Luis Fernández-Galiano   The building is back. Over the last years, the extension of the boundaries of architecture’s critical discourse has blurred what used to be its essential core. With the extension of the discipline to neighboring fields, and the deserved loss of prest

The recent architecture of large institutional headquarters has enriched the serious and cold canon of modernity with new elements linked to history, technique, and work organization. 

François Chaslin   The Cité Judiciaire serves to centralize a vast network of courthouses in a tiered tower that rises a hundred and sixty meters, and is already an icon of the new neighborhoods of Paris. 

Jonathan Glancey   The new Bloomberg headquarters in London, built on a site over the hidden course of the river Walbrook, adapts its powerful volume to the preexistent traces of the historical heart of the City. 

Fulvio Irace   Inspired in the linear archetype of a house with a gable roof, the architecture of the Fondazione Feltrinelli becomes three-dimensional to address the topography and memory of the place. 

Thomas F. Reese   It is no easy task to write a short account of Ventura Rodríguez’s life, even with biographies ranging from the first one by Pulido and Díaz to last year’s publication by Juan Manuel Moreno. We know that he was born in Ciempozuelos in 1717 into a mod

Kurt W. Forster   Though partly discredited and forgotten, Rudolphs buildings continue to be considered a powerful body of work in American architecture. 

Gabriel Ruiz Cabrero   This year is the birth centennial of Francisco J. Sénz de Oíza, leader of Spanish modernity and master of several generations of architects. 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Tying up the histories of Catalonia and Scotland from the 15th century to the present, John Elliott has written a book that is both topical and timeless. It is comparative history in the most genuine way – like his studies of Richelieu and Olivares o

Eduardo Prieto   Of all the modern masters, Walter Gropius is now the least known of, though his texts were once read as if they were the Bible. Through a critical Spanish edition of 30 out of the 150 essays written between 1908 and 1934, this book is a refocusing on

Miguel Aguiló   Taking a more historical approach for the old bridges and a more typological perspective for the modern ones, Manterola shows the increasing complexity of structural solutions through specific examples. The advantages of each structure and its formal

Iñaki Bergera   One could identify the visual narrative of mid-20th-century modern Californian architecture, in all its glamour, exclusively with Julius Shulman’s iconic photographs, but this fruit of the ‘discovery’ of the vast archive of the Angeleno Marvin Rand (

Eduardo Prieto   In the beginning there was the kitchen; the kitchen was fire; and fire was the house. Later, the three worlds that had since time immemorial been one thing began to separate: fire lost its visibility, hidden as it was in the stove or oven, and the ki

RCR Arquitectes   Spain   Executed with steel and composite panels, the kitchen and the tasting tables are arranged organically in a space whose forms and atmospheres try to give clients the impression of being in a cloud. 

Borja Ferrater, Carlos Ferrater   Spain   The tradicional borders between kitchen and dining area are here completely dissolved to create a single gastronomic space within the austere architecture of an old industrial shed in Barcelona. 

BIA architects   Spain   Refurbished following a design that respects its history and unique location, the old tide mill of El Caño in El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz) is home now to one of the finest restaurants on the Andalusian coast. 

Antonio Jiménez Torrecillas   Spain   The project involved enlarging a house built by the Americans in the vicinity of the US military base at Rota, on the coast of the southern Spanish province of Cádiz. The urban development it is located in responds to a typically Anglo-Saxon set of t

There are many great architects, but only very few get to be ‘masters.’ Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza did, thanks as much to the quality of his architecture as to his sharp sensitivity in tuning in with the contemporary, and especially to his teachi

A reference in contemporary Sevillian architecture died in his native city at 68 years of age. Antonio González Cordón graduated in 1975, earned his PhD in 1982, and had an outstanding and prolific career that produced some iconic buildings of the Se

On view from 3 October to 20 January at the ICO Museum in Madrid, ‘Francis Kéré: Primary Elements’ expands the focus that ‘The Architect is Present’ (2014) gave to the exceptional Burkinabe based in Berlin. This year’s show covers his entire career s

After a protracted process, a period of eight years, that has not been spared its dose of controversy (in 2015 it was announced that the building’s real cost would exceed the initially budgeted amount of 50 million euros by a good 70%), Scotland’s ow

Sometimes described as monotonous, the austere and elegant architecture of the British David Chipperfield invariably demonstrates a surprising capacity to adapt to very diverse contexts, from hypercivilized Berlin to the emerging globalized cities of

The team formed by Atxu Amann, Andrés Cánovas, and Nicolás Maruri (Temperaturas Extremas Arquitectos) is the winner of the competition for the privilege of building Spain’s pavilion at the Universal Exhibition of 2020, to be held in Dubai. The winnin

The new project to be carried out by the British firm Foster + Partners in Madrid, given the name ‘Axis,’ will transform the old Barclays Bank offices at the juncture of Plaza de Colón into a mixed-use building. It will be taller and the elevations w

The Barcelona firm BCQ arquitectes recently unveiled its design for the construction of a Museum of the Civil War in the city of Teruel, a project promoted by the regional autonomous government of Aragón. Conceived in the manner of an archaeological

Peter Eisenman   We were never that close. We met, as I remember, for the first time at the first CASE meeting, at Princeton, in 1964. Most of the young architects were there: Richard Meier, Michael Graves, Jaquelin Robertson, Richard Weinstein, Hank Millon, Stan And