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Ovoid chinoiserie

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Headquarters of China National Grand Theatre. Paul Andreu, 2007. Image: Randomwire, Guerra. In some cases, its very construction is a major event media, attracting the attention of very many people through media. Ley y Palop [...]

Architectures of Austerity

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By Federico García Barba Cabaña refuge in Fichtelberg. AFF Architekten, 2009. Photos: Sven Fröhlich

We live in times when the full limits of our habitat near and far have already found an accurate way. The planet has become so in a finite space that offers a [...]

Private-Public

A personal reflection on what happened to the Spanish Architecture By Oscar Tenreiro

Barajas Airport, Madrid. Central space Departures Terminal T-4. Architects: Lamela y Rogers Patnership

The current European crisis, how hard has touched Spain, us think, again, on the distances [...]

The architecture of the African elites

By Federico García Barba

Villa Mercure, Dakar. Koffi & Diabate Architects, 2003

In Europe it is usually topical African vision, a continent of enormous natural wealth, with highly unequal societies and devastated by extreme poverty. Probably, is a reflection of our radical ignorance of the realities [...]