SUMA   Spain   Rising over one of the main highways of access into the city, in the eastern part of Madrid, the firm SUMA – established by architects Guillermo Sevillano and Elena Orte in 2005 – proposes a freestanding block of co-op apartments and studios for a yo

Hentrich-Petschnigg & Partner   Germany   The competition convened by the City of Leipzig and the owners of the plot aimed at creating a residential development that could give an answer to the need for housing of the young families of the city. The winning proposal fulfills the demands of a

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Architecture is moving from bling to bareness. The economic devastation left by the crisis and the symbolic decay of emblematic works have favored the rise of a new attitude. In contrast to the dazzling glare of the architectures of social-opulence –

Defining features of young Catalan architecture include a toned down air, the small scale, a penchant for working with the preexisting, and an aesthetic strong in materials and sustainability. 

Eduardo Prieto   With or without optimism, the panorama that the Spanish architect has to face continues to be discouraging. Protracted and profound, both economic and ideological, perhaps systemic, the crisis, which came suddenly and devastatingly, has taken on near

Richard Ingersoll   It should come as no surprise that as the ‘crisis’ reveals itself to be less cyclical and rather endemic, the demand for architecture declines. Spain, one of the hardest hit since 2008, in particular because of the exponential growth of its construct

Luis Fernández-Galiano   We look at the young to make out the profiles of the world to come. Nevertheless, the projects of the last generations harbor desires rather than predictions. Driven by a system in which acknowledgment is based on singularity, the majority of emergin

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Upon reaching our issue number one hundred, it seems more appropriate to look towards the future than to map the lands we have already visited. Almost one decade after the first Arquitectura Viva issue on young Spanish architects (‘Sangre fresca’, pu

Adela García-Herrera   Almost ten years after its first issue on young Spanish architecture, Arquitectura Viva takes a new look at what the latest generation of professionals are thinking and building. The cover of that issue, which was titled ‘Fresh Blood,’ was a poetic i

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Young architecture floats in a speculative bubble which is as fascinating, foolish and fragile as that sparked by the tulip trade in the 17th century. Though this issue presents diverse European tendencies, none is now as influential as that of the N

Adela García-Herrera   Twenty-eight American screenwriters have recently brought up lawsuits against several different television networks and film studios for 200 million dollars because they feel discriminated against on account of their age. All of them are over 40, and

Older than 25 and younger than 35 years of age, Spain has a full and promising starting line-up, composed of both individuals and collectives that participate in numerous leagues and will appear, more and more often, in European competitions. In a pa