Luis Fernández-Galiano   Buildings are articulated, but also woven; they are raised with structure and enclosed with cladding; they combine or contrast their tectonic and textile condition. The 19th-century debate between constructive logic and ornamental enclosure is still

Giovanni Fanelli, Roberto Gargiani   Since its formulation by Gottfried Semper in 1851, the principle of cladding based on the textile origin of the wall has not ceased to be influential in architectural debate.

Dominique Perrault Architecture   France   Decorated with a curved screen made of metal grids, the theater in its weightless appearance strikes a contrast with the clay fabric of historical Albi and has become a new cultural hub.

Luis Pancorbo, Carlos Chacón, Inés Martín Robles, José de Villar   Spain   While on the outside the building echoes the dry surroundings in its skin of ropes and the tone of the concrete, the polycarbonate inside creates a surrealist aquatic atmosphere.

Shigeru Ban   United States   Hermético desde la distancia pero translúcido en la cercanía, el edificio abriga bajo una envolvente tejida de madera seis galerías expositivas y un jardín de esculturas.

Marco Casagrande   Belgium   Woven with willow branches by local craftsmen, this installation echoes the dunes of the Belgian coastline and shelters a spectacular atmosphere of powerful chiaroscuros.

Mass Studies   South Korea   This huge white chrysalis braided with links of steel was specially created for a public art event and serves as a place for open-air encounter and recreation.

Menges y Knippers   Germany   With its shell imitating the microstructure of the exoskeletons of arthropods, this pavilion has been built with artificial fibers woven by means of robotic arms.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Turning 80 in June, Norman Foster reviews the sources and highlights of his career in a dialogue held at his foundation in Madrid’s Monte Esquinza street.

Deyan Sudjic   Inspired in the ideas of the painter Rémy Zaugg, the Herzog & de Meuron archive in Basel brings together by products of their thirty years of practice.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Four recent works chart the political economy of globalization and the spaces of control and conflict in the contemporary world. A sociologist and a political scientist writing from Columbia and Berkeley and an economist and a philosopher doing so fr

Ana Goñi   A joke. The latest outlandish idea in an election period. Madness. Benidorm’s bid for a place in Unesco’s list of World Heritage Sites, in the twin category of Good Culture and Good Nature, was made public this week, and been lambasted and parodied.

Francisco Arriaga   Timber and wood-based products are used in the structures of buildings in several formats, from the simplest, such as the round and sawn timber, to the most elaborate, such as micro-laminates or prefabricated composite panels. In between are products

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   Located outside Basel, in the valley of the Wiese River, which is a tributary of the Rhine, the Riehen Commune called a competition in 1979 for the purpose of refurbishing its municipal swimming pools, but it took up to the year 2007 for the project

Kengo Kuma   Japan   Devoted to the world of gastronomy and recycling, the pavilion is formed by a three-dimensional grid of girders and footings of solid wood assembled with bolts and rigidified with steel crosses.

Gabriel Rudolphy, Alejandro Soffia   Chile   Held up by stilts, the five volumes that make up this hostal are built with a wooden structure whose dimensions and solutions take inspiration from the typical local architecture of rough-sawn pinewood.

Markus Schietsch Architekten   Switzerland   Designed to shelter the new Kaeng Krachan Elephant Park that is part of Zoo Zurich, this wooden structure is colossal. It is a dome of anisotropic geometry that mimics its environment, a forest recreated within the facility with the purpose of obtain

Back in 1991, in Arquitectura Viva, the cartoonist Focho reinterpreted a scene which fans of the Tintin comic series remember well, the cover of Destination Moon, showing Captain Haddock, Tintin, and Snowy on a jeep driven by Foster, heading for a sp

With the death of José Miguel Iribas on 20 April, Benidorm and the Mediterranean model of intensive tourism, in general, have lost their leading propagandist. Born in the year 1950 in Bergara (Guipúzcoa) but into a family from Navarre, Iribas first a

Besides the Pritzker, the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture – or simply the Mies van der Rohe Award – is the only trophy that gets hype in the more generalized communications media. Thus the great expectation surrounding the announcement of the

A ceremony was held on 8 May in Madrid to announce the winners of Archiprix International, an award given biennially to the best graduation projects submitted from architecture schools all over the world. In this edition, coordinated by the Madrid Sc

The raging cruelty waged by the Islamic State’s henchmen on its prisoners and population of the regions it occupies has been eclipsing the brutality of their attacks on the architectural and artistic footprints of the past, but these latter actions a

The earthquake that struck Nepal at 11:56 on the morning of 25 April, marking 7.8 on the Richter scale, killed over 7,000 people, injured over 16,000, and left about 450,000 homeless. This human tragedy is also economic (it is estimated that reconstr

Naomi Klein   We must reckon with the fact that lowering global emissions in line with climate scientists’ urgent warnings demands changes of a truly daunting speed and scale. Meeting science-based targets will mean forcing some of the most profitable companies on