1942-2018 Born in Elche on 23 October 1942, Vicente Verdú passed away in Madrid on 21 August. Verdú was a journalist, a poet, and a painter, and was fascinated by architecture. Doctor is Social Sciences by the Sorbonne, he made rigor compatible with

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Journalist, poet, and painter, Vicente Verdú went from the intellectual prose that became his profession to the emotive lyricism into which he poured his intuition, and on to the artistic practice that culminated his life’s journey, dramatically brou

Vicente Verdú   No one really knows whether to call him an emerging or an already established architect, and the ambiguity continues to work in his favor. What’s sure is that Bjarke Ingels, born in 1974 in Copenhagen, is by now a true star in the international scene

In conversation with Vicente Verdú, the master Álvaro Siza contemplates themes like drawing, context, influences, and the teaching of architecture.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Author of an extensive body of work that goes from the intímate to the public, the writer and journalist Vicente Verdú has also practiced architectural criticism, and lately even painting, as the canvas illustrating the cover of his latest book attes

Vicente Verdú   En El Aleph, Borges habla de un lugar («una pequeña esfera tornasolada, de casi intolerable fulgor») que permite ver los demás lugares desde todas las perspectivas. Las Vegas es también, desde otros puntos de vista, ese espacio cósmico desde el que p

Vicente Verdú   Between reality and desire, betwixt the body and our dreams, a house is a construction situated in the interval between what is possible and what we yearn for. A house is the destination and the voyage, an uncertain building between the theory of the

Vicente Verdú   Amores, pavores, sujetos y objetos encerrados en casa