A small professional assignment has led me these days to find careers with a future. It was my first time. I confess that the information found after a first search, reaches a greater relevance in terms of the trend it draws than in terms of the information itself: upward races vs. declining races, skills vs. vocations, techniques vs. thoughts, practices […]
“What is the Mediterranean? A thousand things at the same time, it is not a landscape, but innumerable landscapes. it is not a sea, but a set of seas.” Fernand Braudel, 1985 The exhibition Imagining the Mediterranean house. Italy and Spain in the 50s on the theme of “the Mediterranean house”, investigating its operational presence in a limited historical environment: […]
There is a Latin maxim “Divide et impera”, which gave good results to the great strategists of history such as Julius Caesar or Napoleon. But this military logic is also one of the foundations of computer science and algorithmic design. A calculation methodology that faces the resolution of a complex problem by cutting it into simpler parts of the same type […]
As the name alludes, this house adopted its nickname from its distinct roof profile. ‘Sierra’ meaning both ‘saw’ and ‘mountain range’ in Spanish. A fortunate coincidence as the house is located between Madrid’s north-westerly neighbourhoods of Mirasierra (look at mountain) and Montecarmelo (Mount Carmel). The shape of the roof is a result of internal spatial requirements. Due to height restrictions, […]
“Formentera was unique. The sea, and a little rock in the sea, and I was on this out-of-the-way little rock where there was nothing. […] Being warm in the winter when it’s cold, keeping cool in the summer when it’s hot and retaining water, that’s all that’s necessary for living. The wind, the sun, the rain, was what I needed, […]
The 1st International Forum of Construction with Wood arrives in Spain, organized by the FORUM HOLZBAU platform. The next International Forum of Construction with Wood, organized by the Forum Holzbau platform, in collaboration with the Chair of Wood of the University of Navarra, will be held on 23 and 24 May 2019 at the Baluarte Conference Center (Pamplona). It is […]
Bicentennial, with the collaboration of the Community of Madrid and the Fondation Beyeler and the support of the Embassy of Switzerland and the Mirabaud Group, presents “Giacometti in the Prado Museum“,”, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, who conceived art as a single and simultaneous place of confluence of past and present time. Although he never traveled […]
The project consists in the transformation of a small business premises into a work space for a travel agency. Amounting to 45 square meters and located on the ground floor of a residential building, the volume of intervention is greater in height than it is in width. The ceiling allows to work up to about five meters in height while […]
Rehabilitation of industrial building and change of use as a cultural association in Móstoles. The project entails the refurbishment of a 940 m2 warehouse located in Móstoles (Madrid) and its conversion into a building that provides spaces for a cultural association and sporting activities for young students. The scheme aims to preserve the existing structure and the industrial character of […]
This 16th edition of the classic ARMED CONCRETE by JIMÉNEZ MONTOYA has tried to keep everything that could be considered essential from the previous editions, dispensing only with what for use or by regulation has become obsolete. This fantastic material has been reviewed, nuanced, complemented and modernized thanks to the work of the two authors who were already from the previous […]
· Candidates should create a workspace focused on a startup. · Students from Architecture Schools of Spain and Portugal may apply to the contest. · The candidates will opt for more than 6,000 euros in prizes and the jury will be made up of notable architects. The multinational Steelcase, specialized in the design of workspaces, has launched the ninth edition […]
The Can Ricart Municipal Sports Complex is a building located in the heart of the south Raval, in Barcelona, an area with important performances in recent years. The equipment is important for the revitalization of the neighborhood in its traditionally more degraded sector, and it has to contribute to the integration of all social sectors inhabitants of the area through […]
The CALL FOR WORKS FOR THE XI IBEROAMERICAN BIENNIAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING IS NOW OPENO (XI BIAU). The biennial will be held in Asunción (Paraguay) in October 2019 and will show the way of living in Latin America from everyday life. Last Monday, December 17th, Casa América was presented, coinciding with the celebration of the II Ibero-American Congress […]
Intervention is a reactive architecture faced to the hostility of urban conditions in the site and to the scheduled mechanicism proper of a lifestyle inherited from the 20th Century modernity. An impersonal crossway with high traffic volume is balanced through a biophilic interior for collective meeting. Being today demands the pass towards metamodernity. The presence of a human being that […]
The plot on which the day center is built, very close and slightly elevated on the course of the river Avia, has a strong natural slope transformed by a system of stepped terraces called socalcos formed by walls of granite masonry, a traditional system very usual in this region of vineyards that allows to have arable land in plots in […]
La nueva Petite Brioche se ubica en el comienzo de la Calle de la Paz, frente a la Plaza Alfonso el Magnánimo, Valencia, en un bajo comercial en esquina, con unas magníficas vistas hacia el parque y el parterre y próximo al centro histórico de la ciudad. El local cuenta con una morfología irregular y una serie de condiciones previas […]
Light and volume work in unison and can be seen through the composition of the pathways of an architectonic work. Le Corbusier, with its uber-known catchphrase, “architecture is the wise game (…) of volumes under the light,” supported the story of an obsession: that of the study of light, its movement, to the point of taking form like a part […]
An exhibition that will present all the works built by Spanish architecture studios and also from the rest of Europe in Spanish territory and which have been nominated for the Prize for Contemporary Architecture of the European Union – Mies van der Rohe Prize. All these works have been highlighted by independent experts and have been analyzed and debated by […]
The past becomes topical dress. The proposal of reform of this house takes us to the second widening of Valencia. Its excellent location is essential for the project, enjoying lighting and views due to its location on the top floor of the building and have two facades. The importance of the project lies in getting a house with spatial amplitude, […]
Large wooden doors closed the patios of the monegrine houses, jealously defending, together with the high plastered walls, the domestic life from the dust and aridity of the desert of Aragon. Big doors that allowed the entry of the wagons and the horses with which the cereals were cultivated, and which, once exceeded, contained all the functions, from the living, […]
Viaplana and Pinón Three architectures is a program focused on the figure of architects of the past and present that have marked trends with their works. This third chapter focuses on the figure of two Catalans: Viaplana and Piñón, professors of Projects of the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona and genuine representatives of a new architecture. Tres arquitecturas es un programa […]
FRONTEiRAS is one of the projects developed by AiPAC (Associaçao Ibérica para a Inovação, Património, Arquitectura e Cultura). Currently, it is framed as a solid catalyst for cross-border activities between Spain and Portugal and gives rise to a tool capable of uncovering and investigating the linkages on both sides of the border. A strategic action that tries to make the political […]
Neither being nor object can be understood in an isolated way. We define ourselves and gain meaning through interactions and frictions, reactions and relationships. Architecture, an object which hosts life, positions itself halfway between entity and artefact, multiplying the means of friction that surround it. Territory and human being begin a dialogue with each other through landscape and architecture, hence […]
This housing in Sanxenxo, appears initially as the second residence to be used as place of meeting. Placed in a plot in earring, with orientation north – south and conference to the ocean. The project seeks to do a domestic piece, compacts on the outside and liberated in the interior. It is located in the highest part of the plot […]
Housing in ground floor in Oleiros’s municipality, which is implanted in the area considering the conditions of item of the plot, understanding the place and looking for the best orientation. The plot has an irregular plant and with a light slope towards his interior, with an access for the zone this one from the road principal one. The access from […]
Concéntrico 04, the International Architecture and Design Festival in Logroño (La Rioja / Spain), arose with the intention of prompting reflection on the city through proposals in architecture and design. The latest edition will be held from 27 April to 1 May 2018. These competitions propose the creation of a temporary architectural intervention at San Bartolomé Plaza and at Viña Lanciano – […]
Villa Slow is a rental holiday retreat in the Natural Park of Valles Pasiegos, in the North of Spain emerging from a stone-ruin within a more than two-hectare terrain of natural landscape. The new home typology is based on a traditional construction of the area called ‘cabaña pasiega’ (peasant cabin) but with a contemporary twist. The strategic location of the […]
After the vacation period we take again the interviews in the section It marks with beacons. In this occasion we move up to Bilbao to chat with Libe Fdez. Torróntegui, arquitecta with posgrado in “Rehabilitation and architectural restoration” for the Technical University of Catalonia (Barcelona, 2012) and founder of reharq*. Drink she is an enthusiast of the communication who works in […]
ARQUITASA es una Sociedad de Tasación HOMOLOGADA por el BANCO DE ESPAÑA, con 30 años de existencia e implantación en todo el territorio español y en varios países latinoamericanos. ARQUITASA está integrada en el grupo empresarial AGIFI, (GIA, en Latinoamérica) junto a las empresas GINPROSA, INZAMAC,FUCTURA e ION, desarrollando, además de sus trabajos de valoración, tasación y avalúos, una labor de CAPACITACIÓN de profesionales, asesoramiento a Administraciones Públicas y empresas privadas, elaboración […]
Documentary presented for La2 of TVE Function and Form – A look to the Design and the Innovation in Spain directed by Benet Román and produced by La Chula Productions and TVE where the spectator across his 59 minutes of duration will realize a tour for the last 50 years of the design in Spain of the hand of some […]