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15/03/2018
Founder of the architectural firm Llatas and a teacher at the UPC (Peruvian University of Applied Sciences), Enrique Llatas has created the non-profit Fundación Marte with the mission of giving a second life to models after they have served their purpose in academics...
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14/03/2018
The New York Times
But four women who have worked for Mr. Meier — and another who met him when he was working on the Getty — have described encounters when the architect was...
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12/03/2018
A Silver Lion was awarded to Nigerian architect Kunlé Adeyemi and his studio NLÉ, who transported their Makoko Floating School to the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016. Then, the Makoko Floating School collapsed...
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10/03/2018
The Guardian
Rome, one of Europe’s most traffic-clogged cities and home to thousands of ancient outdoor monuments threatened by pollution, plans to ban diesel cars from the centre by 2024...
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06/03/2018
Curbed
Catalan architect, curator and educator Eva Franch i Gilabert has been elected director of the Architectural Association school in London...
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02/03/2018
The Guardian
The number of cities getting at least 70% of their total electricity supply from renewable energy has more than doubled since 2015...
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02/03/2018
Arquitectura Viva has donated to the Norman Foster Foundation a complete collection of its publications, which includes all the issues edited up to date of its three magazines: AV Monographs, Arquitectura Viva, and AV Proyectos, in circulation since 1985, 1988 and 2004...
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22/02/2018
The Guardian
It’s a simple idea: strip CO2 from the air and use it to produce carbon-neutral fuel. But can it work on an industrial scale?...
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14/02/2018
The fifth temporary MPavilion, for the Queen Victoria Gardens, in the centre of Melbourne’s Southbank Arts Precinct, will be designed by Spanish architect and educator Carme Pinós of Estudio Carme Pinós, Barcelona...
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08/02/2018
Pop-Up City
Dutch social renters wanting to move to a new apartment can now use an app to swap houses with other renters. One precondition, both renters need to ‘like’ each other’s...
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07/02/2018
The Architects Newspaper
The Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) has approved demolition of the lobby at Philip Johnson and John Burgee’s postmodern tower at 550 Madison Avenue in New York...
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07/02/2018
The New York Times
David Adjaye has named Mariam Kamara his protégé as part of a new mentorship program sponsored by Rolex...
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02/02/2018
Discourse of Rafael Moneo upon receiving the inaugural Soane Medal.
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31/01/2018
2010 Pritzker Laureate Sejima Kazuyo is the co-founder of Toyko-based SANAA, alongside Nishizawa Ryue, which opened in 1995. She is also a professor at Polytechnic University of Milan, University of Applied Arts Vienna; Keio University, Tokyo...
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29/01/2018
The Guardian
The Guggenheim Museum proposed lending Maurizio Cattelan’s America after turning down a request for Landscape With Snow...
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27/01/2018
Los Angeles Times
Visitors who come at all hours every day to marvel at architect Frank Gehry's gleaming Walt Disney Concert Hall routinely turn their backs on the eyesore across Grand Avenue...
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23/01/2018
Lord Foster of Thames Bank O.M. has been appointed President of the Royal Fine Art Commission Trust, with effect from 15 January 2018. Announcing the appointment the charity's Chairman, Lord Palumbo, said...
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18/01/2018
The Guardian
When Patrik Schumacher, who took over as head of Zaha Hadid Architects after its legendary founder’s death in early 2016...
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15/01/2018
The Guardian
Stone building used by influential German artist Kurt Schwitters may be sold due to lack of funds to maintain it, owners say...
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14/01/2018
The Guardian
From Britain to China to Mali, new maps showing travel times to the nearest urban centre reveal huge differences between countries...
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11/01/2018
Curbed
A late-period building by Frank Lloyd Wright in Whitefish, Montana, is expected to be demolished after a last-minute buyer didn’t come forward in time...
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07/01/2018
Curbed
The circular Norman Lykes Home is back on the market in Phoenix. Designed just before his death in 1959...
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05/01/2018
Through a selection of Pezo von Ellrichshausen’s buildings, paintings, drawings, photographs, and scale models, the lecture explores the fundamental—yet diffuse—distinction between presence and representation...
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31/12/2017
Rolling Stones
The inventors, entrepreneurs and disrupters who are changing (and maybe saving) the world one brilliant idea at a time include profiles from architect Elon Musk to ciberactivist Simona Levi...
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28/12/2017
The Guardian
The book "Ethiopia´s Living Churches" gathers an important amount of religious architecture examples of one of the first cultures to adopt Christianity...
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21/12/2017
“Great buildings blatantly express their true essence to the world.” The lauded Danish architect Bjarke Ingels here shares his personal story and his bold approach to architecture, which he feels should always be playful, generous and empathetic.
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14/12/2017
CityLab
You can learn a lot about an area just from the cars parked on its streets. If you walk through a city and see more pickup trucks than sedans parked on the side of the road...
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13/12/2017
Albuquerque Journal
Predock recently donated the Downtown property where he once lived and practiced to University of New Mexico (UNM) – the school that helped turn the once-budding...
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09/12/2017
The Guardian
The Copan Building in São Paulo, Oscar Niemeyer’s colossal curving structure, has flourished thanks to the efforts of its fabled administrator...
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06/12/2017
The Washington Post
The world generates at least 3.5 million tons of solid waste a day, 10 times the amount a century ago, according to World Bank researchers. If nothing is done, that figure...
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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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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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