Luis Fernández-Galiano   Expert on hybrid structures, honored with the National Engineering Award, and author of twenty-six bridges and an endless list of works with architects like Foster, Isozaki, Ando, Pei, Navarro Baldeweg, García de Paredes, Cruz & Ortiz or Miralles

Zvi Hecker has died at the age of 92. "I am an artist whose profession is architecture." That is how the Israeli architect, painter, and designer defined himself. His built works include the Heinz-Galinski-Schule in Berlin, the Jewish Center in Duisb

BBC   Colombian artist Fernando Botero, who gained worldwide fame with his sculptures and paintings of corpulent figures, has died at the age of 91. His works feature outsized people and animals. But Botero also tackled politics and other serious subjects.

John Francis Charlewood has died at the age of 96. The author of Freedom to Build (1972) and Housing by People (1976), the British architect and theorist is known for his work on self-build housing and urbanism in relation to users. For Arquitectura

Canadian Architect   Architect Raymond Moriyama, co-founder of Moriyama Teshima Architects, passed away at the age of 93 on September 1, 2023. Moriyama’s legacy includes the design of several prominent buildings across the globe, including the Canadian War Museum, Ontari

Luis Fernández-Galiano   August was more cruel than April. The suffocating heat and the fires burned up media covers, but the heart of architecture froze at the news of the death of Jean-Louis Cohen and Peter Buchanan, a Frenchman and a Briton who contributed to the discipli

The critic Peter Buchanan passed away on 23 August in London at 81 years of age. He was born in Malawi and graduated as an architect from the University of Cape Town, city where he started in the profession. In the 1970s he moved to London to work at

An allergic reaction put a sudden end to the life of Jean-Louis Cohen last 7 August, just months after the demise of his wife, the sociologist Monique Eleb. Born in Paris and trained as an architect, he was an expert on the Soviet world, although his

1945-2022 Juan Luis Trillo de Leyva passed away in his home town of Seville on 25 November. He was an architect in that broad and humanistic sense of the word that today seems rare because it is scarce. His projects were characterized by an exquisite

1933-2022 With the death of Jaime López de Asiaín Martín, Spanish architecture has lost one of its fathers of bioclimatism. Son of an architect, López de Asiaín graduated from the ETSAM in 1960 and settled in Seville after becoming Chair of Aesthetic

1942-2022 Pedro de Navascués, essential figure in the historiography of architecture in Spain, died of a stroke on the night of 5 December. Graduated in Philosophy and Literature from the University of Madrid in 1965, Navascués soon became interested

1939-2022 Master of geometry and of the media, Ricardo Bofill was the closest to a star-architect Spain has ever had. That is not a small merit, if one remembers that the Catalan became a star in the years when Spanish architecture was of interest to

1938-2022 Born in the Hiroshima that in few years would be destroyed by the bomb, Issey Miyake graduated from Tama Art University in Tokyo in 1964, before working several years in Paris and New York to learn the principles of couture, and returning i

1929-2022 Son of a Swedish diplomat on mission in the United States, Claes Oldenburg studied at the universities of Chicago and Yale before adopting the US nationality and settling in New York. In 1961 he opened a small shop on the Lower East Side wh

1935-2022 The most international name in Portuguese painting, Paula Rego, died in London at 87. She grew up in a well-off family in Lisbon during the dictatorship of Salazar, a situation which prompted this restless young woman to leave the country i

1930-2022 A journey to precarious Spain of 1950 changed the life of John Elliott, one of the key British hispanists. It changed it because he discovered the Prado Museum, and in it not just Las Meninas, but another great Velázquez painting: Equestria

1939-2022 Incubated in the 19th century and splendidly developed during the following century, hispanist tradition had in Jonathan Brown its greatest art historian. Born in Massachusetts in 1939, his long career had its seed, as so many art lovers si

1936-2022 The semiotic wave of the 1960s and 1970s decade, and in general the scientist obsession of those years, bore disparate fruits. Some were engulfed by history, while others maintain, if not the pertinence of that time, an undoubtable interest

1931-2022 Arata Isozaki died on 29 December at 91. He did not have a readily recognizable style; his mood was pragmatic, even eclectic, and this turned him into the best representative of the rich variety that has characterized Japanese architecture

1924-2022 There was a contradictory and fertile moment when Ibero-American countries wanted to merge the codes and principles of the Modern Movement with vernacular traditions, especially pre-Columbian, in which they found a powerful source of indent

1930-2022 Deceased on 11 February at 92 years of age, James Stewart Polshek was one of those archi-tects who, in spite of having completed noteworthy buildings, could not bear the load of me-dia glitz and preferred a quiet and fruitful professional a

1928-2022 As so many architects of all times, José Frutos Vivas could not resist the spell of power, and in 2103 he designed a mausoleum for the recently deceased president of his country, which he gave a name between tropical and classic: La Flor de

1927-2022 The Belgian architect and activist passed away on 2 August, at the age of 95. Born in Brussels in 1927, Kroll studied at the Faculté d’Architecture La Cambre at a time influenced by functionalism, and this explains why, after graduating in

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