The ‘San Carlos’ scheme submitted by Frade Arquitectos – Luca Poian Forms has been named overall winner of the preliminary-design competition for the Alicante City Congress Center. Selected from a pool of 121 entries, ‘San Carlos’ takes the defense f
Located at the highest point of an agricultural property given over to the growing of olive and almond trees, near the Monastery of Santes Creus in Tarragona province’s comarca of Alt Camp, a small stone shelter is part of an ensemble of isolated roo
In the Teatinos-Universidad district of the city of Málaga stands the Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therapy, a work of LLPS Arquitectos (Eduardo Pérez Gómez and Miguel Ángel Sánchez). The complex – with a built area of 31,639 square meters – is br
Completed in 1941, the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters was the first school to go up on the University of Zaragoza’s San Francisco campus. Designed by Regino Borobio and José Beltrán, it stretched out longitudinally with a symmetrical layout. Subse
The project transforms the area around Plaza Gomila, in Palma de Mallorca’s El Terreno neighborhood, The first phase has been completed, consisting of sixty dwellings varying in size and typology, plus commercial spaces. The Fluxà family, owners of t
The commission involved adapting an 18th-century mansion in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter for collective housing. The typological strata of the levels were preserved. The ground floor, which used to be stables, now presents commercial premises; the main
This dwelling in Navajeda – a Cantabrian village belonging to the municipality of Entrambasaguas, in the comarca of Trasmieta – is a work of Darío Cobo Calvo (gurea | arquitectura cooperativa). The simple compact volume’s facade is wrapped with panel
In the 1950s, in the Navarrese town of Lododa, a new neighborhood went up consisting of simple one-level dwellings with backyards. Casa O reformulates this typology with a contemporary language. Its facade preserves the existing composition. The ridg
Connected by an open gallery, two volumes are composed in terraced formation to adapt to the plot’s slope, leaving opposite corners free for patios protected by low walls that give access into the complex. The loadbearing walls that structure the uni
The artisanal bricks baked with biomass provide inertia to the inner void – which acts as a collector or a solar chimney, depending on the season – and are bonded to form lattices airing the dwellings. The ten-meter bay results in a flexible floor pl
Several small pieces, articulated between one another, form a unique volume that is camouflaged among the neighboring buildings thanks to its material quality and to its proportionality. The sloping tile roofs help continue this volumetric sequence..
A longitudinal volume with clear and precise geometry opens up to create a covered plaza that functions as welcome space. The natural landscape is framed by a large descending stairway that spans the marked topographical difference...
The large lower surface of the site remains below ground and, therefore, hidden from the street. Towards the city, a horizontal platform is transformed into the main lookout, from which emerge three pieces whose scale adapts to the city, small and co
A slightly sloping footbridge connects the two buildings located at either side of the river. The ramp meets the main volume, constructed in compressed earth, at an opening that emphasizes the project’s aim of creating a new gate to the city...
Declared an Asset of Cultural Interest in 1978, the Chruch of Santa Ana de Carmona is part of a group of 16th-century religious buildings. In 1975, the single-nave temple with a Latin cross plan fell into disuse and its two roofs (Mudejar and Baroque
This 370-square-meter building is thought out as a typical dwelling in the town, seeking to blend with the surroundings through a re-reading of vernacular tradition. Its earthy walls have a lime mortar texture with a Tyrolean finish, and the only per
In the Cuadrat Valley estate of Catalonia’s Les Garrigues region, these facilities for the production of organic oil are located on a hill formed by old terraces that were built to cultivate the land. At the top is a reception pavilion where visitors
This residential complex of the Barcelona Municipal Institute for Housing and Refurbishment (IMHAB) is located in a zone of textile colonies established in the mid-19th century behind the hill of Montjuic. Here fabrics were dyed and dried on the mead
The architectural project for the exhibition ‘The Shore, the Tide, the Current: An Oceanic Caribbean’ is part of the 43rd edition of the annual contemporary art fair held in Madrid known as ARCO. This year it runs from 6 to 10 March, as usual at the
The spatial design project for the 43rd edition of ARCO, Madrid’s major contemporary art fair, is presented as a huge work of ‘domestic urbanism’ – a veritable pop-up city on view for five days in pavilions 7 and 9 at the IFEMA premises. On a formal
The ‘H.E.Co, Híbrido Ecolóxico Cohabitacional’ scheme drawn up by Javier Alejo Hernández Ayllón, Verónica Paradela Pernas, and Javier de Andrés de Vicente has won the ideas competition for a mixed-use building in the Barreiro neighborhood of the city
From tapestry to wall. In essence, this was the Copernican turn Semper took with his principle of cladding, whereby structure gave up its protagonism in architecture in favor of Bekleidung: though humans learned to use durable materials, he held that
Split programA young couple has pooled two separate professions in a single street-level establishment in Madrid’s Chamberí neighborhood, revamping the space to make it both a hair salon and a tattoo studio. Eager to avoid the usual associations with
The winners of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award for 2024 have been announced in Brussels. The Study Pavilion on the campus of the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany), by Gustav Düsing and Max
¿Cuáles son los retos culturales, sociales, técnicos y medioambientales que deben afrontar los arquitectos hoy? ¿Qué rasgos caracterizan el pensamiento y la crítica contemporáneos? ¿Cómo son las herramientas para difundir la arquitectura en el ámbito
The housing problem
When in a famous essay Friedrich Engels denounced the living conditions of workers in Victorian England, the construction of dwellings became one of the principal themes of socialism, and eventually it found its way into the list of fundamental right
Much has been written about architecture competitions, and while there is a certain consensus on their many disadvantages, it is still difficult to resist the opportunities for research they offer. As an architect, I include myself among the professi
It has been forty years since the birth of the magazine AV Monographs, and thirty since the release of its first Yearbook, a publication that has endeavored to gather, year after year, the best architecture built in Spain, taking stock at the same ti
The Norman Foster Institute is now accepting applications for its Programme on Sustainable Cities, taking place in Madrid from January to December 2025. The Programme on Sustainable Cities blends hands-on experience with academic insights from the No
Ten people have perished in a conflagration which in a matter of minutes wrapped the facades of the fourteen-story building in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia. A combination of combustible facade materials, air chambers between the building’s sk
The building, completed in 2009, incorporated a facade system consisting of an insulation material and a cladding applied by means of a substructure attached to the outer side of the wall. An air chamber between those two layers improved acoustic ins
Arquitectura Viva gathers in one volume of 320 pages, with a special price of 60 euros, hardbound and in fully bilingual Spanish-English edition, 50 housing projects built in Spain since the year 2000. Always at the center of the architectural debate
Ever since people began to live in cities, conserving surplus food – whether as grain or as wine – has been one of the fundamental tasks of society, and this is likely to turn wineries – overriding the snobberies that nowadays want to make them sophi
The expansion of its Teatinos Campus has enabled the University of Málaga to equip itself with cutting-edge facilities and greatly improve its offer of academic programs. One of the beneficiaries of this is the Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therap
Thirty years after its creation, the Technology Park of Andalusia – now simply called Málaga TechPark to satisfy the whims of marketing – is a concentration of half a thousand companies, including many of the promising startup firms that have been tu
Ever since they crossed paths as students, Fernando Rodríguez (Albacete, 1977) and Pablo Oriol (Madrid, 1977) have shared an infrastructural way of tackling projects, not so much in relation to mechanical logic as in terms of an organizational capaci
MareNostrum 5, the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) supercomputer located in Spain was officially inaugurated in Barcelona by Pedro Sánchez, the President of the Government of Spain. MareNostrum 5 is a pre-exascale
Spain’s 20th century causes sighs of pain and relief. Fuentes and Rueda’s Diccionario de símbolos explores the tragic and festive images of a history which in its latest stretch incorporates events of the 21st, such as the 11-M terrorist attacks or t
A second set of eight architects met at Arquia’s Madrid base to reflect on the state of the profession and outline its challenges for the future.
Vivimos en un mundo nuevo. La sustancia es la misma, pero el mundo es nuevo. Lo vemos de forma diferente. Nuestra forma de mirar ha cambiado. Sobre todo, ha cambiado el alcance de nuestra mirada. En este nuevo mundo todo está expuesto, todo está ilum
Es probable que en este preciso momento estemos recibiendo un wasap: podría ser un mensaje de texto que requiere respuesta, o el hilo de un chat grupal; también podría ser una imagen sugerente, incluso el croquis de un detalle de obra que urge resolv
Como disciplina y como profesión, la arquitectura está sumida en tres largas y profundas crisis que afectan a la imagen que la sociedad tiene de ella, y, como consecuencia, a los distintos papeles que hoy desempeñamos las arquitectas y a la relevanci
La palabra danesa para ‘diseño’ es ‘formgivning’. Literalmente significa ‘dar forma’: diseño no es sino dar forma a lo que todavía no la tiene. Dar forma al futuro. Porque cuando diseñamos un edificio o un espacio público damos forma a un rincón del
La arquitectura también está confundida. Llevamos demasiado tiempo haciendo trampas, saltándonos los límites y dejándonos llevar por dinámicas inconsistentes que están machacando el planeta. Hemos vivido una divertida e intensa ficción moderna que no
Para los humanos, el presente, el futuro y también la manera de entender nuestros pasados están determinados por las crisis climáticas. En función de estas crisis se posicionan las políticas económicas, energéticas, tecnológicas, territoriales, medio
Juan Francisco Fuentes José Carlos Rueda Laffond
Madrid 2021
Alianza - 816 Pages
Michael Reid
New Haven 2023
Yale University Press - 336 Pages
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Marco Casamonti Archea
Iñaki Alday Margarita Jover Aldayjover arquitectura y paisaje
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Andrés Rubio El caos urbano, el mayor fracaso de la democracia
Espinet / Ubach Arquitectes (ed.) Últimas obras y proyectos 2007-2022
Barry Bergdoll Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos
Nigel Townson 1898 to the Present
AA.VV.
Madrid 2022
Fundación Juan March - 224 Pages
AA.VV. Una historia de la fotografía
Estrella de Diego
Barcelona 2022
Editorial Anagrama - 304 Pages
Javier González de Durana Diálogo
Helen Crisp Jules Stewart
Londres 2022
Reaktion Books - 248 Pages
Antonio Muñoz Molina
Madrid 2022
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Udo Kittelmann (ed.)
Londres 2022
MACK - 40 Pages
José Fernández-Llebrez Muñoz
Madrid 2021
Fundación Arquia - 280 Pages
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Barcelona 2021
Fundación Mies van der Rohe - 202 Pages
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Madrid 2021
Ediciones Asimétricas - 152 Pages
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