Ángela García de Paredes Rafael de La Hoz   Spain   A university residence run by the Dominican order presents a rigorous composition of brick volumes that nevertheless maintain a certain degree of formal autonomy. The bedrooms take up the vertical block, arranged in pairs along continuous balconies,

Estudio Lamela   Spain   A 1,700-square-meter office block at Calle Amador de los Ríos 5 in Madrid, built in 1966 and owned by Primework Properties, has been renovated. The ground level, the basement, and the fourth floor have been partly restructured, with facades replaced

Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos   Spain   The Seville-based firm Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos has won the competition to expand and renovate the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid, located at Calle Requena 1, next to the Plaza de Oriente. Unifying the premises, the project integrates two adja

Ignacio Borrego   Spain   On a small existing pavilion on the roof of a building in Madrid rises this structure which acts as the base on which solar panels have been installed to generate electrical energy for an office to consume. It also provides an outdoor rest area for i

Arquitectura-G   Spain   Following her desire to live in a garden, the client found what she was looking for in the center of the Spanish capital, and set out to build her first home there. The garden was hidden to the street behind an apartment block, and had a small volume

Lys Villalba Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco   Spain   ‘Three Landscape Essays’ is a pilot project that tests strategies to mitigate the effects of the climate crisis in Southern Europe’s public spaces. They are on display in the main courtyard of the Conde Duque Center for Contemporary Culture in Madrid

Ignacio González Galán Arantza Ozaeta Cortázar Álvaro Martín Fidalgo   Spain   The architectural project for the exhibition ‘The Shore, the Tide, the Current: An Oceanic Caribbean’ is part of the 43rd edition of the annual contemporary art fair held in Madrid known as ARCO. This year it runs from 6 to 10 March, as usual at the

Pedro Pitarch   Spain   The spatial design project for the 43rd edition of ARCO, Madrid’s major contemporary art fair, is presented as a huge work of ‘domestic urbanism’ – a veritable pop-up city on view for five days in pavilions 7 and 9 at the IFEMA premises. On a formal

barea pizarro   Spain   Split programA young couple has pooled two separate professions in a single street-level establishment in Madrid’s Chamberí neighborhood, revamping the space to make it both a hair salon and a tattoo studio. Eager to avoid the usual associations with

Selgascano   Spain   The architecture firm led by José Selgas and Lucía Cano, in collaboration with the designer Andreu Carulla, has transformed an industrial space built in the early 1950s into a restaurant. The building previously harbored a repairs garage and the bar

Núñez Ribot Arquitectos   Spain   A work of the Madrid firm led by Teodoro Núñez and Almudena Ribot, the design of this house in Madrid’s Aravaca neighborhood began with a desire to take advantage of the space occupied by an underused paddle tennis court underground, which became the

Solar   Spain   Performing Pavilion is a revision of the home-workshop, proposing it as a new paradigm for the link between the work of art, the place where it is created, and contemporary lifestyles. Resulting from the enlargement of an existing unit, this space wh

NULA.STUDIO   Spain   The 60 square meters attic is completely stripped to accommodate a series of interconnected spaces that regulate their levels of intimacy through large dividing elements. Thus, a corridor that serves as both a bedroom and a study is divided by a slid

Estudio Albar   Spain   As per Passivhaus standards for maximizing energy efficiency, in consumption terms this residence qualifies for the NZEB (Nearly Zero Energy Building) certificate, impacting very little on the environment. It has a fully industrialized timber structu

Hanghar   Spain   A large flat was partitioned to form two separate but perfectly symmetrical residential units in which undifferentiated spaces are connected by a series of equidistant openings.

Studio Animal   Spain   In order to obtain a large, unobstructed main space, the more private rooms of an apartment in the Niño Jesús neighborhood are placed together in a compact block of chromatic contrasts. A volume with curved contours containing the bathrooms serves as

Beatriz Alés Atelier   Spain   Originally intended for use by a large family, a dwelling in Tercio y Terol – an old neighborhood of private homes – has eliminated its partitions to form larger, more freely flowing spaces.

Alberto Campo Baeza Laps Architecture   Spain   From outside, the library is read as an exposed concrete stone box, entirely glazed on the north facade, including its corners, and the roof. Through adequate openings, natural light floods the immaculate double-height reading room...

Pachón–Paredes   Spain   The renovation of this flat with a 110-square-meter built area, in a building raised in the early 1970s in Madrid’s Pacifico neighborhood, is part of a series of projects falling under two ongoing investigations. ‘Non-Binary Space’ explores the syner

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   The artist’s home is a museum category in itself. It represents the real experience of the rooms, objects, furniture, and spaces where, in another time, creators not only resided but also produced their works and shared their personal and family life

Lys Villalba Beatriz Arroyo   Spain   The second project of the Urban Cabinet series – which explores design strategies around the notion of ‘furniture-architecture’ or ‘furnitecture’ – involved renovating a 1950s open-block housing unit in central Madrid’s Retiro neighborhood. It unifie

Jacobo García-Germán   Spain   The project involved the thorough restoration of a house built between 1933 and 1936 and located in Madrid’s El Viso neighborhood, an example of Spanish rationalism. The main architect of El Viso was Rafael Bergamín, with the collaboration of Luis Bl

barea pizarro   Spain   All at a minimumA small flat by the Manzanares River has been renovated to accommodate young members of a family that has occupied it since the building’s construction in the 1920s. It was partitioned into several rooms like a larger apartment, and t

¿Cuáles son los retos culturales, sociales, técnicos y medioambientales que deben afrontar los arquitectos hoy? ¿Qué rasgos caracterizan el pensamiento y la crítica contemporáneos? ¿Cómo son las herramientas para difundir la arquitectura en el ámbito

Luis Fernández-Galiano   MMM did lots of things, but will be remembered as the engineer who executed the big urban projects that Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón launched as president of the Community of Madrid from 1995 to 2003 and as mayor of the city from 2003 to 2011. Of strong Ar

The Norman Foster Institute is now accepting applications for its Programme on Sustainable Cities, taking place in Madrid from January to December 2025. The Programme on Sustainable Cities blends hands-on experience with academic insights from the No

Iñaki Bergera   At Museo ICO, the architects and photographers Ana Amado and Andrés Patiño present the Franco regime’s exemplary adventure of rural colonies.

Javier García-Gutiérrez Mosteiro   Madrid celebrates the 150th birth anniversary of the architect who built many of the projects that gave the city its image as a modern metropolis.

Esperanza Guillén   The Bank of Spain has through an exhibition honored the architect who built its main office, a fine Madrid example of turn-of-the-century academicism…

Ever since they crossed paths as students, Fernando Rodríguez (Albacete, 1977) and Pablo Oriol (Madrid, 1977) have shared an infrastructural way of tackling projects, not so much in relation to mechanical logic as in terms of an organizational capaci

The photographer Manuel Álvarez Diestro and the visual artist Karlos Gil explore city of Madrid’s subterranean world. This photo series shows the entrails of essential engineering infrastructures like transportation networks, water management reservo

A second set of eight architects met at Arquia’s Madrid base to reflect on the state of the profession and outline its challenges for the future.

María Langarita   Vivimos en un mundo nuevo. La sustancia es la misma, pero el mundo es nuevo. Lo vemos de forma diferente. Nuestra forma de mirar ha cambiado. Sobre todo, ha cambiado el alcance de nuestra mirada. En este nuevo mundo todo está expuesto, todo está ilum

José María Sánchez   Es probable que en este preciso momento estemos recibiendo un wasap: podría ser un mensaje de texto que requiere respuesta, o el hilo de un chat grupal; también podría ser una imagen sugerente, incluso el croquis de un detalle de obra que urge resolv

Izaskun Chinchilla   Como disciplina y como profesión, la arquitectura está sumida en tres largas y profundas crisis que afectan a la imagen que la sociedad tiene de ella, y, como consecuencia, a los distintos papeles que hoy desempeñamos las arquitectas y a la relevanci

Bjarke Ingels   La palabra danesa para ‘diseño’ es ‘formgivning’. Literalmente significa ‘dar forma’: diseño no es sino dar forma a lo que todavía no la tiene. Dar forma al futuro. Porque cuando diseñamos un edificio o un espacio público damos forma a un rincón del

Roger Tudó   La arquitectura también está confundida. Llevamos demasiado tiempo haciendo trampas, saltándonos los límites y dejándonos llevar por dinámicas inconsistentes que están machacando el planeta. Hemos vivido una divertida e intensa ficción moderna que no

Andrés Jaque   Para los humanos, el presente, el futuro y también la manera de entender nuestros pasados están determinados por las crisis climáticas. En función de estas crisis se posicionan las políticas económicas, energéticas, tecnológicas, territoriales, medio

Farshid Moussavi   Ejercer la arquitectura implicar tomar decisiones. Las arquitectas inevitablemente establecen prioridades respecto a lo que es fijo o móvil, cerrado o abierto, transparente u opaco, así como respecto a las estructuras, geometrías y colores que acabar

Benedetta Tagliabue   Hace muchos años tuve un amigo muy simpático al que, como a mí, le interesaba la arquitectura. Sostenía que para ser buen arquitecto se necesitaba, entre otras cosas, cierta dosis de estupidez. Nunca me pareció una idea descabellada. Ser ligeramente

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Rafael Moneo   Rafael Moneo presentó su monografía de AV el 13 de septiembre de 2023 en la Fundación Arquia, con un acto introducido por el vicepresidente de Arquia Banca Alberto Alonso Saezmiera y la directora de la Fundación Sol Candela, en cuyo coloquio final in

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

Like a jewelry box, a treasure chest, or a Wunderkammer, the Royal Collections Gallery opened its doors in the city of Madrid last 28 June to showcase its extraordinary architecture, in addition to its no less extraordinary collection of objects whic

Javier García-Gutiérrez Mosteiro   Characterized by a heavy historical-artistic baggage, the career of the Burgos-born master was closely tied to the flourishing of the modern capital.

Since the launch of the Norman Foster Foundation in 2017, its mission has been to promote interdisciplinary thinking and research to help new generations to anticipate the future. In order to respond to the growing importance of urbanisation and its

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