Fernanda Canales   Mexico   Located three hours by road from Mexico City, the Terreno House simultaneously addresses two theoretically contradictory demands: shelter in the extreme climate of a region where there can be thermal drops and rises of more than thirty degrees in the

DnA_Design and Architecture   China   Devoted to preserving the legacy of the Hakka community, an ethnic and linguistic minority in China, the museum is located in a small rural enclave whose population, according to tradition, renounced agriculture to develop expertise in constructing w

Juan M. Medina del Río   “I am a Spaniard, and thus a realist (…) The other day I entered a Gothic Cathedral… If I have lost my calm, I blame it on this.” The Ortega y Gassett quote is evidence of a well-known fact: the history of architecture is the history of the search fo

Organized by the Danish company Velux and under the title of ‘New Eyes on Existing Buildings’, the fifth biennial Congress on Natural Lighting was held on the 15th and 16th of May at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. If previous ed