Arquitectura Viva
Thursday, May 23, 2013
To Raze or Not? MoMA Rethinks Plan
10/05/2013

To Raze or Not? MoMA Rethinks Plan

The New York Times

After impassioned protests from prominent architects, preservationists and design critics, the Museum of Modern Art said on Thursday that it would reconsider..

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Los Angeles: Peter Zumthor to redesign LACMA
06/05/2013

Los Angeles: Peter Zumthor to redesign LACMA

Los Angeles Times

LACMA draws up ambitious plans for a $650-million new look. Director Michael Govan turns to Swiss architect Peter Zumthor for a dramatic new building that would involve...

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Iñaki Ábalos, Chair of the Department of Architecture in Harvard
26/04/2013

Iñaki Ábalos, Chair of the Department of Architecture in Harvard

Harvard University

The Harvard University Graduate School of Design has announced the appointment of Iñaki Ábalos as Chair of the Department of Architecture as of July 1, 2013...

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Wang Shu among the 100 Most Influential People of 2013
25/04/2013

Wang Shu among the 100 Most Influential People of 2013

TIME

Wang Shu is the only architect on this year’s Time Magazine list of the world’s 100 most influential people.

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Architects Announce Opposition to MoMA Plan for Former Museum Site
23/04/2013

Architects Announce Opposition to MoMA Plan for Former Museum Site

Robin Pogrebin / The New York Times

Richard Meier, Thom Mayne, Steven Holl, Hugh Hardy and Robert A.M. Stern are among the prominent architects who on Monday called for the...

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Partner Without the Prize
19/04/2013

Partner Without the Prize

The New York Times

Twenty-two years after being passed by, the architect Denise Scott Brown, 81, said at an awards ceremony for women in architecture last month that it was time she...

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Signatures to save New York's American Folk Art Museum
18/04/2013

Signatures to save New York's American Folk Art Museum

A signature-collecting campaign is underway to urge the MoMA to reconsider its decision to tear down the American Folk Art Museum beside it, a work of Williams & Tsien.

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New fears for Spain’s shoreline
18/04/2013

New fears for Spain’s shoreline

El País

Amendments planned by the Popular Party government for legislation protecting coastal areas could pave the way for further construction, say environmentalists...

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12-Year-Old Building at MoMA Is Doomed
15/04/2013

12-Year-Old Building at MoMA Is Doomed

The New York Times

When a new home for the American Folk Art Museum opened on West 53d Street in Manhattan in 2001 it was hailed as a harbinger of hope for the city after the Sept. 11...

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Rafael Moneo: Lost in Translation
15/04/2013

Rafael Moneo: Lost in Translation

The New York Times

There’s something to be said for developing a signature style. In most areas of design it can be a great career move, but particularly in the field of architecture. Clients...

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Inside Apple's Plans for Its Futuristic, $5 Billion Headquarters
06/04/2013

Inside Apple's Plans for Its Futuristic, $5 Billion Headquarters

Bloomberg Bussinesweek

At what turned out to be his last public appearance, Steve Jobs stood before the Cupertino City Council on June 7, 2011, to present plans for a new corporate campus...

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Compostela’s City of Culture to be left unfinished
02/04/2013

Compostela’s City of Culture to be left unfinished

El País

After twelve years and at a cost of 287 million euros, the regional government of Galicia has decided to end work on its controversial City of Culture, settling for four of the originally...

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Bob Hope's Iconic John Lautner-Designed Volcano Home for Sale
11/03/2013

Bob Hope's Iconic John Lautner-Designed Volcano Home for Sale

AOL Real Estate

Bob Hope owned a collection of homes in Palm Springs, Calif., and the Los Angeles area, and two have already hit the market -- both snagging buyers within a month of listing...

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Louvre Abu Dhabi: Constructora SANJOSE in the Gulf
07/03/2013

Louvre Abu Dhabi: Constructora SANJOSE in the Gulf

Abu Dhabi’s Tourism Developmentand Investment Company (TDIC) has entrusted the construction of the new Louvre Museum in the emirate to a team formed by the Spanish contractor Constructora SANJOSE and the local companies Arabtect and Oger Abu Dhabi...

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Emilio Ambasz and Madrid City Hall to build a museum beside the Caixaforum
05/03/2013

Emilio Ambasz and Madrid City Hall to build a museum beside the Caixaforum

Emilio Ambasz will be signing an agreement with Madrid City Hall to create a Museum of Art, Architecture, Design and Urbanism (MAADU). The project comes from an...

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Rafael Moneo in the American Academy of Arts and Letters
26/02/2013

Rafael Moneo in the American Academy of Arts and Letters

The Spanish architect Rafael Moneo has been elected Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among the most prestigious artistic institutions in the United States, whose purpose is to foster and sustain...

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Redeveloping London What’s the plan?
18/02/2013

Redeveloping London What’s the plan?

The Economist

NINE ELMS is a triangular wasteland bounded by the Thames, a railway line and London’s nastiest traffic interchange, encompassing a disused power station...

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Norman Foster: how to build on the Moon with 3D printers
13/02/2013

Norman Foster: how to build on the Moon with 3D printers

Norman Foster’s office is working with the European Space Agency (ESA) to assess the feasibility of a project to build a station on the moon’s south pole by means of 3D printing. On the basis of tests carried out on Earth...

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The documentary ‘Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry’ premieres in Spain
13/02/2013

The documentary ‘Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry’ premieres in Spain

On view now in Spain is the documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, in which the director Alison Klayman captures the Chinese artist and dissident’s particular vision of China, a view where the lines between art and politics are blurred...

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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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The view from the top of the Shard: London panorama of sights...
04/02/2013

The view from the top of the Shard: London panorama of sights...

The Guardian

To mark the opening of the Shard, we've produced a 360-degree, augmented-reality panorama of London's newest view, from the building's public observation...

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Internet Geographies: Shadows and Digital Divisions of Labour
17/01/2013

Internet Geographies: Shadows and Digital Divisions of Labour

University of Oxford

Information is the raw material for much of the work that goes on in the contemporary global economy, and there are few people and places that remain entirely disconnected from...

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Philharmonie de Paris: a design turned £300m 'bottomless pit'
15/01/2013

Philharmonie de Paris: a design turned £300m 'bottomless pit'

The Guardian

Just as François Hollande's cash-strapped government pulls the plug on a score of expensive French state arts projects launched by his rightwing predecessor...

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Rem Koolhaas to curate the next Venice Biennale
09/01/2013

Rem Koolhaas to curate the next Venice Biennale

Rem Koolhaas will curate the exhibition in the next Venice Architecture Biennale, in 2014. The appointment of the Dutch architect, a rumor since summer, has now been confirmed by the event’s board of...

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Artificial cooling makes hot places bearable at a high cost
04/01/2013

Artificial cooling makes hot places bearable at a high cost

The Economist

Summer humidity in the Gulf often nears 90%. Winds are scant. Even in the shade the heat hovers far above the body’s natural...

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Cuadra San Cristóbal, a Barragán abode
24/12/2012

Cuadra San Cristóbal, a Barragán abode

departures

Luis Barragán is counted as one of the great names in Mexican and world architecture. Self-taught (he had trained as an engineer) and influenced to some degree by European...

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Wang Shu challenging China's obsession with scale
18/12/2012

Wang Shu challenging China's obsession with scale

The Guardian

In architecture, or at least construction, China currently has a mesmerising effect. It is the land where developments seem so large...

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La marcha china hacia las urbes
14/12/2012

La marcha china hacia las urbes Pdf

El Mundo

El gigante asiático construirá y ampliará decenas de megaurbes para acoger a más de 400 millones de campesinos en una transformación sin precedentes...

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News adventures
11/12/2012

News adventures

The Economist

IN A recent issue of the beloved comic book, Superman’s alter ego, Clark Kent, quits his job as a journalist at the Daily Planet because the paper has gutted its news coverage...

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Santiago Calatrava traslada su fortuna a Suiza
11/12/2012

Santiago Calatrava traslada su fortuna a Suiza

El Pais

Domicilia en Zúrich su sociedad de inversión con 31 millones de fondos que tenía en Madrid .La sociedad familiar Calatrava Family Investments es desde el pasado...

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AV Monografías 159-160 - ESPAÑA 2013 AV Monographs
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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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