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08/08/2019
The Economist
Reconsidering the legendary design school on its centenary. Since it was built in 1924, the Landhaus Ilse, or Ilse country house, has been an incongruous presence...
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06/08/2019
The Economist
Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality. Hurtling along a “cycle highway” by the River Scheldt in Antwerp recently, Charlemagne only noticed...
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04/08/2019
The Economist
Peat fires in the Arctic are the latest symptom of climate change. The eastern siberian landscape does not normally resemble hell. In winter it is blanketed in snow...
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02/08/2019
Luis Fernández-Galiano
We are tourists, and pretend being travelers. Mass tourism used to be depicted with a cruise ship overwhelming the delicate scale of Venetian palazzos...
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29/07/2019
The Economist
Renovations give parliamentarians an opportunity to shore up democracy. Will they take it?...
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24/07/2019
The Economist
NASA declared in 1958 that “it is the policy of the United States that activities in space should be devoted to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind.” Even then, that was a half-truth...
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23/07/2019
The Economist
Facebook owes its resilience to savvy acquisitions and tolerant regulators. One cause is youthful rebelliousness: few teens want to share a network with grandma...
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22/07/2019
Luis Fernández-Galiano
Vo Trong Nghia strives to make the world a better place, and tackles that titanic task in tune with nature. With the humble ambition...
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18/07/2019
The Guardian / Oliver Wainwright
Energy efficiency is a priority this year as a railway station, visitor centre, social housing project and opera house vie for the RIBA award for British building of the year...
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13/07/2019
The Economist
A restoration drive is reviving their glory—and uncovering their wisdom. Many pilgrims believe in the healing power of the baoli water...
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11/07/2019
ETH Zürich
Around 0.9 billion hectares of land worldwide would be suitable for reforestation, which could ultimately capture two thirds of human-made carbon emissions...
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03/07/2019
Luis Fernández-Galiano
War damage leaves resilient ruins. We use the term ‘urbicide’ to refer to the deliberate destruction of cities to wreck the physical resources and the morale of the opponent, but contemporary...
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30/06/2019
The Economist has kept a database of house prices for decades, using figures from the OECD and national agencies. And even an inexact forecast provides more insight than no forecast at all...
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29/06/2019
The Economist
They use both orthodox engines and electric motors in an optimum mix. The best lithium-ion cells are still far from being able to power the workhorses of civil aviation...
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27/06/2019
Luis Fernández-Galiano
Half a century after the first moon landing, space is making the news again. After the excitement of the space race that began with the Sputniks of the Soviet Union in 1957...
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25/06/2019
Revista de libros / Miguel Aguiló
With the English subtitle “A Chronicle of Architecture,” the two volumes of Alexandrine Years collect the articles published by Luis Fernández-Galiano in El País...
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21/06/2019
The Economist
The UN now thinks the world will contain a little over 9.7bn people in 2050 and just under 10.9bn in 2100. The first figure is 37m lower than the un forecast two years ago. The latter is 309m lower...
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20/06/2019
The Guardian
More than 100 rivers and canals flow beneath Tokyo, but from the ground it’s hard to notice them. Why has the city turned its back on water?...
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14/06/2019
The Economist
Google says that the 10,000 human evaluators who rate sources for its search engine assess “expertise” and “trustworthiness” but not ideology. Web-traffic figures support this defence...
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10/06/2019
The Antiquities Coalition
The Taliban captured the 12th-century Minaret of Jam and killed 18 Afghan security personnel tasked with protecting the World Heritage Site...
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07/06/2019
The Guardian
Finland is the only EU country where homelessness is falling. Its secret? Giving people homes as soon as they need them – unconditionally...
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02/06/2019
The Hill
The Atlanta City Council has voted to approve a measure that seeks to transform nearly 7.1 acres of vacant property into a park and food forest...
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02/06/2019
The Economist
Boeing and Airbus need to speed up production to meet demand. In the case of airframes, the biggest technological shift going on is an invisible one, from metal alloys to composite materials...
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01/06/2019
The Economist
The combination of China’s huge population and rapid gdp growth has nonetheless made it the world’s biggest emitter of carbon...
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31/05/2019
The Economist
Eurosceptics gained a similar number of seats, but are less ideologically cohesive. Eurosceptics did make progress: parties in the top 15% of hostility towards the EU...
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26/05/2019
Luis Fernández-Galiano
Robots have been with us for a long time, but only now are they perceived as a planetary threat. The fascination with automata, from Hero to Al-Jazari or from the mannerist...
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21/05/2019
The Economist
But why is much of the art it inspires so dull? Artists have long been inspired by the great issues of their day...
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20/05/2019
The Economist
The boss of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, who is the world’s richest man, has long been interested in using his fortune to advance the cause of space flight...
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17/05/2019
Luis Fernández-Galiano
Multiple multitudes took the stage during a convulsive year: hopeful multitudes, with the huge Women’s Day demonstrations in March...
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17/05/2019
The Economist
Welcome to one of Europe’s biggest infrastructure projects: an ambitious scheme to encircle Paris with a new metro loop, with 68 new stations, it will cost nearly €40bn...
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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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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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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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