Luis Fernández-Galiano   At the end of the past century, a world without walls seemed feasible; in the first decades of this one, walls spread without control. Many are physical, fragmenting the territory with inaccessible precincts; others are judicial, segmenting the popul

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Like Samson in his captivity, Israel is eyeless in Gaza. Captured and blinded, the Israeli hero regained his phenomenal strength to tear down the columns that held up the temple and make his enemies perish with him. The Biblical story inspired a poem

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Approaching Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano’s work we are drawn to the pentagonal temptation of charting the perimeter of their design strategy with five paragraphs in a vocalic sequence. The first one focuses on their artistic autobiography, be

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The bathroom deserves a revision. We routinely recall inventors like Elisha Otis or Willis Carrier because the elevator or air conditioning transformed architecture, and ritually remember women who, like Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, created the modern

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The Republic of Turkey celebrates its centenary on 29 October 2023. Founded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, and led for the past two decades by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the country in February suffered earthquakes that left

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Norman Foster has published three books which are great works. Their colossal dimensions belie the intimate attention given to every page, because the architect’s hand and gaze is all over. Taschen’s monumental two-tome monograph is signed by Philip

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Martin Wolf and Kohei Saito are antithetical figures: the veteran economics commentator of the Financial Times and the young philosophy professor at the University of Tokyo tackle the state of the world from opposite stances but coincide in detecting

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Expert on hybrid structures, honored with the National Engineering Award, and author of twenty-six bridges and an endless list of works with architects like Foster, Isozaki, Ando, Pei, Navarro Baldeweg, García de Paredes, Cruz & Ortiz or Miralles, Ju

Luis Fernández-Galiano   After two decades, the Swiss partners again exhibit in London, a city that saw their first international success with the opening of Tate Modern.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Fortress-Europe lodges migrants at sea. The Bibby Stockholm, a residential barge built in 1976 to be used as alternative accommodation, has become a symbol of the migratory crisis upon docking at a British port, coinciding with the approval by the go

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Architects are dimensional beings, attentive always to the size of things. Students used to be advised to carry a measuring tape to check the height of a step, the width of a door or the depth of a frame, and several generations were trained in desig

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Xenophon came to be highly popular among students of classical Greece because the simplicity of his language was perfect for translation exercises, perhaps in the same way that Julius Caesar’s Commentaries on the Gallic wars helped many of us learn t

Luis Fernández-Galiano   August was more cruel than April. The suffocating heat and the fires burned up media covers, but the heart of architecture froze at the news of the death of Jean-Louis Cohen and Peter Buchanan, a Frenchman and a Briton who contributed to the discipli

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Architecture longs for the exact pleasure of the garden. Photographer José Manuel Ballester – who was already on the cover of ‘Utopías útiles’ with his stripped-down version of The Garden of Earthly Delights – is showing De arboris perennis at the Bo

Luis Fernández-Galiano   We are all children of Humboldt, but Sandra Barclay and Jean-Pierre Crousse have made special merits to be worthy of that title. The great German naturalist and geographer crossed the Atlantic to explore Spanish America between 1799 and 1804, and upo

Luis Fernández-Galiano   For many, this title is an oxymoron. It seems that associating modernity and beauty is as provocative as writing frozen fire or the sound of silence. To use André Bretón’s famous line, “[modern] beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all,” intro

Luis Fernández-Galiano   New readings inject sap into revered trunks. The British Academy and the Getty Research Institute have revisited two classics of art history, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, no doubt the masterwork of Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897), and T

Luis Fernández-Galiano   After the worst part of the pandemic, the Ukraine war shook the world tracing an ominous geopolitical scenario, which only science advances seem to alleviate.  

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The desert kingdom builds on the sand. Like other petrostates, Saudi Arabia diversifies its economy to prepare a future without oil; like most of them, it tackles this transformation from the dirigisme of an autocratic regime; and unlike practically

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Spain’s 20th century was convulsed. The Penguin History of Modern Spain, which goes from 1898 to the pandemic of 2020-2022, indeed describes an epoch that was troubled, but really not unlike that of other European countries. In what will be a referen

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Two British architects who have foundations in Spain were feted in the month of May: Norman Foster inaugurated the largest retrospective ever done on his work at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and David Chipperfield was awarded the Pritzker Prize at t

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford, and his works have a dimension commensurate with his planetary themes. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (2015) was a bestseller which spread the world’s history onto zones like the C

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The landscape is a product of human action. We do not know what the future of the environment shaped by climate emergency will be like, but we do know that those landscapes will be defined by deliberate choices. Haiti’s deforestation contrasts with t

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Dystopia exists, and can be found in El Salvador. In this small Central American country of abrupt geography, tropical climate, and the highest population density on the continent, President Nayib Bukele has launched an unprecedented social experimen

Luis Fernández-Galiano   When reviewing the latest work of the historian, professor, and academician José Manuel Sánchez Ron – which follows Como al león por sus garras and El poder de la ciencia – so great is the challenge of tackling its size that I only dare to apply the

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Yvonne Farrell (Tullamore, 1951) and Shelley McNamara (Lisdoonvarna, 1952) both graduated in 1974 from University College Dublin, where they taught between 1976 and 2002, and in 1977 started their studio on a main street of the Irish capital that wou

Luis Fernández-Galiano   From his first shop for Miyake to the large-scale projects of today, the career of David Chipperfield has managed to combine sensibility and rigour.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Baudelaire’s critique of art and Goya’s art of critique throw light on the link between painting and writing. Although since Vasari’s Lives many have written on the art of their times, Denis Diderot is attributed with having created the genre of art

Luis Fernández-Galiano   This country-continent is already the world’s most populated. While humanity hit the 8 billion mark, India surpassed China, showing a demographic strength that contrasts with the decline of the Middle Kingdom, which for the first time in 60 years has

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The publishing house Siruela, which placed the philologist Irene Vallejo on the bestseller lists with her marvelous Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World (a work based on her dissertation, which also brought her Spain’s National Essay

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton are architects of the horizontal and of the vertical. On the ground plane, they interpret the shape of the city as a mosaic of pieces and intentions, where each building is inserted in the urban grid as a tessera

Luis Fernández-Galiano   In a new epiphany of unease, a crowd chose a symbolic building as a frame for its protest. On 6 January 2021, Trump supporters stormed into the United States Capitol to try to overturn the election of Biden; and on 8 January 2023, Bolsonaro followers

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The world changed on 24 February 2022, but the start of the war in Ukraine was produced by the tensions in the tectonic plate of Eurasia. There is no way to understand the conflict without knowing the history of Russia, nor without penetrating the he

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The intellectual influence of an engineer father and the Jesuits of Tudela forged the early personality of this native of Navarre who ran the bulls at the San Fermín festival while preparing for admission into the Madrid School of Architecture. There

Luis Fernández-Galiano   My most archaic convictions make me prone to believe that, just as there is a reasonable anatomical and physiological continuity in the human species, there must exist a stubborn nucleus of mental continuity that allows us to find common intellectual

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The Institute of Spain, comprising the country’s ten Royal Academies, officially opened its 2022 cycle at the Fine Arts seat with a lecture on the late style of writers and artists.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Moshe Safdie (Haifa, 1938) and Robert Stern (New York, 1939) are almost the same age, come from middle-class Jewish families that originated in Europe, and run major practices on the U.S. East Coast, but no modern Plutarch would describe their profes

Luis Fernández-Galiano   From Antiquity to the avant-gardes, the imagined or dreamed cities of the West have drawn from biblical narratives, as explained in a seminar held at the Prado Museum.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Piet and Wim Eckert see the bottle half full. Aware of the conflictive, changing environment in which they work, their projects offer hopeful responses, starting from the limitations of site or program to supply spaces open to transformation and appr

Luis Fernández-Galiano   1984-2021

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Textos y dibujos

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 

Six years after the opening of his foundation in Madrid, on 26 September Norman Foster headed a public launch of the Norman Foster Institute, an educational center that will draw from his indefatigable anticipation of the future to focus on cities an

On 13 September Rafael Moneo presented AV Monographs 250, devoted to his oeuvre, in the course of a relaxed conversation with Luis Fernández-Galiano, after which a number of guests put in a word. Unlike in other encounters in which he has looked back

Over the course of a fruitful career as critic of the newspaper El País and visible head of the magazines AV and Arquitectura Viva, Luis Fernández-Galiano has written on architecture and many other things. A rich sampling of his articles has now been

Set to open on 29 April, the exhibition ‘Parque del Drago, 1998-2023: 25 years around the thousand-year-old dragon tree,’ curated by Fernando Menis, will be presented by Luis Fernández-Galiano at the Visitor Center of Dragon Tree Park, in the Tenerif

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 no

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 interview, held at the Norman Foster Foundation, Luis Fernández-Galiano explains his relationship with Norman Foster, how his innovative design has changed the world of architecture, and how they worked together for the Norman Foster Foundatio

In line with the opening of the new Arquia headquarters at Tutor 16 in Madrid, a forum was held there on 30 November, titled ‘Sharing Experience,’ in which prominent architecture figures, with Luis Fernández-Galiano as moderator, voiced their reflect

On these covers, the rough strokes of nine female painters illustrate the intellectual and social mutations that have marked recent times. The transformation is the theme of ‘Debates,’ the latest addition to the book series – published by Arquitectur

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

The new head of the United Kingdom is an advocate of traditional architecture and has promoted it in his estates in Cornwall through a development, Poundbury, with Léon Krier as principal advisor. During his time as Prince of Wales he wrote texts in

Arquitectura Viva and its director, Luis Fernández-Galiano, understand and regret the discomfort caused by the series Conversations. Filmed between 2013 and 2018, this documentary series of Fundación Arquia, now being streamed on Netflix, was left un

Emilio Tuñón   Running one of the most prestigious architecture firms in the world, David Chipperfield is particularly appreciated in Spain, not only by virtue of his beautifully balanced work but also because of the warmth that radiates from one who spends long pe

The second pandemic year began with the horror of seeing the United States Capitol invaded by a multitude rejecting the results of the presidential elections, and ends with a sixth viral wave caused by a more contagious new variant named Omicron. In

Luis Alemany   Imagine that Renzo Piano is a cell. The nucleus of his DNA would be an image of the shipyards of the city of Genoa; if the cell were Norman Foster, the helix would be the sequence of a science fiction cartoon strip; and if the cell were the duo Jacqu

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, 1951), 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

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

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

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

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

Eduardo Prieto   Sometimes criticism twirls around itself, as in going from judging buildings to questioning its tools, even its essence. When this happens, it is through cover-up, on the pretext of a conventional theme, or plain opportunity. The collection of texts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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