The View from Madrid

On the newstands in Spain: in the February issue of Arquitectura y Diseño, I publish an article on six Spanish wineries. In addition to the...

In the latest issue of Bauwelt I report on the Alicante-based Aranea Group's high school in the town of Rafal, Alicante.The young archi...

As the first completed section of Peter Eisenman's long-awaited City of Culture in Santiago de Compostela is set for its official inau...

Note: For an update on this entry, see 03.03.11 post . After a number of ongoing investigations into major political corruption scandals r...

The Niemeyer Cultural Center speeds towards completion in the northern port city of Avilés, in Asturias. To celebrate Niemeyer's 103rd ...

In Architectural Record' s Design Vanguard issue this December I write about Patricia Meneses and Iván Juárez , two architects from Me...

If you want to see whom I've nominated architect of the year in Gentleman's roundup of great Ladies and Gentleman, rush to the news...

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...