Writings: Spain

I have gathered a few articles long out of print, many published previously only in Spanish or German. 
All texts are protected by copyright.


THE DIRECTED SETTLEMENT OF CAÑO ROTO
A landmark project of public housing in the impoverished Madrid of the 1950s.
db - Deutsche Bauzeitung, June 1992, pages 95 - 100.

ALEJANDRO DE LA SOTA
Portrait of the Spanish master on his 80th birthday.
Bauwelt 31, October 15, 1993, page 2094.

THE ARCHITECT IN TIME
Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza
Portrait of another monumental figure of Spanish architecture.
Bauwelt 42, November 8, 1996, page 2,388.

PUBLIC HOUSING SERIES
The seeds for the building bubble of the aughts are seen in the efforts to confront high housing costs in an ambitious national housing program of the 90s.
Bauwelt 28, July 25, 1997, cover, pages 1576 - 1599.

• The Discrete Charm of the Patio-Block
• The Crisis of the PSV
• The Grand Socialist Design

THE BOMBINGS IN MADRID
 A reflection on architecture and terrorism after the March 11th bombings.

Architectural Record webpage
Posted April 12, 2004


BILBAO NOTEBOOK
Inauguration, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
db - Deutsche Bauzeitung, December 1997, pages 22 - 23.

EXCESSES AND ENTHUSIASMS
A critical critique of Santiago Calatrava's Auditorium in Tenerife
In the Cause of Architecture series
Architectural Record webpage, posted February 2004.


BATTLES IN THE HILLS
Making Architecture at a Territorial Scale
Review of projects in Galicia: City of Culture (Peter Eisenman), University of Vigo (Miralles Tagliabue), Presidency, Santiago, and Castro de Elviña, La Coruña (Manuel Gallego).
Obradoiro 31, College of Architects of Galicia), 2005.

Architecture, territory, settlement and society. 

PORTRAIT OF OLD MADRID, SUMMER 1989

 

This article, long in the writing and intended as part of a book on my adapted city that I later thought better about completing, was an exercise of immersion as a newcomer in Spain, taking the idea of Paolo Portoghesi's genius loci as a literary strategy. The photographs were taken by Melchor Sarasketa as part of the project, and are used with his permission.