Vivas Arquitectos EXE Arquitectura   Spain   This residential building, commissioned by the Institut Municipal de l’Habitage de Barcelona (IMHAB), is integrated into the industrial environment of the Poblenou neighborhood, in the San Martín district. It combines traditional foundations with a s

TEST   Spain   This prefabricated house presents a balloon-frame structure of eight modules, each measuring approximately 3x3x3 meters, and are clad in panels of texturized wood. It rises on pillars reinforced with sprayed concrete, joined by mechanical fixing elem

Puerto & Sánchez Arquitectos   Spain   The viewing point of Farrapona or of the valley of Saliencia, in the Somiedo Natural Park, is part of a series of projects seeking to give importance to the ethnographic elements and the landscaping and geological points of interest of the zone. The

Carles Enrich   Spain   The site of the this project for the Balearic Housing Institute (IBAVI) is a narrow plot that was a marés stone quarry, on the outskirts of the municipality of Palma. The shape of the building, which contains eleven social-housing units, complies wit

FRPO   Spain   The 27 officially subsidized dwellings built by Nasuvinsa in Tudela’s Azucarera neighborhood is part of Navarra Social Housing, a regional plan to provide affordable rental homes. Located on the edge of the urban fabric, with views of the agrarian la

Picado - De Blas Arquitectos   Spain   With an area of more than 220 hectares, Mercamadrid is one of the largest wholesale markets of fresh products in Europe. The project for Frutas Eloy is being developed in this food-supply environment, with a two-level building for cold storage where

vaumm   Spain   The parking garage in the Beraun neighborhood of Rentería, a municipality in the Basque province of Guipúzcoa, presents itself as an urban infrastructure which, though initially built for vehicles to be left in, could be repurposed in the future. Par

BOV Estudio   Spain   The new swimming pools in the municipality of Alfoz de Quintanadueñas, in the province of Burgos, are located on the boundary between the urban fabric and the agricultural fields. The building presents a succession of layers that unfold from its exte

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

Santiago Carroquino   Spain   With a built area of 1,720 square meters, the new emergency base for the Government of Aragon’s Health Transport, Civil Protection, and Forest Management Helicopters is located in the aeronautic industrial park of Villanueva de Gállego, 20 kilometers

López Rivera Arquitectos   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

Serrano + Baquero Arquitectos   Spain   The project ‘Pool with a House’ is situated on a hillside in Altos de la Zubia, a suburban development with views of the city of Granada. Juan Antonio Serrano and Paloma Baquero break away from the typical relationship between a house and its swimmin

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

Aramé Studio   Spain   The partitions of an apartment traversed by a narrow corridor were eliminated to reveal the concrete structure in all its glory and harness it as a new organizing element. The bedrooms and the bathrooms are grouped in a compact band to ensure a fluid

MACH   Spain   Prioritizing the entrance of daylight into a narrow but very deep apartment, a central core of services and storage makes it possible to place all the main rooms flush with the facade. The wall that separated the living room from the kitchen was remo

NULA.STUDIO   Spain   In order to make the most of the generous overhead space, what was previously an under-the-roof office has been rearranged as a series of virtually assembled functional volumes. In resonance with the beamed structure, a core of timber fixed to the lo

Casa Antillón   Spain   An unused attic has been transformed into a small studio where a chimney organizes the spaces, with just a curved wall to separate the private from the more public areas. The partition leaves the only two daylight-receiving points on one side, and th

The winners of the three competitions that have been held for the renovation of the Fira de Barcelona – as part of the first phase of the overall revamp of the Montuïc trade-fair grounds – have been announced. The jury – chaired by Josep Lluís Mateo

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

Alberto Veiga   It is hard to sum up in a brief text our experience of building outside Spain over the years. Each work, each client, and each country is a distinct experience, and each case is unique, so it is not easy to draw up conclusions or synthesize clearly t

Óscar Miguel Ares   It was in the 1970s that Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari formulated their theorem on the “image of thought,” based on the botanical term ‘rhizome.’ Any teaching can be connected to another. All are communicative vessels. In a way, architecture toda

Marta Peris   Successive crises in the course of this first quarter of the 21st century have awakened us to the need to make contemporary housing resilient. We try to adapt to the diversity of lifestyles and models of cohabitation by rearranging the conventional d

The magazine AV Monographs has for over three decades been putting together an annual almanac with a rigorous selection of twenty-four building works completed by Spanish practices during the given period. To leaf through any single one of these regu

With the intention of portraying an entire generation, Los años nuevos tells the story of a couple over the course of ten New Year’s Eves, and in it are reflected many of the concerns that assault people in their thirties: employment insecurity, work

Kenneth Frampton   Dear Luis Fernández-Galiano, By way of wishing you a happy New Year, I simply wanted to express how much I appreciate your faithful contribution to architectural culture world-wide and particularly to Spain, so much so that one has the feeling that y

‘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

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

David Hernández de la Fuente   Madrid  2024  
Alianza   - 368 Pages 

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

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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  
Anagrama   - 304 Pages 

Javier González de Durana   Diálogo

Helen Crisp Jules Stewart   Londres  2022  
Reaktion Books   - 248 Pages 

Antonio Muñoz Molina   Madrid  2022  
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Udo Kittelmann (ed.)   Londres  2022  
MACK   - 40 Pages 

José Fernández-Llebrez Muñoz   Madrid  2021  
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