Jaguar Park in Tulum
25/07/2025

Jaguar Park in Tulum

Colectivo C733    Mexico   With the fast-paced growth of the city of Tulum, a well-known tourist destination on the Caribbean, and the threat this poses to the landscape, Jaguar Park emerges as an inter-institutional initiative whose main objective is to protect the ecosystems, establishing a symbolic and functional limit that allows learning and also the free transit of fauna...

On Fragility and Permanence
24/07/2025

On Fragility and Permanence

Luis Fernández-Galiano   There is no better architecture exhibition this summer than that of Veronese at the Prado. The great painter created the myth of rich and opulent Venice with his crowded compositions of exquisitely dressed characters participating in lavish dinners...

Offer AV Proyectos. Latest 6 issues for 50%
19/05/2025

Offer AV Proyectos. Latest 6 issues for 50%

In celebration of its twentieth anniversary, in 2024 we presented the magazine with an updated graphic design. Enjoy the changes made in AV Proyectos by taking up this offer of six issues (121-126) of its new phase for 50% of the usual subscription price...

AV Monografías 268-269: Herzog & de Meuron

AV Monografías 268-269: Herzog & de Meuron

Time has passed since 1980, when Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron built the small house painted in Klein blue, and also since 1999, year of their first AV issue. With almost fifty years of experience, the studio founded in their home town of Basel...

Souto de Moura. 1980-2025

Souto de Moura. 1980-2025

Eduardo Souto de Moura wraps up the triad that placed Porto in the circuits of global architecture by virtue of honoring vernacular tradition in combination with geometric rigor, constructive precision, and material solidity...

Highlights

17/07/2025

José Manuel López-Peláez (1945-2025)

José Manuel López Peláez has died at 80 years of age. Chair of Design at the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM), he was awarded Spain’s National Architecture Prize in 1971...

15/07/2025

Eduardo Souto de Moura, Praemium Imperiale

The Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura has been named a new recipient of the Praemium Imperiale, a prestigious annual accolade given by the Japan Art Association in five artistic disciplines, Architecture included. It comes with 92,000 euros – per category...

14/07/2025

Spanish Pavilion at Expo Osaka 2025

Photographs by William Mulvihill offer a walk through the Spanish Pavilion at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka, open until 13 October on the artificial island of Yumeshima. A ring-shaped avenue paved in wood, designed by Sou Fujimoto, surrounds the premises...

09/07/2025

First Pan African Architecture Biennale Nairobi

In September 2026, the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) in Nairobi will be the scene of the first Pan-African Architecture Biennale, an unprecedented event which aims to put Africa at the epicenter of global architectural discourse...

04/07/2025

Norman Foster at 90

Granting that it is a statistical mirage, one possible characteristic of great architects is longevity, judging from the venerable age that many of them have reached, from Michelangelo and Wren to Wright or Niemeyer...

Christ & Gantenbein

Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein set up their own office in Basel in 1998, right upon completing their studies at ETH Zürich, and barely a year later they had already carried the day in one of the most important competitions in the country. However, this quick start has not prevented them from building a reflective and rigorous practice, based on the study of past types and on the understanding of contexts, be they historical or physical. In the past twenty-five years they have developed more than two hundred projects, a noteworthy achievement that AV’s new monograph synthesizes in a chronological tour of their key works...

OFFICE

Kersten Geers and David Van Severen draw buildings with bold shapes and precise spatial sequences, in an eagerness for the same conceptual clarity they demonstrate in their writings and lectures. In this ambiguous position between practice and theory, their free-spirited handling of history, types, and programs comes naturally, but never at the cost of the pragmatism that comes with the profession, as shown in the six recent works – three public and three private – featured in Arquitectura Viva. For its part, the new issue’s dossier presents the current architecture scene of Morocco, a land hovering between its rich building tradition and the innovation...

Escalas de color

AV Proyectos 129 explores the architectural potential of color at different scales, and three exhibitions in Madrid – reviewed by Luis Fernández-Galiano – serve as the introductory frame for a series of projects that are examples of this versatility: the detailed domestic intervention of Beatriz Ramo and Bernd Upmeyer, the unique housing by Wiki World, TEST and selgascano, and the large-scale works by Padilla Nicás and BIG. Along this line, the architect and interior designer Javier Jiménez Iniesta, of Studio Animal, talks with Arquitectura Viva about his defense of chromatism as a project tool and not just an aesthetic whim...

In Construction 2

Arquitectura Viva presents —in Spanish-English and digital format only— the second compilation of buildings published in the ‘In Detail’ section of AV Proyectos. The volume, of over 200 pages, features twelve works covered with comprehensive sets of technical plans, details, and photographs documenting the different stages in the construction process of some of the most prominent buildings completed in recent years around the world. The new selection includes cultural infrastructures like the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg by Herzog & de Meuron or the Contemporary Creation Center of Córdoba by Nieto Sobejano...

Other publications

01/07/2025

The Private Life of Masters

Iñaki Ábalos   Centered on the ups and downs of three great architects (Wright, Loos, Le Corbusier), Fernando Carrascal’s thesis-turned-book could at first prompt a certain aversion. But soon you enter a familiar world...

Future

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has achieved something extraordinary

The Economist    The launch was remarkable: a booster rocket with twice the power of the Apollo programme’s Saturn V lancing into the early-morning sky on a tight, bright column of blue-tinged flame. But that wonder has been seen four times before...

SO House in Madrid

SO House in Madrid

DIIR   Spain   The 500-square-meter SO House arose from a clear idea of interconnected spaces engaging with one another while remaining independent. The result is a single-family house that presents itself as flexible...

La Nave in Barcelona

La Nave in Barcelona

Atienza Maure   Spain   Not far from the chimney chutes that embody the industrial memory of Sant Adrià de Besós, the offices of a technology firm – and also the residence of its founder – have settled in what was once a printing company...

Letter from London

Kenneth Frampton   Dear Luis Fernández-Galiano, By way of wishing you a happy New Year, I simply wanted to express how much I appreciate your faithful contribution to architectural culture...

On the Valencia fire

Ricardo Aroca   Ten people have perished in a conflagration which in a matter of minutes wrapped the facades of the fourteen-story building in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia...

Pérgola series of Grupo Ayuso

Grupo Ayuso presents its Pérgola series for terraces and gardens. With mixed aluminum and canvas coverings, it is designed to provide spaces where one can enjoy the open air while being sheltered against adverse weather...

New black PVD finish by Comenza

The Galician company Comenza, which specializes in developing industrialized railing and handrail systems, presents the PVD Black Finish for its GlassFit CC-800 and GlassFit CC-775 glass railings, offering it as an...

26/06/2025

Léon Krier, 1946-2025

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The Luxembourg-born architect, writer, and draftsman Léon Krier, one of the key drivers of the postmodern movement, passed away on 17 June in Palma de Mallorca, where he had been living since 2013 with his partner Irene P. Stillman...

24/04/2025

Kristin Feireiss (1942-2025)

The German architecture curator, writer, and editor Kristin Feireiss has passed away at 82 years of age. She studied art history and philosophy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. In 1980, she and Helga Retzer...

29/03/2025

David M. Childs (1941-2025)

David M. Childs has died at the age of 83. A partner at SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill) since 1971, the American architect designed One World Trade Center, the 541.3-meter (1,776-foot) tower that rose on the spot where the twin towers destroyed by 9/11 had stood...

07/03/2025

Ricardo Scofidio (1935-2025)

Ricardo Scofidio has died at 89 years of age in Manhattan. In 1981 he and his wife, Elizabeth Diller, opened Diller Scofidio, which Charles Renfro joined as a partner in 2004. Works that the firm DS-R has built in New York City include the High Line...