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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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RCR arquitectes
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Land architecture, but also architecture of the land. After three decades of work, Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta have obtained universal recognition for a stubbornly local oeuvre.
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SANAA
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The 352-page volume, in hardcover and fully bilingual Spanish-English edition, which gathers the complete oeuvre of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa over almost three decades of work of the three studios they lead in Tokyo
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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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Change of Climate
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Following the editions of 2010, 2012, and 2014 – ‘More for Less,’ ‘The Common,’ and ‘The Necessary,’ the 4th international congress organized by the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad set out to examine ‘Change of Climate’ in architecture, now undergoing deep change.
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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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The housing crisis of the 1960s led to the construction in the northen part of the city of Bordeaux of the Cité du Grand Parc, a large-scale urban project that addressed the growing demand for dwellings in the aftermath of World War II. Now, in the framework of a...
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18/04/2018
Norman Foster addressed at the Barbican Centre in London the challenges of urbanisation and sustainability, looking at how a philosophy of ‘doing more with less’ can help generate design solutions. Foster used examples from around the world and discussed...
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20/04/2018
With prefabricated elements it is possible to meet massive demands for the virtues of design, integrated into repeatable construction solutions. To optimize their advantages, the Chilean architect Alejandro Soffia has designed a residential typology of large dimensions...
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19/04/2018
Film by Páraic McGloughlin, an artist based in Sligo (Ireland). A brief look at the earth from above, based on the shapes we make, the game of life, our playing ground - Arena. Created using Google Earth imagery.
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18/04/2018
The spa in Pézenas designed by the Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto establishes a physicial and figurative link, through water and stone, with the heart of Pézenas, a commune in France’s Occitaine region. Conceived as a mineral space, with paths for contemplative walks...
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17/04/2018
The shape of this concrete residence designed by Shinsuke Fujii Architects, known as the Oriel Window House, meets two objectives which are contradictory to a certain extent. On the one hand, to make the most of the 42-square-meter area of the plot of land...
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16/04/2018
Built between two old industrial brick buildings, the new architecture school of the Belgian municipality of Tournai occupies the interior of a block in the city center, and is laid out in such a way that it continues the street alignment established by the preexisting...
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13/04/2018
The Madrid practice of Emilio Tuñón has won first prize in the international competition to enlarge the School of Architecture and Construction on the Alfonso XIII campus of the Technical University of Cartagena (UPCT). Carrying the day over sixty other entries...
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12/04/2018
The Guardian / Oliver Wainwright
The exhibition ‘Junya Ishigami: Freeing Architecture’ is at the Fondation Cartier, Paris, until 10 June. The Japanese architect designs buildings that float or are almost invisible, but now his fairytale visions...
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11/04/2018
The New York firm Steven Holl Architects has won the competition to build Le Musée des Collectionneurs and a hotel beside it in the center of the city of Angers, in the Pays de la Loire region of northwestern France. On the banks of the river Maine...
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11/04/2018
Rieuldorang Atelier, the Busan-based firm headed by Kim Seongyoul, was commissioned to build a single-family dwelling in a rural environment of Manhwa-ri, located in Ulju County, in the southeastern part of South Korea. The objective of the design was to look...
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10/04/2018
Rubén P.Bescos’s video goes through new buildings executed with concrete dyed to insert them respectfully into the context. The geometries of the arches of the old buildings are represented by means of reliefs in the new facades.
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10/04/2018
Today, 9 April 2018, being the centenary of the birth of Jørn Utzon, we reproduce the introduction of the monograph we have devoted to the Danish master, which will be released for sale this week.
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09/04/2018
The Guardian / Jonathan Jones
He is known as a joyful painter of lilies and picnics. But this thrilling show at The National Gallery, London, recasts Monet as an artist aghast as the world hurtled towards calamity...
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09/04/2018
The first work of Zaha Hadid Architects in New York City is this sinuous 11-floor luxury apartment building at 520 West 28th Street. There is a powerful urban dynamic between the the High Line and the streets of New York, with cores of social interaction and connections...
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06/04/2018
This factory for making bamboo rafts is located in Xingcun, a rural enclave in southern China, where the climate is tropical. The L-shaped building reflects, first, the raft-making process. Each one of the parts arranged along a linear scheme accommodates one of the...
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05/04/2018
Brazilian architect Carla Juaçaba has designed one of ten chapels for the first-ever Holy See Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, curated by Francesco Dal Co. The constructions are inspired in the chapel of the Woodland Cemetery in Stockholm, a work of the...
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05/04/2018
The New York-based firm Scalar Architecture, headed by the Madrid-born architect Julio Salcedo, built this 280-square-meter cottage in a peninsula on Lake Ossipee, in New Hampshire. The shape of the two attached prisms that form the house addresses requirements...
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04/04/2018
For the first time in its history the Venice Architecture Biennale – open this year from 26 May to 25 November – will be counting Vatican City among the states participating in it. Curated by Francesco Dal Co, the Holy See Pavilion with take the form of eleven temporary...
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03/04/2018
Built by the Catalan firm of Juan Trias de Bes, this apartment building rises in the Poble Nou neighborhood of Barcelona, inserting itself into the classic gridded extension imposed by the Plan Cerdá. The southeast front of the lot is tangent to the Avenida Diagonal...
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02/04/2018
A work of the Swiss architect Max Dudler, this library in Heidenheim an der Brenz, in the southwest German state of Baden-Wurtemberg, stands on a plot of land previously occupied by a prison. As a chromatic remembrance of Hellenstein Castle nearby, the library rises
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30/03/2018
Located in a spectacular enclave in the Alps, this 1950s construction with views of Lake Zurich has been turned into a 210-square-meter tourist shelter with thirty beds. Designed by the Swiss firm studio we architetti, headed by Felix Wettstein and Ludovica Molo...
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29/03/2018
The team formed by Sergison Bates Architects (London), noAarchitecten (Brussels), and EM2N (Zurich) has won the competition to convert an old Citroën car factory in the Belgian capital into the KANAL – Centre Pomdidou. Their design won over 92 other entries...
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28/03/2018
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HangarBicocca
“The Feeling of Things” is the most extensive exhibition in Italy by Matt Mullican (born in 1951 in Santa Monica, California)...
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21/04/2018
artnet
Ambitious mega-installations have become the backdrop of the famed Southern Californian festival music festival...
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20/04/2018
La Biennale di Venezia
The English architect, historian, critic and educator Kenneth Frampton is the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement...
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19/04/2018
Arquitectura Viva has donated to the Norman Foster Foundation a complete collection of its publications, which includes all the issues edited up to date of its three magazines...
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19/04/2018
Curbed
In Barvikha Forest, right outside Moscow, Capital Hill Residence boasts Hadid’s signature elements—swopping curves, cantilevering...
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19/04/2018
Curbed
A new exhibit at Pinkcomma gallery in Boston captures concrete architecture in the moment of its demise...
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18/04/2018
The Guardian / Phil Hoad
The Netherlands’ gritty second city once struggled to maintain even that ranking in Dutch hearts, as revealed by the well-worn motto...
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17/04/2018
The Platform of European Memory and Conscience is delighted to announce the winners of its competition for a proposal of a Pan-European Memorial for the Victims of Totalitarianism in Brussels...
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16/04/2018
The Guardian
A plan to reshape the Sydney region aims to capitalise on its rapid growth by breaking the pull of the harbour. But will it work?...
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15/04/2018
As part of its commitment to combat climate change and create a healthier environment, Apple today announced its global facilities are powered with 100 percent clean energy...
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15/04/2018
View the entire collection of winning images from the 61st World Press Photo Contest. They were selected from 73,044 images taken by 4,548 photographers from 125 different countries...
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14/04/2018
Outer Places
Last fall, it was announced that a company called Astro Live Experiences (ALE) would be creating a fake meteor shower over...
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13/04/2018
Part of the network of Maggie’s Centres that offers support to cancer patients, the first Kálida will be completed in Barcelona this year. Creating a welcoming atmosphere, the 400-square-meter building includes a kitchen, a library, and a multipurpose hall, and opens on to to garden zones.
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12/04/2018
British Journal of Photography
ThePrintSpace gallery in east London showcase two new bodies of work by DJI Drone Photography Award winners Tom Hegen and Markel Redondo...
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12/04/2018
National Geographic
Armed with satellites and drones, archaeologists discover new Nasca lines and dozens of other enigmatic geoglyphs carved...
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10/04/2018
Luis Fernández-Galiano
In a liquid world, security dissolves. The sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, who died this year, theorized on the dystopian modernity...
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09/04/2018
Images taken from a drone show the progress of construction work at the site of the Shanghai Planetarium, designed by Ennead Architects and to be completed in 2020.
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09/04/2018
Luis Fernández-Galiano
This promenade through Córdoba, Seville, and Granada is also a walk through the intellectual journey of its author. Rafael Moneo...
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08/04/2018
‘Hydropuncture’ in Mexico City by Manuel Perló and Loreta Castro receives Global LafargeHolcim Awards Gold. It is a water retention and treatment complex including flood basins and public amenities...
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07/04/2018
The New York Times / Austin Ramzy
For eight years in a row, an international survey of nearly 300 cities has named Hong Kong the world’s least affordable housing...
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06/04/2018
Curbed
The De Blasio administration has hashed out a deal with JPMorgan Chase to demolish its existing SOM-designed headquarters...
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06/04/2018
Los Angeles Times
The first rendering of the 55,000-square-foot Audrey Irmas Pavilion, which will stand east of the historic temple, reveals a...
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05/04/2018
The Wall Street Journal
This exhibition at the Parrish Art Museum is about the many ways that a camera can turn pile-driven structures of concrete...
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04/04/2018
Luis Fernández-Galiano
The selfish giant of Oscar Wilde closed his garden to the children, and with them the spring went away. The technological titans...
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03/04/2018
Curbed
Bitcoin’s young investors put their digital currency to work in the physical world. Bitcoin as a way to make a property transaction...
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03/04/2018
ETH Zurich
Researchers from ETH Zurich are using a new method for digital timber construction in a real project for the first time...
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02/04/2018
Green Matters
XEV, an Italian car company, and Polymaker, a Shanghai-based 3D printing material company, have joined forces to create LSEV...
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01/04/2018
It is smaller than a grain of salt, and it will cost less than ten cents to manufacture and can monitor, analyze, communicate, and even act on data .The tiny devices will be ‘cryptographic anchors’ embedded in everyday objects...
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31/03/2018
Hyperallergic
More than a dozen demonstrators entered the Louvre museum in Paris and laid down in front of Theodore Géricault’s iconic oil painting...
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30/03/2018
MGA&D is responsible for design and construction oversight of what will be, when completed, the tallest statue in the world. The 182 meter tall Statue of Unity is being built at the Sadhu-Bet Island (India)...
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29/03/2018
The Guardian
Critics claim the reforms disproportionately affect the cities’ poorest. Tens of thousands of migrants were forced out of Beijing...
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28/03/2018
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Lee has taught at Harvard GSD since 2013 and was recently named Professor in Practice of Architecture, an appointment that also...
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28/03/2018
The Economist
Two giant engineering projects will alter the European landscape. They should improve links between Europe’s north and south...
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27/03/2018
The Guardian
Projections suggest cities will swell at an astonishing pace – but whether that means our salvation or an eco-disaster is by no...
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25/03/2018
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