(Text description provided by Pedro Pitarch architectures & urbanisms) Shine on you Crazy DiamondLA MAISON-EN-VALISE / HOME IN A SUITCASE / HOGAR EN UNA MALETA An Architectural Device for the Critique of Everyday Life NOTE: This article is writte
The spatial design project for the 43rd edition of ARCO, Madrid’s major contemporary art fair, is presented as a huge work of ‘domestic urbanism’ – a veritable pop-up city on view for five days in pavilions 7 and 9 at the IFEMA premises. On a formal
A slightly sloping footbridge connects the two buildings located at either side of the river. The ramp meets the main volume, constructed in compressed earth, at an opening that emphasizes the project’s aim of creating a new gate to the city...
Pedro Pitarch's firm designed the communal and lounge zones of the 42nd edition of ARCO, the contemporary art fair held at Madrid's IFEMA trade fair and exhibitions grounds, held this year from 22 to 26 February. For Pitarch, ARCOmadrid is envisioned
For the this year’s ARCO contemporary art fair at Madrid’s IFEMA premises, Pedro Pitarch designed ARCO 40+1, a section conceived as an imaginary museum, to mark the event’s 40th anniversary. Inverting the spatial logic of art fairs, it is presented a
The proposal inserts in the blocks a series of ‘social capsules’ containing specific public programs. This hybridization blurs the boundaries between domestic and public programs, leading to an enhanced type of architecture and living... [+]
Jorge Mañas Álvarez attended the Bergen School of Architecture and earned his master’s degree in Design from ETSAM. Besides curating, he engages in architecture on several fronts, from practice and writing to research and teaching. Pedro Torres Garcí
La exposición que se muestra en el Kronprinzenpalais de la capital alemana incluye las propuestas ganadoras del concurso Berlín-Brandenburgo 2070, entre las que se incluye el proyecto ‘Archipelago Lab’ de Pedro Pitarch.
The results of the competition for the chance to refurbish the main shed of the old Clesa dairy factory, built in the year 1961 by the master Alejandro de la Sota in Madrid’s Fuencarral-El Pardo district, were announced on 27 November 2015. Promoted
A ceremony was held on 8 May in Madrid to announce the winners of Archiprix International, an award given biennially to the best graduation projects submitted from architecture schools all over the world. In this edition, coordinated by the Madrid Sc