The View from Madrid

The awards of the XI Biennial of Spanish Architecture and Urbanism were announced early this month. The event is organized by the central ...

A landmark show, still on view through May 15: América Fría: Geometric Abstraction in Latin America (1934–1973) at the Juan March Foundation...

My article on a house in the small Portuguese city of Leiria by the architects Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus is the cover story in this ...

Color in Spanish architecture is the theme of a long article I've written for the latest issue of the Russian biannual journal Speech ....

My news story and analysis on Eduardo Souto de Moura, recipient of the 2011 Pritzker Prize, Why Souto de Moura Won the Pritzker , appears to...

I write on Antón García-Abril's Truffle House, the latest of his experiments in heavy construction, in the March issue of the Viennese j...

Two recent articles in Bauwelt and Speech feature a nursery by Alejandro Muñoz Miranda near Granada where colored glass plays a central rol...

In a post on January 4th I discussed the court case on Santiago Calatrava's unrealized project for a waterside opera in Palma de Mallor...

The March issue of Gentleman , now on the newsstands in Spain, has a major feature on upcoming projects by Jean Nouvel. The Louvre in Abu Dh...

Tomorrow, Tuesday February 8, I will give a talk as part of the Workshop on Architecture and Communications organized by the VII Ibero-Ameri...

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 ...