Flaunting its name, the Madrid Moderno development was in 1906 dubbed in the newspaper ABC as “the most European of Madrid neighborhoods”: an ensemble of garden-city schemes of which barely twelve small houses remain, survivors of real-estate pressur
Performing Pavilion is a revision of the home-workshop, proposing it as a new paradigm for the link between the work of art, the place where it is created, and contemporary lifestyles. Resulting from the enlargement of an existing unit, this space wh
The intervention focuses on the vault of access to the building, where two parallelpipeds of the same dimension, placed horizontally and vertically, summon the spectator. In the remaining halls, the commented images are projected at real scale...
Brando studies the relationship between visual perception and the phenomenology of color, and the objective is to develop a new commercial model where consumption is understood as an atmospheric experience. Located in Madrid’s historical center, at H
Spain takes an ugly turn. The systemic corruption and intellectual anemia of the Franco dictatorship sowed the seed of a story of ambition and abandon that was only reinforced, when the regime ended, by a mediocre political class, and which has led t
Four decades, 784 pages, 600 photos, 85 projects, a coffee-table format measuring 41.2x29.8 cm and weighing 5.75 kg. Such is the monumental scale and ambition of a monograph that expounds on the trajectory of an icon of contemporary architecture. Big
The exhibition ‘ONE VOICE / ONE IMAGE’ was born out of a desire to explore different ways of analyzing images of our time — “like two dimensions, between presence and representation,” in the words of the curator, Maria Virginia Jaua. The result is pr
In front of a thick cloud formed by seawater evaporating and coming in contact with lava from the erupting Hawaiian volcano Kilauea, a pair of tourists smile and pose for a selfie. This is the picture on the cover of Our Happy Life, the catalog of a
Three decades as an architect and professor, an elegant corpus of executed works, and many awards shape the career of one of the masters of contemporary architecture in Switzerland. His works are characterized by the purity and autonomy of forms, sol
We are witnessing an unprecedented urbanization process. A UN report says that in 2050, two-thirds of humanity will be living in cities. So it’s crucial that we develop instruments for building the cities of the future. The architects Benoît Jallon a