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A joint work of Verne arquitectura – Víctor Larripa, Javier Martínez, Daniel Ruiz de Gordejuela– and Alejandro Maortua, the project involved designing a pelota court and a series of spaces for different uses in Aguilar de Codés, a small locality in N
The Seville-based firm Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos has won the competition to expand and renovate the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid, located at Calle Requena 1, next to the Plaza de Oriente. Unifying the premises, the project integrates two adja
Like a greenhouse, the new volume of wood and glass lets natural light in. Because of shadows cast by the building itself and by neighboring ones, insolation is never excessive. The facade of the extension is detached from the vertical line of the pr
After decades of degradation, the Arenales neighborhood of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is undergoing a spurt of progressive transformation driven by the purchase of homes. One is House M, which builds upon a corner construction presenting in an advanc
An old construction on the premises of the agricultural cooperative of Flix – a municipality in Ribera de Ebro, a comarca of the province of Tarragona – has been turned into a cultural center. Counting a built area of 524 square meters, the new spac
On a small existing pavilion on the roof of a building in Madrid rises this structure which acts as the base on which solar panels have been installed to generate electrical energy for an office to consume. It also provides an outdoor rest area for i
A collaborative work of the Barcelona firms of Pau Bajet, Maria Giramé (Bajet Giramé) and Manuel Julià (JAAS), the renovation of Alfacs is being carried out gradually, in yearly phases, so that this campsite of the Catalonian municipality of Alcanar,
To span the unevenness between the different platforms that organize the district of Can Peguera, the project suggests a series of new accesses via ramps, stairs, and elevators which, in addition to solving the connections, add character to the publi
The commission consisted in transforming a traditional Catalan country house in the Empordà region. The ensemble was made up of a main building to which, over the years, auxiliary constructions had been added, creating a fragmented and dark interior
The changing landscape of the Ebro Delta is shaped by the rice production cycles, from being a plain of land to a mirror of water during the flooding season of the fields, to then transform into an intense green prairie with the growth of rice plants
El encargo consistió en una intervención sobre una situación urbana poco habitual: una vivienda pareada en el interior de una manzana del Ensanche de Barcelona. Como punto de partida, se buscó enfatizar las peculiaridades del volumen, caracterizado p
Due to peculiar urban circumstances, this dwelling does not have a facade as it is confined within the block, bordering on other buildings along its entire perimeter, with the exception of the reduced entrance courtyard. There are no possible views t
Following her desire to live in a garden, the client found what she was looking for in the center of the Spanish capital, and set out to build her first home there. The garden was hidden to the street behind an apartment block, and had a small volume
The client – Nacho, a good friend of the architects – wanted to transform his photography studio, which had a backyard, into a home. It was a simple commission which had to address the essential needs of a dwelling: a place for sleeping, a place for
In addition to serving lunch menus at tables, an establishment located on the town square provides a home-delivery service to facilitate the everyday life of elderly residents. The quintessential space for socializing in small municipalities, the bar
The void between two houses on one same block of the urban core is filled by a roof that connects a succession of domestic spaces – some protected overhead, others exposed to the open air. The dynamics of the thresholds under the roof create a dialo
With Itziar Lafuente and Adrián Talens at the helm, LLOC arquitectes were commissioned to build 48 subsidized housing units and an underground parking garage in the Magaluf area of the municipality of Calviá. Located in the southwestern coast of the
The objective of the project is to turn the old Salesian convent into offices for the Union of Municipalities of the Comarca of Pamplona, in the heart of the Navarrese capital. Interventions on the abandoned heritage building is minimized. Demolition
The winner of a Europa Nostra Award in 2022, PAX Patios de la Axerquía is a program initiated in 2018 by a group of people belonging to the fields of architecture and anthropology, created with the mission of incentivizing urban refurbishments throug
Phase one of the University of Alicante’s Business Creation Center, involving half the building, has been completed. Phase two has yet to be assigned a starting date. Presenting a huge pleated cantilever on the main facade, it is located within the u
The firm led by Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga won the competition to build the Astoria Cultural Center in the historical core of Málaga. It will go up at Plaza de la Merced, on the site of the old Astoria y Victoria cinemas, integrating the arch
At the foot of the Collserola mountain range, in the Barcelona municipality of Sant Just Desvern, this social housing development presents continuous terraces on all its facades, which widen at the corners to form spaces in direct contact with the li
The architect Gabriel Gallegos Borges (Valladolid, 1956) was commissioned to adapt Villa Fabriciano, completed by Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza in 1994, into a cultural facility for Torrelodones, a municipality of the Madrid metropolitan area. The b
Amidst the tide of challenges faced by the fashion industry under pandemic restrictions, OMA’s laboratory of ideas (AMO) took on the complex task of rethinking Bershka’s retail strategy. The first contact took place with the Bershka Flagship Milano,
David Chipperfield figures on the world scene through his offices in London, Berlin, Milan, and Shanghai. And his architecture has addressed the demands of the most prestigious clients. Nevertheless, for twenty years now the British Pritzker laureate
The winners of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award for 2024 have been announced in Brussels. The Study Pavilion on the campus of the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany), by Gustav Düsing and Max
¿Cuáles son los retos culturales, sociales, técnicos y medioambientales que deben afrontar los arquitectos hoy? ¿Qué rasgos caracterizan el pensamiento y la crítica contemporáneos? ¿Cómo son las herramientas para difundir la arquitectura en el ámbito
The housing problem
When in a famous essay Friedrich Engels denounced the living conditions of workers in Victorian England, the construction of dwellings became one of the principal themes of socialism, and eventually it found its way into the list of fundamental right
It has been forty years since the birth of the magazine AV Monographs, and thirty since the release of its first Yearbook, a publication that has endeavored to gather, year after year, the best architecture built in Spain, taking stock at the same ti
The Norman Foster Institute is now accepting applications for its Programme on Sustainable Cities, taking place in Madrid from January to December 2025. The Programme on Sustainable Cities blends hands-on experience with academic insights from the No
Ten people have perished in a conflagration which in a matter of minutes wrapped the facades of the fourteen-story building in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia. A combination of combustible facade materials, air chambers between the building’s sk
The building, completed in 2009, incorporated a facade system consisting of an insulation material and a cladding applied by means of a substructure attached to the outer side of the wall. An air chamber between those two layers improved acoustic ins
Arquitectura Viva gathers in one volume of 320 pages, with a special price of 60 euros, hardbound and in fully bilingual Spanish-English edition, 50 housing projects built in Spain since the year 2000. Always at the center of the architectural debate
Much has been written about architecture competitions, and while there is a certain consensus on their many disadvantages, it is still difficult to resist the opportunities for research they offer. As an architect, I include myself among the professi
Ever since people began to live in cities, conserving surplus food – whether as grain or as wine – has been one of the fundamental tasks of society, and this is likely to turn wineries – overriding the snobberies that nowadays want to make them sophi
The expansion of its Teatinos Campus has enabled the University of Málaga to equip itself with cutting-edge facilities and greatly improve its offer of academic programs. One of the beneficiaries of this is the Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therap
Thirty years after its creation, the Technology Park of Andalusia – now simply called Málaga TechPark to satisfy the whims of marketing – is a concentration of half a thousand companies, including many of the promising startup firms that have been tu
Ever since they crossed paths as students, Fernando Rodríguez (Albacete, 1977) and Pablo Oriol (Madrid, 1977) have shared an infrastructural way of tackling projects, not so much in relation to mechanical logic as in terms of an organizational capaci
MareNostrum 5, the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) supercomputer located in Spain was officially inaugurated in Barcelona by Pedro Sánchez, the President of the Government of Spain. MareNostrum 5 is a pre-exascale
Spain’s 20th century causes sighs of pain and relief. Fuentes and Rueda’s Diccionario de símbolos explores the tragic and festive images of a history which in its latest stretch incorporates events of the 21st, such as the 11-M terrorist attacks or t
A second set of eight architects met at Arquia’s Madrid base to reflect on the state of the profession and outline its challenges for the future.
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
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
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
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
Juan Francisco Fuentes José Carlos Rueda Laffond
Madrid 2021
Alianza - 816 Pages
Michael Reid
New Haven 2023
Yale University Press - 336 Pages
Jorge Sainz 1986-1990
Marco Casamonti Archea
Iñaki Alday Margarita Jover Aldayjover arquitectura y paisaje
Guillermo Fernández-Abascal Jacobo García-Germán Dibujos de jóvenes arquitectos españoles
Andrés Rubio El caos urbano, el mayor fracaso de la democracia
Espinet / Ubach Arquitectes (ed.) Últimas obras y proyectos 2007-2022
Barry Bergdoll Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos
Nigel Townson 1898 to the Present
AA.VV.
Madrid 2022
Fundación Juan March - 224 Pages
AA.VV. Una historia de la fotografía
Estrella de Diego
Barcelona 2022
Editorial Anagrama - 304 Pages
Javier González de Durana Diálogo
Helen Crisp Jules Stewart
Londres 2022
Reaktion Books - 248 Pages
Antonio Muñoz Molina
Madrid 2022
Abada Editores Museo del Prado - 200 Pages
Manuel Gallego Jorreto Escritos en torno a la arquitectura
Udo Kittelmann (ed.)
Londres 2022
MACK - 40 Pages
José Fernández-Llebrez Muñoz
Madrid 2021
Fundación Arquia - 280 Pages
Elizabeth Kolbert Cómo los humanos estamos creando la naturaleza del futuro
Michael Shellenberger Por qué el alarmismo medioambiental nos perjudica a todos
Luis Martínez Santa-María
Barcelona 2021
Fundación Mies van der Rohe - 202 Pages
Santiago de Molina
Madrid 2021
Ediciones Asimétricas - 152 Pages
Fernando Quesada La contracultura arquitectónica a escena