Emilio Tuñón Arquitecturia   Spain   The new cloister functions as a topographical link with the garden, accentuating its greenery by creating a new forest of columns that extends and connects with the museum; outside, stairs, platforms, and ramps guide visitors towards the entrance...

Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres Adrià Orriols   Spain   With the idea of recovering the ‘ensemble’ and giving the Monastery a new purpose, the proposal traces a closed perimeter creating a circulation ring around it; the extension, partially buried, connects with the gardens through the roof...

fuses-viader arquitectes   Spain   A sequential route leads to the new plaza of access, where the building, envisaged as a pergola, blurs its presence with glass facades that connect it with the Monastery and its gardens. The extension occupies the ground floor and semibasement... 

Calderon-Folch Arquitectes AV62 Arquitectos   Spain   The proposal reassesses the program to transform it into a coherent complex with an educational and informative potential, through a key action: giving the Monastery the Cloister Garden it is missing, a gallery around a courtyard...

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   The Madrid practice of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano have won first place in the competition to build a museum in San Felíu de Guíxols (Girona) to house part of Carmen Thyssen's art collection, joining those already existing in Madrid, Málaga,

BOPBAA Arquitectes   Spain   La Colección Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza quedará ubicada en un inmueble adyacente al Museo, que conserva la crujía a la calle y se convierte en pabellón vítreo hacia el jardín. Se renuevan los espacios complementarios a la exposición: desde la restaura

On the heels of the Lucian Freud exhibition at the National Gallery in London, the Thyssen Museum in Madrid welcomes a selection of works by a painter who made the traditional sitting with a model – in famously protracted sessions – the cornerstone o

A parade of disturbing figures with bowler hats, covered faces, impossible skies, and paintings within paintings make up the iconic cosmos of René Magritte, to whom until 30 January the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum devotes a major retrospective, the fir

The franchise model has reached museums, and with energy, at least for the Carmen Thyssen Collection, whose homes in Madrid, Barcelona, and Málaga will soon be joined by a fourth one in Girona, thanks to a competition where the Madrid firm Nieto Sobe

On view through 5 October at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid is a free-entry exhibition on the work of the German photographer Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932), organized by Loewe and curated by Juan Naranjo. The beauty of nature is captu

It can hardly be said that Robert and Sonia Delaunay are unknown in Spain. Their work has been the theme of exhibitions here since the very first one organized by the Juan March Foundation, in Madrid, in 1982. What distinguishes the current show at t

Ever incisive when reflecting on the work of fellow architects and his own, Rafael Moneo knows full well that every architectural exhibition is a metonymy, referring to a truly important reality – buildings – through elements that represent them – ph

Realism and Americanism are two of the main characteristic features of the paintings by Edward Hopper (Nyack, 1882 - New York, 1967), who is considered today one of the most representative figures of 20th century art. During his studies he followed t

Simón Marchán Fiz   A medio camino entre la visión objetiva y la utopía, el de la arquitectura fue un fructífero género pictórico, del que da cuenta el elenco de ciento cincuenta obras expuestas en el Museo Thyssen y la Casa de las Alhajas de Madrid.

Hasta el 9 de enero de 2011 se podrá visitar en el Museo Thyssen de Madrid la exposición ‘Todo o Nada’ del fotógrafo de moda de origen peruano Mario Testino. La muestra reúne 54 fotografías, una selección de los trabajos de los últimos quince años,

Juan Antonio Ramírez   «La cuestión sobre los orígenes de la pintura no está clara», escribió Plinio el Viejo en el siglo i de nuestra era. Pero añadió lo siguiente: «todos reconocen que consistía en circunscribir con líneas el contorno de la sombra de un hombre». La escul

Adela García-Herrera   Desventrada por las tuneladoras y convertida en una interminable barricada de vallas de obra, Madrid es una pesadilla con promesa de final feliz en forma de grandes dosis de urbanidad bucólica. Y como dice la canción, vendrá un tiempo en el cual pasa