Emac Arquitectura   Spain   Located in the heart of San Javier, the 31,949-square-meter Almansa Park is the result of an idea competition organized with the Murcia Institute of Architects (COAMU). The project carried out by Emac Arquitectura – Miguel Martínez Castillejo and Pau

Mónica Alberola   Spain   In 2019, a proposal drawn up by Mónica Alberola in collaboration with María Casariego, Enrique de Teresa, and Guiomar Martín won the competition to expand and renovate pavilions 7 and 8 of the School of Health in Madrid, within the Chamartín campus o

bxd arquitectura    Spain   This building expands the Camp Joliu school complex in the Tarragona town of Arbós, in the Baix Penedès region. Wrapped in white concrete, the elongated two-story construction is set within a rectangular plot, close to the boundaries of the land, whi

Firm Arquitectura   Spain   The old City Hall of Fonsagrada, erected in 1845 and in disuse since 2015, has been turned by the Galician practice Firm Arquitectura —Daniel Gómez Magide and Adrián López Rancaño— into a museum for works of the cartoonist Fraguas, known as Forges, t

José María Sánchez García   Spain   José María Sánchez García was commissioned to build the new law school on Universidad CEU San Pablo’s Moncloa campus, in Madrid. Construction is already underway at Julián Romea 16, a few meters from the current location. The 8,500-square-meter new b

Endosdedos arquitectura    Spain   This new seven-unit apartment block is located in the Málaga neighborhood of Molinillo, at Duque de Rivas 48. The project name, Mazarí, refers to both ceramic material and the kiln used to make it in a week-long baking process. With a tradition that

López & Rivera   Spain   The house, with a built area of 363 square meters, is located within the buildable limits of the Basque municipality of Gautéguiz de Arteaga, in the environs of the wetlands of the Urdaibai biosphere reserve. Its shape is irregular, adapting to a sou

BeAr Architects   Spain   Naninuena is a narrow elongated house that responds to the site’s topographic conditions. It adapts to the pronounced slope of the terrain with meticulously positioned supports anchored directly to the bedrock, preserving this fragment of the territo

Harquitectes   Spain   The new headquarters of Prodis, an organization devoted to assisting and promoting adults with intellectual disabilities, is located in old industrial buildings of Filatures Matarí, within the Vapor Cortès complex, in Terrassa’s Ca n’Aurell neighborh

Arquitectos Ayala   Spain   Located in the Scientific-Technological Park of Almería (PITA in Spanish), to the northeast of the city, the new Financial Center of the Banco de Crédito Cooperativo-Grupo Cajamar is the result of a competition, celebrated in 2019, which proposed the

Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra   Spain   Built in the 13th century, the listed ensemble of the Reales Atarazanas (Royal Shipyards) is in a privileged spot in the center of Seville: the Arenal quarter, halfway between the Guadalquivir and the monumental complex of the Cathedral, between the

PLP Atelier   Spain   The Galician practice of Pablo López Pril and Diego Rodríguez Val – PLP Atelier – was commissioned to turn some old constructions in the municipality of Parada de Sil into five homes of one or two levels, including a unit designed entirely at ground

OOIIO   Spain   This 56-square-meter apartment was renovated on a low budget, so the exercise in personalizing the space involved getting the best out of solutions and materials available in the market, such as standard tiles put in place in creative new ways, altog

Padilla Nicás arquitectos   Spain   This 105-square-meter chapel is located at the heart of the new building on the Madrid campus of the IESE Business School. The project seeks to accentuate this central position through a curvilinear geometry, with concave formations conducive to conc

Paradigma estudio   Spain   In Valverde de Leganés, a municipality in the province of Badajoz, in Spain’s Extremadura region, Paradigma estudio – María Navarro Cifuentes & Manuel Jesús Píriz Gil – has completed this health center in an area which is undergoing an urbanizati

SV60 / Cordón & Liñán Arquitectos   Spain   In Seville, in an environment characterized by its heterogeneity – very diverse in architecture, uses, and sizes – this residential complex seeks to effect a morphological continuity between the new construction and the adjoining buildings and public

Serrano + Baquero Arquitectos   Spain   The spatial configuration of these facilities seeks to create a ‘city’ for abandoned or stray dogs and cats. Run by Ahgtinsa, this new municipal service in Granada offers protection and accommodation for animals to be subsequently given up for adopti

Junquera arquitectos   Spain   The great challenge in this project is to give the school a space of its own, separate from its surroundings, on a small plot surrounded by one-family homes. The solution chosen involved sinking the ground level, creating a space that would be adequa

Tuñón y Albornoz Arquitectos   Spain   The new classroom and library building is organized as a compact structure, with a perimeter bay of classrooms that braces, in its interior, three large voids placed diagonally along the section that harbors two multipurpose rooms and a canteen. The

Sebastián Arquitectos   Spain   Fundación Ibercaja presented the project for the renovation of the Goya Museum of Zaragoza, following a scheme drawn up by the local practice of Sergio Sebastián Franco, winner of the anonymous ideas competition held for the purpose. The institution’

López & Rivera   Spain   This project for the Balearic Housing Institute (IBANI) is inserted into its urban context, in continuity with the series of gable-roof houses that are added in descending sequence along the streets perpendicular to the stream of Esporles, in the Maj

Carme Pinós Carles Enrich   Spain   The Catalan team formed by the practices of Carme Pinós and Carles Enrich won the competition to remodel the Lourizán, a parish of the Galician municipality of Pontevedra. The premises are currently home to the Center for Forest Research, and will co

HYBRIDa aZCON D388 Arquitectura   Spain   With a built area of over 28,000 square meters, this apart-hotel in the Port Fòrum area of Barcelona presents a ground-level and first-floor plinth that on plan reaches the edges of the plot, and two volumes that form a V on plan and rise to the 18t

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The AV/Arquitectura Viva project turns 40 in 2025, and this is a good time to look back on our DNA. What was initially called Monografías de Arquitectura y Vivienda was a quarterly magazine edited by a public housing company, and of the four issues p

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda (MIVAU) has announced the projects to be presented in the central hall of the Spanish Pavilion at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale, which will run from 10 May to 23 November 2025. On the jury were Iñaqui

‘Línea P’ or P line – officially Pyrenees Defense Organisation – was a network of defensive fortifications planned and built under the Francoist regime, when the Civil War ended, with the objective of blocking the mountain range to fight off foreign

As a photojournalist or as a portrait artist, Henri-Cartier Bresson (1908-2004) created timeless compositions that have influenced the style of subsequent generations. His snapshots of encounters and spontaneous situations, many of them considered ic

The project of the Spanish real-estate investment company Ibervalles is to be carried out by Ortiz-León, a Madrid firm with branches in Lisbon, Shanghai, and Miami. This will mean demolishing the 13-story building at General Perón 27, which contains

Luis Fernández-Galiano   If the images of cars dragged by the flood waters along a street in the municipality of Sedaví are the best picture of the violence of nature in its catastrophic reply to the artificial environment, that of volunteers crowded together along a footbri

During the afternoon of 29 October, torrential downpours brought on by a ‘DANA’ –isolated depression at high levels, what it used to be known as ‘cold drop’ – triggered catastrophic flash floods in different parts of Spain, with an especially severe

Just days before the presidential elections in the United States, the most contentious of recent decades and also the most existential for the world at large, the major organs of the international media hardly had space on their front pages for other

Valencia, which suffered from catastrophic inundations in 1957 and 1982, has cores of its population in zones susceptible to flooding. These aerial photographs show its state before and after the DANA of 2024, with the deviated bed of the Turia River

After sojourns in Alcoi and Avilés, it is the turn of the Valencian Institute of Modern Art to host the complete exhibition that commemorates the centenary of the birth of Juana Francés, the only female member of El Paso, a collective of Spanish abst

Female creators have been relegated to the second row of history, and in its firm endeavor to give them center stage, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid presents the first retrospective on the German Gabriele Münter ever to be put together in Sp

Eduardo Prieto   The observance of the centenaries of illustrious people is but a late version of the tradition of paying homage to the powerful, or a cultivated version of the celebration of children’s birthdays, besides a symptom of contemporary superstitions, whic

Carlos Jiménez   Filmmakers might cast a city as a backdrop, or as an essential character in their cinematic narrative. I recall Stockholm as a distant, haunting witness in Ingmar Bergman’s early films, just as Tokyo lingers in the interiors of Yasujiro Ozu’s hypnoti

Josep Maria Montaner   Zaida Muxí   The cooperative that calls itself Lacol came into being in 2009 as an initiative of young architects and students averse as much to the usual logic of hierarchical study programs as to professional exploitation. It was also a bit more than ten years

The deep-rooted association culture of Barcelona’s Sants neighborhood revealed to a group of young professionals setting up an office there what would become the foundation of their practice: the idea that architecture is less about projects per se t

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The DANA of Valencia has violently struck the territory and the consciences. On one hand, it reminds us of our failure in the moderation of climate change, which is making meteorological catastrophes more frequent and intense; on the other, it faces

In the wake of the enormous success of a similar anthology held in its New York base, the Guggenheim Museum brings to Bilbao the oeuvre of Hilma af Klint, the Swedish artist and mystic who, inspired by her devotion to theosophy, can perhaps be consid

Football clubs renew their T-shirts in a seasonal mutation that leads to ever more sophisticated technology for textiles and patterns, supposedly for the greater comfort of players but in essence involving minimal changes with the sole purpose of mak

The new Bernabéu

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Distanced from any kind of essentialism, both the Greek scholar David Hernández de la Fuente and the journalist Pedro García Cuartango explore Spain’s mythical roots from the lenses of history and the territory. Although both pay homage to the pionee

Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature-length film, The Room Next Door premiered at the 81st Venice Film Festival, where it received a 17-minute ovation. Adapted from Sigrid Nunez’s novel What Are You Going Through, it tells the story of tw

The work of the Canadian artist Jeff Wall (Vancouver, 1946) has contributed to redefining photography as part of contemporary art. His practice of the tableau inherits from the history of painting its most fundamental feature: composition. The 36 wor

The word ‘tourism’ is a reminder that there is nothing new about traveling to certain places. Yet it is hard to find many parallelisms between the voyages of those aristocratic scholars and amateurs who passionately surerendered themselves to a long,

Pedro García Cuartango   Un viaje por los grandes secretos arqueológicos y monumentales de nuestro país

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Juan Francisco Fuentes José Carlos Rueda Laffond   Madrid  2021  
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Michael Reid   New Haven  2023  
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Jorge Sainz   1986-1990

Marco Casamonti   Archea

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Reaktion Books   - 248 Pages 

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