Luis Fernández-Galiano   India is not a country, but a continent. It is very hard to fully grasp its diversity, so here we attempt to explore its architecture through a series of examples that go from the Himalayas to its southern extreme. As Rahul Mehrotra explains, in cont

Rahul Mehrotra   Kaleidoscopic and plural, the new architecture of India seeks to strike a balance between the strong influence of global tendencies and the desire to maintain the country’s rich traditions.

Arup Associates   India   Inspired by Buddhist mandalas and built with native materials to minimize impact on the environment, the school addresses the area’s geographic and cultural complexity.

RMA Architects   India   With a strong social component and the prized resource that water is in a leading role, a modest project for landscape regeneration also seeks to foster a sense of community.

HCP Design, Planning & Management   India   Though designed independently, the new campus that enlarges the original premises by Louis Kahn keeps its elements in continuity with the master’s formal language.

Williams + Tsien Architects   India   In an environment rich in nature, the project seeks to strike a balance between the needs of a modern corporate headquarters and an interest in traditional vernacular crafts.

Studio Mumbai   India   Built on barren land with walls of basalt stone and wood, and taking inspiration from the traditional architecture of the place, the house distributes its pavilions around a courtyard.

Sameep Padora, sP+a    India   Carried out on a very tight budget and with the help of the participation of the local population, the project takes the structure of traditional Hindu temples as reference.

Rintala Eggertsson Architects   India   Based on a simple modular system that is accessible to the local population and easy to assemble, the Hut to Hut was part of plans to foster sustainable tourism in southern India.

Khosla Associates   India   Tight deadlines and budgets were dealt with in this project through a simple modular building of concrete organized around an open-air courtyard adorned with vernacular references.

José Manuel Pozo   Fray Coello de Portugal’s double calling led him to create and pursue architecture as a life commitment.

Javier Maderuelo   With a multifaceted and immaterial oeuvre, De Maria in the 1960s helped create a new artistic sensibility.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Contemporary Art is a terra ignota for many, and even those of us who take it upon ourselves to follow it closely often suffer the disorientation and confusion of the explorer of unmapped territory. Certainly of no help is the lyrical and vacuous her

José Antonio Flores   This english edition of the Italian original is a gem of a book because of its size, its presentation, the quality of the paper used and the caliber of the images included. A warning, though: it is not, as one would assume, a book about architecture.

Eduardo Prieto   Since we are wary of prophets, Rudolf Steiner today is practically unknown. The 150th anniversary of the death of the thinker and architect (see Arquitectura Viva 137) served to fish him out of oblivion through four biographies published in German. N

Ana Esteban Maluenda   “Every great architect deserves a great monograph” seems to be the thinking at Taschen, which has added a new volume to its series of huge catalogs on prestigious architects. Without a doubt, their size (30.8 x 39 cm) makes it a delight for the reade

Cuca Flores   Because of the cosmopolitan spirit of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano, combined with an indefatigable, tenacious devotion to the profession, both in actual building and in teaching, they are perhaps the most ‘international’ and prolific members

PMMT Arquitectes   Ecuador   Modular, austere, and put up in a short space of time, this hospital complex is the first built example of a parametric system of health facilities conceived for emergency situations.

Ignacio Paricio   The aesheticism and preference for mechanical applications explains why Le Corbusier’s work failed at addressing basic comfort demands.

Eduardo Prieto   Since its very beginnings, the concrete industry has always gone hand in hand with the production of chemical agents that have the potential to improve the properties of the material. At first, the focus of these chemical products was on reducing the

The completion in London in 2008 of an eight-floor block using cross laminated timber pieces represented a milestone in the gradual comeback of wood as a widely used architectural material. Other such projects were quick to follow suit, setting in mo

Building with wood has become an alternative to using conventional materials like concrete and steel. Nevertheless, its range of applications has up to now been limited to low-rise structures, generally houses, where the pieces are subjected to minim

Air conditioning can here in Spain represent as much as 70% of the electrical expenses of a commercial building, besides producing other undesirable effects, one being dry air, especially in places that are far from the sea. The company Breezeair is

Systems of natural climatization by moisturization (also called ‘adiabatics’ because they do not involve heat transfer, even though they manage to alter air temperature and relative humidity) are not a recent invention. They have traditionally been u

The winners of the RIBA’s Stirling and Lubetkin awards, conferred year by year to honor buildings that architects of the United Kingdom have completed in the European Union and outside, respectively, were announced by the Royal Institute of British

Annually since 1989 the Japan Art Association has given the Praemium Imperiale, in five categories, to recognize contributions to the development and promotion of the arts worldwide. Each coming with a monetary prize of 114,000 euros, the prestigious

José Ignacio Linazasoro   Partly because of the economic crisis, which has particularly affected architects, work on heritage has returned to the forefront, seen as a professional opportunity at a moment when, paradoxically, indifference to history in an operational sense and