The View from Madrid

Some unnamed wise guys here in Spain have organized the Pretzel Prize to annually recognize the worst in architecture and urbanism. See t...

I've just received issue number 9 of the Russian journal Speech , with my interview with Álvaro Siza and my report on the Interdiscip...

  The Pain in Spain   Under this unfortunate title (as I told my editor, I have been trying to forget that song for well-nigh 45 years), ...

London's Architectural Review sent me to Barcelona this summer to take a look at progress on Antoní Gaudi's Sagrada Familia . I in...

The City of Palma de Mallorca has halted construction on the waterfront Congress Center designed by Francisco Mangado. It made the decision...

The Berlin weekly Bauwelt asked me to report on the cancellation of Rem Koolhaas' Congress Center in Córdoba, as announced by the cit...

I inaugurate my new Canon SLR camera with this photo of Eduardo Torroja's magnificent grandstands for Madrid's racetrack, the Hipo...

My latest feature is just out in Architectural Record :   Musée Jean Cocteau Menton, France Rudy Ricciotti, Architect July 2012 issue ...

This spring I traveled to the town of Alcázar do Sal, 85 kilometers south of Lisbon, to report on this Nursing Home by Francisco and Manu...

Madrid The Arts of Piranesi CaixaForum Madrid Through September 9 In addition to 300 engravings representing the variety of Piranesi...

There's still time to sign up for the Architecture and Society Foundation's next Congress, Lo Común , to be held June 20-22 in Pampl...

Rowan Moore in The Guardian on this summer's Serpentine Pavilion in London by HdM and Weiwei . (Skip-scroll through the intro about how...

Sign a petition for government disclosure of negotiations over EuroVegas organized by change.org . Thanks, José Selgas. (See my blog entr...

Architectural Record is now accepting entries for its 2012 Design Vanguard competition. Entries are due on August 10, 2012 and the winners...

Architectural Record's June issue devotes extensive coverage to the London Olympics, and to London in general. See a list of article...