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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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David Chipperfield
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The Fundación ICO presents the bilingual Spanish-English catalogue of the exhibition ‘Essentials. David Chipperfield Architects.’ Featuring thirty works and projects, the book covers thirty years in the career of the British architect.
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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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In the Plaza de la Constitución of Jarandilla de la Vera – a town in Cáceres province, Spain, with a population of 3,000 – is the hermitage of Santo Sepulcro, which has been renovated by Héctor Fernández Elorza and Manuel Fernández Ramírez...
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29/09/2016
The German firm gmp (Architekten Von Gerkan, Marg und Partner) has finished the construction, for the Chinese aviation group AVIC International, of an ensemble of offices and commercial premises in Beijing’s Yizhuang New City neighborhood...
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29/09/2016
In Barcelona’s Sarrià-Sant Gervasi neighborhood, close to Antoni Gaudí’s Torre Bellesguard, is this water storage deposit built at the end of the 19th century. Located beneath a pinewood, the underground premises were accidentally rediscovered in the late...
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28/09/2016
The Madrid Institute of Architects (COAM) has announced the winners of the latest cycle of its yearly awards. In the main COAM Award, first prize went to the Royal Collections Museum in Madrid, a work of Emilio Tuñón and Luis Moreno Mansilla, which was lauded...
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27/09/2016
Known as the ‘city of eternal heat,’ Piura is surrounded by dunes of Peru’s Sechura Desert. Here, on land reforested with carob trees, sits the architecture workshop of Piura’s university campus, a work of Eye / Espacio y estrategia Arquitectura, a practice...
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26/09/2016
The new law courts of Caen, in the northwestern French region of Normandy, are located in the city center. The original design, drawn up by Cristiano Hauvette & Associés, was modified by Baumschlager Eberle Architectes, in collaboration with Hauvette's ex-partner...
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23/09/2016
The winners of the latest International Architecture Awards, given yearly by the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, have been announced. The 132 works awarded...
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22/09/2016
The firm Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos – set up by Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano in Madrid in 1985, and working also from a branch in Berlin since 2007 – is the author of the new facade of this hospital complex in the English city of Bristol...
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21/09/2016
In Chile’s Antofagasta region, between the small towns of San Pedro de Atacama and Ayquina, rises this building designed by Emilio Marín and Juan Carlos López – who work from offices in Providencia and Santiago, respectively – that is part of a wind farm...
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20/09/2016
Three proposals have won ex aequo in the Via dei Fori Imperiale call for ideas – of the 14th edition of the Piranesi Prix de Rome – organized by Pier Federico Caliari, director of the Accademia Adrianea di Architettura e Archeologia de Roma...
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19/09/2016
OMA's New York office has designed a space with monumental concrete columns for a performance by the artist Taryn SImon scheduled for 25 September at the Park Avenue Armory of New York.
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17/09/2016
With its 2,400 steps and a budget of 15 million dollars (13,422,750 euros), the installation designed by the British Thomas Heatherwick is the centerpiece of a public square in Manhattan's Hudson Yards urban development, where several skyscrapers are currently...
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16/09/2016
The Guardian / Oliver Wainwright
The great photographer’s awesome images – taken from drones, propellor planes and a 50ft selfie stick – show how industry has drilled and drained our planet. Rectangles of pale blues and greens lie...
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16/09/2016
‘After Belonging’ addresses and imagines the objects, spaces, and territories of a transforming condition of belonging. Global circulation of people, information, and goods has destabilized what we understand by residence, questioning spatial permanence...
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13/09/2016
The Guardian / Oliver Wainwright
Fascinating installations for 2016 – from interior ‘pornification’ to Nasa’s psychedelic carbon tracker – are undermined by pseudointellectual theory...
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15/09/2016
Located to the north of the memorial to the victims of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in Manhattan, the monolith wrapped in a skin of translucent marble – designed by the firm Brooklyn REX, which is headed by ex-OMA partner Joshua Prince-Ramus – ...
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14/09/2016
The Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has since 2008 been designing a new building for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and he has unveiled new images of the modified project. Construction is to begin in 2018.
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14/09/2016
The versatile facility designed by the Madrid studio of Izaskun Chinchilla offers spaces for work and rest which also serve to foster collaboration and interaction among the users.
(Photos: Imagen Subliminal - Miguel de Guzmán)
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13/09/2016
New York is becoming a greener and more welcoming city. The transformation of the Hudson riverfront, the High Line linear park, the pedestrianization of Broadway and the construction of thousands of kilometers of bicycle lanes are a few of the plans...
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12/09/2016
Jerónimo van Schendel, Aaron Mendonca, Sarah Kantrowitz
Architects deal with thermodynamics-related problems in ways that tend to be intuitive, lacking quantitative correlations between design decisions and energy performance, which poses a barrier to integrating thermal...
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09/09/2016
In woodland outside Itous-shi, in Japan’s Shizuoka prefecture, is the small Jikka center for elderly and disabled members of the local community. Designed by the Tokyo architect Issei Suma, the 100-square-meter facility offers accommodations,,,
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09/09/2016
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As part of the ‘Abierto x Obras’ program the Madrid group Basurama has carried out the artistic project ‘Agostamiento,’ which transforms the refrigerated chamber of the old Legazpi slaughterhouse. The 7,000 sunflowers...
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30/09/2016
Evening Standard
The iPhone and iPad maker will move 1,400 staff from eight sites around the capital into what it calls “a new Apple campus”...
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30/09/2016
The Guardian
London exhibition, planned before architect’s death, will feature drawings that shine a light on how she thought about...
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30/09/2016
Luis Fernández-Galiano
MVRDV’s work takes us to the other side of the looking glass. As is known, much of recent Dutch architecture is effervescently...
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29/09/2016
The Brazilian Paulo Mendes da Rocha has been distinguished with the 2017 Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), shortly after winning – for this year 2016 – the Praemium Imperiale of Japan...
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29/09/2016
The New York Times
For his role in demolishing historic Muslim shrines in Timbuktu (Mali), judges at the International Criminal Court ordered...
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28/09/2016
Rethinking
How do we inhabit a society where changes are swift and simultaneous? A total of 113 proposals were submitted and the proposals...
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27/09/2016
The Economist
Protests reveal NIMBYism mixed with indifference to the past. David Chipperfield won the commission for the Nobel Centre...
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26/09/2016
MoMA
3,500 exhibitions from our founding in 1929 to the present are available online. These pages are updated continually...
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26/09/2016
Al Jazeera
David Adjaye explains his inspiration behind the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC...
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23/09/2016
artnet
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem honored Norman Foster with the Scopus Award at the Campus Biotech in Geneva...
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23/09/2016
The Guardian
Tate director Nick Serota suggests solution for Neo Bankside tenants who don’t want to make an exhibition of themselves...
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23/09/2016
Curbed
After years of legislative battles, criticisms, and design edits, the Eisenhower family will now support Frank Gehry’s of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial...
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23/09/2016
Kunsthal Rotterdam
The exhibition devoted to German photographer Peter Lindbergh will feature more than 220 photographs...
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22/09/2016
Organized by Arquideas, the international competition called Island of Arts Venice, open to students and new graduates of architecture, drew 142 proposals from thirty countries. Venice...
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21/09/2016
Wired
At first glance, the meeting halls of Russia’s and Botswana’s parliaments could not look more different. Russia’s 616-member...
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21/09/2016
CityLab
It took Houston less than 5 years to forget that the city has its own Mines of Moria. A sprawling underground complex of concrete...
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20/09/2016
The Guardian / Oliver Wainwright
“We wanted people to be curious about what this thing could be,” says Francesco Apuzzo of Raumlabor, the Berlin-based architectural...
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20/09/2016
Luis Fernández-Galiano
If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. Deep in a systemic crisis that is far from over, Lenin’s old...
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20/09/2016
The Art Newspaper
The Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Switzerland, has selected Peter Zumthor’s proposal for its extension building in the Iselin-Weber...
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19/09/2016
David Chipperfield Architects will renovate Haus der Kunst, one of the most iconic and controversial architectural landmarks in Munich. The final selection procedure included four...
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19/09/2016
NASA's exploration vehicle Curiosity Mars is currently examining the 'Murray Buttes' region of Mars and sending us detailed images of the planet's geological past.
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16/09/2016
Wired
The architectural prodigy's commissions range from Google's HQ to the new World Trade Centre - all united by his philosophy...
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16/09/2016
Berkeley
Carme Pinós, an award-winning architect and educator, is the 2016 recipient of the Berkeley-Rupp Architecture Professorship and Prize...
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16/09/2016
The Guardian
When the architectural historian Peter Blundell Jones, who has died aged 67 of cancer, was a student, one building that was much...
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16/09/2016
On view through 12 November at Ivorypress Madrid are shows by two British artists: 'Inverted Spires and Descendant Folds,' by Conrad Shawcross (London, 1977), and 'Verso,' by Cornelia Parker (Cheshire, 1956)...
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15/09/2016
Time Out
Architects office HOK has revealed plans to build Spire London, a 234-metre-high skyscraper in east London...
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15/09/2016
The Guardian / Rowan Moore
atrik Schumacher preaches the gospel of ‘parametricism’, a system of architecture designed to cut out human error...
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14/09/2016
After the Golden Lion for an entire professional career at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, the succession of honors in recognition of the trajectory of Paulo Mendes da Rocha continues...
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13/09/2016
Curbed
The Port Authority is hoping that a potential sale of One World Trade Center may generate as much as $5 billion for the agency...
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13/09/2016
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