William Curtis   Eliel Saarinen bridged the continents as he started his career in Finland but eventually emigrated to the United States. With such figures it sometimes makes a difference in which order one sees their work. I got to know the ‘American Saarinen ’ befo

The Guardian   William Curtis   Balkrishna Doshi, who has died aged 95, produced architecture appropriate to the climate, geography, culture and traditions of India by transforming principles drawn from internationally recognised modern masters – notably Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn

William Curtis   The work of Teodoro González de León spans more than half a century but reveals consistent themes and recurrent forms, and these contribute to a distinctive vocabulary. This personal language draws upon many influences, and in order to situate Gonzál

The Alhambra and art as a notion of mediation between nature and ideas are the themes of a talk between William Curtis and Juan Navarro Baldeweg.

William Curtis   In an era that enjoys bandying around slogans, it is as well to be reminded that the first task of criticism is to respond to constructed works. Nothing can replace the direct experience of buildings and the gradual understanding of the thoughts, ima

Fermín González Blanco   El arquitecto Miguel Fisac, fallecido hace ahora cuatro años, protagoniza dos publicaciones recientes, ambas esperadas. Por un lado, un libro editado por Ricardo Sánchez Lampreave para el Ministerio de la Vivienda con ocasión del Premio Nacional de A

Jorge Sainz   Acabada la II Guerra Mundial, Le Corbusier empezó a elaborar un ‘libro de arte’, que se publicó en 1955 con el título de Le poème de l'angle droit, un volumen de 155 láminas de 32×42 centímetros, del que se imprimieron 250 ejemplares numerados para s

Fernanda Canales   La arquitectura de González de León consigue narrar buena parte de la historia mexicana de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Activo desde el proyecto de Ciudad Universitaria en 1946, sigue impactando en el tejido urbano con proyectos públicos y de gran

Anatxu Zabalbeascoa   Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem y Ramón Vilalta son tres chicos de Olot criados en el campo que, tras estudiar arquitectura, peregrinaron hasta la obra de los maestros modernos en Norteamérica y Japón. Aquel periplo no fue un viaje de iniciación. Fue un e

«Algunas de las obras más logradas de Barragán tienen el carácter de enclaves, especialmente la extraordinaria secuencia de edificios dedicados a los rituales ecuestres del periodo 1959-1968: Las Arboledas, San Cristóbal y Los Clubes. Cada uno de ell

William Curtis   Sota was based in Madrid and lived most of his life here, but he came from Galicia in the northwest of Spain, a remote region with a cold, clear light and a vernacular founded upon sharp granite masonry. When glass was used, it was as a sheet or scre

William Curtis   There is always a first point of contact with an architect. My own discovery of Wright took place on a rainy November evening in Marylebone Public Library some thirty years ago when I found a small paperback on his work. The text did not interest me

William Curtis   Louis Kahn can be considered one of the few architects of the 20th century to have been able to address with dignity the problem of the monument, and perhaps the most enlightening example of this is the Capitol in Dhaka. William Curtis analyzes it in

William Curtis   La presentación de la propuesta de Venturi, Rauch & Scott Brown para el ala Sainsbury de la National Gallery de Londres marca una nueva etapa en un fiasco oficial que lleva camino de convertirse en toda una farsa…

William Curtis   Le Corbusier’s contribution to city planning was so radical and innovative that one is still taken aback when evaluating his work, though shock is not the most appropriate attitude to take when considering his enlightened and messianic proposals. In

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