Luis Fernández-Galiano   When he woke up, the crisis was still there. Paraphrasing Augusto Monterroso’s micro story, we seek shelter in the fertile territory of projects and dreams to avoid having to face the desolate state of a professional and personal landscape that has s

Emilio Tuñón   Thinking out small works is a vaccine against excesses, and materializing them a way to architecture of the kind that is more humane, more necessary, and closer to nature.

Santiago de Molina   Necessity is forcing young architects to work on the small scale, but not at the expense of the rigor, research, commitment, and responsibility that come with building.

Izaskun Chinchilla   Spain   The functional flexibility of this apartment for a graphic designer is achieved by means of mobile screens and embedded or rotating furniture elements, placed on a continuous and figurative pavement.

Elii   Spain   Seeking to optimize light, the program is organized in several bands of services that make it possible to free up an interior space which is open, flexible, and equipped with mobile panels and ‘secret traps’.

Arquitectura-G   Spain   Constructed in the workshop and thought out to provide spaces for temporary storage and beds, the modules are flexible; with hardly any alteration they can be adapted to the rooms of four tourist dwellings. 

Estudio Nómada   Spain   Appropriating one of the pavilions of the Cidade da Cultura, the café and store program unfolds in an open space where the only built elements are a continuous bar counter and some pieces of wooden furniture.

Pau Sarquella   Spain   The subtle signage on the facade, the carefully designed integrated furniture, and the Nordic aesthetic of warm wooden finishes characterize the renovation of an otherwise traditional butcher store. 

Gabriel Carrascal Aguirre, Sergio Martín Blas   Spain   In this house of reduced dimensions located in the old part of the city of Baiona, the different rooms are defined by a series of variations in proportion, form, type of ceilings, and materials used. 

Abalo Alonso Arquitectos   Spain   The Rubido Romero Foundation is harbored in an old construction of rural Galicia that was given a surgical job; walls were reinforced, beams were placed, and the interior space was painted white.

Alberto Ballarín Iribarren   Spain   All that remained of the primitive, 12th-century building was the church, whose walls now have a zinc cladding. A pavilion of glass and pine and chestnut wood erected over the ruins completes the complex.

Garciagerman Arquitectos   Spain   The structure of huge steel beams supported by stanchions of very small sections makes it possible for the roof to seem afloat over a space that opens on to the landsape and is delimited by a low masonry wall.

Alejandro Beautell   Spain   The hermitage adapts to the triangular shape of the lot, with the interior space tapering on plan and the ceiling rising as the visitor approaches the altar bathed in light from above, the most intense part of the temple.

Guzmán de Yarza Blache   Spain   Taking up part of a school courtyard, the sport facility is raised on thick legs of reinforced concrete which serve to delimit a covered playground. Connected to the courtyard level by means of a ramp, the upper area is enclosed with a metal lattice

Estudio de Arquitectura Toni Gironès   Spain   The 2nd century BC Roman site in Montmeló (Barcelona) is brought out in all its splendor through simple but aesthetically powerful means: gabion walls with rusted scrap metal and tubes.

Basurama, Taller de Casquería, Zuloark   Spain   Collective groups of artists and architects in collaboration with citizens have transformed residual plots and zones of the Madrid district into new public plazas and spaces.

Bohigas, Moneo y Navarro Baldeweg son los primeros protagonistas de la nueva colección de entrevistas de Arquia/maestros.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   A prolific architect and writer, the intellectual author of contemporary Barcelona is an essential figure of Catalonian culture of the 20th century.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The influential work of Spain’s only Pritzker laureate is marked by the intellectual character of his projects and by his deep pedagogical commitment. 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   First and foremost an artist, the architect through his work seeks to decipher unknown essentials: light and gravity, matter and meteors, body and landscape.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Arbitrary inequality puts into question the fundamentals of democracy. This is the angular stone of the colossal work of Thomas Piketty, Le capital au XXIe siècle. Since its publication by Seuil, the book by the French economist has sparked an extrao

Alicia G. de la Cámara   Do we need a new model of heritage preservation? The current crisis ought to be taken as an opportunity to undertake actions of preventive preservation, and with that, make improvements in both planning and coordination, and obtain maximum results wi

Pedro Moleón   This book is based on the view of Modern Movement works as historical buildings having attributes that blend them with monuments of a previous past, and offers a synthetic, documented, critical assessment of the restorations to which these works have

Alba Carballal   Urban space must be thought of as a primarily social phenomenon, says the Marxist philosopher Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991) in The Production of Space, a contemporary classic now translated to Spanish. In a context where urban planning is mere techniqu

Eduardo Prieto   When he wrote that bit about man being a political animal, Aristotle could not have imagined that his thesis would be completed by Joseph Beuys, who said that what really defined man was his artist nature. This tangle between politics and art is the

Vicente Sarrablo, Nuria Prieto González   Inflatable architectures (coined ‘inflatoestructuras’ in Spanish by architect Prada Poole) invite us to look for the means, the way to build space forms that provide alternatives to the strict architectural paths that we found so disappointing when w

Atelier Alice / EPFL   Switzerland   The textile dome, filled with helium, emerges as a hot air balloon over the profile of small Swiss town, sheltering an ephemeral and flexible space that functions as a concert hall. The structure is totally dismountable.

Arata Isozaki, Aoki & Associates   Japan   With capacity for 500 spectators, the pavilion needs no auxiliary structures for rigidity, which is guaranteed by its form, designed also to ensure that the concert hall will offer a good acoustic performance.

Henchion + Reuter   Germany   Gondwanaland, the name of the large structure that has recently extended the inner-city Leipzig Zoo, makes reference to the original continent that emerged from Pangaea and configured South America, Africa and South Asia, geographic regions whose liv

Archiworkshop   South Korea   With a doughnut shape, the modules are lightweight aluminum structures with a double-sheet membrane that is UV-proof, watertight, fire resistant, and put together using a high-frequency welding technique.  

C.F. Møller    Denmark   Though it looks like a semi-sphere, the greenhouse’s form is anisotropic: it bends depending on the different orientations, and transforms its ETFE skin to meet the desired degree of sun exposure.

Vehovar & Jauslin   Switzerland   An apparently haphazard mesh of steel cables fixed to two perimeter rings stretches and shapes a translucent and sustainable membrane of triple-foil ETFE cushions, the outermost layer of which is printed with dots.

At the age of 85 Frank O. Gehry has landed the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts. With this the judges –presided by José Lladó and including figures related to architecture, such as Benedetta Tagliabue, Patricia Urquiola, and Elena Ochoa Foster —

“Not the old, not the new, but the necessary.” Tatlin’s famous line is the motto of the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad’s third international architecture congress in Pamplona, slated for the 11th, 12th, and 13th of June. The two previous events fo

In the olden days, knighthood implied a military rank; now it is bestowed in recognition of moral and professional merits. So, far from being anecdotic, the appointment of Antonio Cruz & Antonio Ortiz as Knights of the Royal Order of the Netherla

The aims of the National September 11 Memorial Museum are hard to reconcile. This new institution is supposed to evoke terrible attacks and remember their victims, yet at the same time be a pragmatic building with the capacity to take in thousands of

Few people outside the profession would recognize Albert Viaplana as the author of some of the major references of contemporary Barcelona, but his trajectory – with Helio Piñón from 1974 to 1997, and later on his own – has left a strong mark on the C

Since the year 1926, the awarding ceremony of the Nobel Prizes has been held at the Konserthus, the classicist concert hall located at the core of Stockholm. This tradition is soon to end. The foundation originally set up by Alfred Nobel recently ann

Although the management difficulties involved in any kind of urban transformation are sometimes unsurpassable, at other times public space serves as material for the undertaking of extraordinary projects directed at serving the citizenry. Recognizing

Eduardo Prieto   With the death of its last great architect, Vienna is in mourning. In its prosperous decadence, the city has left far behind its years as a cultural metropolis – times that a Viennese by choice, Karl Kraus, defined as “the last days of Humanity” – bu