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06/07/2017
The Economist
Sceptics doubt the technology can be used for mass production. Just wait. Manufacturing advances often take time to catch on...
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04/07/2017
The Economist
Typically, a new manufacturing company begins by making small numbers of high-value items for niche markets before tooling up to...
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03/07/2017
Bloomberg
Ten years on, Tony Fadell admires the Echo, doubts the driverless-car hype, and envisions a screenless future...
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01/07/2017
Zaha Hadid Design presents the new handbags it has designed for the French brand of leather accessories, Perris Paris, with which it previously collaborated in 2015. The limited-edition series has seven models...
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30/06/2017
The Economist
Recent advances make 3D printing a powerful competitor to conventional mass production. Slowly but surely the sole of a shoe emerges from a bowl of liquid resin...
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14/06/2017
The Economist
There is a striking disparity between the commercial applications drone companies are pursuing in fields like construction, inspection or agriculture and the public perception...
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12/06/2017
Bored Panda
China is going for another world’s first with their new ‘ART’ train design which mixes bus, tram and train all in one...
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11/06/2017
Futurism
Swiss company Climeworks have opened a power plant that captures C02 from the air in order to reduce emissions in the fight against climate change...
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06/06/2017
Inhabitat
The nearly three-meter-tall Thallus was 3D printed from premium polylactide plastic. Six-axis robotics technology was used...
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05/06/2017
The Economist
Set in the heart of Cambridge, the chapel at King’s College is rightly famous. Built in the Gothic style, and finished in 1515...
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02/06/2017
The Design Museum
Curated by Lord Norman Foster, this exhibition explores the creativity of Cartier and design. Cartier in Motion includes over 170...
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23/05/2017
The Economist
Dr Stone plans to apply a phenomenon called diffusiophoresis. When CO2 and water meet at the liquid’s surface they react to make carbonic acid...
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19/05/2017
MIT News
The list of materials that can be produced by 3-D printing has grown to include not just plastics but also metal, glass, and even food. MIT researchers are expanding...
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12/05/2017
Wired
Each of the tiles is made from glass and is designed to be a 'more attractive way' to introduce solar panels to more homes...
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11/05/2017
Foster + Partners California, in collaboration with Branch Technology, has won first place in Phase 2 and Level 1 of the 3D Printed Habitat Challenge competition organized by NASA and Bradley University (Illinois). The competition calls for extra-terrestrial...
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05/05/2017
Steelcase
CMIT’s Self-Assembly Lab, Steelcase and award-winning product designer Christophe Guberan collaborated to create a new 3D printing process...
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26/04/2017
NASA
These advanced woven metal fabrics for use in space could potentially be useful for large antennas and other deployable devices...
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05/04/2017
Forbes
When Bulgari first introduced the B.Zero1 ring in 1999, rules and standards in jewelry design were forever changed...
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20/03/2017
The Verge
Islands in the Pacific Ocean are some of the most practical places to install solar panels. Kauai in Hawaii has traditionally generated electricity by shipping in many...
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13/03/2017
The Economist
The strangeness of the quantum realm opens up exciting new technological possibilities. A bathing cap that can watch individual neurons, allowing others to monitor...
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10/03/2017
The Economist
After decades as laboratory curiosities, some of quantum physics’ oddest effects are beginning to be put to use...
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09/03/2017
Eduardo Prieto
Because of its ties with fire, the kitchen was the heart of the traditional house. Later the kitchen was hidden away, a commoner in the bourgeois or aristocratic house...
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08/03/2017
From 29 to 30 March, the International Convention Center of Barcelona (CCIB) hosts the ARCHITECT@WORK fair under the theme of ‘water and architecture’ and with the aim of offering novel products to architects and interior designers.
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06/03/2017
In the context of the Cevisama fair held in Valencia from 20 to 24 February, the winners of the 15th ASCER (Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturers’ Association) awards were handed their prizes. The jury, presided by Gonçalo Byrne and including Iñaqui Carnicero...
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03/03/2017
Wired
More than million people live in Singapore. The densely populated island city-state off southern Malaysia covers 277 square miles and contains more than...
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10/02/2017
The Economist
Ronggui Yang and Xiaobo Yin of the University of Colorado have invented a film that can cool buildings without the use of refrigerants and without drawing any power to do so...
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03/02/2017
The Guardian
Robotics and prefabrication could see more 3D printers deployed on building sites but quality control remains a problem...
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30/01/2017
Wired
Architecture is in the middle of its biggest transformation since the introduction of computers. Building information modelling (BIM)...
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13/01/2017
Wired
The beauty of Lego has always been its simplicity. The iconic bricks don’t talk, flash or move—except in your imagination. Until now...
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13/01/2017
MIT
Porous, 3-D forms of graphene developed at MIT can be 10 times as strong as steel but much lighter. The new material, a sponge-like configuration...
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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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