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23/04/2018
Time
Elizabeth Diller is the only architect named on Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people of 2018...
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23/04/2018
An immersive and meditative documentary that reveals how the revolutionary landscape designer, Piet Oudolf, upends our conventional notions of nature, public space, and, ultimately, beauty itself...
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19/04/2018
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...
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09/04/2018
Today, 9 April 2018, being the centenary of the birth of Jørn Utzon, we reproduce the introduction of the monograph we have devoted to the Danish master, which will be released for sale this week.
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03/04/2018
Curbed
Bitcoin’s young investors put their digital currency to work in the physical world. Today, listings from one coast to another tout Bitcoin as a way to make a property transaction...
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30/03/2018
Hyperallergic
More than a dozen demonstrators entered the Louvre museum in Paris and laid down in front of Theodore Géricault’s iconic oil painting The Raft of Medusa, in protest of the company Total...
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28/03/2018
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Lee has taught at Harvard GSD since 2013 and was recently named Professor in Practice of Architecture, an appointment that also will take effect July 1, 2018. Lee is a principal...
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28/03/2018
The Guardian
Critics claim the reforms disproportionately affect the cities’ poorest. Tens of thousands of migrants were forced out of Beijing as part of a government crackdown on illegal housing...
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25/03/2018
The Guardian
Projections suggest cities will swell at an astonishing pace – but whether that means our salvation or an eco-disaster is by no means certain...
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16/03/2018
The New York Times
When the architect Tatiana Bilbao was commissioned to design a house for Mexico’s poorest rural communities, her team was three months into the work before...
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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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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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