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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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Francis Kéré
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The ICO Foundation has published a bilingual (Spanish and English) catalog of the exhibition ‘Francis Kéré: Primary Elements.’ Presenting a selection of 33 works, the book journeys through the professional trajectory of the Burkinabe architect.
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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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This complex of twelve residences occupies a corner plot in Barcelona’s Poblenou neighborhood. Two main streets intersect here and there is a flow of tourists coming from the Barceloneta Beach, so Carlos Ferrater’s firm OAB pursued a strategy to reinforce privacy...
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22/10/2018
sP+a, the Mumbai practice headed by Sameep Padora, has enlarged a small children’s library for Sharda School in Kopargaon, a town in the largely rural Indian state of Maharashtra. Its complex undulating roof is inspired in the brick tile vault techniques of the Spaniard Rafael Guastavino...
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19/10/2018
This venue for cultural events is the second work that the Hamburg firm gmp – Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner – has carried out in Nanning, capital of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China. Rising independently on a stone plinth are the three...
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18/10/2018
In the French commune of Huningue, located in the department of Alsace and on the banks of the Rhine, stands this assisted housing center for senior citizens, a work of the Strasbourg practice of Dominique Coulon. Given the exceptional site, the communal areas...
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17/10/2018
The New York Times
On this page you will find maps showing almost every building in the United States. These images are drawn from a huge database that Microsoft released to the public this year...
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16/10/2018
The lager beer brand Victoria, founded in Málaga in 1928, has new brewing facilities designed by the local firm Gana, headed by Antonio Galisteo and Álvaro Fernández Navarro. On the foundations of an old industrial shed located on Avenida Velázquez, at the intersection...
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15/10/2018
The firm GAD Line + Studio, which works in close collaboration with the University of Hangzhou, has been tasked to develop this affordable housing development for the rural community of Dongziguan, in China’s Fuyang District. Inspired in the region’s vernacular...
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12/10/2018
The new center dedicated to the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt (Paide, 1935) opened with a concert on 13 October. Built by the firm of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano, which works from offices in Madrid and Berlin, the complex is located in Laulasmaa...
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11/10/2018
The Guardian / Oliver Wainwright
One of the most environmentally friendly office buildings ever conceived has been named the winner of the 2018 Stirling prize, beating off competition from a quirky brick nursery, a mud-walled cemetery and the extension of the Tate St Ives gallery... (Photos)
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11/10/2018
The new winner of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, given bienially by the College of Architecture of the Illilnois Institute of Technology (IIT) to acknowledge the best buildings raised in the Americas, has been announced. The jury of this year’s MCHAP...
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11/10/2018
Carme Pinós (Barcelona, 1954) has inaugurated her pavilion for Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens, which will host various cultural activities through 3 February 2010. Since 2014, each year the Naomi Milgrom Foundation commissions a different architect...
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10/10/2018
The firm Zaha Hadid Architects has turned out the winner in the international competition to build the new Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Concert Hall in Yekaterinburg, the Russian city considered the capital of the Urals. Drawing inspiration from the physical aspects of sound waves...
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09/10/2018
Located outside the walls of Santa Pau, a village and municipality in the Catalonian province of Girona, in eastern Spain, the Retina House is a family refuge that offers magnificent views, as its very optical name suggests. A place for the enjoyment of nature and simple things...
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08/10/2018
The fundación Laboral de la Construcción found the most convenient site for the Centro de Referencia Nacional en Materia de Rehabilitación (public research and innovation center in the field of refurbishment) in the old 18th century tannery of Pontepedriña...
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05/10/2018
El País
The first solo exhibition in Madrid of the Burkinabe architect Francis Kéré (Gando, 1965), on view at Museo ICO through 20 January. “Summed up here is everything I have been doing these years”…
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04/10/2018
Outside Ahmedabad, the largest city of the Indian state of Guyarat, stands this corporate office building, a work of the Mumbai firm led by Rahul Mehrotra. Its formal composition comes from the use of green facades and other passive cooling elements. In its multilayer...
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04/10/2018
Located in the Christiana neighborhood of the Danish capital, chef René Redzepi’s new Noma restaurant, holder of two Michelin stars, is designed by the firm of Bjarke Ingels. The project involved renovating an abandoned old military warehouse and adding new volumes...
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03/10/2018
Spoon & Tamago
In what is a masterful feat of structural engineering, architect Junya Ishigami has sculpted concrete cantilevered display shelves that are up to 12-meters long. Ishigami designed the interiors for Tokyo-based eyeware brand Jins, who have opened their first branch in Shanghai...
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02/10/2018
Built in 1930 by the Valencian architect Cayetano Borso di Carminati, the old hydraulic pump factory of Carlos Gens, on Avenida de Burjassot, is one of the few standing examples of industrial architecture from the period. The complex was closed permanently...
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02/10/2018
On view from 3 October to 20 January, the ICO Museum presents an exhibition on Francis Kéré (Gando, 1965), the first retrospective on the Burkinabe architect to be held in Spain, curated by Luis Fernández-Galiano.
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01/10/2018
Ongoing since 1999 is a program of artistic interventions that engage in dialogue with the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona, and the list of those who have participated includes Enric Miralles, SANAA Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa, Andrés Jaque, Ai Weiwei...
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01/10/2018
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Arquitectura Viva has published the catalog of ‘Francis Kéré: Primary Elements,’ the exhibition curated by Luis Fernández-Galiano that the ICO Museum is devoting to the Burkinabe architect, on view from 3 October to 20 January.
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The Economist
Mexico’s biggest infrastructure project, known as naicm, is being built just a few kilometres away...
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21/10/2018
The sound mirrors are passive concrete parabolas used to reflect and concentrate the acoustic waves: they are widespread along the South and East coasts of Englan...
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21/10/2018
The Guardian
The city has more than 1,400 tianguis, open-air markets that operate on certain days of the week, and many have been around for centuries...
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21/10/2018
The Italian designer Alberonero has intervened in a private courtyard of a Sicilian one-family home with an experimental spatial proposal based on using color in three dimensions and in the proportions of the grid that organizes them.
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21/10/2018
The Economist
Hilma af Klint did not trust her peers to understand her work. She sensed her paintings were too weird and too radical for her fellow Swedes...
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20/10/2018
On view through 3 March at the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles is an exhibition on the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. It features 'Life Cycle,' a new work of his which refers to the humanitarian crisis of refugees and migrants.
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20/10/2018
The Economist
Take three examples: maintenance, management of state assets and public-sector accounting. The costs of skimping on repairs can become tragically apparent...
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19/10/2018
Gagosian
This sculpture by Rachel Whiteread is a concrete cast of a Nissen hut set in the middle of Dalby Forest in Yorkshire, England...
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19/10/2018
Fondation Cartier
The exhibition celebrates the wealth of color and diversity of styles in the geometric art of Latin America...
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19/10/2018
The Architects Newspaper
Bernhard Karpf has been promoted to managing principal and will oversee the firm’s operations...
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18/10/2018
Evening Standard
Catalan-born Eva Franch i Gilabert this year became the first female director of the Architectural Association (AA) school...
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17/10/2018
The Centre Pompidou is holding a retrospective of the work of the Japanese architect Tadao Ando, revolving around four main themes: the simplicity of space, the urban challenge, project genesis and dialogue with the past...
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16/10/2018
National Geographic
Teotihuacan means 'the place where the gods were created,' and that's the exact feeling visitors have when they walk along the Avenue of the Dead at this Mexican archeological site...
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14/10/2018
El País
The French architect who built terminals in over 50 countries has died in Paris at the age of 80...
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12/10/2018
GCR
Research carried out by the University of Bath in the UK, and India’s Goa Engineering College, has found that concrete made with...
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12/10/2018
The New York Times
A star of M.I.T.’s Media Lab working in “material ecology,” she has intrigued Björk, Brad Pitt and the Cooper Hewitt...
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11/10/2018
Designboom
Madrid’s Museo ICO presents the exhibition: ‘Francis Kéré. Primary Elements’ curated by Luis Fernández-Galiano and organized by the ICO Foundation...
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10/10/2018
There are many great architects, but only very few get to be ‘masters.’ Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza did, thanks as much to the quality of his architecture as to his sharp sensitivity in tuning...
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09/10/2018
El Economista
At an estimated cost of 2.8 billion euros, construction of Lynetteholmen island will begin around 2035…
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09/10/2018
Failed Architecture
In the 2016 short film, Hyperreality, designer and filmmaker Keiichi Matsuda crafts a disorienting depiction of everyday life mediated by ubiquitous augmented reality...
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09/10/2018
The Guardian
Girl With Balloon, a well-known Banksy artwork, is the final item in an auction at Sotheby’s in London... (Video)
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08/10/2018
On view through 10 March at the Vitra Museum in Weil am Rhein is ‘Victor Papanek: The Politics of Design,’ a retrospective on the Austrian designer and educator...
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07/10/2018
The Belgian singer Angèle's first album includes the song Jalousie, the videoclip of which is set at the French Communist Party headquarters, a work of Oscar Niemeyer...
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07/10/2018
CNN
Meeting the China's construction demands has come at the expense of architectural identity, according to Philip Yuan, founder of the firm Archi-Union Architects...
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07/10/2018
An all-steel skin, a retractable roof, a larger museum, a panoramic tour, and a 360º video scoreboard are some of the innovations in the project drawn up by L35 + GMP + Ribas & Ribas...
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06/10/2018
The Guardian
The earthquake shook up saturated earth beneath the city of Palu causing it to flow like liquid, scientists believe...
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06/10/2018
The Guardian
The exhibition of works by the American architectural photographer Ezra Stoller at the Lumiere Brothers Centre, Moscow...
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05/10/2018
Gov.uk
Award-winning British artist Es Devlin OBE is set to design the pavilion, highlighting UK expertise in artificial intelligence and the space sector...
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04/10/2018
The Calvert Journal
Postcards from across the Soviet Union were miniature propaganda posters for the success of the communist system...
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04/10/2018
Rick Joy started his practice in Tucson, Arizona, in 1993, bringing a crafted, material approach to residential design. Projects like the Desert Nomad House of 2006 were part of a renaissance in desert building...
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03/10/2018
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