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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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12/01/2017
The Guardian
For all the attention given to the role of cars in our urban landscapes, lifts are becoming the global city’s truly indispensable transport....
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30/12/2016
urdesign
In 2015 Bulagri chief executive Jean-Christophe Babin invited Zaha Hadid to reinvent the B.zero 1 collection...
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28/12/2016
Clean Technica
America’s leading solar energy company, SolarCity, has taken to its blog to highlight “the absurd growth potential of rooftop solar...
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18/10/2016
Inhabitat
A new device that relies on simple condensation to collect clean water from the atmosphere promises to provide up to 11 gallons of safe drinking water...
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13/10/2016
Bored Panda
Cycling is one of the most eco-friendly ways to travel, and thanks to this solar-powered bike lane that glows in the dark...
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29/09/2016
The American firm Bombrick, based in North Hollywood (California), has a hundred years of experience in the washroom accessories market. It recently presented B-823, a manual foam soap dispenser to be mounted on counters...
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22/07/2016
The Economist
China aims to lead the world in connecting the factory. The “internet of things” (IoT) is much hyped. For a decade, a world in which household appliances, packaged...
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21/07/2016
MIT
Neutrinos traveling 450 miles have no individual identities, according to MIT analysis In the world of quantum, infinitesimally small particles....
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20/07/2016
Nature
The advent of devices based on single dopants, such as thesingle-atom transistor1, the single-spin magnetometer...
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19/07/2016
Cuando despertó, el pokémon todavía estaba allí. Las 721 especies que, según dicen los naturalistas de lo digital, conforman la familia de los Pocket Monsters, han encontrado un nuevo ecosistema que colonizar: el de la ‘realidad aumentada’...
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24/06/2016
An architectural experiment to develop simple technologies to improve our future living environment. The project focuses on responsive facades that allow to gradually adapt room climate and condition to the users...
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19/05/2016
Daniel Libeskind and Cosentino have inaugurated the Musical Labyrinth installation on Alter Oper Platz in Frankfurt. The fruit of collaboration between the American architect and the Spanish multinational company...
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19/05/2016
Global Construction Review
This glowing cement that absorbs solar energy during the day and emits light after sun-down. It could make roads and structures glow in the dark, cutting the cost of street-lighting...
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13/05/2016
Wired
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group, Arup, and Aecom Are Now Partners With Hyperloop, the tube-based high-speed transport system originally proposed by Elon Musk back in 2013...
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12/05/2016
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group starts from an abacus of essential geometries to design a new font that translates into light, an alphabet used to write and express thoughts, a tool to give shape to spaces. Base modules, either straight or curved...
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28/04/2016
Out of 1,232 entries from 734 countries, Agar Plasticity, a packaging prototye made of seaweed, has been announced the winner of the Lexus Design Award, a prize given yearly by the car manufacturer. The proposal drawn up by the Japanese office AMAM...
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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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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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