AZAB   Spain   The Bilbao-based firm AZAB – Cristina Acha, Miguel Zaballa, Ane Arce, Iñigo Berasategui – has turned a 1980s farmhouse into two homes for its owners, a couple and their grown-up daughter. Amid orchards and pasture, the project pursued a double take

Piano Piano Studio   Spain   Valencia-based Piano Piano Studio, headed by Maria Donnini and Maria Grifo, was commissioned to insert a dwelling between party walls on an elongated rectangular corner plot in Foios, a municipality in the comarca of La Huerta Norte. The site conditi

Christ & Gantenbein Harquitectes   Spain   The team comprising the Barcelona studio Harquitectes and the Basel firm Christ & Gantenbein has won the competition to enlarge and reorganize the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA). A new building on Plaça dels Àngels will contain a

Pau Vidal Arquitectura Produccions Vivas Arquitectos   Spain   At Alí Bei 100-102 stands a building containing 49 apartments for senior citizens and 10 temporary accommodations for people in danger of social exclusion. Promoted by the Barcelona City Hall’s Institut de l’Habitage i Rehabilitació (IMHAB), it occup

Marià Castelló Architecture   Spain   A rural plot in Formentera, one of the Balearic Islands, is the site of this project carried out by a team led by Marià Castelló and Lorena Ruzafa. With a built area of 94 square meters, the work is fragmented into three independent white volumes, re

Trazia   Spain   The Valencia-based firm Trazia, headed by Carlos Pardo and Lucía Hernández, has renovated Casa Ayora – on Calle Mayor in Almussafes, a municipality in the comarca Ribera Baja – for museum use. Set between party walls, the building was a Dominican c

Estudio Arquitectura HAGO   Spain   The upshot of a competition organized by the Badajoz provincial government public works department, the complex designed by Madrid-based Estudio Arquitectura HAGO – Antonio Álvarez-Cienfuegos Rubio and Emilio Delgado Martos – rises in Los Monteros in

Arqbag   Spain   On a square around which grew the municipality of Vilanova de Meià, in the comarca of La Noguera, Lleida province, the Catalonian firm Arqbag —Jordi Mitjans, Bernat Colomé, Simona Cerri, Alfonso Godoy, Adrià Vilajoana, and Marc Díaz— has turned a bui

Ayllón Paradela De Andrés   Spain   With their ‘Three Strategies’ scheme Javier Alejo Hernández Ayllón, Verónica Paradela Pernas, and Javier de Andrés de Vicente have won the ideas competition called by the Consell de Mallorca’s Sustainability and Environment Department, in collaborati

alonso + sosa   Spain   The Canarian practice of Evelyn Alonso Rohner and José Antonio Sosa has turned a 1960s industrial warehouse on Gran Canaria island into a multipurpose facility. The original structure of relatively short spans, slender pillars, and beams is left expo

MAAV   Spain   The firm MAAV, headed by Guillermo Avanzini Alcibar (Bilbao, 1989) and Adrián Martínez Muñoz (Seville, 1989) has refurbished an abandoned farming-equipment storehouse in Ojacastro and turned it into a dwelling. With just 40 square meters of space wit

When the German gallerist Helga de Alvear decided fifteen years ago to install her collection of art in a modernist mansion in Cáceres, in Extremadura region, she approached the architects Luis Moreno Mansilla and Emilio Tuñón and commissioned them t

Luis Fernández-Galiano   In his preface José Manuel Sánchez Ron recalls the bitter words that Nicolas Masson de Morvilliers had to say about Spain in the Encyclopédie (“Qu’a t-elle fait pour l’Europe?”) and though he claims not to wish to mediate in controversy, his monument

Against the usual order – whether chronological or thematic – expected of art exhibitions, Guillermo Pérez Villalta – painter, writer, engraver, designer, architect – has put together an exhibition on view at Sala Alcalá 31, in the very heart of Madr

Against the usual order – whether chronological or thematic – expected of art exhibitions, Guillermo Pérez Villalta – painter, writer, engraver, designer, architect – has put together an exhibition on view at Sala Alcalá 31, in the very heart of Madr

Homes designed and built on the basis of consumer specifications – in accordance with the style, needs, and priorities of the to-be occupant – have in the past few years been a growing trend in the real estate market. Whether a small apartment or a l

The exhibition walks us through the oeuvre of Carme Pinós, divided into three sections: the bottom level laconically presents the eight works she completed with Miralles; the main floor showcases eighty projects developed on her own over three decade

Iñaki Bergera   One could make a family album of Spanish architecture from the Transition to democracy to the dawn of the 21st century using only photographs by Lluís Casals. He had colleagues like Ferrán Freixa, Hisao Suzuki, Duccio Malagamba, or Luis Asín, but Cas

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

“I look sideways, when arm and hand gesticulate and move, filling the white sheet with tracings. I neither copy nor think up anything with precision, I watch the spectacle of this decisive and occasional dance.” It was with such radical and organic v

Simón Marchán Fiz   Alberto Corazón amazed me from the moment I met him because of the breadth of his views in the professional horizons upon which his inquisitive eye was directed, the enthusiasm with which, like a daring argonaut of polyhedral creation, he took in the

The Navarrese architect and professor Carlos Sobrini breathed his last on 9 December at 95 years of age. His protracted teaching career began in the Madrid School of Architecture – where his final year thesis had won him the 1952 national award – and

José Manuel Sánchez Ron   Historia de la ciencia en España

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Spanish Popular Architecture. El Escorial

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Fundación Arquia    - 780 Pages 

Jorge Fernández-Santos Ortiz-Iribas   Madrid  2014  
CEEH - Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica   - 591 Pages 

Vicente Lleó Luis Asín   Madrid  2016  
Atalanta   - 144 Pages 

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Xavier Andreu Miralles   Hito romántico e identidad nacional

Ignacio Merino   Una historia simbólica

José Álvarez Junco   Naciones y nacionalismos

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