Eli Broad made his billions building homes, and then he used that wealth — and the considerable collection of world-class modern art he assembled with his wife — to shape the city around him. Dogged, determined and often unyielding, he helped push an
“Hi ha una altra poesia, hi serà sempre, / com hi ha una altra música.” Besides the Pythagorean beauty of balanced loads that he pursued in his craft as an architect, Joan Margarit, professor of Structures at the Barcelona School of Architecture, spe
One could make a family album of Spanish architecture from the Transition to democracy to the dawn of the 21st century using only photographs by Lluís Casals. He had colleagues like Ferrán Freixa, Hisao Suzuki, Duccio Malagamba, or Luis Asín, but Cas
Alberto Corazón amazed me from the moment I met him because of the breadth of his views in the professional horizons upon which his inquisitive eye was directed, the enthusiasm with which, like a daring argonaut of polyhedral creation, he took in the
In the same Canton of Ticino where he was born and to which he was ever bound died a master of Swiss architecture, Luigi Snozzi, on 29 December, succumbing like so many others to Covid-19. Alongside his friend and occasional partner Livio Vacchini, a
There are friends who take up a good stretch of our shelves, and we realize it when they are gone. This was the case with Vicente Verdú, and now, too, with Alberto Corazón, who passed away on 10 February. Vicente and I together honored him on the occ
“I look sideways, when arm and hand gesticulate and move, filling the white sheet with tracings. I neither copy nor think up anything with precision, I watch the spectacle of this decisive and occasional dance.” It was with such radical and organic v
The Navarrese architect and professor Carlos Sobrini breathed his last on 9 December at 95 years of age. His protracted teaching career began in the Madrid School of Architecture – where his final year thesis had won him the 1952 national award – and
Richard Driehaus, the founder of Chicago’s Driehaus Capital Management and namesake of the Driehaus Museum and DePaul University’s Business School, died Tuesday, according to Driehaus Private Equity. He was 78. Driehaus, who was born in Chicago and w
With the death of Richard Ingersoll this magazine dies a bit too. AV published his first article in 1987, and the last one appeared in the Arquitectura Viva issue right before this one. In between came over thirty years of admiration and friendship,
Richard Ingersoll has passed away at 72. The American architect, historian, editor, and critic was a regular contributor to Arquitectura Viva. Born in San Francisco, Ingersoll graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, was a professor at
