BURR   Spain   In an old industrial shed between two rear courtyards, a house is organized around a band that contains utilitarian spaces while separating the private from the more public areas. Attached to the wall of white concrete blocks are different functions

Jiménez & Linares   Spain   Elena Jiménez and Abelardo Linares did a thorough overhaul of a single-family home built in the 1920s, located next to the Quinta del Fuente del Berro Park, in the Salamanca neighborhood. Once the sculptor Jorge Oteiza’s Madrid residence, it was much

ENORME Studio   Spain   The modular flat named Beyome – a contraction of Beyond Home – addresses the trend toward living and working in one same space, adapting to the needs of the occupants. The rooms are reconfigirable, activated domoticaly or manually and through linear

Ruizesquiroz Arquitectos   Spain   In the scheme to convert a former car-engine repair facility into a place to live and work in, the actual forms of the existing structure were used to define the different spaces required...

Studio Animal   Spain   The house for a trap music singer is a concatenation of sets that amount to a spatial translation of this subgenre of hip hop, and reflects the eclectic personality of its occupant...

NOMOS Architects   Spain   An automobile repair shop surrounded by a ramp becomes a home where a sequence of parallel walls makes hallways unnecessary and is conducive to the crossing of paths. Both energy saving and natural lighting determined the construction solutions appli

TAKK Architecture   Spain   A reduced budget warranted rethinking the residence as a succession of concentric spaces that harness passive strategies to bring consumption of energy down to a minimum. Instead of the usual arrangement of rooms and hallways, the layout follows a th

Burr Studio   Spain   A former industrial warehouse within a block courtyard is now the home and atelier of a photographer, and to guarantee maximum comfort it underwent a painstaking refurbishment...

Hanghar   Spain   The dwelling refrains from adopting a pre-set layout, instead organizing itself in four isotropic rooms, which are spatially and visually connected by large centered openings...

Pachón–Paredes   Spain   The revamp of a flat in a tower built in the 1950s eliminated the outmoded original partitioning, in favor of an undefined cruciform space that lends itself to multiple options...

Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos Ulargui Arquitectos   Spain   A scheme drawn up by Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos in collaboration with Ulargui Arquitectos has won the competition organized by Spain’s Finance Ministry to raise a new institutional building at Padre Damián 52, in Madrid. With a rectangular courtyard in

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture Reinier de Graaf   Exhibited at the Venice Biennale and at Matadero Madrid, the visual manifesto challenges conventional design of healthcare facilities, and reflects on the evolution of this typology and on the technical upgrades it will require in the future...

Sancho-Madridejos   Spain   A Madrid business school has expanded its facilities with the construction of new teaching spaces that together have the effect of consolidating the entire campus around a pine grove. A stone vault built with 777 pieces parameterized and fitted toget

Amann Cánovas & Maruri - Temperaturas Extremas   Spain   At José Antonio Fernández Ordóñez 8, in the Madrid residential neighborhood of Valdebebas, stand three towers with curved corners. They contain 67 apartments plus retail units and a garage. The outcome of a competition held in March 2017, it is a wor

P + S Estudio de Arquitectura   Spain   The renovation of a modest apartment that dates back to 1850 pursues maximum flexibility in order to fit in a wide-ranging program, in the process trying to make the most of its good orientations.

EEESTUDIO Lys Villalba   Spain   Eva, carlos, two Belgian Malinois – Bicho and Bomba –, Harris the owl, five swift families, six kestrel families, and twenty sparrows, are all companion species. They live and learn together in this building, 30 kilometers west of Madrid. Sitting in

Pachón–Paredes   Spain   In the Nueva España neighborhood of Madrid’s Chamartín district stands what is called Casa No. 1- ochentayseiscentímetros, a work of the practice of Luis G. Pachón and Inés García de Paredes. Their renovation of this attached house built in 1978 addr

Marmolbravo Daniel Bergman Miguel Herraiz   Spain   A work of Marina del Mármol and Mauro Bravo – principals of the architecture firm Marmolbravo – in collaboration with Miguel Herráiz and Daniel Bergman, this stepped apartment building stands at Peña Falconera 2, in Madrid’s Puente de Vallecas distri

estudioHerreros   Spain   The complex comprises a small community of eight dwellings in a quiet residential area of Peñagrande, in the north of Madrid, configured under the typology of duplexes stacked on two levels, all of which have two corner orientations. The four lower d

estudioHerreros   Spain   The project is based on the need to respond both to the lack of use and internal functioning of the original building that became obsolete due to the unplanned arrival of new technologies, and to problems of security and sustainability. The task has

Fenwick Iribarren Architects Serrano Suñer Arquitectura   Spain   In 2012, the project for the Madrid Convention Center, set to become part of the Cuatro Torres Business Area, was put on hold. After three years of construction work, the stalled project left a huge urban void where earthwork, foundation laying, and

Bojaus   Spain   Each of the three living units forming a stack takes up a full floor of the building that rises on an 800-square-meter plot in Madrid’s Aravaca ward. The composition resulted from shifting and twisting each level with respect to the one below, genera

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   The site is a sloping plot with a far view of a landscape that is none other than Madrid’s western mountain range. It seemed logical to build a vertical house with the more public or shared spaces on top, framing stunning views to enjoy. An eye over

Eduardo Prieto   Mastership too comes in tones. Although our late-romantic upbringing makes us prefer major masters, minor masters are more interesting when it is times, not so much persons, that we wish to comprehend. Lacking ego, minor masters are better at strikin

Eduardo Mangada   Como buen ciudadano, atento a la convocatoria del alcalde de Madrid, acudí a contemplar la renovada plaza de España. Con ojo atento exigible a un arquitecto, la recorrí en diagonal, desde la esquina de Bailén-Ferraz hasta la de Princesa-Gran Vía. Vi

It could well be that lockdowns brought on by the pandemic have given us a better grasp of the metaphysical reflected light that Giorgio Morandi found in the everyday, with the still lifes he painted over the seventy-three years that hardly saw him

A parade of disturbing figures with bowler hats, covered faces, impossible skies, and paintings within paintings make up the iconic cosmos of René Magritte, to whom until 30 January the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum devotes a major retrospective, the fir

Mark Wigley   What does it mean to gather together a decade or so of work signed “estudioHerreros” into a monograph? What is it to compact such a diversity of programs, scales, sites, and cultures into a relatively slim volume? The flexible but resilient plastic-c

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Systemic discipline produces silent works through the exacting simplification of industry. In this way, estudioHerreros embraces a choral signature to underline the experimental objectivity of its method, which offers repeatable answers, perhaps echo

In celebration of the centenary of the birth of Julio Cano Lasso (1920-1996), the Madrid Institute of Architects (COAM) hosts the exhibition ‘Julio Cano Lasso. Naturalezas.’ On view from 9 September to 1 November, it presents original drawings and sk

Kenneth Frampton   Undeterred by the vagaries of fashion, Alberto Campo Baeza has kept his faith for over half a century with the Platonic purity of his unique architectural vision, amplified of late by shifting his work to the time-honored paradigms of the temenos and

El País   Miguel Ezquiaga Fernández   Many sites in Spain have been recognized by UNESCO for their outstanding universal value, but up until now, not one of them was located in the Spanish capital. Madrid’s famous Retiro Park and Paseo del Prado boulevard have been added to UNESCO’s Worl

El País   It is to go up on what is currently a parking lot in front of the flagship store at Nuevos Ministerios. A property of the department store chain since 2014, this is one of the most coveted sites on Paseo de la Castellana. The building will have a tot

Eduardo Prieto   Touched by the wand of historians, Jean Prouvé went from workshop activity to becoming one of the greatest designers of the 20th century. He had everything it took for the goddess of critical fortune to grant him his gifts, albeit post-mortem: a chil

On view through 12 September at Museo ICO in Madrid is an exhibition that gathers eleven commissioned photographic reports or surveys – expanded to twenty-nine in the catalog – of the landscape, mostly urban, and the territories of our country. In th

Against the usual order – whether chronological or thematic – expected of art exhibitions, Guillermo Pérez Villalta – painter, writer, engraver, designer, architect – has put together an exhibition on view at Sala Alcalá 31, in the very heart of Madr

Against the usual order – whether chronological or thematic – expected of art exhibitions, Guillermo Pérez Villalta – painter, writer, engraver, designer, architect – has put together an exhibition on view at Sala Alcalá 31, in the very heart of Madr

Like art exhibitions, architecture ones are often as much a celebration of persons as they are of works. This is particularly true in the case of ‘Carme Pinós: Building for Life,’ curated by Luis Fernández-Galiano and on view through 9 May at the ICO

The exhibition walks us through the oeuvre of Carme Pinós, divided into three sections: the bottom level laconically presents the eight works she completed with Miralles; the main floor showcases eighty projects developed on her own over three decade

Rafael Moneo   All architecture exhibitions force the subject to address the question of what they want said about their work and person, and how. Carme Pinós has responded to these questions with commendable honesty and courage, as rather than being an exegete of

The Guardian   Sam Jones   Campaigners call for historic sports venue in Madrid to become a world heritage site after its €38m restoration. Since its inauguration 127 years ago, the Frontón Beti-Jai, built at the height of the Spanish capital’s love affair with the Basque game

On display through 30 April at the ICONNO, showroom in Madrid are elements and complements designed by renowned architects which are linked to buildings designed by them. Organized within the framework of Off de Madrid Design activities and in colla

Iñaki Bergera   This is a homage to photography and to a city which, paradoxically, plays a secondary role in a visual account. In Madrid, a human landscape lords over the urban one, actors take center stage against the backdrop of props. Madrid – with its popular a

The Paseo de la Castellana reflects both the fortes and the flaws of Madrid. The strengths of an urban axis that has efficiently provided a backbone for the growth of the city, prioritizing the pragmatic over the iconic and infrastructures over build

Andrés Cánovas Carmen Espegel José María de Lapuerta Salvora Feliz   Madrid, 1956-1966

Santiago de Molina   Madrid  2021  
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Mary Ann Caws   Lugares de reunión en la modernidad

AA.VV.   Los códices de Leonardo Da Vinci en la corte de los Austrias

Óscar Martínez   Un viaje por la cultura occidental a través de sus puertas

Winfried Nerdinger   Taller del Movimiento Moderno

Madrid  2020  
La Fábrica   - 288 Pages 

José Manuel Calvo   Madrid  2020  
Los Libros de la Catarata   - 174 Pages 

María Hurtado de Mendoza Wahrolén   An Architecture of Variation with Repetition

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Álvaro Ardura Urquiaga Javier Tejera Parra José Javier Bataller Enguix Ramón López de Lucio   Madrid  2016  
Ayuntamiento de Madrid   - 668 Pages 

Sergio Martín Blas   Social Housing & Urban Regeneration

Manuel Melis Maynar   La construcción del Metro de Madrid y la M-30

Ruizesquiroz Arquitectos Marta Muñoz   Madrid  2012  
Mairea Libros   - 374 Pages 

Andrés Cánovas   Madrid  2013  
Ministerio de Fomento   - 216 Pages 

Enrique Castaño Perea   1434-1734

Ricardo Aroca   Madrid  2013  
Espasa   - 224 Pages 

Fernando Castillo Cáceres   Vanguardia y arquitectura. (1925-1936)

Ricardo Sánchez Lampreave   Cityscape in the Veiled Metropolis

Rafael Levenfeld Valentín Vallhonrat   Madrid  2011  
Fundación Telefónica   - 144 Pages 

Un proyecto de transformación urbana

Alberto Sanz   Madrid  2009  
Ayuntamiento de Madrid   - 497 Pages