27/03/2024

Richard Serra (1938-2024)

The Guardian   Tim Jonze   Richard Serra, the American artist known for bending the boundaries of sculpture, has died at the age of 85. Serra died at home on Tuesday at his home in New York. The cause of death was pneumonia...

25/03/2024

Unolab Headquarters, Getafe

FRPO   Spain   The operations center of a manufacturer of medical products tries to combine efficient industrial formulas with a corporate image grounded on volumetric and material refinement. Laboratories and loading docks...

Housing, 50 Works in Spain
15/02/2024

Housing, 50 Works in Spain

Arquitectura Viva gathers in one volume of 320 pages, with a special price of 60 euros, hardbound and in fully bilingual Spanish-English edition, 50 housing projects built in Spain since the year 2000. Always at the center of the architectural debate...

21/03/2024

Lishui Airport

MAD Architects   China   Lushui, in the southwest of Zhejiang Province, China, is known for its lush greenery and valleys. Ma Yansong’s firm MAD Architects will be giving it its first airport for a predicted one million passengers a year...

Spain 2024. The Yearbook Turns Thirty
15/03/2024

Spain 2024. The Yearbook Turns Thirty

It has been forty years since the birth of the magazine AV Monographs, and thirty since the release of its first Yearbook, a publication that has endeavored to gather, year after year, the best architecture built in Spain, taking stock at the same time of the most important debates...

Highlights

22/03/2024

Suburbia, at CCCB

Until September 8, the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona (CCCB) will be hosting the exhibition "Suburbia. Building the American Dream" that draws us into the imaginary of the idyllic family...

20/03/2024

The world is in the midst of a city-building boom

The Economist   In northern Egypt sits a city that officials expect to one day house 6.5m people. For now, though, it is mostly empty—like the desert that came before it. Egypt’s “New Administrative Capital” is part of a rush of city-building...

20/03/2024

José Oubrerie (1932–2024)

French architect, professor, and scholar José Oubrerie died on March 10, age 91. Oubrerie was famously known as one of Le Corbusier’s closest protégés who completed Église Saint-Pierre in Firminy, France...

14/03/2024

Josep Miàs, AIA Honorary Fellow

Josep Miàs has been made an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). This is one of the most important gestures of recognition that the American organization gives international professionals for exceptional...

14/03/2024

‘Wet Dreams’ at CentroCentro Madrid

‘Wet Dreams’ addresses water beyond its understanding as a resource, exploring its role as a catalyst in eco-social relations. The exhibition highlights design practices that embrace decolonial, cuir and hydro-feminist approaches...

13/03/2024

Sony World Photography Awards 2024

The World Photography Organisation announced the category winners and shortlist in the Open competition of the Sony World Photography Awards 2024, recognising the best single images from across the world in 2023. Over 395,000 images from over 220 countries...

Spain 2024

It has been forty years since the birth of the magazine AV Monographs, and thirty since the release of its first Yearbook, a publication that has endeavored to gather, year after year, the best architecture built in Spain, taking stock at the same time of the most important debates, trends, and events of the cultural, economic, and social panorama in each period. With its latest edition, the Yearbook begins a new phase, in which the transfer of the international summary to the recently launched Portfolio allows to devote more pages to the usual selection of twenty-four buildings, which acquire greater prominence and can be analyzed in more...

FRPO

Fernando Rodríguez and Pablo Oriol share an infrastructural way of tackling projects, not so much in relation to mechanistic logic as in terms of an organizational capacity to take on complex contexts and programs. With a different set of rules for every commission, the duo has managed to amass works characterized by an exceptional degree of proactive freedom but united by the full language that is the stuff of the large scale, as Arquitectura Viva shows in this issue.The magazine’s dossier now looks at three vinicultural projects that bear the seal of Pritzker laureates: Herzog & de Meuron’s Bélair-Monange and Foster+Partners’...

Alberto Campo Baeza

AV Proyectos 120 dedicates its last dossier of the year to the most recent projects by Alberto Campo Baeza, examples of an architecture that surrenders to the naturality of logic, and lets gravity and light order the space. Next, the issue presents the complete set of projects shortlisted in the competition to design the Spanish Pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka. The issue also includes six examples of ephemeral interventions, from pavilions for architecture or music festivals to experimental housing modules. The construction section presents an in-depth feature on the new Aviva Studios cultural space in Manchester...

In Construction 2

Arquitectura Viva presents —in Spanish-English and digital format only— the second compilation of buildings published in the ‘In Detail’ section of AV Proyectos. The volume, of over 200 pages, features twelve works covered with comprehensive sets of technical plans, details, and photographs documenting the different stages in the construction process of some of the most prominent buildings completed in recent years around the world. The new selection includes cultural infrastructures like the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg by Herzog & de Meuron or the Contemporary Creation Center of Córdoba by Nieto Sobejano...

Other publications

12/03/2024

The Pleasure of Gardens

Ginés Garrido   This is a personal exploration of gardens that the author is drawn to, and her aim is to grasp the meaning of these somehow ‘unreal’ places without which “architecture feels incomplete.” ...

12/03/2024

High Perspectives

Iñaki Bergera   From childhood we want to climb trees, reach the top of a tower, or stand on a cliff’s edge for thrilling views. Since the 19th century the modern city has been associated with verticality, the dream of ever taller...

12/03/2024

On García de Paredes's Writings

Eduardo Prieto   Taxonomy by generations and the observance of centenaries are superstitions of statistical thought, but keep our memory and sense of justice awake, especially when honoring figures whom fashions consign to limbo...

Future

12/01/2024

MareNostrum 5

MareNostrum 5, the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) supercomputer located in Spain was officially inaugurated in Barcelona by Pedro Sánchez...

27/02/2024

Oddity, unexpected space

barea pizarro   Spain   A young couple has pooled two separate professions in a single street-level establishment in Madrid’s Chamberí neighborhood, revamping the space to make it both a hair salon and a tattoo studio. Eager to avoid the usual...

15/02/2024

Tramo restaurant in Madrid

Selgascano   Spain   The architecture firm led by José Selgas and Lucía Cano, in collaboration with the designer Andreu Carulla, has transformed an industrial space built in the early 1950s into a restaurant. The building previously harbored...

12/02/2024

Performing Pavilion in Madrid

SOLAR   Spain   Performing Pavilion is a revision of the home-workshop, proposing it as a new paradigm for the link between the work of art, the place where it is created, and contemporary lifestyles. Resulting from the enlargement...

15/03/2024

New Danish Parliament in Copenhagen

Denmark   A Danish team comprising the architects Cobe, Arcgency, and Drachmann, in collaboration with engineers from Sweco, has won the competition to design the future Danish Parliament in Copenhagen. The project includes a visitor center and...

On the Valencia fire

Ten people have perished in a conflagration which in a matter of minutes wrapped the facades of the fourteen-story building in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia...

The Undersigned

Luis Alemany   The Greek writer Vassilis Vassilikos, author of the political novel Z (on which the Costa-Gavras film of the same title was based), tells of how a few days after...

Pérgola series of Grupo Ayuso

Grupo Ayuso presents its Pérgola series for terraces and gardens. With mixed aluminum and canvas coverings, it is designed to provide spaces where one can enjoy the open air while being sheltered against adverse weather...

New black PVD finish by Comenza

The Galician company Comenza, which specializes in developing industrialized railing and handrail systems, presents the PVD Black Finish for its GlassFit CC-800 and GlassFit CC-775 glass railings, offering it as an...

06/03/2024

Antoine Predock (1936-2024)

The American architect Antoine Predock passed away on 2 March at the age of 87. Born in Lebanon (Missouri) in 1936, he earned his architecture degree from Columbia University in 1962. Five years later he set up his practice in Albuquerque (New Mexico)...

04/12/2023

Elliot Erwitt (1928-2023)

Magnum Photos   Legendary photographer and long-time Magnum member Elliott Erwitt has passed away at the age of 95. Elliott Erwitt was born Elio Romano Ervitz to Russian-Jewish parents in Paris in 1928. He spent his childhood in Milan...