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02/06/2014
The Guardian
The greatest achievement of the designer Massimo Vignelli, who has died aged 83, was to give America a modern look. With its citrus fruit-salad of colour...
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23/05/2014
The Brazilian architect João da Gama Filgueiras Lima has died of prostate cancer at the age of 82. Lelé, as he was called, was born in 1932 in the Encantado neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, the city where he studied architecture...
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10/03/2014
Iñaki Bergera
Last 13 November 2013, shortly after turning 100 years old, it was lucidly and with the same humility and detachment towards...
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20/02/2014
The New York Times
Nancy Holt, a pioneer in the land-art movement of the 1960s and ’70s and the creator of one of the era’s most poetic works — “Sun Tunnels,” four huge concrete...
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14/01/2014
The co-founder of Ushida Findlay Architects has succumbed to a brain tumor at the age of 60. After graduating from the Architectural Association in London, Kathryn Findlay went to Japan and lived there for two decades...
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25/11/2013
The Telegraph
Paul Reichmann , the Canadian tycoon, who has died aged 83, transformed the skyline and economy of London’s Docklands as the creator of Canary Wharf...
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13/11/2013
The Telegraph
Anca Petrescu was the architect who designed the People's Palace - Nicolae Ceausescu’s monstrous monument to totalitarian kitsch...
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05/11/2013
Eduardo Prieto
Not long ago, just a century, beauty was still unanimously considered the gauge for art. Today the art world considers it a fetish, when not an offense...
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25/10/2013
The Guardian
The sculptor Sir Anthony Caro, regarded as one of the leading artists of his generation and represented in museum collections all over the world, has died...
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24/09/2013
The Chilean architect and critic Christian De Groote has passed away at the age of 82. Born in Valdivia in 1931, he studied architecture at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and the Illinois Institute of Technology....
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30/07/2013
The Californian artist Walter De Maria passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 77. The cause of death was a stroke suffered two months ago. Born in Albany in 1935, De Maria studied history and art at...
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17/07/2013
Mark Fisher, the British creator of spectacular stage setups for groups like the Rolling Stones, AC/DC and Pink Floyd, died recently in Hamstead at the age of 66.
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24/06/2013
One of the most prolific Danish architects of the past decades passed away at the age of 87 in his Copenhagen home. Born in 1925, Larsen began his career working with Arne Jacobsen and Jørn Utzon. In 1959 he set up his own practice in the Danish capital ...
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18/04/2013
Los Angeles Times
Pedro Ramirez Vazquez, an architect who changed the face of Mexico City by designing a number of landmark modernist structures, died on Tuesday, his 94th birthday...
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11/04/2013
Buenos Aires Herald
Arquitect and artist Clorindo Testa died today in Buenos Aires at 89 years old, his family reported. The Italian-Argentine architect graduated from... (Photo: Mariana Ruddock)
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10/04/2013
Arizona Daily Star
Italian-born architect Paolo Soleri, who began building a futuristic community called Arcosanti north of Phoenix more than 40 years ago but never completed it, died...
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11/03/2013
The architect and critic Roberto Segre has passed away at age 78, in the Brazilian city of Niterói, after a motorcycle hit-and-run. Born in Milan in 1934, he studied architecture at the University of Buenos Aires and earned doctorates...
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19/02/2013
The New York Times
Balthazar Korab, one of the leading architectural photographers in the period after World War II when Modernist design remade the American landscape...
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14/02/2013
One of the leading Italian photographers of the past forty years has died in Milan at the age of 68. An architect besides a photographer, Gabriele Basilico is known for his studies on urban and industrial landscapes, and...
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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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04/01/2013
The architect and professor Ludwig Leo passed away in Berlin, at the age of 88, on 1st November 2012. Born in Rostock in 1924, Leo belonged to the first generation of professionals who graduated after World...
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14/12/2012
The British architect and critic Alan Colquhoun has died at the age of 91. Born in 1921, Colquhoun studied architecture in Edinburgh and London. He set up practice in 1961 with John Miller, with whom...
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07/12/2012
El Pais
Conocí a Oscar Niemeyer hace tres o cuatro años en Río de Janeiro, pero fui consciente de su extraordinario trabajo hace mucho más tiempo, incluso antes ...
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06/12/2012
Ten days before his 105th birthday and six months after the death of his octogenarian daughter, a leading exponent of modern architecture in Latin America passed away in Rio de Janeiro. Noted for a sensuality that combines the rationality of pure geometric forms
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01/11/2012
La Vanguardia
La arquitecta italiana Gae Aulenti, autora del proyecto de reforma del Museo d'Orsay de París (1980-86), falleció a los 85 años en Milán (norte), informaron hoy los medios locales...
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31/10/2012
Lebbeus Woods, a New York architect who became a cult figure among students and academics for his signature drawings, died on Tuesday at age 72. (The New York Times).
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08/10/2012
El País
El arquitecto Juan José Estellés (Valencia, 1920) falleció esta madrugada en Valencia. Con él se va "un maestro de la arquitectura...
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01/08/2012
El País
La obra de Antoni Gaudí es universal y se puede palpar en sus edificios, en sus muebles, en sus dibujos. Un universo ingente en el que Joan Bassegoda Nonell...
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26/07/2012
Ha muerto en Madrid Darío Gazapo, director del Departamento de Proyectos Arquitectónicos de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la UPM, donde dirigía asimismo el Master de Proyectos Avanzados (Programa de Especialización...
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20/06/2012
El austriaco Günther Domenig ha muerto a los 77 años en Graz, la ciudad donde tenía su estudio, y en cuya Universidad Técnica había sido profesor. Entre sus obras más conocidas se encuentran las...
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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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