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Study Design Bauhaus en'la working staff. Walter Gropius, 1923

Teaching has imagined architecture through exhibitions is a very persuasive to get these ideas can become reality. At present such a strategy that the architects have exercised for centuries is what is [...]

Obituary. Clorindo Testa 1923-2013

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By Fredy Massad and Alicia Guerrero Yeste *

Bank of London and South America, Buenos Aires. Clorindo Testa, 1966

Testa was a reference of modern architecture Argentina. Influenced by European architects like Le Corbusier, had a deep creative imagination.

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The extinction of the architects

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Ostrich pillow by Kawamura-Ganjavian for Studio Banana

A Spanish architects of my generation has invaded the melancholy. After six long years of crisis in the construction sector, we can not understand yet how completely gone here a sector that had given us a task to the [...]

Zumthor's Wisdom

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The enigmatic interior of the Therme Vals. Peter Zumthor. Graubunden 1996

As time passes there are new and numerous accolades and awards which aim to recognize the professional and artistic merit. Apparently, it is thus support the valuable work in many disciplines but also indirectly magnify [...]

Arquiscopio. A first anniversary

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View of the south facade of the Library of Utrecht. Wiel Arets, 2004. The image that started this project

Exactly one year ago today we started this communication platform on architecture in Spanish. It is an occasion to celebrate and think about what made. Thus, want to reflect [...]

Find the silence

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By Alicia Guerrero Yeste *

Capilla del Illinois Institute of Technology. Eero Saarinen, 1955. Image: Jules

Currently in most of our cities, the presence of religious buildings has a historic spiritual symbolism. Undeniably cathedrals, churches, chapels ... remain faithful to many sacred space, not [...]

The villa Malaparte

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On a text of Wiel Arets

Casa Malaparte. Gabrielle Basilico, 1982

Twenty years ago and, today recognized the Dutch architect Wiel Arets make an incisive description of the Villa Malaparte by Adalberto Libera. A strange house in a location impossible on the island of Capri. This reflection is Arets [...]

Brands and Architecture

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By Federico García Barba

Inside the IBM Pavilion at the World Fair in New York. Eeero Saarinen and Charles Eames, 1964

The latest evolution of capitalism has made the architecture to be integrated as a substantial part of the marketing efforts of those companies and cities that try [...]

The disappearance of Maspalomas Oasis

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Major Indoor Lobby Hotel Oasis. Maspalomas, Gran Canaria. Corrales and Molezún collaboration with De la Peña. 1964

Modern Architecture held in Spain is constantly in danger because society and our public representatives are not aware of the cultural value that certain buildings have been contributing to [...]

On the teaching of architecture

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Engraving Friedrich Schinkel for his project for Berlin Bauakademie 1836

Here today share an interesting reflection of our Venezuelan counterpart Oscar Tenreiro about the meaning of the teaching of architecture.

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