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16/07/2013
Luis Fernández-Galiano
Paulo Mendes da Rocha is a slight man who has built colossal works. Delicate and brutal, his architecture expresses with bold refinement the convictions...
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03/07/2013
Luis Fernández-Galiano
Photography is both document and fiction, faithful register of reality and deliberate narration of a story. The same can be said about the photography
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01/07/2013
The Guardian
Rem Koolhaas discusses the London skyline, the future of the creative development of cities and the politics of building design...
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12/06/2013
Luis Fernández-Galiano
The surreal dwells among us. Far from just being an artistic and literary movement of the past century, surrealism is a dark pulse that shakes the present...
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09/05/2013
Luis Fernández-Galiano
Matter is today very spiritual. In a world swamped with digital images, the return to the physical, tactile humility of primary materials becomes a pilgrimage...
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30/04/2013
Luis Fernández-Galiano
In Why Nations Fail, the MIT economist Daron Acemoglu and the Harvard political scientist James Robinson explore the origins of power, prosperity and poverty...
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17/04/2013
Luis Fernández-Galiano
We begin to celebrate the centenaries of those who were our masters, and the many anniversaries in 2013 prompts a pixelated portrait of architecture after the...
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21/03/2013
A letter signed by architects and architectural historians expresses the concern about the current bad state of the house of the Russian avant-garde architect, Konstantin Melnikov, located on Krivoarbat street in Moscow
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27/02/2013
Luis Fernández-Galiano
Once for Spaniards the Pyrenees frontier where Europe began, France is today the frontier between north and south of the European Union...
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16/02/2013
The New York Times
There is no sign marking the door to La Poderosa, a dance and performance space on a scruffy street in the Raval neighborhood here. The door itself is low and set a few...
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14/02/2013
Richard Ingersoll
He was not a photographer of people, yet as some French philosophers would say, the absence becomes the greatest indication of presence. Gabriele Basilico observed...
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06/02/2013
Luis Fernández-Galiano
Arquitectura Viva transforms itself, becoming monthly and bilingual starting with this issue, and it seemed appropriate to mark the occasion with a crop of transformed architectures...
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23/01/2013
Luis Fernández-Galiano
This is the third monograph that AV devotes to Herzog & de Meuron. The first one was published in 1999, and dealt with the career of the Swiss since...
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18/01/2013
In an interview with Kenneth Frampton, published in the latest issue of the German magazine Bauwelt, the British architect and critic makes some statements about the urban growth model followed...
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11/01/2013
Luis Fernández-Galiano
After twenty-five years appearing in Spanish only, Arquitectura Viva becomes bilingual starting with the next issue, and this editorial hinge prompts us to look back. During...
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31/12/2012
Google
Through the website most used by internauts, a run-through of happenings in 2012: the major achievements, the limits and barriers surpassed, and also the catastrophes...
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12/12/2012
Opinión / El País
Resulta incongruente que Santiago Calatrava, arquitecto famoso y embajador de la marca España, haya decidido convertirse en emigrante fiscal y trasladar...
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12/12/2012
Luis Fernández-Galiano
La tormenta económica se dibuja en los perfiles urbanos con la habitual cosecha de rascacielos crepusculares: las cumbres construidas son financieramente borrascosas...
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07/12/2012
Luis Fernández-Galiano
Oscar Niemeyer fue un maestro de inocencia. Más allá de la geometría elemental y la gramática cubista que aprende de Le Corbusier, más allá de las formas curvas
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19/11/2012
El País
La gran potencia del Sur aprovecha los mundiales y los Juegos Olímpicos para lanzar un ambicioso plan de equipamientos...
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19/11/2012
Luis Garicano / El País
La economía del conocimiento exige una educación sustentada en tres fundamentos: un nivel avanzado en matemática y estadística...
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08/11/2012
Bloomberg Bussinesweek
The number of natural disasters since 1996 costing $1 billion or more doubled compared with the previous 15-year period...
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06/11/2012
El País
En un país como Estados Unidos, donde cunde el escepticismo sobre si de verdad se está calentando el clima, las fuerzas de la naturaleza han vuelto a poner en la agenda...
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06/11/2012
Recopilación de portadas aparecidas en la prensa neoyorquina sobre el huracán Sandy, con referencias al calentamiento global y a las elecciones presidenciales.
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05/11/2012
El País
La condena del Gobierno italiano a los especialistas sísmicos por despreciar el riesgo de terremoto en L’Aquila provoca una oleada de dimisiones...
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22/10/2012
El Consejo de Representantes de Estudiantes de Arquitectura, (CREARQ) hace públicos los resultados de su primera encuesta, realizada entre los meses de mayo y junio de 2012.
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16/10/2012
El País
Las 22 favelas ya pacificadas de Río de Janeiro tendrán por primera vez calles con nombres. Con ello, sus habitantes se liberarán de la humillación...
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08/10/2012
El País
Advirtió a los estudiantes que desbordaban el aula magna de la Escuela de Arquitectura que no iba a dar caña. No iba a hablar ni de la arquitectura icónica, ni de los arquitectos...
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05/10/2012
El País/El Viajero
Hay una generación cansada del lujo, son hijos y nietos del refinamiento, lo han tenido todo, lo han disfrutado y ya no les llena, su vida ahora busca ser otra, están de vuelta...
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24/09/2012
Luis Fernández-Galiano
Los europeos necesitamos vivir juntos: vivir juntos en alojamientos colectivos y ciudades...
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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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