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31/10/2018
The Economist
Some 4,500 satellites circle Earth, providing communications services and navigational tools, monitoring weather, observing the universe, spying and doing more besides...(Graphic details)
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28/10/2018
The Economist
The world’s longest sea-crossing bridge connect Hong Kong with the mainland city of Zhuhai and the former Portuguese colony of Macau...
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26/10/2018
The Economist
Many trends that appear global are in fact mostly Chinese. When scholars of international relations predict that the 2000s will be a “Chinese century”, they are not being premature. (Graphic details)
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26/10/2018
Luis Fernández-Galiano
The building is back. Over the last years, the extension of the boundaries of architecture’s critical discourse has blurred what used to be its essential core. With the extension...
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24/10/2018
The Economist
What happens when Pentecostal churches become urban planners. A small prayer camp near Lagos (Nigeria) turned into a permanent settlement. Today about 12,000 people live in Redemption City...
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19/10/2018
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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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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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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02/10/2018
The Economist
“Spanish flu” probably killed more people than both world wars combined. The current estimate is that it killed at least 50m people and perhaps as many as 100m...
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01/10/2018
The Economist
Businesses are trying to reduce, reuse and recycle. Turning the vicious cycle into a virtuous one...
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01/10/2018
The New York Times
This quiet working-class town, just beyond the glitz of the Las Vegas Strip, helped spark the global financial crisis 10 years ago...
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30/09/2018
The Economist
How the world should cope with its growing piles of rubbish. Poor countries must build infrastructure. Rich ones should waste less...
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28/09/2018
Luis Fernández-Galiano
Architecture and architects were the protagonists of the first four international congresses of the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad. The fifth, held again at Pamplona’s Baluarte...
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28/09/2018
BBC
It's a 558-million-year-old oval-shaped creature that may have borne a superficial resemblance to a segmented jellyfish...
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28/09/2018
Bloomberg
In the kale-filled facility at vertical farm startup Bowery Farming, it’s a piece of proprietary software that makes most of the critical...
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23/09/2018
Retina
Using electric vehicles and bicycles can also help combat pollution: logistics are to blame for 40% of contamination in cities...
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22/09/2018
The Economist
There is an alternative “Eurafrica” strategy. This is to accept the integration of Africa and Europe. Building walls will not work...
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16/09/2018
The Economist
A team led by Piotr Skorka of the Polish Academy of Sciences set out to see just how good churches are as bird habitats...
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12/09/2018
Fahrenheit 451
In AV Monographs 205, Jørn Utzon is presented as a figure who changed the architectural directions of a nation...
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12/09/2018
El País / Víctor Lapuente
A group of scientists led by the psychologist Daniel Gilbert has proven the existence of a brain mechanism that prevents us from perceiving reality objectively...
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07/09/2018
The Economist
Rich museums should help poor ones conserve their treasures. The loss of a great national museum is a global tragedy...
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03/09/2018
The Guardian / Oliver Wainwright
This curious landscape of humps and funnels signals the arrival of Amos Rex, a €50m art museum for the Finnish capital, designed by JKMM, opened last week...
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02/09/2018
The Economist
In 1976 Africa’s most glamorous residence opened in downtown Johannesburg. Ponte City, a cylindrical brutalist skyscraper stretching 54 storeys, was built for yuppies...
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31/08/2018
The Economist
Cryptocurrencies and their underlying technology, blockchains, have been hyped to the skies. Tim Cross offers a realist’s guide...
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30/08/2018
Time
It’s easy to find guides to famous attractions. But which new and newly relevant destinations are worth experiencing right now?...
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27/08/2018
The Economist
At current growth rates, one billion air-conditioners will be installed globally in the next ten years. The rapid growth in their use makes it urgent to limit the damage...
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22/08/2018
The Economist
Heavy traffic, cracks in reinforced concrete or corrosion of steel bars could be leading into a series of collapses following Genoa´s bridge...
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20/08/2018
Philip Ursprung
A comienzos de la década de 1920 una buena crítica podía valer una fortuna, y una mala podía arruinar toda una carrera. Todavía se hacía sentir el aura de los grandes...
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14/08/2018
Mario Carpo
Twenty to thirty years is a long time in the annals of information technology – long enough to allow us to discern a fundamental rift between...
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13/08/2018
The Guardian
Built on land reclaimed from the Indian Ocean and funded with $1.4bn in Chinese investment, glossy plans for Port City inspire a mixture of optimism and alarm...
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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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