Rafael Moneo   Germany   In 2005, the Berlin city council called a competition to define the massing and the set the guidelines for a block bordered by Schinkelplatz, Straße an der Kommandantur, Niederlagstraße, and the small square shaped by two Schinkel projects: on one ha

Rafael Moneo Canals Moneo Arquitectos   Spain   With over three centuries of history, Bodegues Ribas is the oldest winery on the island of Mallorca. Since its foundation in 1711, its wines have been produced in Ca’n Ribas – an 18th-century manor house kept intact to date – and the lands around it,

Rafael Moneo   Spain   The proposal modifies the urban layout to ‘place’ the museum on the square, and is envisaged as a new and final extension of the first Museum, doing away with earlier ones; the new volumes generate interstitial spaces like the courtyard-cloister and

Rafael Moneo   Spain   The Descendientes J. Palacios Winery was located in the town of Villafranca del Bierzo. Its facilities were spread in different structures and warehouses, so it became necessary to reconfigure and gather them all in one building. The desire to blend

Rafael Moneo   Spain   The project for the new Museum University of Navarre started out with the donation of the art collection of María Josefa Huarte – daughter of the Navarrese entrepreneur Félix Huarte Goñi –, who promoted the construction of a center to display these w

Rafael Moneo   United States   Connected by a foyer that functions in the manner of a plaza, two similar blocks are differentiated only by size and by the nuances of their respective glass facades.

Rafael Moneo   Spain   In an area where other towers of similar height go up, the new headquarters of Grupo Puig goes up in Plaza Europa, midway between El Prat Airport and the city. The tower complies with the urban codes regarding floor plans and height. The purpose that

Rafael Moneo   Spain   The El Greco Congress Center of Toledo is accessed through a small plaza located next to Armas Street, and which leads to Zocodover Square. This plaza offers broad, impressive views over Tavera Hospital and the river.  The new

Rafael Moneo   Lebanon   Enraizados en la memoria del lugar, los nuevos zocos de Beirut son una suerte de ciudad en miniatura que da respuesta a requerimientos comerciales y desempeña a la vez funciones cívicas.

Rafael Moneo   Spain   AFTER THE Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, the Church of Riberas de Loyola – promoted by the bishop of Donostia-San Sebastián in the new neighborhood under development along the meander of the Urumea River – has been a new experience in the field

Rafael Moneo   Switzerland   Discreto y contenido, este bloque de laboratorios dispone los corredores de comunicación en el perímetro, permitiendo la entrada de luz natural hasta el corazón del edificio.

Rafael Moneo   Spain   The buildings of Deusto University have always played a leading role in the shaping of the left bank of the river estuary, testifying in this way to the institution’s commitment to serve the city. For over one hundred years, Deusto has been not only

Rafael Moneo   Spain   El museo reúne varias piezas arquitectónicas en un recorrido ascensional desde el nivel del mar hasta el gran teatro recientemente excavado, oculto durante siglos bajo la ciudad.

Rafael Moneo Alberto Nicolau   Netherlands   The urban condition of the plot – in a square next to the Town Hall that is part of a void in the center of the city –, a brick church of the 17th century, and the tall trees that grow in the square are elements that determine the general outline of

Rafael Moneo   Spain   The project for the extension of the Prado Museum must be understood as new chapter of its already long life. A chapter that considers the impact upon the Museum of the occupation of a new site containing the Jerónimos Cloister, the perimeter surroun

Rafael Moneo   Spain   After several enlargements since its construction in 1891, the Bank of Spain called a competition in 1978 for the design of the last piece to wrap up its monumental headquarters At that time the winning project was denied the license from the City Co

Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres Rafael Moneo   Spain   The new project goes up on a triangular plot, next to the building Vapor Sampere, which constitutes one of the most important examples of industrial architecture of Sabadell, and was built at the beginning of the 20th century to provide energy to the

Rafael Moneo   Spain   Convinced that painting a landscape is a way of making a space one’s own, José Beulas, the genuine representative of painting in Huesca, has spent most of his life reflecting on a canvas the sobriety of Aragón’s fields. This landscape has become the

Rafael Moneo   United States   Para responder a las necesidades de los laboratorios, parte del programa se construye enterrado; mientras que el cuerpo exterior, respetando el carácter del campus, se adosa a un edificio contiguo y se alza sobre tres enormes ‘patas’ que, modeladas s

Rafael Moneo José María de la Mata   Spain   Part of the Gregorio Marañón hospital complex, the new maternity building takes up one of the blocks developed within the 19th century Plan Castro. The building is inserted in a larger urban operation that links three blocks parallel to O’Donnell str

Rafael Moneo   Spain   In one of  the highest areas of Pamplona’s plateau, Sancho el Sabio ordered the construction in the 12th century of the Palace of the Kings of Navarra, which stands out against the profile of a city whose border is defined by the wall and defens

Rafael Moneo   Spain   A finales de los años ochenta, la familia Chivite compró la finca conocida como Señorío de Arínzano, situada en el término municipal de Aberín, merindad de Estella. El Señorío se extiende en torno a los meandros que en aquellos parajes describe el rí

Rafael Moneo   Belgium   En 1997 los restos del convento de los Celestinos flotaban como un barco a la deriva entre las carreteras y autopistas que conectan el centro de Lovaina con su territorio. Los nuevos trazados se superponían sobre los antiguos y el navío desarbolado q

Rafael Moneo The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale went to Rafael Moneo (Tudela, 1937). In the words of the curator of this year’s event, Hashim Sarkis, the Spanish architect has been one of the most transf

Arquitectura Viva and its director, Luis Fernández-Galiano, understand and regret the discomfort caused by the series Conversations. Filmed between 2013 and 2018, this documentary series of Fundación Arquia, now being streamed on Netflix, was left un

Luis Alemany   Imagine that Renzo Piano is a cell. The nucleus of his DNA would be an image of the shipyards of the city of Genoa; if the cell were Norman Foster, the helix would be the sequence of a science fiction cartoon strip; and if the cell were the duo Jacqu

Rafael Moneo   Querido Jacques: He leído la carta aparecida en Domus, y más tarde en Arquitectura Viva 230, y, aunque iba dirigida a David Chipperfield, hablas en ella de tantas cuestiones interesantes acerca del estado en que se encuentra la arquitectura hoy, que

Fernanda Canales   The Venice Architecture Biennale, perhaps the most important architectural celebration in the world, focuses this year on the consequences of construction. It tries to encompass buildings and destruction in equal measure, and also the needs of commun

José María Ezquiaga   This book on urban planning, despite its seductive erudition and lucid reasoning, does not lead to a solid conclusion in the way that texts by Rose or Glaeser do. Sometimes it sounds more like the inspired uncertainty of the most recent Sennett or th

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Memory speaks in these ten interviews with masters. I borrow from Vladimir Nabokov’s autobiography the title for the presentation of these conversations, transcribed as monologues to place the focus on the protagonists, whose voices I hope to have re

“How will we live together?” This is the title of the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, which opens with 61 participating countries. The motto reflects a turn toward social, even political concerns that has been taking place in the biennial since ov

Rafael Moneo   All architecture exhibitions force the subject to address the question of what they want said about their work and person, and how. Carme Pinós has responded to these questions with commendable honesty and courage, as rather than being an exegete of

Luis Fernández-Galiano was twice on a scholarship program of the Fundación Juan March – in Spain in 1976-1977 and abroad in 1966-1968 – but his first lecture at the foundation headquarters took place in 2010. In the course of a decade thereafter, he

Museo del Prado   This new display offers visitors a survey of the more than 200-year history of Spain’s leading cultural institution while also enhancing the quality of the museum’s discourse. Curated by Víctor Cageao, Director of Buildings and the Natural Environmen

On display through 30 April at the ICONNO, showroom in Madrid are elements and complements designed by renowned architects which are linked to buildings designed by them. Organized within the framework of Off de Madrid Design activities and in colla

Jacques Herzog For a young architect at the beginning of his career it is a challenging moment to see the widely admired work of established colleagues, often with a mixture of disdain and admiration. For my generation this moment was in the 1980s, a

If the work of Rafael Moneo had to be tied to a single word, it would be ‘context.’ In both senses: attention to context as material capacity to intervene, with sensitivity, in different places and landscapes; and attention to context as spiritual c

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Rafael Moneo   If I am an architect, it is largely owing to my father. When I finished secondary school, I was especially drawn to the humanities, and seeing me waver, it was he who steered me toward architecture. It was difficult to get into the School at that tim

Eduardo Prieto   Architecture is in crisis. So is criticism. Fragmented into narratives and poetics, the former can’t quite find its place in late-stage capitalism. The latter, ignored by the public, media, and architects themselves, has lost the regulatory role it o

Rafael Moneo   At the threshold of the 1990s, at the instigation of Francesco Dal Co, the Vicenza construction enterprise Caoduro decided to create an architecture award bearing the name Palladio that would be given in recognition of works built by architects under

Rafael Moneo   Buildings need not be isolated, independent, autonomous objects. Nevertheless, we tend to see them as such when they are canonical works, like Greek temples, Gothic cathedrals, or Renaissance palaces, or when we think of the notion of type. Architect

Phase one of the competition to revamp Bilbao’s Museum of Fine Arts has ended with the shortlisting of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos; Rafael Moneo; Foster + Partners with LM Uriarte Arkitektura; BIG with AZAB and Proskene; Snøhetta with Foraster Arquite

Invalidating the idea that the times we are living are unconducive to criticism, and heralding the discipline’s future, Luis Fernández-Galiano has published Alexandrine Years. The two-volume bilingual book compiles a good part of the weekly pages tha

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The collection of texts is illustrated with over 2,500 images, and 2,000 protagonists of the years straddling two centuries parade through them.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Textos y dibujos

Francesc Pernas Galí   Lecciones en Barcelona 1965-1980

Francisco González de Canales   Madrid  2019  
Fundación Arquia    - 248 Pages 

Rafael Moneo   Rem Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron, SANAA, David Chipperfield

Rafael Moneo   La Mezquita de Córdoba, la lonja de Sevilla y un carmen en Granada

Carolina Beatriz García Estévez   Lecciones desde Barcelona 1971 - 1976

Rafael Moneo   Detmold  2014  
FSB Franz Schneider Brakel   - 144 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2014  
Fundación Arquia    - 88 Pages 

Rafael Moneo   Portfolio internacional, 1985-2012

Rafael Moneo   Comentado por Rafael Moneo

Rafael Moneo   Barcelona  2010  
Gustavo Gili   - 660 Pages 

Escritos y conversaciones en el Perú

Rafael Moneo   Barcelona  2004  
Actar Publishers   - 412 Pages 

Rafael Moneo   Turín  1999  
Humberto Allemandi    - 222 Pages 

Arquitectura española contemporánea

Rotterdam  2001  
Nai010 Publishers   - 236 Pages 

Marie Nordin Lidberg   Estocolmo   1997  
Byggförlaget   - 278 Pages