Luis Fernández-Galiano   Dead stones are very much alive. We think about ruins as residues or traces of past activities, and fail to appreciate the fertility of these material remains, which store both the thermodynamic capital of their transport, preparation, and assembly,

Víctor López Cotelo   Far from imposing boundaries on creativity, paying attention to the existing guarantees that the works are unique and maintain their character over the course of the years.

bosch.capdeferro arquitectura   Spain   Perforated with new openings and clad in a skin of ropes that is stretched over frames, the house becomes a covered porch that is filled with fresh air and opens up to its surroundings.

Grupo Aranea   Spain   Set on the cornice of a preexisting building, the house rises over neighboring rooftops to become an urban landmark, thanks to its expressive faceted form.

Lagula Arquitectes, Studio Ahedo   Spain   Located in the historical center of Tudela, in Navarra, the house blends with its context thanks to a sober facade that conceals a dynamic and vibrant interior.

Arquitectura-G   Spain   The red of the floors and ceilings and the white of the walls and frames create a chromatic dichotomy that resonates with the green reflections of a food garden and a courtyard.

Manuel Aires Mateus   Portugal   A narrow white volume that looks out to the landscape coexists with an 18th-century townhouse characterized by its openness and the spatial fluidity of its interior spaces.

SAMI Arquitetos   Portugal   Appropriating the basalt walls of an old ruin, the house rises from a play of occlusions and apertures, retentions and overflowings, in dialogue with the surrounding landscape.

Richard Ingersoll   With its uneven list of artworks, this year’s Venice Biennale – directed by Okwui Enwezor – is the most politicized of recent times.

A. Buchner, Javier Maroto   The Reina Sofía Museum hosts a major retrospective on Carl Andre, whose work suggests formal analogies with Mies van der Rohe’s.

Joaquín Medina Warmburg   The exhibition at the MoMA in New York helps to dissipate clichés and give a fuller view of the richness of modern architecture in Latin America.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Half a century after his death, Le Corbusier still stirs the waters of debate. The major exhibition held at the MoMA in 2013 emphasized the landscaping aspect of an oeuvre that tends to be perceived as being removed from context; the no less importan

Ángel Martínez García-Posada   This summer has brought us the much awaited coincidence of temporary constructions by three Spanish architectural practices in prestigious international forums: the Organic Growth Pavilion by Izaskun Chinchilla on Governors Island in New York, one of

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation   United States   The coil of standard plastic cubes forms a circuit which in successive phases enables the natural and ecological purification of the water; a sensor collects data and sends it to an online reader in real time.

Izaskun Chinchilla   United States   Put together in the factory, the bars that form the tree-like lattice were taken from recycled camera tripods, and they hold up a dense canopy of bicycle rims and umbrellas of different colors.

Selgascano   United Kingdom   The four arms that form the layout of the pavilion each present a different entrance, but they all converge in a central space, a larger hall where visitors can come together.

Although they did not bring on the sorpasso that was promised by the new political parties, the elections of 24 May have resulted in a notable transformation of regional and municipal power. The rise of new groupings, combined with the nationwide rea

Heritage restoration has in the last years been one of the most vigorously growing fields of architecture. So it is no surprise that many awards of late have been for interventions on the already built. The Prize for Spanish Architecture, annually gi

Just a few days after the Universal Exposition of Milan was inaugurated, the outskirts of the northern Italian city saw the opening of the Fondazione Prada, an institution sure to outlast the Expo pavilions. It will last longer because of the quality

The Russia of today is no place for contemporary art. As during the decades of the USSR, it is the prerogative of the State to preserve and disseminate knowledge about creations of the past, but few such initiatives are taken for works of the present

India’s master of modern architecture, Charles Correa, passed away on 16 June. He was 84 years old. Son of an affluent couple from Goa (which explains his Portuguese surname), Correa had an early calling for architecture (which he associated with his

After a long illness, Antonio Jiménez Torrecillas died in Granada at the age of 52. A graduate of the Sevilla School of Architecture, where he became a professor, Jiménez Torrecillas began his career in 1987 with Juan Domingo Santos, and together the

One of the most famous of German architectural historians, Jürgen Joedicke, died last 6 May in Stuttgart at 90 years of age. After earning his degree in Weimar in 1950, he began a long career in academe, publishing books as important as A History of

Albert Cuchí   Buildings use up 30% of the total energy consumed in Spain, which is not bad. Considering this, any approach to the country’s energy model must take construction as an essential part of it, just as the International Energy Agency (IAE) does when it d