Eduardo Prieto   The most radical modernity aspired not so much to revamp architecture as to destroy it. The project was at first undertaken by futurists obsessed with turning buildings into atmospheres of air and energy. Having failed, this utopia of dissolution rem

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

Mark Wigley   A smaller number of unbuilt projects haunt architectural discourse as provocations. They are like ghosts that never fully leave the conversation – fading from view sometimes only to be rediscovered by another generation of architects, and rediscovere

Mark Wigley   A major exhibition currently on view at the Jewish Museum of New York presents the work of Chareau in the light of the concept of interior. 

Beatriz Colomina   Mark Wigley   The human is never simply human. It is never clear where human begins and ends. The body is inhabited and constituted by thousands of microbes – many of which have existed for millions of years – upon which it depends for survival. The human is a mob

Edgar González   Continuing the saga of the most prolific architects of recent times, the editor of the Architecture Now! series, Philip Jodidio, has now published a monograph on Zaha Hadid (Baghdad, 1950) that updates one of 2009 and is to date the most ambitious an

Enrique Encabo   «La posible fibra ética y política del hipotético movimiento se habrá desmenuzado cuando reciba en la frente los óleos del MoMA». Así rezaba el primer texto publicado en Arquitectura Viva, firmado por su director en junio de 1988. En efecto, 23 años

Luis Játiva   ¿Quién necesita a los críticos, cuando todos tenemos una opinión? Augusto M. Seabra, uno de los articulistas del número 239 de la revista portuguesa Jornal Arquitectos (JA), vincula el nacimiento de la crítica profesional al auge de la prensa en las

Mark Wigley   Buckminster Fuller produced some of the most radical projects ever seen, devoting much of his extraordinarily energetic life to exploring the question of the house. Yet it was one of his greatest achievements to have never really designed a house as

Mark Wigley   1960. 20 de diciembre. 20:15 horas. Amsterdam. Una sala repleta en el Museo Stedelijk espera al artista de 40 años Constant Nieuwenhuys. Detrás del público se han situado un proyector de diapositivas y un magnetófono. Constant entra, se queda junto a

Mark Wigley   Berlín  2020  
Sternberg Press   - 400 Pages 

Beatriz Colomina Mark Wigley   Notes on an archaeology of design