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18/01/2019
The Economist
The air in modern homes and offices is pretty clean, but not as clean as it might be. Often, it contains small amounts of volatile, toxic, organic compounds such as benzene...
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13/01/2019
BBC
Cement is the source of about 8% of the world's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, according to think tank Chatham House...
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11/01/2019
The Economist
It is better for the planet, and safer than you think. No other building material has environmental credentials as exciting and overlooked as wood...
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10/01/2019
The Economist
From January 1st 2019 all new public-sector buildings in EU countries must be built to “Nearly Zero-Energy” standards. Rules on “zero energy” buildings do not go far enough...
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04/01/2019
Richard Sennett
The words ‘resilience’ and ‘sustainability’ are clichés which dominate urbanism today. Everyone is for them, whatever they mean: the United Nations, the Rockefeller Foundation...
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03/01/2019
The Economist
From child’s play to spacecraft, by way of mathematics and mechanical engineering. The mathematics of origami has moved beyond early efforts to show how much higher maths could be recapitulated in folds...
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31/12/2018
Luis Fernández-Galiano
The construction of continuity extends seamlessly with the celebration of community. If the first years of David Chipperfield’s...
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26/12/2018
The Economist
Chris Downey, a blind architect who contributed to the Selis Manor renovation, an apartment block for the blind, was invited in 2015 to consult for Grimshaw Architects...
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18/12/2018
The Arquia/maestros documentary collection – which since 2014 has been building testimony of the life and work of some of the great architects of our times through interviews conducted by Luis Fernández-Galiano, director of the endeavor – now explores...
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17/12/2018
Luis Fernández-Galiano
The Middle Kingdom is the Country of the Center. For its people, China is Zhongguo, and this central country is today the geopolitical heart of the world...
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15/12/2018
The New York Times / Balkrishna Doshi
A World Bank report concludes that more than 143 million people will become “climate migrants” escaping crop failure, water scarcity and sea-level rise...
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11/12/2018
NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander, which touched down on Mars just 10 days ago, has provided the first ever "sounds" of Martian winds on the Red Planet...
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10/12/2018
The New York Times / Michael Kimmelman
Rendering of the new revision to 550 Madison Avenue from Snohetta, which conserves Philip Johnson and John Burgee’s original pink granite facade and rose window...
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07/12/2018
The Economist
Crossrail and HS2 get walloped by cost and timetable overruns. If costs surge, hs2 could be cancelled at next year’s spending review...
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02/12/2018
The Economist
A typical journey from raw silicon to completed chip gives an indication of how elaborate supply chains can be...
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29/11/2018
Luis Fernández-Galiano
The dark light of hidden spaces is fascinating and confusing. On one hand, it is hard not to succumb to the oneiric attraction of enigmas, and the descent to the depths...
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29/11/2018
The Guardian / Oliver Wainwright
Instagram culture is changing architecture around the world, but is quality being compromised in pursuit of a striking selfie?...
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28/11/2018
Bloomberg
The real estate sector’s recovery in Spain is developing at two clearly different speeds. One part of the country is consolidating the recovery of the sector another part is stagnating...
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23/11/2018
The Economist
The purpose of Effective Space’s devices is to prolong the lives of communications satellites that would otherwise be decommissioned for lack of fuel for station-keeping...
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20/11/2018
The Guardian / Oliver Wainwright
The centre of the Georgian capital has long been the plaything of outsize egos – but can its architecture biennial inspire useful debate about the city’s future?...
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19/11/2018
The New York Times
Here’s a simple idea I bet most Americans agree with: No qualified high school student should ever be barred entrance to a college based on his or her family’s bank account...
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16/11/2018
Global Times
The first platform of the 1.4 million yuan ($202,000) project will be put into use in 2021 and will be able to provide clean energy...
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14/11/2018
Luis Fernández-Galiano
The work of Eduardo Souto de Moura is traversed by two axes at the intersection of which crystallize the exact forms of this demanding architecture...
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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
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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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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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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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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