New Fondation Cartier in Paris
16/10/2025

New Fondation Cartier in Paris

Jean Nouvel   France   On 25 October, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain begins a new chapter with the public opening of its new location at 2 Place du Palais-Royal, in the heart of Paris, across the Musée du Louvre.Nouvel has created a dynamic architecture structured around five monumental mobile platforms...

Last Day. Special Offer - Architecture Week
16/10/2025

Last Day. Special Offer - Architecture Week

Until 17 October, enjoy a discount over the cover price of magazines (50%) and books (20%). You can place your order and view the complete list of available publications by clicking on this link...

30% off + digital flat rate as gift
16/09/2025

30% off + digital flat rate as gift

Use our promotional offer for students and teachers to subscribe to the printed edition of AV Monographs, Architecture Viva, and/or AV Proyectos with a 30% discount. As a gift, you will have access to the digital flat rate for a year...

Highlights

07/10/2025

Siza in Panticosa: Visual narrative of abandonment

The architect and photographer Iñaki Bergera (Vitoria, 1972) has for over a decade been documenting the ruins of the Panticosa spa facilities, in the heart of the Pyrenees of Huesca. Initiated in 2011, his Standstill Architecture photographic series...

03/10/2025

Henri Ciriani (1936-2025)

The architect Henri Ciriani has passed away at the age of 88. Born in Peru, he built his professional career in Paris, where he settled in the 1960s. In 1968, he and Michel Corajoud set up the Atelier d’urbanisme et d’architecture (AUA)...

01/10/2025

A Medieval church tower has been suspended

A 700-year-old church tower has been suspended 45 feet above ground as part of a major City of London building project by Eric Parry Architects. The Grade I listed tower of All Hallows Staining Church was balanced on stilts...

29/09/2025

Terry Farrell (1938-2025)

The British architect Terry Farrell has died at 87 years of age. He is the author of some of London’s most iconic postmodern buildings, including the MI6 and TV-am headquarters and Charing Cross Station...

18/09/2025

Madrid, Ext.

Directed by Juan Cavestany with soundtrack by Guille Galván (composer and guitar player of Vetusta Morla), Madrid, Ext. is a ‘symphonic’ film on the city and its contradictions; a close-up of the Spanish capital where its architecture, people, and stories intertwine...

Houses of the Year 2025

The house is a fertile ground for architectural experimentation: a space for innovation where technical solutions, aesthetic alternatives, and new ways of dwelling are tried out. AV Monographs 276 gathers sixteen projects built in diverse geographical and cultural contexts, organized around for key materials – wood, earth, concrete, and metal – which, when combined, expand the expressive and constructive possibilities of each one of them.From the vernacular to the experimental, from the Alpine cabin to the urban dwelling, these houses show how material becomes an expressive tool, capable of linking up with the context...

BAAS

No architecture is more sustainable than that which withstands the passage of time well, and this is why Jordi Badia seeks to make a timeless gravitas take hold of his works, where everything is molded for the user yet nothing is superfluous. Arquitectura Viva presents five of his studio’s latest works, all of which try to fit into their locations, continuing that regularity whereby public space becomes comfortable and the city the most enduring scene of life. For its part, this issue’s dossier puts the spotlight on small pavilions built for temporary festivals, imaginative but above all thought out for quick execution and easy dismantling...

Circular economy

AV Proyectos 130 focuses on circular economy, a current topic addressed with works by Herzog & de Meuron, BeAr, and Harquitectes, among other offices, and with an essay by architect Mireia Luzárraga, from the studio TAKK. This theme of discussion also takes us to Venice for a conversation with Manuel Bouzas and Roi Salgueiro, curators of the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. The issue also covers the construction of new headquarters of Radio Télévision Suisse in Lausanne, by OFFICE Kersten Geers and David Van Several. The usual culture sections begin with the account of a summer trip to China...

Souto de Moura

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. Such a sublayer has enabled him to handle types, scales, and strategies with agility, while still stamping an unmistakable mark on his projects. Celebrating his forty-five years of work, Arquitectura Viva presents that same number of projects of his in a 344-page book, hardbound and bilingual (Spanish and English), testimony of a brilliant practice that has been both intensely local and resolutely open to the world...

Other publications

02/10/2025

On Museum Architecture

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Museums are not dead, they multiply. After their central role in the economic euphoria of the 1990s, the Great Recession of 2008 and the pandemic of 2020, along with different military and environmental crises...

02/10/2025

The Lessons of Superblocks

José María Ezquiaga   The protean personality of Salvador Rueda combines a scholar’s rigor, which impregnates both his theoretical mind and his professional practice, with a communicator’s power. Frequenters of his writings and works enjoy the spin...

02/10/2025

The Impact of Cars

Ginés Garrido   Houston has 2,800 km² of asphalt, an area larger than metropolitan Madrid. And though a few North American cities try to curb private vehicular traffic and improve public transport, the sprawl keeps growing...

02/10/2025

Guía práctica

Carlos García Fernández   Satori has published the result of exhaustive, stimulating research conducted by Japan-based architect Jorge Almazán and Studiolab, his laboratory at Keio University. It combines explanatory texts with abundant original graphics...

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
30/06/2025

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...

24/09/2025

Dulce Xerach (1969-2025)

The Tenerife-born lawyer and writer Dulce Xerach, former deputy minister of culture of the Government of the Canary Islands, died unexpectedly in Madrid. Married to the architect Fernando Menis...

24/09/2025

Kongjian Yu (1963-2025)

At 62 years of age, the Chinese architect was killed in a plane crash in Brazil, where he had traveled to be present at the International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo. Yu was a pioneer in developing the concept...

16/09/2025

Nicholas Grimshaw (1939-2025)

Nicholas Grimshaw has died at the age of 85. A pioneer of high-tech architecture, the British architect built the Waterloo International Terminal in London and the iconic Eden Project of Cornwall (a botanical garden with ETFE 'biomes')...

08/09/2025

Gustavo Torner (1925-2025)

The same Cuenca where he was born, which awakened his early aesthetic inclinations and saw his most important projects go up, also saw him take his last breath on 7 September...