Now, while everyone from The Economist t

Luis Fernández-Galiano   A new series of books devoted to contemporary architects kicks off with the volume on the master from Navarre, featuring this interview.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   What do we talk about when we talk about beauty? Peter Sloterdijk and Byung-Chul Han are perhaps the two leading philosophers in the current German scene, and the translation into Spanish of The Aesthetic Imperative, a collection of writings on art t

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Ensamble’s track seems inseparable from trial. Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa have assembled their life and work as a sequence of material and mental essays that are interwoven to join experiment and experience, production and perspective, explor

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Monuments molt: they change skin, change image, and change meaning. As living heritage, they renew their renders and their walls, transform their outer appearance, and modify their symbolic content; and as vulnerable heritage, they experience decaden

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Late in 2018 we published the two volumes of Alexandrine Years, which presented – in two languages, Spanish and English – a collection of articles that appeared in El País from 1993 to 2006: the first one, The Age of Spectacle, covered architecture d

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Architecture has a difficult relationship with color. If heroic modernity embraced a clinical, hygienic white, subsequent revisions extended the palette to the natural tones of raw material, but without giving up on the ascetic ideal of chromatic rel

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Fermín Vázquez and b720 have moved from Descartes to Stanislavski. Their foundational basis on the Cartesian methodic doubt, examining each commission from the objectivity of the information available, has gradually become the acting method of the Ru

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Aphoristic in his teachings, Louis Kahn was torrential in his letters. Those he wrote to Anne Tyng, his collaborator and lover, mother of his daughter Alexandra, were published in 1977 under a title (The Rome Letters 1953-1954) that alludes to the ti

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The walls of the garden enclose a project of individual happiness. Growing one’s own orchard and tending one’s own garden are metaphors of the abandonment of collective passion; and the tamed, intimate nature of the garden is an acceptable substitute

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Associated with the bedroom in a shared sphere of secluded intimacy, the bathroom wavers between hygiene and pleasure. The wellbeing that bodily regeneration gives fuses with the warm sensuality of the water that moistens the skin, opens up the pores

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Accustomed to thinking of the family house as a consumer unit, we often forget about its essential role as a unit of production. Essential in the rural world, where agricultural exploitation and the residence are inseparable, and no less important in

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The house can be a laboratory of innovation, but also a theater of dreams. Most of the residences featured in general publications have this latter character, because they show unreachable spaces we can only fantasize about, and correspond to product

Luis Fernández-Galiano   In the living room, the family recognizes and presents itself. It can be a setting for everyday life or a place for receiving visitors, but in both cases the family chooses it as the scene for the representation, to itself and to others, of its value

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The exploration of domestic intimacy that inspired the exhibition ‘El espacio privado: cinco siglos en veinte palabras’ (‘Private Space: Five Centuries in Twenty Words’ at the Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, 1990) is abridged and extende

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Both Frank Lloyd Wright and Marina Abramović led extreme lives, but the latest publications that document them could not be more different. The most recent biography of the American architect is a torrential text – with a rather baroque language and

Luis Fernández-Galiano   If there is a domestic area where etiquette reigns, surely it is the dining room. Table manners are just the basic catechism of an elaborate theology of food and eating. Habits and rituals intertwine to weave a dense fabric of identities and differen

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Bedroom, hub of intimacy, protective shell of the seed, place for terms and principles, for consummations and consumptions. Children and projects are conceived here, the frontiers of dreams and life are crossed. Up to quite recently, here one was bor

Luis Fernández-Galiano   In the beginning was the fire: a single fire around which the family gathered and the house was built. When the hearth was multiplied and divided, the house fragmented into individual fires warming bodies, heating water, and transforming foods. The c

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The creative destruction defended by Schumpeter deserves another name: corrosive destruction. The oxymoron popularized by the Austrian economist describes the gales of transformation powered by capitalism as forces of creativity that allow a hatching

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Fire, even confined to braziers or hidden in stoves, preserves its archaic lure. The primitive hut is bound to the first bonfire; there is no construction without combustion. The link is functional and symbolic: fire makes the house livable, warming

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Born into a well-off family of non-practicing Jews, young Peter only became conscious of his origins when the upheaval of the United States’ entry into the war stoked the flames of antisemitism. With both sides of the family coming from the eastern a

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Architects design space, but also time. Imagining the city after the pandemic, they strive to reconcile the need for social distance with the convenience of proximity: on one hand, space is fragmented to avoid contact; on the other, uses are gathered

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The passing of Marc Fumaroli, an eloquent defender of European culture, has coincided with the Spanish release of The Europeans, the book by British historian Orlando Figes on the making of cosmopolitan culture in the continent, and this encourages r

Luis Fernández-Galiano   As a youngster, Norman, the son of a working-class family from Manchester, took an interest in machines and airplanes, dreamed of a science-fiction future, and discovered the world through his readings in the public library. After two years working f

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Breathing has become harder to do. Cars deteriorate the air of cities, pandemics contaminate the air of buildings, and racism degrades the air of societies. Urban atmospheres get more toxic and claim countless victims in the world year after year; Co

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The landscape is a voluntary geography. The idyllic vision of landscape as intact nature is denied by experience and memory. Shaped by economic, environmental, and cultural forces, the planet’s panoramas are not the mere result of geology, botanics,

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The Finnish architect and author Juhani Pallasmaa organized in 1995 in Helsinki an exhibition on constructions made by animals, from beehives to bird’s nests and beavers’ dams, a subject which has always interested and impressed professionals and pro

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Sou Fujimoto describes his haphazard architectures as ‘notes without staves,’ and trying to interpret his forms through conventional composition is a futile effort. Escaping both the cartesian grid of regularity and the hierarchical pyramids of subor

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Living apart is living less. The isolation that prevents the spreading of the virus will transform our habits, and the immediate future appears like a landscape of elementary particles that drift, avoiding contact, to settle at the vertices of a regu

Luis Fernández-Galiano   From a wet market came to us ‘bad news wrapped up in proteins,’ and Wuhan was set to become China’s Chernobyl. But the mass confinement there was a success story, and the new Silk Route brought face masks and equipment to Europe. In the ideological a

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Covid-19 was identified in Wuhan in December 2019, but it was not until mid-January 2020 that it made our news headliness. What follows is a chronicle by Luis Fernández-Galiano of the first one hundred days of the presence here of this new viral dise

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The philologist Pilar Vázquez Álvarez, who was part of the editorial staff of AV/Arquitectura Viva in 1991-92, passed away in Madrid last 10 May. During the five years before joining us she had translated art and architecture books for Hermann Blume,

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Looking at the past and the future at the same time, the Roman god of thresholds and transitions sums up well the profuse career of Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus, two brothers and two studios that use geometry to take in each project a path that

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2020  
Ediciones Asimétricas   - 136 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2020  
Ediciones Asimétricas   - 136 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Las grandes esperanzas (1976-1984)

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Las grandes esperanzas (1985-1992)

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2019  
Fundación Arquia    - 120 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2019  
Fundación Arquia    - 120 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2019   - 208 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2019   - 352 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2019   - 352 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano Lisa Heschong   Tallinn  2018  
Eesti Kunstakadeemia   - 64 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Años alejandrinos 1993-1999. A Chronicle of Architecture

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Años alejandrinos 2000-2006. A Chronicle of Architecture

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2017  
Fundación Arquia    - 124 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2018  
Fundación Arquia    - 104 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2018  
Fundación Arquia    - 108 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2017   - 240 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2016   - 352 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2016  
Fundación Arquia    - 52 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2016  
Fundación Arquia    - 68 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2016  
Fundación Arquia    - 56 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2015  
Fundación Arquia    - 68 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2015  
Fundación Arquia    - 60 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2015  
Fundación Arquia    - 64 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2014  
Fundación Arquia    - 72 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2014  
Fundación Arquia    - 88 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2014  
Fundación Arquia    - 60 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2014  
Fundación ICO   - 144 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2013  
Fundación ICO   - 160 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Arquitecturas del siglo XXI

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Arquitecturas del siglo XXI

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Arquitecturas del siglo XXI

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Arquitecturas del siglo XXI

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Expo Zaragoza 2008

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Bilbao  2007  
Fundación BBVA   - 312 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2007   - 368 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Architecture in Spain 1975-2005

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Sobre arquitectura y energía

Luis Fernández-Galiano Justo Isasi Antonio Lopera   Los Poblados Dirigidos de Madrid en la arquitectura de los cincuenta

Architectural Record   Cathleen McGuigan   President Biden ordered the revocation of the Executive Order, “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture,” signed by former President Trump on December 18, 2020. The Trump order, mandating the preference for “traditional and classical architect

La Vanguardia   Fernando García   The ICO Museum in Madrid hosts a retrospective exhibition that the public can view through 9 May, presenting 80 projects by the architect Carme Pinós and the eight she carried out with Enric Miralles. In accordance with the theoretical and spatial ap

Curated by Luis Fernández-Galiano and on view from 10 February to 9 May, the exhibition is a journey through the many works of Carme Pinós that follows a clear guiding thread: the importance of context and environments in the creation of architectura

El Mundo   Luis Alemany   Calatayud, 1950. Arquitecto, catedrático y editor de las revistas Arquitectura Viva y AV. Las grandes esperanzas reúne sus escritos del periodo 1976-1992 en dos tomos: Fracturas y ficciones y Empeños sostenibles.  PREGUNTA. En 45 años de escribir sob

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Late in 2018 we published the two volumes of Alexandrine Years, which presented – in two languages, Spanish and English – a collection of articles that appeared in El País from 1993 to 2006: the first one, The Age of Spectacle, covered architecture d

As part of the Textos críticos series published by Ediciones Asimétricas, Luis Fernández-Galiano has gathered twenty articles that look at architecture and the city from an ecological perspective. The real estate bubble, the transformations in the la

In line with the 20th anniversary of the death of Enric Miralles on 3 July 2000, we reprint Luis Fernández-Galiano's tribute to the Catalan architect, published in AV Monografías 87-88.

Architecture is ideas and forms, but both crystallize through matter. While a building is prefigured in the immaterial geometries of the design, it takes shape in the physical world by means of materials and techniques. The intricate interplay of int

Isabelle Regnier   Pendant quatorze ans, de 1993 à 2006, Luis Fernández-Galiano a dirigé la rubrique architecture du quotidien espagnol El País. Architecte de formation, professeur à l’Université Polytechnique de Madrid et dans de nombreuses grandes écoles à travers le

Miguel Aguiló   The subtitle ‘A Chronicle of Architecture’ raises the question of why the author calls this compilation of writings a ‘chronicle’ instead of a ‘critique,’ given that his opinion is held in esteem within the profession worldwide. His academic trajecto

Richard Ingersoll   When does news become history? Considering the current threat of climate change, I often wonder if a historical vision will survive the 21st century; but if it does, those concerned with what happened in architecture during the last decade of the 20t

François Chaslin   Je suis enfin, depuis deux heures, en possession de ces kilos de réflexion que j’ai été chercher en autobus dans un dépôt UPS au fin fonds de ma triste banlieue (on y vend aussi des DVP, essentiellement pornographiques tant est grande, ici, la misère

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Se recogen aquí algunas reacciones críticas a Años alejandrinos, los dos volúmenes que reunían una buena parte de mis artículos en El País entre 1993 y 2006. La obra fue presentada por Norman Foster y Rafael Moneo el 19 de febrero en Ivorypress, y el

Casabella   Prima gli anni dell’ottimismo giustificato dalla crescita economica e dai successi ottenuti dalla Spagna dopo il 1992; poi quelli della crisi dopo la distruzione delle torri gemelle a New York (e sullo sfondo il 2008 e il fallimento della banca Lehma

Kenneth Frampton   Please excuse my very delayed response to your Alexandrine Years. I have been preoccupied of late in trying to finish, at long last, the ‘impossible’ expansion of Modern Architecture: A Critical History so as to shift the focus away from Europe and t

Bjarke Ingels (Copenhagen, 1974), founder of the firm BIG, has confirmed that he will be participating in the Architecture and Design Forum at the next Cevisama international ceramics fair, set for 3–7 February at Feria Valencia. Luis Fernández-Galia

Le Monde   Les chroniques architecturales écrites par Luis Fernandez-Galiano pour «El País», entre 1993 et 2006, tissent le récit passionnant d’une période de bouleversements intenses...

Casabella   Italian magazine Casabella (899-900) reviews The Age of Spectacle and Time of Uncertainty, in which Luis Fernández-Galiano compiles his articles on architecture published in El País from 1993 to 2006.

El País    Estrella de Diego   In Alexandrine Years, Luis Fernández-Galiano collects his articles on architecture published in El País from 1993 to 2006...

Foster + Partners   Spain   The British architect Norman Foster has with the Basque Luis María Uriarte won the competition to revamp Bilbao’s Museum of Fine Arts, which wanted 2,250 square meters of its current floorage renovated and at least 5,140 square meters added, and in a

Revista de libros   Miguel Aguiló   With the English subtitle “A Chronicle of Architecture,” the two volumes of Alexandrine Years collect the articles published by Luis Fernández-Galiano in El País...

Fahrenheit 451   Pablo Delgado   Luis Fernández-Galiano publishes a selection of his most important articles written between 1993 and 2006 on architecture...

Vaillo + Irigaray   Spain   The Navarre practice of Antonio Vaíllo and Juan Luis Irigaray has won the competition organized by Vigo's Duty-Free Zone Consortium for the construction of the World Car Center. The project comprises two new buildings and an intervention on an existi

Phase one of the competition to revamp Bilbao’s Museum of Fine Arts has ended with the shortlisting of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos; Rafael Moneo; Foster + Partners with LM Uriarte Arkitektura; BIG with AZAB and Proskene; Snøhetta with Foraster Arquite

Invalidating the idea that the times we are living are unconducive to criticism, and heralding the discipline’s future, Luis Fernández-Galiano has published Alexandrine Years. The two-volume bilingual book compiles a good part of the weekly pages tha

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The collection of texts is illustrated with over 2,500 images, and 2,000 protagonists of the years straddling two centuries parade through them.

Rafael Moneo   Ivorypress provided the venue for a dialogue about the books, which offer in Spanish and English a selection of texts first published in the newspaper ‘El País.’

Norman Foster   ‘Alexandrine Years’ was launched on 19 February with Norman Foster and Rafael Moneo accompanying its author, Luis Fernández-Galiano.

This publication of the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn presents two fundamental texts, translated to Estonian, on the relationship between architecture and energy. The first,‘Thermal Space in Architecture,’ tackles from both a historical and a t

El Mundo   Luis Alemany   All the topics that a reader expects to find in a newspaper appear in the articles that Luis Fernández-Galiano – architect, professor, critic, and editor of architecture magazines – wrote for the daily El País from 1993 to 2006, with architecture as

El País / Ferrán Bono   “It would be very hard to find a critic with the training of Luis,” said Rafael Moneo to a packed audience. He was referring to the Navarre-born architect seated to his left, Luis Fernández-Galiano, author of the book Alexandrine Years…

This article by Luis Fernández-Galiano on the deliberate destruction of the material, historical, and emotional heritage of the former Yugoslavia was published in El País in 1993 and is included in the book The Age of Spectacle.

Architecture is ideas and forms, but both crystallize through matter. While construction is prefigured in the immaterial geometries of the project, it takes shape in the physical world by means of materials and techniques. This entangled relationship

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

Since 2001 the firm Andreu World has held an annual competition in which students and yougn designers can present ideas for chairs and tables. The jury of the latest edition – among whose members were Luis Fernández-Galiano, Giulio Ridolfo, Ej Lee,

The Arquia/maestros documentary collection – which since 2014 has been building testimony of the life and work of some of the great architects of our times through interviews conducted by Luis Fernández-Galiano, director of the endeavor – now explore

On view from 3 October to 20 January at the ICO Museum in Madrid, ‘Francis Kéré: Primary Elements’ expands the focus that ‘The Architect is Present’ (2014) gave to the exceptional Burkinabe based in Berlin. This year’s show covers his entire career s

Youtube   The 3-minute video presents the exhibition curated by Luis Fernández-Galiano, which walks us through the trajectory of the Berlin-based Burkinabè by focusing on the essential nature of his architecture....