Frank Auerbach’s paintings, each one wrested from chaos over weeks and months of struggle, place the artist firmly in the English tradition stemming from Constable, who had the same feeling for the material world and the materials of art. Auerbach’s
The Italian architect Alberto Ponis has died at the age of 91. Born in Genoa in 1933, he completed his architecture studies in Florence in 1960. Shortly afterwards he moved to London, where he worked with Ernö Goldfinger and later with Denys Lasdun,
Joseph Rykwert died on 18 October at 98, breaking the thread that for a half-century has guided architects in the labyrinths of history. Born in Warsaw in 1926 and evacuated with his family to England at the outbreak of World War II, Joseph studied a
Just like Beatriz de Moura and Esther Tusquets, Rosa Regàs belonged to a generation of rich kids – cultivated and naughty at the same time – that made Barcelona a haven of freedom and creativity in the death throes of the dictatorship. A woman of gre
His photograph of five young people lounging on the Brooklyn waterfront as smoke engulfed Manhattan mesmerized viewers and stirred controversy. On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, the photographer Thomas Hoepker was following the instincts of a lifetim
Video artist who melded the material and the spiritual and applied modern technology to Renaissance subjects. In 1957, on a family holiday, Bill Viola fell in a lake. He was six years old. Sixty years later, Viola, who has died aged 73, recalled the
Luís Ferreira Alves, fotógrafo de arquitectura falleció en julio de 2022. El documental Luís Ferreira Alves: Um Olhar Construído pretende establecer una conexión entre su obra, especialmente como fotógrafo de arquitectura, y la Escuela de Arquitectur
Paul Chemetov has died at 95 years of age. A militant communist and a prolific builder of social housing developments, the French architect set up a practice with Borja Huidobro in 1983. The work for which he will most be remembered, the Ministry of
The Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki has died in his Tokyo home at the age of 95. Born in 1928 in Tokyo, Maki graduated from architecture school there and worked with Kenzo Tange. He pursued further studies in the United States, where he collaborat
Javier Manterola always went the extra mile. Mentor to us all, he infected us with his love for bridges, his daring to push farther, his search for new paths, and his aesthetic sensibility. He left us on 11 May at the age of 87, leaving us his ideas,
The French architect, professor, and historian Jacques Lucan died on 8 October, leaving a body of work characterized by the link he maintaned between professional practice and academic reflection. He wanted to do history and theory ‘from the drawing
José Luis Romany was a deeply religious man, not only in the faith he professed but also in the open, kind way with which he treated everyone, a far cry from hierarchies, in solidarity with the world’s disinherited and dispossessed. This silent fervo
Today I sing of your profile and grace. Of the maturity of your understanding. (Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, Federico García Lorca) Antonio Fernández Alba would have deserved a poet to be present in this sad ceremony of farewells, because his b
Antonio Fernández Alba recibió la Medalla de Honor de la Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo el 31 de julio de 2001, y aquí se transcribe la laudatio de Luis Fernández-Galiano, que al no haber sido redactada previamente conserva un tono coloqui
Antonio Fernández Alba has died at 96 years of age. An architect, a professor at the Madrid School of Architecture, and a member of both Spain's Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Spanish Academy, he was given the National Award for Architectur
The Italian architect Italo Rota has died at 70 years of age. The author of the Museo del Novecento in Milan, the revamp of the urban center of Nantes, and the seaside promenade of the Foro Italico in Palermo, Rota worked with Franco Albini and Vitto
MMM did lots of things, but will be remembered as the engineer who executed the big urban projects that Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón launched as president of the Community of Madrid from 1995 to 2003 and as mayor of the city from 2003 to 2011. Of strong Ar
The myth of the artist Richard Serra begins in his narrative the day that, at the age of four, he was present at the launching of a vessel at the shipyard where his father was employed. With succinct, abrupt eloquence the sculptor would time and agai
When he drowned in the sea at Cap-Martin in August 1965, Le Corbusier left unrealized his project for the Saint-Pierre Church at Firminy, a late masterpiece of his that we can visit today thanks to José Oubrerie. The then young collaborator in the st
Roberto Ercilla was an energetic defender of good architecture in a world where the profession is undervalued. His works –oozing elegance, refinement, and precision – have done much to build the orderly and highly livable city that is modern Vitoria,
Two years ago, while planning a Rice Design Alliance tour of New Mexico’s Santa Fe and Abiquiú, I contacted the Albuquerque architect Antoine Predock to see if he would meet with our group during our visit. Predock graciously agreed to meet at the en
Balancing on the diving board of his pool while addressing Getty Center scholars during a farewell dinner in the summer of 1990. That is how I wish to remember Kurt Walter Forster, the great Swiss architectural historian who died on 6 January in his
Legendary photographer and long-time Magnum member Elliott Erwitt has passed away at the age of 95. Elliott Erwitt was born Elio Romano Ervitz to Russian-Jewish parents in Paris in 1928. He spent his childhood in Milan, and emigrated to the US in 193
