Manuel Bouzas   Portugal   The remains of an old villa and its fountain have been restored and protected with a wooden roof to give the people of the neighborhood a gathering place with a distinctive identity. Rising from newly cleaned walls and with the tip resting on a V-sha

Manuel Bouzas   Italy   As part of the third Festival des Cabanes, held at Villa Medici in Rome, the temporary pavilion Cabane 7L gives visitors the chance to enjoy views of the Renaissance gardens through the treetops. Raised entirely with firwood boasting sustainability c

Manuel Bouzas Santiago del Águila   Spain   As part of the 2021 celebration of A Cel Obert, a festival of ephemeral architecture held in Tortosa (Tarragona), this monumental-scale, over 6-meter-high lamp is the work of the architects Manuel Bouzas and Santiago del Águila, in collaboration with

Manuel Bouzas Santiago del Águila   Spain   In the framework of the Insólit 2019 festival held in Palma de Mallorca last July, the architects Manuel Bouzas (Pontevedra, 1993) and Santiago del Águila (Madrid,1992) designed the temporary installation called 'The Catenary and the Arch' for the co

Alberto Ballesteros   Venice has been agonizing from success for decades, but the profession remains bent on rethinking the world every two years through an exhibition that revolutionizes the Lagoon. Aware of the Biennale’s contradictions, and in general of the day-by-day

Alberto Ballesteros   Enrique Morillo   If there is an urban model that nowadays shows clear symptoms of collapse, that’s Venice. The floating city has been sinking for decades under the weight of its own success, completely denatured and at the mercy of speculative policies. The ever more

Compared with musicians or painters, who can show their talent from a tender age, architects are altricial creatures that need time to mature before producing their first fruits. But, Manuel Bouzas is impressively precocious: barely in this thirties,

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda (MIVAU) has announced the projects to be presented in the central hall of the Spanish Pavilion at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale, which will run from 10 May to 23 November 2025. On the jury were Iñaqui

The urban canopy that protects the whole plaza is built with two triangular timber porticoes from which hangs a huge Alicantina-type rolling shutter in a dark green tone which pays tribute to this symbol of Mediterranean culture.

TAC! Is an annual festival of urban architecture that holds is second edition in Valencia (14 September – 16 October) and Donostia-San Sebastián (10 October – 13 November). Organized by Spain’s Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (MITMA)

Jorge Mañas Álvarez attended the Bergen School of Architecture and earned his master’s degree in Design from ETSAM. Besides curating, he engages in architecture on several fronts, from practice and writing to research and teaching. Pedro Torres Garcí