Luis Fernández-Galiano   The Middle Kingdom is the Country of the Center. For its people, China is Zhongguo, and this central country is today the geopolitical heart of the world. The powerful ascent of China has transformed the panorama left at the end of the Cold War three

Archi-Union Architects   China   Based on the combination of vernacular methods and materials and digital techniques, the bamboo village represents a natural, artisanal, and socioeconomic utopia.

DnA_Design and Architecture   China   Dedicated to Wang Jing – an imperial scholar of the Ming Dynasty who was chief editor of the Yongle Encyclopedia –, the memorial hall is inserted into the traditional town center of Wang village, which is quite run-down and threatened by neglect and

Trascending the clichés of globalization and exoticism, a new generation of Chinese architects shows its firm commitment to material tradition and modern language alike. 

SUP Atelier   China   The remains of the courtyard of an old house are reused in the construction of a new multipurpose civic space that is constructed using local bamboo, in keeping with the buildings around it.

Specific Architects, Unit Architects   China   The astronomical park, whose buildings are executed with locally produced gray brick, combines two seemingly contradictory conditions: the static and the dynamic.

Atelier Deshaus    China   Built in reinforced concrete, the contemporary art museum goes up as the central element in a new cultural park that recovers an old industrial area in the city of Taizhou.

West-line Studio   China   Raised to preserve the historical legacy of the Miao ethnic minority group, the cultural center combines vernacular know-how with contemporary techniques of building with stone.

ArchStudio    China   Organized around a central courtyard, the four enclosed pavilions that make up this building for the processing of organic food are covered with translucent polycarbonate panels.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The author of ‘Design for the Real World’ is remembered with an exhibition in Gehry’s building for Vitra which stresses the continued critical relevance of his work.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   London’s Royal Academy houses a retrospective on Renzo Piano which is announced on the outside with a ‘gerberette’ from the Centre Pompidou.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Four years later, the fifteen small books making up the catalog of the Venice Biennale directed by Koolhaas have been republished in a larger and thicker single volume, a titanic endeavor that will surely bring to mind the mythical S,M,L,XL of 1995.

Josean Ruiz Esquíroz   Marcel Breuer died only twenty days before the opening, in July 1981, of his retrospective exhibition at the MoMA in New York. With postmodernity in bloom, his work was lambasted for its unrepentant modernity. Neither as a student at the Bauhaus nor

Jacobo García-Germán   Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza was one of the most important Spanish architects of the second half of the 20th century, yet because his work has not been analyzed much, all we have had is a history told in fragments and legends. A new monograph now p

Justo Isasi   Professor Forster’s study on the German architect and his art is written with deep admiration and exquisitely edited with nostalgia, with a deployment of small illustrations of a slight sepia tone; the only concession to current tastes is in the thi

Miguel Fernández-Galiano   In schools of architecture, students are not taught how to execute renovations. This kind of work, disdained for years in schools and by the great representatives of contemporary architecture who teach there, has become the bread and butter of a prof

Arquitectura-G   Spain   To maintain the sense of a continuous space without sacrificing funcionality, the partitions and furniture-couches never touch the ceiling and walls; a painstaking palette of materials and tones defines the complex.

TEd’A arquitectes   Spain   Continuity between old and new is manifested through the 1-centimeter joints of the floor, made with white cement and an aggregate of reddish particles obtained from grinding the original hydraulic tiles. 

Langarita Navarro   Spain   Minimal interventions like the creation of a loft and the placement of furniture define the spaces of the dwelling without eliminating features that gave the place character, such as the large window and the wooden floors. 

Elii   Spain   Divided into an L-shaped private band and a main zone, the dwelling presents two levels connected by a furniture-staircase that delimits the areas and makes it possible to make the most of the avilable space.

Josean Ruiz Esquíroz, Marta Muñoz Martín   Spain   This conversion of an industrial space into a studio-house is located in the vicinity of Madrid Río. Because of lack of thermal insulation, the first decision was to create a second enclosure of glass, separate from the outer wall. The resulting pass

Peter Zumthor   United Kingdom   This rental vacation house – the Swiss architect’s first permanent construction within the United Kingdom – is located in Devon County, in a beautiful southern English landscape of meadows and trees. The house replaces a residence that was demolished

A year ago, like a dormant volcano suddenly awakening and erupting, the voices of women rang throughout the world in the heat of a perfect hashtag, #MeToo. The denouncement of sexual harassment by a number of Hollywood actresses broke out of its loca

The jury of the first Leon Battista Alberti Prize, formed by representatives of the Politecnico di Milano, the Alberti Foundation, and Mantua City Hall, has unanimously voted to hand the award to the Portuguese architect João Carrilho da Graça, ackno

The firm of Thomas Heatherwick, known for the artistic stamp he is so good at giving his buildings and installations, has in London’s King’s Cross neighborhood just completed the Coal Drops Yard shopping center. This place was a complex of 19th-centu

Not without some controversy in France and Spain alike (from his stand in El País, Fernando Savater – a big fan of the turf world – expressed his nostalgia for the old building), the renovated Longchamp Racecourse was recently completed. Long a

Anyone able to look back on the times when Zaha Hadid was still an ‘underground’ architect will easily manage to see the recently opened Napoli Afragola Station as an exaggerated materialization of the project with which the Iraqi-British architect w

Barcelona has officially opened the latest segment of line 9 of its metropolitan raiway system, to which the team formed by Jordi Garcés, Daria de Seta, and Anna Bonet has contributed three stations: Amadeu Torner, Parc Logístic, and Mercabarna. Each

A posthumous work of the architect Antonio Jiménez Torrecilla, who passed away in 2015, has been inaugurated: the Alcázar Genil station of the Metro of Granada. Characterized by the particular povera and at the same time minimalist image that its aut

The author of the ‘four wells and a pond’ built around the Botín Centre building by the water in Santander, Cristina Iglesias – the winner of Spain’s National Visual Arts Award in 1999 – has been invited by the foundation of the Cantabrian banking in

Focusing on the body and the presence of collective memory, the work of the Barcelona-born artist Jaume Plensa will be viewable firsthand through an exhibition and an urban piece in Madrid. The Reina Sofía Museum will until 3 March 2019 present at th

Madrid has a new gallery, called ‘Espacio SOLO,’ which will showcase the cross between different contemporary artistic fields. Taking up an entire floor of the historical building that stands at Plaza de la Independencia 5, a work of the architect Se

Flavio Tejada   For centuries the construction of cities has been the fruit of consensus among a few agents. Investors, hand in hand with political powers-that-be, raised urban districts under the dictates of urban planners giving bullet-point answers to the challen