The View from Madrid

From time to time I publish long out-of-print articles on back-dated pages of this blog. The latest is my 1993 critical-historic look at Ne...

Luis Fernández Galiano has organized a series of lectures this fall at the Juan March Foundation by Norman Foster, Rem Koolhaas, Herzog + D...

News brief: Jørn Utzon's 1971 Can Lis house in Mallorca will open this fall as a study center dedicated to the architect, reports SCALAE...

News brief Two outdoor stages for the Papal visit to Madrid in mid-August ("World Youth Day") are designed by Madrid architect ...

El País published an interview yesterday with Eduardo Souto de Moura, including some interesting comments on the relation of his work to S...

Update on the FAD Prizes, whose finalists were announced in my May 14th blog entry: The top architecture prize was given ex aequo to M...

One of the more interesting projects in Madrid's excellent public housing program of the last decade is the subject of my latest article...

In September 2009 I reported in Architectural Record on the court case to halt construction of the new central library for the University ...

Here's a scoop from the Architectural Record web page : art critic Michael Kimmelman will be the new chief  architecture critic at The ...

The July issue of Architectural Record is dedicated to new museum buildings. In addition to my article on the Archaeological Museum by Franc...

  The cover story in this month's Architectural Record is my report on Francisco Mangado's Archaeological Museum of Álava in Vitori...

The calender spins round and round and years spin by, and now the finalists for the 2011 FAD Awards have been announced. For the full list s...

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 ...