Estudio DIIR   Spain   DIIR, the Madrid practice of David Meana, Ignacio Navarro, Iñigo Palazón, and Ricardo Fernández, has transformed an old building with dormitories for teachers into the library of Los Molinos, a municipality of the Madrid metropolitan area, specifical

Francisco Mangado   Spain   The Government of Extremadura has announced that a scheme titled ‘Music and the Earth,’ submitted by the architecture firm Mangado y Asociados, has won the ideas competition for the construction, in the historical quarter of Cáceres, of a museum to h

Jesús Donaire   Spain   The concrete volume with a rectangular base is perforated by voids on the facade in checkboard fashion, and also three-dimensionally, inside, through a double-height in the main space. On the ground floor, the four large windows at the angles become

Pachón–Paredes   Spain   The renovation of this flat with a 110-square-meter built area, in a building raised in the early 1970s in Madrid’s Pacifico neighborhood, is part of a series of projects falling under two ongoing investigations. ‘Non-Binary Space’ explores the syner

Nua arquitectures   Spain   Initially conceived as a house on a podium, to which floors were added with the aim of accommodating a hotel, the building was turned into a geriatric residence, and then abandoned for thirteen years. The original idea of the project involved demolit

CRÜ   Spain   A clean-up of the rear brick wall revealed the word .lavadero, the place having been one of the public laundry spaces built in Barcelona during the 19th and part of the 20th centuries, at the intersections of the torrents flowing down from the Collse

Fran Silvestre Arquitectos   Spain   Adapting to a very pronounced slope, this residence hovering over the ground is located in Zahara de los Atunes, a village belonging to the municipality of Barbate, in the southern Spanish province of Cádiz. The grayish base, which visually connects

Javier de las Heras Solé   Spain   This residential development rises at the corner of Cuba street and Antoni Picornell square in Palma’s Es Molinar neighborhood. Starting from formal premises of orthogonality, the building presents a solid base of marés, Majorca stone, which contains

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   The artist’s home is a museum category in itself. It represents the real experience of the rooms, objects, furniture, and spaces where, in another time, creators not only resided but also produced their works and shared their personal and family life

Verne arquitectura   Spain   The firm Verne arquitectura – Víctor Larripa Artieda, Javier Martínez Labeaga, Daniel Ruiz de Gordejuela Tellechea – built this house in Munguía, a municipality in the Basque province of Biscay. The strategy adopted for the project came from a desir

Marina Uno Arquitectos   Spain   This three-floor residence rises on a flat, square-shaped plot in the Limonar neighborhood of Málaga. A work of Marina Uno Arquitectos (Juan Manuel Sánchez La Chica and Adolfo de la Torre Prieto), it is organized by a system of parallel bands running

AFAB   Spain   With a limited budget to stay within, this dwelling was designed and built with the needs of two persons, six cats, and six dogs in mind. Alex shares the feline penchant for high perches and secluded spots, and Lurdes the canine preference for the fl

Cierto Estudio   Spain   The Barcelona-based joint practice of six architects – Marta Benedicto, Ivet Gasol, Carlota de Gispert, Anna Llonch, Lucia Millet, Clara Vidal – built this house near the port of Mahón, on the island of Menorca. Different volumes are assembled to for

Lys Villalba Beatriz Arroyo   Spain   The second project of the Urban Cabinet series – which explores design strategies around the notion of ‘furniture-architecture’ or ‘furnitecture’ – involved renovating a 1950s open-block housing unit in central Madrid’s Retiro neighborhood. It unifie

Noa González Ara González   Spain   The starting point of the refurbishment project was to remove the elements added in previous interventions that distorted the original character of the house, in order to improve and update the existing spaces according to current demands. The new el

Alberto Campo Baeza Modesto Sánchez Morales   Spain   When in 1964 Bernard Rudofsky filled the MoMA galleries with ‘Architecture Without Architects,’ among cave houses of Cappadocia and adobe huts of Mali he included two photographs of Mojácar taken by José Ortiz Echagüe, with a short text in which he b

Sol89   Spain   The dwelling can be said to have two different degrees of intensity: that of everyday living, and that of the less used spaces, which do not need as many direct connections. Fragmented but linked by exterior spaces, the single-floor house spreads out

labaula cooperativa   Spain   The 290-square-meter house is located in La Guardia Pilosa, a locality belonging to the Barcelona municipality of Pujalt, which was abandoned in 1967 but has gradually been repopulating and currently counts 20 inhabitants. Carried out by Labaula Coop

Jacobo García-Germán   Spain   The project involved the thorough restoration of a house built between 1933 and 1936 and located in Madrid’s El Viso neighborhood, an example of Spanish rationalism. The main architect of El Viso was Rafael Bergamín, with the collaboration of Luis Bl

barea pizarro   Spain   All at a minimumA small flat by the Manzanares River has been renovated to accommodate young members of a family that has occupied it since the building’s construction in the 1920s. It was partitioned into several rooms like a larger apartment, and t

Hanghar   Spain   The Madrid firm HANGHAR (Eduardo Mediero, Stefania Rasile, Almudena Tenorio) designed this building surrounded by 14 hectares of vineyards, close to a winery of the town of Pioz, in Guadalajara province. It is a 120-square-meter farmhouse for the art

Harquitectes   Spain   Placed behind the main facade, the staircase shaft functions as a patio that favors natural ventilation while protecting the living space from street noise and disturbances and controlling the views from and to the exterior.

Ecoproyecta   Spain   Like firewood and pasture, snow and ice have since time immemorial been economic resources of humankind, whether for the conservation of food and medicines or for the luxury of making sherbets and ice-creams. Pliny the Elder mentioned an active trade

María Langarita   Vivimos en un mundo nuevo. La sustancia es la misma, pero el mundo es nuevo. Lo vemos de forma diferente. Nuestra forma de mirar ha cambiado. Sobre todo, ha cambiado el alcance de nuestra mirada. En este nuevo mundo todo está expuesto, todo está ilum

José María Sánchez   Es probable que en este preciso momento estemos recibiendo un wasap: podría ser un mensaje de texto que requiere respuesta, o el hilo de un chat grupal; también podría ser una imagen sugerente, incluso el croquis de un detalle de obra que urge resolv

Izaskun Chinchilla   Como disciplina y como profesión, la arquitectura está sumida en tres largas y profundas crisis que afectan a la imagen que la sociedad tiene de ella, y, como consecuencia, a los distintos papeles que hoy desempeñamos las arquitectas y a la relevanci

Bjarke Ingels   La palabra danesa para ‘diseño’ es ‘formgivning’. Literalmente significa ‘dar forma’: diseño no es sino dar forma a lo que todavía no la tiene. Dar forma al futuro. Porque cuando diseñamos un edificio o un espacio público damos forma a un rincón del

Roger Tudó   La arquitectura también está confundida. Llevamos demasiado tiempo haciendo trampas, saltándonos los límites y dejándonos llevar por dinámicas inconsistentes que están machacando el planeta. Hemos vivido una divertida e intensa ficción moderna que no

Andrés Jaque   Para los humanos, el presente, el futuro y también la manera de entender nuestros pasados están determinados por las crisis climáticas. En función de estas crisis se posicionan las políticas económicas, energéticas, tecnológicas, territoriales, medio

Farshid Moussavi   Ejercer la arquitectura implicar tomar decisiones. Las arquitectas inevitablemente establecen prioridades respecto a lo que es fijo o móvil, cerrado o abierto, transparente u opaco, así como respecto a las estructuras, geometrías y colores que acabar

Benedetta Tagliabue   Hace muchos años tuve un amigo muy simpático al que, como a mí, le interesaba la arquitectura. Sostenía que para ser buen arquitecto se necesitaba, entre otras cosas, cierta dosis de estupidez. Nunca me pareció una idea descabellada. Ser ligeramente

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Rafael Moneo   Rafael Moneo presentó su monografía de AV el 13 de septiembre de 2023 en la Fundación Arquia, con un acto introducido por el vicepresidente de Arquia Banca Alberto Alonso Saezmiera y la directora de la Fundación Sol Candela, en cuyo coloquio final in

The stage designs by the Galician artist break the molds of conventional realist theater and blur the boundaries between fiction and reality. The striking color combinations that compose her scenes seek to visually impact the spectator.

Pablo Canga   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

For the Spanish Pavilion at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale, celebrated in this edition under the motto ‘The Laboratory of the Future,’ the architects Eduardo Castillo-Vinuesa and Manuel Ocaña curated ‘Foodscapes’, a multidisciplinary project t

After decades of supporting young artists, the Botín Foundation has decided to give its former grant-holders a greater presence at its center in the city of Santander, through works of theirs that also serve to create fresh views of the institution’s

“Dissolution and accumulation; propagation and separation; particulate obliteration and unseen reverberations from the universe—these were to become the foundations of my art, and they were already taking shape at this time.” Yayoi Kusama. Japanese a

Like a jewelry box, a treasure chest, or a Wunderkammer, the Royal Collections Gallery opened its doors in the city of Madrid last 28 June to showcase its extraordinary architecture, in addition to its no less extraordinary collection of objects whic

Javier García-Gutiérrez Mosteiro   Characterized by a heavy historical-artistic baggage, the career of the Burgos-born master was closely tied to the flourishing of the modern capital.

Josep Maria Montaner   With his multifaceted work, which went far beyond the confines of construction, the eminent architect became one of the leading figures of the Renaixença.

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

Since its beginnings in 1994, the AV Monographs Spain Yearbook sets out to gather, year after year, the best architecture built in Spain, taking stock of the principal issues of debate and of the most significant trends in the field, placing them in

Since the launch of the Norman Foster Foundation in 2017, its mission has been to promote interdisciplinary thinking and research to help new generations to anticipate the future. In order to respond to the growing importance of urbanisation and its

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