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New Books
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AV Monographs
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analyzes in each issue a theme related to a city, a country, a tendency or an
architect, with articles by leading specialists complemented by commentary on works
and projects illustrated in detail. Published bilingually, with Spanish and English
texts placed side by side.
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Arquitectura Viva
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covers current topics, taking stock of recent trends in set sections: cover story,
works and projects, art and culture, books, technique and innovation. From 2013
on, monthly and bilingual, with Spanish and English texts printed side by side.
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AV Proyectos
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is the third member of the AV family: a bilingual publication essentially focussed
on design projects (with special attention on competitions and construction details),
heretofore only laterally dealt with in the other two magazines.
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Other publications
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Juan Navarro Baldeweg
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The Fundación ICO publishes, in bilingual Spanish-English edition, the catalogue of the exhibition ‘One Zodiac. Juan Navarro Baldeweg,’ which covers the professional career of the Spanish architect, establishing connections between his works as if they formed a zodiac, a ring of constellations.
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The Architect is Present
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Published by the Fundación ICO in a bilingual edition, Spanish and English, the book ‘The Architect is Present’ shows the work of five studios that work in underprivileged contexts, proving that scarcity of means can stimulate technical inventiveness and comunity participation.
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Spain mon amour
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Published by the Fundación ICO in a bilingual edition, Spanish and English, the book ‘Spain mon amour’ reviews recent Spanish architecture through fifteen works in fifteen different cities, completed by five studios and represented by five prominent photographers.
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Necessary Architecture
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Following the editions of 2010 and 2012, ‘More for Less’ and ‘The Common,’ the third international congress organized by the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad came with the heading of ‘Necessary Architecture’, centering upon values of austerity but also on cultural aspects of architecture.
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The Common
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Organized by the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad, the congress (Pamplona, June 2012) appealed to civic solidarity as an instrument of architecture in facing the urgent economic and environmental challenges of today.
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More for Less
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Organized by the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad, the congress (Pamplona, June 2010) aimed to take stock of the change of mood in architecture. Published in a bilingual edition, Spanish and English, the book presents the interviews with the participants.
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Atlas: Europe
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Devoted to the most recent architecture of the European continent, it is the fourth volume in a series which develops and updates the work published in 2007 by the BBVA Foundation, Atlas. Global Architecture circa 2000. The current publication, of 320 pages, is also edited in Spanish.
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Atlas: Africa and M. East
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Devoted to the most recent architecture of Africa and the Middle East, is the third volume in a series of four which develop and update the work published in 2007 by the BBVA Foundation, Atlas. Global Architecture circa 2000. The current publication, of 320 pages, is also edited in Spanish.
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Atlas: America
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Devoted to the latest architecture of America, it is the second volume in a series of four which develop and update the work published by the BBVA Foundation in 2007, Atlas. Global Architecture circa 2000. The current publication, of 320 pages, is also edited in Spanish.
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Atlas: Asia and Pacífic
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This Atlas, devoted to the latest architecture of Asia and the Pacific, is the first volume in a series of four which develop and update the work published by the BBVA Foundation in 2007, Atlas. Global Architecture circa 2000. The current publication, of 320 pages, is also edited in Spanish.
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Atlas. Circa 2000
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The BBVA Foundation presents Atlas. Arquitectura global circa 2000, a volume of 312 pages published also in Spanish. Centered on the period opened by the Fall of the Berlin Wall, this work intends to be a critical assessment of world architecture in our global times.
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Spain Builds, 1975-2010
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Second edition of the work published in 2006 coinciding with the exhibition on architecture in Spain held at the MoMA. Now, to mark Spain's presence at Expo Shanghai, the oeuvre is extended, adding Chinese to the original languages.
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The Argentina-based team M2R – Carlos Nahuel Recabarren, Manuel Alberto Martínez Catalán, and Franco Morero – was announced the winner of an international competition organized by UNESCO and the Afghan Ministry of Information and Culture...
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26/02/2015
Out of 420 nominated works, the European Commission and the Mies van der Rohe Foundation named the five selected to vie for this year’s Mies van der Rohe Award for Contemporary Architecture: the LSE Saw Swee Hock student center in London, by O’Donnell + Tuomey...
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25/02/2015
Located in the Memu Meadows Center for Research on Environmental Technologies, in the small town of Taiki, in Hokkaido, Nest We Grow is the ‘productive garden’ through which the University of California at Berkeley pays tribute...
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25/02/2015
In Hangzhou, in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang, the new Apple store designed by the office of Norman Foster recently opened its doors to the public. Inspired in the combination of formal simplicity and technical innovation that characterizes...
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24/02/2015
The City of Paris has approved the MVRDV’s plan for the restructuring of the Vandamme Nord complex, built by Pierre Dufau in the early 1970s, in the Montparnasse neighborhood. Designed in 2008 by the Dutch practice, the transformation...
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24/02/2015
The London Borough of Wandsworth is inviting multi-disciplinary design teams from across the world to take part in a lively and interactive competition, to produce a concept design for a new cycle and pedestrian bridge across the River Thames in London...
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24/02/2015
Around 40 teams from eleven countries were invited to design an auditorium for 1,500 spectators next to the Cerro Juli convention center – the most important one in Peru. The proposals had to keep in mind aspects like the representative character of the building...
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23/02/2015
A work of the American Frank Barkow and the German Regine Leibinger, the Fellow Pavilion is a light structure of steel and glass delimited by an angular roof – presenting four hyperbolic paraboloids – and a horizontal plane raised a few centimeters...
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20/02/2015
Hong Kong’s cultural district of West Kowloon has seen the start of construction work for M+, a museum of visual culture designed by Herzog & de Meuron in collaboration with the firm Farrells. It is slated to open in 2018. The project is explained in this video.
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18/02/2015
The Paris office of Frédéric Chartier and Pascale Dalix has been commissioned to build new facilities for a primary school and a public gymnasium in Boulogne-Billancourt, a municipality situated 8 kilometers from the French capital. The project...
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17/02/2015
A joint work of the Porto office Menos é Mais – Cristina Guedes & Francisco Vieira de Campos – and the Coimbra firm João Mendes Ribeiro Arquitecto, the Archipiélago – Contemporary Art Center engages in dialogue with the volcanic landscape...
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16/02/2015
With its monumental rhetoric and brutalist nuance, Renato Rizzi’s Shakespearean Theater breaks into the urban environment of Gdansk as a new icon, thanks to a roof that opens like two wings soaring 24 meters. The building establishes a rapport...
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16/02/2015
On a narrow irregular site on the edge of a university zone, between a football field and a motorway, the JCIT connects with the heart of the campus through fluid geometry. Even in the initial stages of the design process, the project was approached in the spirit...
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13/02/2015
Luz, the owner of this one-family house in Cilleros, a municipality of the western Spanish province of Cáceres, wanted to turn a ruin of a building into a luminous home with fresh air and a kitchen garden to enjoy. This determined the integral renovation...
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12/02/2015
In London’s financial district, close to Norman Foster’s so-called Gherkin at 30 St Mary Axe and Richard Rogers’s Leadenhall (popularly known as the ‘cheese grater’), the building at 60-70 St Mary Axe – nicknamed ‘Can of Ham’ because of its arched shape...
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12/02/2015
Héctor Fernández Elorza and Carlos García Fernández are the authors of the sailing school in Sotogrande, the exclusive development in the municipality of San Roque, in the southern Spanish province of Cádiz. Located on Catamaran Beach...
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11/02/2015
The Spanish architect Izaskun Chinchilla and the American firm BanG are joint winners in the fifth City of Dreams Pavilion Competition. It is the first time that the jury of FIGMENT – the art festival held yearly on Governors Island – has decided that...
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10/02/2015
Raised on a gravel hill outside Hiroshima, this 80-square-meter dwelling was designed by Suppose Design Office to enable its occupants to watch animals and interact with nature at large. Because the external enclosure is made of acrylic...
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09/02/2015
Intended to take in 45 million passengers a year, Beijing new air terminal – designed by Zaha Hadid Architects in collaboration with ADP Ingeniérie, specialists in airport projects – will go up in Daxing District, following Foster + Partners’ 2008 expansion...
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06/02/2015
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Wired
I’m in Somalia, interviewing an al-Qaeda Shabab commander on a stretch of the malarial Jubba River. It is 2009, famine has swept...
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03/03/2015
The New York Times
This week, Google is expected to propose new headquarters, a series of canopylike buildings from Heatherwick Studio and BIG ...
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26/02/2015
Rebuild by Design, an initiative of the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force and HUD, addressed structural and environmental vulnerabilities that Hurricane Sandy...
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26/02/2015
The Museum of Estonian Architecture opens ‘The Window and the Mirror’, an exhibition devoted to Nieto Sobejano, winners of the Arvo Pärt Centre architecture...
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24/02/2015
The Guardian
The small-scale, DIY nature of Izmir’s modular docks won the project a silver medal in our World Cities Day Challenge...
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24/02/2015
Eduardo Prieto
If all had gone well, saying that architecture involves creating spaces for life would not be a platitude, but things happen differently...
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20/02/2015
The Economist
Thirty kilometres south of central Chennai, just out of earshot of the honking, hand-painted lorries roaring up Old Mahabalipuram...
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19/02/2015
Located in Hangar #1 of the Matadero Center for Contemporary Creation, Factoría Cultural is a space for developing entrepreneurial initiatives in different areas of the arts...
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18/02/2015
A pavilion designed by b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos will showcase Spain in the Universal Exhibition being held in Milan from 1 May to 31October this year, under the theme of ‘Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life.’
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12/02/2015
The Guardian
I used to think Anish Kapoor was just another contemporary artist with nothing to say – but his latest installation shows just how...
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13/02/2015
The winners and honorable mentions in the ‘Temporary Housing for Surfers in Tarifa’ competition, organized by reTHINKing, have been announced.
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12/02/2015
The Guardian
Islamic craftsmen turned geometry into an art form because pictures of people were not allowed in holy places...
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12/02/2015
Luis Fernández-Galiano
Icons expand, going beyond architectural and geographical boundaries. The new generation of emblematic works breaks through...
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06/02/2015
Los Angeles Times
Andrew Norman is rhapsodizing over Frank Gehry's house in Santa Monica, where a few months ago Norman was given what...
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06/02/2015
The Economist
A lot of tosh is talked about “nanotechnology”, much of it designed to separate unwary investors from their hard-earned cash...
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05/02/2015
The New York Times
The billionaire art collectors Eli and Edythe Broad have announced that their new art museum, designed by Diller Scofidio & Renfro...
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05/02/2015
The Atlantic
It's cute, like a stubby albino shark. It's floatable, rising to an altitude of 2,000 feet. And to believe the inventors of the "Buoyant Airborne...
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05/02/2015
Luis Fernández-Galiano
In an unusual speech, Chinese President Xi Jinping condemned weird architecture, and many in the West listened in agreement...
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04/02/2015
In a ceremony held at Helsinki City Hall, Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano were handed the Alvar Aalto Medal, an award given by the Alvar Aalto Foundation in conjunction...
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04/02/2015
The Atlantic
Sometimes I feel sorry for optimistic Americans touching down in my country for the first time. Fed on the sepia-toned products...
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04/02/2015
National Geographic
Since 1915, National Geographic cartographers have charted earth, seas, and skies in maps capable of evoking dreams...
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03/02/2015
The Washington Post
The Danish architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group has taken over the second-floor arcade of the National Building Museum...
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02/02/2015
Mackintosh Architecture charts a career marked as much by its difficulties as by its successes. It is the first substantial exhibition to be devoted to his architecture and features...
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30/01/2015
The Economist
Imagine the beginning of a sea voyage, and you probably picture something like the frenetic preparations that Herman Melville...
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30/01/2015
The Sidney Morning Herald
The Art Gallery of New South Wales has narrowed the list of architecture firms vying for its ambitious $450 million Sydney Modern...
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29/01/2015
Los Angeles Times
Normally, I’m wary of lawsuits against critics. I think back to the case of Dan Moldea, who sued the New York Times after his book...
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29/01/2015
‘Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life’ is the theme of the next World’s Fair, set to be held in Milan from 1 May to 31 October 2015.
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28/01/2015
The Wall Street Journal
Art collector and philanthropist Dasha Zhukova is launching an ambitious campaign to connect Moscow to the international art...
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28/01/2015
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