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28/06/2020
The Guardian / Oliver Wainwright
From grand visions that fail with the departure of a president to everyday buildings knocked down before they can be considered for heritage protection, a new book unpicks...
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.jpg "'Manchester town hall and my local library were the buildings that shaped me' (Salto a sitio externo para ver el artículo completo)")
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24/06/2020
The Guardian / Norman Foster
Winston Churchill said: “We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us.” The first building that shaped my future was Manchester town hall, where I started work at the age of 16...
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24/06/2020
Bloomberg
Caution tape. Painted circles. Plastic dividers. The most impactful coronavirus designs are coming from mostly nonprofessionals adapting urban space on the fly...
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22/06/2020
The New York Times / Michael Kimmelman
As the country grapples with racial justice, architects should finally take a stand on the most barbaric aspects of a biased prison system...
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19/06/2020
The Economist
Witness a new building in Leipzig by Oscar Niemeyer—who died in 2012. The Niemeyer Sphere perches on a narrow supporting tower at the edge of a two-storey building...
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18/06/2020
The Economist
They, and many other such systems, still struggle to handle the unexpected. In march Starsky Robotics, a self-driving lorry firm based in San Francisco, closed down...
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17/06/2020
The New York Times / Kim Tingley
The virus isn’t simply a health crisis; it is also a design problem. Architecture has to mediate between the perceived needs of the moment versus the unknowable needs of the future...
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16/06/2020
The Economist
How much harm has covid-19 done to large Western cities? Until recently big cities were unstoppable. Year after year places like New York, London and Paris grew richer...
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16/06/2020
The Economist
Cities that can shrug off a disaster can still fade if their economic base—and with it their tax revenues—suffers a structural shift. Again, New York has the history to prove it...
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14/06/2020
The Guardian / Chris Michael
How the 1960s craze for oceanic exploration changed our relationship with the planet. In November 1966, the Gemini 12 spacecraft, carrying two astronauts, splashed down in the Pacific...
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27/05/2020
The New York Times / Michael Kimmelman
Eric W. Sanderson published Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City. The book geolocated old maps onto the modern city...
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26/05/2020
Luis Fernández-Galiano
We are at the threshold of something, but do not know what exactly. Ortega y Gasset’s diagnosis – “We do not know what is happening to us, and this is precisely what is happening to us”...
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25/05/2020
The New York Times
A presentation of obituaries and death notices from newspapers around the country tries to frame incalculable loss...
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22/05/2020
The Guardian / Oliver Wainwright
We step inside the yurt-inspired hub that’s fixing the culture of travelling herders shock, designed by the Hong Kong architecture studio Rural Urban Framework (RUF)...
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22/05/2020
The New York Times / Michael Kimmelman
Officially incorporated in 1834, Brooklyn was already the third largest city in America by the Civil War. Just over a century later it was in shambles, hemorrhaging jobs...
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20/05/2020
The Economist
The main reasons Zoom conversations are draining are to do with audio. The most cultures observe a conversational rule of “no gap, no overlap”...
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19/05/2020
The Economist
Well-networked areas tend to have more infections than their average incomes and population densities suggest...
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18/05/2020
The Economist
Even before the pandemic, globalisation was in trouble. The open system of trade that had dominated the world economy for decades had been damaged by the financial crash...
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15/05/2020
The New York Times / Carol Galante
Restrictive zoning blocks less-affluent families from the opportunities that cities offer. The key to doing so is to make cities denser...
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13/05/2020
Bloomberg
The pandemic has reshaped our jobs, how we travel, and what a recovery looks like. As Covid-19 catalyzes an avalanche of new and urgent data (economic, social, epidemiological)...
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12/05/2020
The Guardian / Rowan Moore
Museum of Contemporary Art Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain, by Emilio Tuñón. On the one hand there’s the stately rhythm of white pillars, which speak of temple-like repose...
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11/05/2020
The Economist / Tom Standage
The eruption in April 1815 of Mount Tambora, a volcano in what is now Indonesia, wreaked havoc around the world. But it led to the birth of the bicycle...
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10/05/2020
The Economist / Sarah Frier
Whenever I get a few steps past security at the office of Instagram in Menlo Park in the San Francisco Bay Area, glance to my right to see who’s posing by the cartoon clouds...
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10/05/2020
Luis Fernández-Galiano
From a wet market came to us ‘bad news wrapped up in proteins,’ and Wuhan was set to become China’s Chernobyl. But the mass confinement there was a success story...
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09/05/2020
The Economist / Catherine Nixey
As the pandemic leaves offices around the world empty, Catherine Nixey asks what was the point of them anyway?...
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07/05/2020
The Guardian / Oliver Wainwright
Scrawled signs, neon rainbows, flour mania … the V&A’s collectors are creating a show for our times, targeting the everyday objects taking on new meaning in the coronavirus age...
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06/05/2020
Luis Fernández-Galiano
Living apart is living less. The isolation that prevents the spreading of the virus will transform our habits, and the immediate future appears like a landscape of elementary...
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04/05/2020
The Economist
A new study shows that SARS-CoV-2 can linger in the air for hours and on some materials for days...
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02/05/2020
The Guardian / Oliver Wainwright
Her ravishing interiors shocked Paris, thrilled the avant-garde and gave the world its most expensive chair. Le Corbusier actually vandalised her work naked...
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01/05/2020
Dezeen
The Transscalar Architecture of COVID-19 tracks how coronavirus, its contagion, and its responses are enacted through space...
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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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Francisco Mangado
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This 208-page, hardback and clothbound, bilingual (Spanish-English) book presents fifteen works carried out from 2000 to 2020 by the firm of Francisco Mangado, who explains them in terms of the concepts that have driven each one of them.
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H&deM (1978-2019)
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The tireless creative pulse of the Swiss office, which over the course of four decades has produced some of the most emblematic examples of contemporary architecture, is illustrated here in a bilingual Spanish-English edition, made up of two volumes of 352 pages each, presented in hard-bound cloth.
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H&deM (2003-2019)
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The volume includes 41 prominent works started between 2003 and 2019, such as Elphilharmonie Hamburg, buildings like Helsinki Dreispitz and Feltrinelli Porta Volta, Vitra Schaudepot, and the proposal for the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
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H&deM (1978-2002)
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The volume covers 43 of the main buildings initiated between 1978 and 2002, showing the formal transformations and material tests carried out during the first years of career in Basel up to the studio’s worldwide recognition.
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The Age of Spectacle Time of Uncertainty
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Luis Fernández-Galiano portrays the development of architecture in the course of the turn of the century through 256 articles written for El País from 1993 to 2006, presented in 2 volumes containing close to 2,500 images and 2,000 references to the protagonists of projects and debates of the period in question.
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Time of Uncertainty
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Through a selection of essays written by Luis Fernández-Galiano for El País, Time of Uncertainty – volume 2 of Alexandrine Years – examines the beginnings of a 21st century marked by 9/11, wars, and climate change.
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The Age of Spectacle
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The Age of Spectacle, volume 1 of the book Alexandrine Years, offers a chronicle of the bonanza and optimism of the 20th century’s closing years through texts that Luis Fernández-Galiano wrote for the newspaper El País.
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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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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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