Studio.Noju   Spain   The thorough revamp of a 400-square-meter duplex on the 10th and11th floors of Torres Blancas in Madrid is presented as a dialogue with the apartment building that Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza built. Drawing from texts on the project that the archi

Ignacio Borrego   Spain   Football is the most important of the least important things, and such adoration for the king of sports games has birthed a house located on the sunny side of the Madrid mountains, one which seeks to reconcile the slope with the flatness required by

Martín Peláez   Spain   Ainhoa Martín and Francisco Peláez have carried out a full renovation for a home-cum-studio in a 1917 building located in the Madrid neighborhood of Palos de Moguer. Their Madrid-based practice, Martín Peláez, explains that the name of the project re

Marmolbravo MADhel   Spain   Miguel Herraiz and Daniel Bergman – MADhel – and Marina del Mármol and Mauro Bravo – Marmolbravo – built these publicly subsidized rental dwellings for EMVS, Madrid’s Municipal Housing and Land Company, in the eco-neighborhood of the city’s Puente de

Estudio DIIR   Spain   At Fortuny 47 in Madrid one finds an 80-square meter eatery called Greta Salad Bar. The objective of the project was to convey an identity linked to healthy values, through a design that floods the spaces with the color green. Different greenish tone

Olalquiaga Arquitectos   Spain   On the outskirts of Madrid stands this one-family resdience, in a 7,000-square-meter property occupied by a forest of pine and holm oak trees. With the idea of preserving these trees, the scheme unfolds on a single level, taking up the maximum area a

Burr Studio   Spain   A series of supporting elements formed by neutral infrastructures make up several spaces, both common and individual, which guarantee privacy and gathering for the artists without interfering with their creative process...

SOLAR Marta Jarabo   Spain   The intervention focuses on the vault of access to the building, where two parallelpipeds of the same dimension, placed horizontally and vertically, summon the spectator. In the remaining halls, the commented images are projected at real scale...

Studio Animal   Spain   The set design adapts to the constant changes taking place during the show. The lighting, the music, the contrast between colors, and the dynamism of the performers throughout the representation function as another element of the architecture...

Palma NULA.STUDIO   Spain   The stone-like appearance of the vinyl that shapes the volumes of the installation strikes a contrast with the lightness of its making: the large curtains levitate on a layer of the same crushed material to manifest how it is infinitely recyclable.

Estudio DIIR Hanghar   Spain   The proposal reflects the purpose of creating a space where folklore and contemporary life converge. The huge red canopy recreates a fair atmosphere and includes traditional elements that invite to imagine community stages...

Pedro Pitarch   Spain   Pedro Pitarch's firm designed the communal and lounge zones of the 42nd edition of ARCO, the contemporary art fair held at Madrid's IFEMA trade fair and exhibitions grounds, held this year from 22 to 26 February. For Pitarch, ARCOmadrid is envisioned

Equipo 01 / Jesús San Vicente   Spain   FITUR, the annual International Tourism Fair held at Madrid’s IFEMA trade exhibition premises, takes place this year from 18 to 22 January. The pavilion designed by Equipo 01 / Jesús San Vicente for Paradores Nacionales is getting the FITUR Best Stan

Padilla Nicás arquitectos   Spain   Through a project carried out by Francisco José Padilla and Juan Manuel Nicás on the initiative of Fundación Juegaterapia, the roof of Gregorio Marañón Hospital’s maternity and neonatal building – a 2003 work of the architect Rafael Moneo, in collabo

Hanghar   Spain   This project in Madrid’s Carabanchel district creates an 85-square-meter unfinished space that the inhabitants can renovate on a limited budget, saving on construction costs. The bareness allows future interventions where expensive finishes are unnec

Rafael Moneo Ramón Bescós   Spain   The bankinter headquarters go up by the palace of the Marquis of Mudela, a work of the architect Álvarez Capra, and it is the first case, in the process of transformation of the Paseo de la Castellana, where the building volume permitted by regulatio

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation   Spain   The design is based on the idea of creating an architectural environment that makes it possible for students to direct their own education through experimentation, in line with the Reggio Emilia Approach, for which the space is an educator. The scho

Gutiérrez-de la Fuente Arquitectos   Spain   In the heart of Madrid, the Ateneo comprises three buildings: Prado 19, Prado 21, and Santa Catalina 10. Together they form a BIC (Asset of Cultural Interest), in the Monuments category. A work of Enrique Fort and Luis de Landecho, with Arturo Mélida

Nieto Sobejano   Spain   A work of the practice of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano, which operates from offices in Madrid and Berlin, the new building for the San Pablo Center for University Studies (CEU San Pablo) rises amid the constructions of different periods that

Tuñón y Albornoz Arquitectos   Spain   Behind the listed facade of an industrial building raised early in the 20th century, the new spaces of a bank are terraced on top so as not to alter the current engagement with the street. The lower levels are organized in relation with a foyer that

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation   Spain   Office for Political Innovation is the name of the international architectural practice founded by Andrés Jaque – recently appointed Dean of Columbia GSAPP – in 2003. The studio, based in Madrid and New York, works at the intersection of design, rese

Tuñón y Albornoz Arquitectos   Spain   The brick house is built on a plot qualified by a group of tall pine trees, located at its northeast corner, and by the silent proximity of Monte del Pardo, along its north face. The complex is organized around three independent volumes: the cubic v

MOCA estudio   Spain   This eatery designed by MOCA estudio (Carlos Moles Romero, Adrián Sánchez), is at Santa Engracia 54, in Madrid's Chamberí neighborhood. On the ground floor of a listed 1925 building, it has a floor area of 300 square meters, 180 of which is the publi

The fitting out of a space for holding events has transformed El Jaral de la Mira, a peaceful estate located up in the sierra of Madrid, once upon a time used by King Philip II as a hunting ground. Although a large part of the property is still taken

Lluís Alexandre Casanovas   The rearrangement of the Reina Sofía Museum’s holdings has been a chance to bring alternative media, including architecture, into its exhibition discourse.

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

Oliver Wainwright   Andrés Jaque has on the outskirts of Madrid broken ground in school architecture and given tangible form to an innovative pedagogical method.

Rafael Moneo   The master from Navarre recalls his alliance with Pablo Palazuelo, for whom Moneo felt a rapport that made him want the painter taking part in his buildings.

The writer Elena Poniatowska did not need to take licenses when she fictionalized the life of Leonora Carrington, a woman whose artistic trajectory cannot be separated from her eventful biography. The Celtic legends she read as a child in her family’

On the heels of the Lucian Freud exhibition at the National Gallery in London, the Thyssen Museum in Madrid welcomes a selection of works by a painter who made the traditional sitting with a model – in famously protracted sessions – the cornerstone o

This upcoming February 15th, at 6 pm (CET), the IE University School of Architecture and Design invites you to PechaKucha Night, an event to discover the trends through which to rethink our interior spaces. Building communities, fostering human and e

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   Pupils asked for a building without walls that was like a garden and a spaceship. The dazzling result, housed within a living skin for insects and fungi, is one of the most inventive schools ever built. "It looks like a robot made of butter,” was one

‘Iris’ is a site-specific design commissioned by the city of Madrid for Plaza Canalejas, a perfectly round urban square with a diameter of 50 m in the city centre of Madrid. At 9 m above the ground, the mesh of concentric red and blue light ro

Neither the dictator Primo de Rivera nor the Republic saw the materialization of the dream of a hub in the north of the capital that would untangle the city’s rail network. This was not achieved until the years of Francoist developmentalism, when Cor

Justo Isasi   Through a major graphic presentation a retrospective shows the prolific work of the Belgian cartoonist and the influence of his most famous creature.

Javier Campano (Madrid, 1950) developed an interest in photography at a young age. In contact with the world of art thanks, to a great extent, to his brother Miguel Ángel, he started working as a professional photographer at museums and galleries, re

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The historic swerve of 24 February supplied an iconic image four months later in Madrid. The Russian invasion of Ukraine caused a geopolitical commotion that has been labeled Zeitenwende, and the leaders participating in the NATO summit gathered arou

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

Javier Arnaldo   Documentos de una transformación

AA.VV.   Una historia de la fotografía

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La Fábrica   - 288 Pages 

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Mairea Libros   - 374 Pages 

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