Luis Fernández-Galiano   The yellow vests have made visible those invisible. The France of peripheries has rallied in the heart of Paris, and the political surge of populations left out by globalization has been met with as much surprise as Brexit, Trump’s election, or the r

The studio Barclay & Crousse, based since 2006 in Lima (Peru), was set up 25 years ago in Paris by Sandra Barclay (Lima, 1967) and Jean Pierre Crousse (Lima, 1963). Both received their architecture degrees in Peru and shortly afterwards moved to Euro

Barclay & Crousse Arquitectos   Peru   Inserted into a dry forest, this lecture hall built for the training of economically disadvanted people was awarded the 2018 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP).

Barclay & Crousse Arquitectos   Peru   The new museum seeks to address the fragile balance between preserving heritage, sharing it with the public, and integrating it with the landscape, cradle of the indigenous Paracas culture.

Barclay & Crousse Arquitectos   Peru   The house sits at the confluence of two extreme landscapes, the desert and the Pacific Ocean, which together produce a humid but rainless climate and a constant temperature.

Barclay & Crousse Arquitectos   Peru   Located in the Miraflores district of the Peruvian capital, this building of brutalist aesthetics contains seventeen residences opening out to three distinct urban contexts.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Everyday life in Nazi Germany and the interiors designed by Gerdy Troost for Hitler are in stark contrast with the monumental works of Albert Speer.

László F. Földényi   The Soviets and the Nazis were equally bent on erecting ideal cities, but their utopian endeavors have left in their wake a landscape of ruins.

Jean-Yves Jouannais   The huge hill made of Berlin debris conceals the remains of what was a Nazi military academy, denying it the grand heroic status of a monumental ruin.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Should biographers respect their subjects? Not necessarily, but even in books about serial killers, authors try to dig beneath the skin of protagonists. No such thing happens in the Philip Johnson biography by Mark Lamster, a writer who previously wr

This publication of the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn presents two fundamental texts, translated to Estonian, on the relationship between architecture and energy. The first,‘Thermal Space in Architecture,’ tackles from both a historical and a t

Color had a bad reputation. In classical Greece, Plato condemned dyes because they were falsehoods and could be used by women to manipulate men; in classical Rome, Pliny and Seneca censured the florid colors of the Orient, in which they saw (in a new

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos   Brazil   The envelope of ceramic pieces rendered in a variety of colors does much to give the building a personality of its own in the urban fabric, while distinguishing each apartment unit. The 25-floor tower is located in Itaim Bibi, a São Paulo neighborhoo

Sauerbruch Hutton   United Kingdom   With its curvilinear shape and dynamic facade of multicolored louvers, the volume confidently engages with the urban fabric and the corporate headquarters of London’s City.

Jean Nouvel   France   The recently opened tower named Marsellesa rises 135 meters at Quais d'Arenc, close to the 142-meter headquarters of the French shipping company CMA CGM, built by Zaha Hadid Architects. The unique design of the gridded facade of concrete presents a g

Alejandro Aravena, ELEMENTAL   Chile   The building is part of a private initiative that involved inviting eight Japanese architects (among them Sejima, Nishizawa, Juma, Fujimoto, and Ishigami) and the same number of Chilean ones to design a vacation house in Los Vilos, a rugged natural e

Ever since Haussmann and Cerdà lay down the importance of traffic in cities, urbanism has been at the service of cars, but now, well into the 21st century, servitude to the automobile has begun to slacken. This is demonstrated by the proliferation of

The always restrained and generally judicious British architect David Chipperfield has in Berlin just completed the James Simon Gallery, which serves as a gateway into the German capital’s famous Museum Island. Embedded into one of the walls of the S

Empty the building, leave its sculptural brick enclosure exactly the way it is, and implant in it a massive heart of concrete. This was the strategy followed by Tadao Ando when he transformed an old residential block in the city of Chicago into the n

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has blasted Mexico City’s new airport, and with it the signature project of his predecessor, Enrique Peña Nieto. After winning a much disputed competition through his solid experience in infrastructures of this k

Many predicted that the death of Zaha Hadid – quintessential example of signature architecture – would compromise the future of her studio.They were wrong: almost three years after the British-Iraqi succumbed to a heart attack, Zaha Hadid Architects

London will be studied as a model of urban transformation, thanks to the powers-that-be of financial capitalism. In less than twenty years, the decadent capital of the 1980s became a vibrant metropolis whose economic success was materialized in the e

The collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa killed 43 people and exposed deficiencies in both its design and its maintenance. It was a big blow to Italian politics and engineering, and there has been a clear endeavor to make amends through a fast-tra

Eduardo Mangada   It is often said that “a picture is worth a thousand words.” In general terms, I do not believe this to be true. Nevertheless, there are concrete cases in which the aphorism does ring true. I am referring here to the dazzling, expensive, extravagant,

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   Formed by a stack of blocks whose roofs paint a vibrant chromatic palette, the new Lego headquarters evokes the creative play world of the famous Danish toy company.