Luis Fernández-Galiano   Arquitectura Viva reaches number 200, and looks back to look forward. A quarter of a century ago we published ‘Tanta teoría’, where we ventured the list of the 25 most influential books since the release of The Architecture of the City and Complexity

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The publication of the 200th issue of the magazine has encouraged us to draw up a list of 200 elements - book, magazines, exhibitions, and films/photographers - which have influenced the discipline. 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The films and the photographers of the last half-century convey an often menacing image of the contemporary city and the new urban territories. 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Generally more visual than literary, architecture books have recorded and chronicled modernity, while helping to shape its ideas and forms.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Magazines, whose features allow combining the appeal of images with the analysis of texts, have a longer life than criticism in newspapers. 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The exhibitions, which marked the emergence of postmodernity or deconstruction, have become more political after the shock of the crisis

Joaquín Medina Warmburg   In the work of Eladio Dieste, whose birth has been one hundred years, technical ingenuity was placed at the service of the social program and Catholic fervor.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The centenary of the artistic movement De Stijl prompts recollection of the theoretical texts by its foremost artist, the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian. 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The 150th anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) has been celebrated with an exhibition at the MoMA and a book on the more than one hundred exhibitions on his work held during the architect’s life. The New York show was organized by the Columb

Justo Isasi   It’s been several generations since cinema was first thought of as something engaged with the poetic contents of ‘traditional’ arts. Then the futurists raised it to the status of seventh art. Also since then, in synchrony with the celluloid strip, so

Kenneth Frampton, Rafael Moneo   After an encounter in Madrid, shortly before Rafael Moneo turned eighty, the Spanish architect and the historian and critic Kenneth Frampton had an epistolary conversation which we reproduce here.

Elena Merino, Fernando Moral   Constructive exigency and architectural poetics had a bearing, sometimes contradictorily, on the dissolution of enclosures, a dissolution dictated by the Modern Movement and its sequels, and which from the start was confronted with a dichotomy: that

MCEA | Manuel Costoya Estudio de Arquitectura, Naos 04   Spain   The earthquake that struck the city of Lorca in the year 2011 affected a very high percentage of the buildings in the city, many of which had to be demolished, especially those located in La Viña neighborhood. The San Mateo Residential Development, o

Chartier-Corbasson architects   France   The building stands on Rue Championnet, a traditional street in Paris’s 18th District, characterized by its continuity of facades typical of Haussmann’s urban enlargement grid. In volume terms, the building follows the street alignments strictly, fr

Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes   France   Located in the 15th district of Paris, this building containing ten social housing units fills the gap left by a previous construction, and thanks to this, the old image of the street has been preserved. Respect for the urban volumetry of the French

E2A   Switzerland   This complex of apartment blocks in the heart of Zurich replaces a settlement from the 1940s and is presented as an alternative to the conventional typology of isolated buildings that do little to generate an urban scheme, in contrast with their imme

AFGH/Andreas Fuhrimann y Gabrielle Hächler   Switzerland   Located on the shore of Lake Lucerne, this small tower serves two purposes: one is to house a rowing center, and the other is to be a sculptural marker in the landscape. The building relates with the surrounding nature through its materials: it is bu

RCR Arquitectes, G. Tregouet   France   This purpose of this project of the Catalan, Olot-based firm RCR arquitectes – in collaboration with G. Tregouet – was to merge a preexisting, 1960s building in an expansive meadow in Girona with a new construction, to then reconnect the complex with

The reader of this magazine knows – as any reader of periodical publications does – that anniversaries are important in the selection of news items. The attentive and faithful subscriber, moreover, will have observed that the contents of Arquitectura

The Guggenheim of Bilbao, now 20 years old, is perhaps the most influential building of the latest two decades, not so much because it is Frank Gehry’s greatest work but because it represents a way of transforming and activating the image of cities t

Bloomberg’s London headquarters, designed by Norman Foster, is the world’s most expensive office building. One can tell from its volume, which by far exceeds that of any of its neighbors in the fragmented and highly dense fabric of the heart of the C

In the port city of Tianjin (population 15.47 million), the Dutch firm MVRDV recently completed an immense library with a huge inner eye that can be glimpsed from the street and which, being so spectacularly disturbing, reminds one of the eye of Suar

The dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy says that an infrastructure is an underground work. If this is so, then the future multimodal transport hub and shopping center of Gangnam, right in the heart of Seoul and called Lightwalk, is literally one

Soon after completing the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., David Adjaye has carried the day over 92 others in the competition for the UK National Holocaust Memorial in London. The monument will

In collaboration with a large multidisciplinary team, the American firm wHY has turned out the winner, among 125 participants, of the competition for the chance to design the Ross Pavilion: a visitor center and café in West Princes Street Gardens, in

Every two years since 1993, the Spanish Association of Architecture Institutes has given the National Award for Architecture, which has over the years changed in sensibilities but always recognizes exceptional works, buildings that somehow innovate a

The firm of Alex de Rijke, Philip Marsh, and Sadie Morgan (dRMM) has won this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize for its regeneration of Hastings Pier, a Victorian leisure seaside facility built in 1872 and destroyed by fire in 2010. The bestowal of the awa

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Stage and archive, the magazine is above all an imaginary museum. Placing this issue under the equivocal advocacy of André Malraux – whose mythical portrait is reproduced tiny in the presentation –, we propose recalling to what extent a publication l