Arquitectura Viva
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Landsat Satellite Images of Climate Change, via Google Earth Engine
13/05/2013

Landsat Satellite Images of Climate Change, via Google Earth Engine

TIME

Watch the world change over the course of nearly three decades of satellite photography in timelapse via Google Earth Engine. The Landsat program, a series of satellites that...

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Beyond the Prado and Thyssen
08/05/2013

Beyond the Prado and Thyssen

El País

The Prado, the Thyssen and the Reina Sofía make up Madrid's very own "museum mile," an internationally renowned part of the capital that draws long lines of both...

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‘Moving. Norman Foster on Art’’ at the Carré d’Art in Nîmes
02/05/2013

‘Moving. Norman Foster on Art’’ at the Carré d’Art in Nîmes

The Carré d’Art in Nîmes, built by Norman Foster, celebrates its 20th anniversary. To mark the occasion, on 3 May 2013 the French museum inaugurates Moving. Norman Foster on Art, the first contemporary...

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Scars of the Spanish crisis, landscapes by Luca Girardini
26/04/2013

Scars of the Spanish crisis, landscapes by Luca Girardini

Luca Girardini (Vicenza, 1980) shows images depicting the consequences incurred on our territories by the bursting of Spain’s real estate bubble.

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Florentijn Hofman’s small Factory in Drachten (Netherlands)
17/04/2013

Florentijn Hofman’s small Factory in Drachten (Netherlands)

Within an industrial zone in the Dutch town of Drachten, the Rotterdam artist Florentijn Hofman has built a factory measuring 5x10x14 meters. Made with three metal modules and a black envelope of corrugated steel, the miniature...

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Rachel Whiteread: a life in art
10/04/2013

Rachel Whiteread: a life in art

The Guardian

It is almost exactly 20 years since Rachel Whiteread received official approval from a fractious coalition of councillors and residents in east London to create what...

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‘We are Light’: grids of color by Boa Mistura in Panamá
05/04/2013

‘We are Light’: grids of color by Boa Mistura in Panamá

Part of a project of the Bienal del Sur in Panamá, ‘We are Light’ is the message that the group Boa Mistura conveys as a reminder of the incalculable worth of every person.

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Ceràmica Cumella, ‘Shaping Ideas’ in Madrid
04/04/2013

Ceràmica Cumella, ‘Shaping Ideas’ in Madrid

Focusing on the four main fabrication processes in use at Ceràmica Cumella —extruding, casting, pressing and revolving— the exhibition ‘Shaping Ideas’ presents, from the 4th of April in Fundación...

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A Building Boom as Chinese Art Rises in Stature
03/04/2013

A Building Boom as Chinese Art Rises in Stature

The New York Times

After years of fevered activity, museum building and expansion in the United States have slowed to a crawl under a low-lying economic cloud. In Europe, where...

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‘How small? How vast? How architecture grows’: Ishigami in Antwerp
29/03/2013

‘How small? How vast? How architecture grows’: Ishigami in Antwerp

The exhibition 'How small? How vast? How architecture grows', on view at the Singel Arts Campus in Amberes until 16the June, presents the 'new reality' of Junya Ishigami's architecture.

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Madrid: ‘swiss architecture’ at Sala Arquería
25/02/2013

Madrid: ‘swiss architecture’ at Sala Arquería

The Sala Arquería de Nuevos Ministerios in Madrid now hosts ‘SWISS ARCHITECTURE: Landscape and Sustainability in Contemporary Architecture’, an exhibition combining the contents of two shows that are in Spain for the first time...

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Cristina García Rodero at the Academy of Fine Arts
21/02/2013

Cristina García Rodero at the Academy of Fine Arts

Cristina García Rodero has been elected member of  San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts. A winner of the leading photography prizes, including the World Press Photo Award, she has since 2005 been the only Spanish member of the agency Magnum.

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3Doodler: The World's First 3D Printing Pen
20/02/2013

3Doodler: The World's First 3D Printing Pen

kickstarter

Have you ever just wished you could lift your pen off the paper and see your drawing become a real three dimensional object...

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Capturing Modernism’s Chic and Sheen
12/02/2013

Capturing Modernism’s Chic and Sheen

The New York Times

Ezra Stoller, the American architectural photographer, left behind a trove of modernist classics of modernist classics. Picture Eero Saarinen’s TWA Terminal or Philip Johnson’s...

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Iron and Ice, Daniel Lergon at Ivorypress
12/02/2013

Iron and Ice, Daniel Lergon at Ivorypress

Today the Madrid gallery Ivorypress opens Daniel Lergon’s ‘Siderian Tides’, a reference to the period that saw the Great Oxidation and one of the major ice ages that the planet has suffered, 2,500 million years...

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Marina Abramovic's 'The Artist is Present' premieres in Spain
08/02/2013

Marina Abramovic's 'The Artist is Present' premieres in Spain

The documentary 'The Artist is Present', which premieres in Spain today, follows the artist Marina Abramovic in the preparations for her 2010 retrospective exhibition at the MoMA in New York City.

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José Manuel Ballester, Forests of Light at Tabacalera
07/02/2013

José Manuel Ballester, Forests of Light at Tabacalera

From 7th February to 28th April, the Tabacalera de Madrid art center hosts the exhibition ‘Forests of Light’, which showcases José Manuel Ballester’s work of the past eight years through fifty images...

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Barcelona: Aga Khan Historic Cities Program at the AAAB
06/02/2013

Barcelona: Aga Khan Historic Cities Program at the AAAB

Today the Support Agency for Architecture Barcelona (AAAB) opens the Aga Khan Trust for Culture’s traveling exhibition on its Historic Cities Program. On view in the Catalonian capital until 27th February...

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'Desde la Arquitectura': photographs by Montse Zamorano in Madrid
04/02/2013

'Desde la Arquitectura': photographs by Montse Zamorano in Madrid

On view at Madrid's Club 567 up to 17th February is a selection of images through which the photographer and architect Montse Zamorano tries to explain the physical environment and reality around us.

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Deadend Roads: Manuel Álvarez Diestro in Oman
31/01/2013

Deadend Roads: Manuel Álvarez Diestro in Oman

Photographs by Manuel Álvarez Diestro (Santander, 1972) of the network of roads in Oman throw light on the confrontation between new construction and the landscape in the sultanate.

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Ivorypress: ‘Work is Dictatorship’ by Santiago Sierra in Madrid
21/01/2013

Ivorypress: ‘Work is Dictatorship’ by Santiago Sierra in Madrid

For nine days in January, from the 22nd to the 30th, the Madrid gallery Ivorypress will stage a performance by Santiago Sierra that exposes the current labor situation in Spain. Victims of the situation...

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Robert Adams. The art of the Western world
18/01/2013

Robert Adams. The art of the Western world

El País

The rivers, the poplar trees, the paths and highways, the electricity lines, the felled forests, the cemetery, the abandoned school... perhaps the Great American Novel...

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Grand plans: how the simple planning diagram has shaped our cities
28/12/2012

Grand plans: how the simple planning diagram has shaped our cities

The Guardian

A new exhibition charts how these powerful abstract drawings have defined the nature of urban development...

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Juan Carlos Arnuncio in Valladolid’s Museo Patio Herreriano
26/12/2012

Juan Carlos Arnuncio in Valladolid’s Museo Patio Herreriano

On view until 13 January at the Museo Patio Herreriano (Herrera Museum-Court) in Valladolid is ‘Plays’, a retrospective bringing together over thirty works by Juan Carlos Arnuncio, who renovated...

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Hallado el ‘boceto’ de Brunelleschi
17/12/2012

Hallado el ‘boceto’ de Brunelleschi

El País

Es la hermana menor de la cúpula de Santa María del Fiore, la Catedral de Florencia. Estaba escondida a unos 70 centímetros...

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La isla, la 'burbuja' y César Manrique
14/12/2012

La isla, la 'burbuja' y César Manrique

El Mundo

Hubo quien vio venir el cataclismo. César Manrique se percató hace ya 40 años de los desmanes de la "mafia especulativa" de la construcción y del impacto letal...

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De Roma al cielo... por ramas de bambú
13/12/2012

De Roma al cielo... por ramas de bambú

El Pais

¿Y quién no ha deseado alguna vez trepar hasta la copa de un árbol para huir del mundanal ruido? Pues ya no hace falta ser ni un crio ni tampoco Keith Richards...

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Andrés Jaque en el Pabellón Mies van der Rohe de Barcelona
13/12/2012

Andrés Jaque en el Pabellón Mies van der Rohe de Barcelona

Hoy se inaugura en el Pabellón Mies van der Rohe de Barcelona la instalación de Andrés Jaque ‘Phantom. Mies as Rendered Society’, dentro de la iniciativa de la Fundación Mies que invita artistas y arquitectos a utilizar el mítico edificio...

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Este artista sueña con materiales de construcción
11/12/2012

Este artista sueña con materiales de construcción

El Pais

Una instalación enterrada en el Collins Park, en Art Basel Miami, consagra el mundo poético del creador mexicano José Dávila. Muros, columnas, forjados, techos y suelos....

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Madrid: Ma Yansong en el Museo ICO
10/12/2012

Madrid: Ma Yansong en el Museo ICO

Hasta el próximo 3 de marzo se puede visitar, en el Museo ICO de Madrid, la exposición ‘Ma Yansong. Entre la modernidad (global) y la tradición (local)’. Organizada en colaboración con la Casa Asia y comisariada por Menene Gras, la muestra recorre casi una veintena...

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New Books
AV Monografías 159-160 - ESPAÑA 2013 AV Monographs
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.
Arquitectura Viva 151 - LOCAL MATERIAL Arquitectura Viva
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.
AV Proyectos 056 - WINE & TECHNOLOGY AV Proyectos
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.
Other publications
Spain mon amour Spain mon amour
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.
Architecture: the Common Architecture: the Common
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.
More for Less More for Less
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.
Atlas: Europe Atlas: Europe
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.
Atlas: Africa and M. East Atlas: Africa and M. East
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.
Atlas: America Atlas: America
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.
Atlas: Asia and Pacífic Atlas: Asia and Pacífic
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.
Atlas. Circa 2000 Atlas. Circa 2000
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.
Spain Builds, 1975-2010 Spain Builds, 1975-2010
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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