Luis Fernández-Galiano   Ramses II presides the hall of the Grand Egyptian Museum, a colossal structure nearing completion on the Giza Plateau. Designed in 2002 by Heneghan Peng, the construction of what will be the largest archaeological museum in the world devoted to a si

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The American Jason W. Moore and the Swedish Andreas Malm are part of what they call ‘radical academy,’ a group of Marxist writers who teach on both sides of the Atlantic. Capitalism in the Web of Life and Fossil Capital present complementary (and som

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Catastrophe, disaster, apocalypse: amid the existential fear instilled by climate change, pandemics, and artificial intelligence, a group of authors encourages us to contemplate the future of humanity with active optimism. The risks that threaten the

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The geopolitical disaster of Afghanistan is also a cultural tragedy. After Kabul fell on 15 August, the images of Afghans clinging to airplanes in motion or packed tight together in cargo holds drew the world’s attention to the humanitarian crisis, b

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The work of Alberto Campo Baeza pursues purity. Striving to be soul without body, he expresses ideas through geometry and light, stripping the building of its material nature so that it levitates weightlessly, free from its earthly prison. Oblivious

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The contest between the United States and China traces the outlines of the second Cold War. Both Xi Jinping’s assertive expansionism and Joe Biden’s determined policy of containment paint an oft-repeated historical fresco, that of a power on the rise

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Hace veinticinco años, en julio de 1996, se celebró en Barcelona el XIX Congreso de la Unión Internacional de Arquitectos, que ante el desbordamiento de asistentes tuvo que celebrar alguna de sus sesiones al aire libre. Luis Fernández-Galiano redactó

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Álvaro Siza   I was born in Matosinhos, in 1933, into a large family. We were five siblings, common at the time, and twelve people living at home, starting with my grandmother, who had come from Brazil as a widow with six children. We ate all together and converse

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Norman Foster   The library of Manchester is arguably one of the most important buildings of my life in terms of influence. There I disovered Le Corbusier’s Towards a New Architecture, the work of Henry-Russell Hitchcock on Frank Lloyd Wright… I discovered those wor

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Renzo Piano   My first experiences as an architect were threaded together by a search for lightness. It’s very simple. When you are young, you try to do the opposite of what your father’s been doing. My father was making buildings with sand, concrete, and bricks.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Jacques Herzog   Early on, I had two great masters: an artist, Joseph Beuys, and an architect, Aldo Rossi. With them I began to lay the intellectual and formal foundations of my architecture. Rossi was in our time the best-known professor at the school, and he had pl

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Carlo Piano calls his father Renzo ‘the Explorer’ and has imagined an eight-month journey with him on an Italian Navy ship, doing port of call in many of the cities where Piano has built, and both take the adventure as a search for Plato’s mythical A

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The architect and theorist Adolf Loos was the subject of reviews published in this magazine in 2018, with write-ups on the book about his trial for pedophilia, on the facsimile of Das Andere, and on the exhibition held at the CaixaForum centers of Ba

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Millenary China celebrates a centenary. Founded in Shanghai on 1 July 1921, the Chinese Communist Party reaches the anniversary after having led a historic transformation that has turned the country into a political, economic, and technological super

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Memory speaks in these ten interviews with masters. I borrow from Vladimir Nabokov’s autobiography the title for the presentation of these conversations, transcribed as monologues to place the focus on the protagonists, whose voices I hope to have re

Luis Fernández-Galiano   In the ephemeral Glasraum of the Werkbund’s 1927 exhibition in Stuttgart, the dynamic Wrightian space flows between glazed walls that reconcile the expressionist reflections with the transparency of the Sachlichkeit to expose universal truths at the

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   We do not want to forget Aldo Rossi. This month of May he would have turned 90, but he died after a car accident at the absurd age of 66, and his figure has faded in the perception of recent generations. For mine, however, he was the giant who is now

Luis Fernández-Galiano   This is an anomalous spring. Anomalous in health, with a pandemic that has reached tragic levels in India; anomalous in climate, with the multiplication of extreme phenomena that make the crisis visible; and anomalous in geopolitics, with an increasi

Luis Fernández-Galiano   A single week in May has taken away two American friends: Terence Riley at 66 on Monday the 17th, and Paulo Mendes da Rocha at 92 on Sunday the 23rd. Our paths crossed fifteen years ago, with one and the other, and now we bid them farewell at the sam

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Peter Eisenman   To America came my great-great-grandfather in 1848. There’s a huge difference between people that came in the middle of the 19th century and people who came in the middle of the 20th century, especially among Jewish families in the States. There’s a

Luis Fernández-Galiano   In his preface José Manuel Sánchez Ron recalls the bitter words that Nicolas Masson de Morvilliers had to say about Spain in the Encyclopédie (“Qu’a t-elle fait pour l’Europe?”) and though he claims not to wish to mediate in controversy, his monument

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Veinte años después de su muerte, la memoria convoca imágenes que se desvanecen como tinta en el agua. En el esfuerzo por perfilar los contornos de esta acuarela lenta, rescato textos del papel amarillento de la prensa o las páginas satinadas de las

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The NFT bubble is already comparable to the tulip mania in the Netherlands of the 17th century. Non-fungible tokens are digital files such as images, videos, text or code authenticated through blockchain technology, and which are now reaching extrava

Luis Fernández-Galiano   There are friends who take up a good stretch of our shelves, and we realize it when they are gone. This was the case with Vicente Verdú, and now, too, with Alberto Corazón, who passed away on 10 February. Vicente and I together honored him on the occ

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Kersten Geers and David Van Severen write like they design, with a clear line. Their interpretative transparency – both are committed to teaching –, their visual acuity and their intellectual impact make it almost redundant to comment on the work of

Luis Fernández-Galiano   In the beginning was the image. Contradicting the first verse in the Gospel of John –‘In the beginning was the Word’–, the protagonism of the visual takes the lead in the study of the most distant past, and also in contemporary communication. Archite

Fundación Juan March   Luis Fernández-Galiano   “The real Wölfflin is in the classroom.” The great art historian considered his classes superior to his books, and perhaps the classes given by the architect Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza were superior to his buildings: the real Oíza is definitely o

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Ivorypress celebrates its 25th anniversary with three exquisite volumes, living up to its eminent trajectory in the artistic and editorial sphere. Since the classical world, anything made with gold and ivory has been called chryselephantine, and the

Luis Fernández-Galiano   With the death of Richard Ingersoll this magazine dies a bit too. AV published his first article in 1987, and the last one appeared in the Arquitectura Viva issue right before this one. In between came over thirty years of admiration and friendship,

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Architecture is choral: it is conceived, built, and enjoyed by many. Choral in their design, execution, and use, projects admit the intervention of soloists, and it is inevitable to associate exemplary works to a charismatic author, a demanding contr

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The painting of a wild pig that was recently discovered in an Indonesian cave, believed to have been made 45,500 years ago, pushes back to that time the beginnings of figurative art; the history of art, however, is but a few centuries old. For Christ

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The archaeologist Luis Monreal, now General Manager of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture in Geneva, has behind him a distinguished career in culture administration, but will most be remembered as a photographer. His latest book, which pays homage to Hen

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   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   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 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   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   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 

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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

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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

As part of the proceedings of the UIA General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro, Barcelona has been announced the winner of the bid to host the World Congress of the International Union of Architects (UIA) and be UIA-UNESCO World Capital of Architecture in

On view through 29 April at the Ateneo de Madrid is a walk through the pictorial work of the architect Javier Sánchez Bellver (Madrid, 1952), organized on the occasion of the publication of the catalog La vida quieta (Lapislázuli, 2019), with a forew

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

Museo ICO   Curated by Luis Fernández-Galiano, 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 architectural space. Prominent among them are the

Richard Ingersoll   In the past three decades, Luis Fernandez-Galiano, editor-in-chief of this magazine, has produced an exceptional treasure of texts on contemporary architecture. I know of no one in the field who is so thoroughly aware of facts and trends of the momen

Jacques Herzog For a young architect at the beginning of his career it is a challenging moment to see the widely admired work of established colleagues, often with a mixture of disdain and admiration. For my generation this moment was in the 1980s, a

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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…

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

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.