The View from Madrid

Documents Arquitectura Viva has published some of the debates of the International Congress Architectue: More for Less organized last J...

The legendary columnist of El País (who is by no means an architectural philistine), has this to say about the consecration of Gaudi's n...

Works on Paper, Models & Sculpture . A rare show on a fascinating figure in Mexican art and architecture at the Caja Negra Gallery in ...

Two of my articles have come out in glossy Spanish magazines this past week. The first focuses on Francisco (Patxi) Mangado's Centro Híp...

My story on Gunnar Birkert's Latvian National Library ran in the news section of Architectural Record 's web page this week, and a...

As I announced in July , the winners of the annual FAD Awards were presented this month in Barcelona. The Architecture Prize went to the ...

Norman Foster and Luis Fernández-Galiano have organized a show in Madrid titled "Bucky Fuller & Spaceship Earth" that include...

Record Interiors , Architectural Record's September issue dedicated to interior design, features my cover story on the Crusch Alba lof...

Today I renew my collaboration with the cultural supplement Babelia of the Spanish daily El País. The story is a report on the latest pub...

David Cohn The Panoramic Eye Llotja Theater and Convention Center, Lleida (Lérida), Spain. Mecanoo Architects, Delft. architektur.aktu...

In the latest issue of the bi-annual Russian journal Speech, dedicated to the theme of sustainable design and the future, I interview Iñaki...

Arquitectura Viva reports the death of José Antonio Corrales, 88, one of the pioneers of postwar Modernism in Spain ( in Spanish ). I was ...

Barcelona's annual FAD Awards, promoted by the Foment de les Arts Decoratives Association, aka Arquinfad, have announced their finalists...

DOCOMOMO Public Places and New Programs La Arqueria - Nuevos Ministerios Paseo de la Castellana, 67 Tues. - Sat. 10-2, 5-9 Sundays, h0l...

This June Madrid was the site for the European edition of the Solar Decathlon, a competition between teams from 17 universities to design an...