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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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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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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 three towers that make up the De Rotterdam complex are part of the plan to redevelop and revitalize the old Wilhelmina Dock, on the southern shore of Mosa River, and are named after one of the boats from the Holland America Line that...
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07/03/2014
BIG, Kengo Kuma, NL Architects, and SO-IL are the four firms vying for the commission to build the ArtA cultural center in Arnhem, capital of the Dutch province of Gelderland. Out of over forty competition entries, the jury selected five finalists...
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06/03/2014
Nuevo Polanco is an old industrial area in Mexico City, where several refurbishment and conversion projects are currently in progress. Aside from the Jumex Museum, there are other noteworthy buildings in the area such as the Cervantes Theater...
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05/03/2014
The office of Lorenzo Grifantini and Tavis Wright – DOS Architects – is the winner of an invitational competition organized by the company GWA (Grow Wealth Assets) for a mixed-use tower in Beijing’s Lize Financial District. It is the London studio’s first...
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05/03/2014
Designed by Miguel de Guzmán and the studio Veidimanna Protum, the single-family house is located in El Espinar, a small town in the mountains north of Madrid. The plot has a privileged location, on the boundary of the town next to...
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04/03/2014
The Guardian
An emerald hulk has emerged next door to Rennie Mackintosh's famous art school. On an exclusive tour of his new Reid building, architect Steven Holl tells Oliver Wainwright how he refused to be...
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03/03/2014
In the Tech valley, in France’s Eastern Pyrenees region, the site of the thermal center of the municipality of Amélie-les-Bains is a privileged nature spot nestled in the mountains. First-Prize winner of an international competition organized by...
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03/03/2014
A work of the American firm SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill), the recently inaugurated Terminal 2 of Chhatrapati Shivaji Airport in Mumbai presents a sculptural concrete canopy with motifs inspired in the tradition of Indian pavilions and courtyards...
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28/02/2014
The design of the two high-rise towers for the Donau-City in Vienna represents the last phase of a development extending over several decades: the UNO-City (1973-1979) was built on the site of what used to a garbage dump, and the area was later the...
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27/02/2014
With its population of 4,500,000 and its strategic location, straddling Europe and Asia, Georgia is the black sheep of the Caucasus, at least in the eyes of Russia, which disapproves of the Georgian aspiration to become part of NATO and the European Union...
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26/02/2014
The Madrid Institute of Architects (COAM) has announced the winner of ‘Piensa Sol’ (‘Think Sol’), the international competition for ideas on redeveloping the Spanish capital’s emblematic Puerta del Sol and its surroundings. Out of 146 entries submitted...
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26/02/2014
Norman Foster has unveiled his design for a new Maggie’s Centre —a chain of providers of advice and support to people afflicted with cancer, an ailment the British architect was diagnosed with over a decade ago— in his hometown, Manchester...
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25/02/2014
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There is a German term for an architect builder, ‘Baumeister’, which is what Werner Tscholl is. Born in 1955 in Alto Adige, at Italy’s borders with Austria and Switzerland...
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07/03/2014
The Economist
Autonomous cargo vessels could set sail without a crew under the watchful eye of captains in shore-based simulators...
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07/03/2014
Luis Fernández-Galiano was inducted as an International Fellow by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
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06/03/2014
The Independent
NASA’s new experimental robot design is based on the structural principle that Buckminster Fuller called tensegrity…
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06/03/2014
Maite Báguena
Intense research and over a hundred hours of talks with Paulo Mendes da Rocha form the material of this rewriting of the São Paulo...
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05/03/2014
The Guardian
Zaha Hadid, the architect of Qatar's most distinguishable stadium for the 2022 World Cup, on Tuesday defended her involvement...
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04/03/2014
Eduardo Prieto
David Chipperfield lives in the present without ceasing to look at the past. The literary critic Harold Bloom, referring to writers’ clash...
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03/03/2014
The Madrid School of Architecture professors Luis Fernández-Galiano and Alberto Campo Baeza, along with the publishers Fernando Márquez and Richard Levene...
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27/02/2014
Fernando G. Valderrama
Building Information Modeling, or BIM, replaces the process of documenting projects through plans with an integrated model...
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27/02/2014
José M. Ezquiaga
The value of the book lies mainly in how it considers the dwelling an essential component of the city, and in how it proposes...
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26/02/2014
The New York Times
An inflatable space pod to be attached to the International Space Station in a couple of years will be like no other piece of the station...
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25/02/2014
Alberto Corazón
Images sometimes hide ideas; other times they make them more explicit. Thus we can speak of ‘graphic thought’. To make them...
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24/02/2014
Daniel Dávila
Does architectural theory need a neurobiological base? If so, what are the consequences? Harry Francis Mallgrave of the Illinois...
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21/02/2014
The Economist
Italian futurism was launched in 1909 with a manifesto that declared, “We intend to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy...
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21/02/2014
The Guardian
The magazine is dead, long live the magazine. It's not so much a resurrection of the magazine in the digital age as an explosion. A visit...
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21/02/2014
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