 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, and support is valuable work in many disciplines but also indirectly magnify the role of patronage who stimulates. However, and because of their seriousness and consistency, just some among these distinctions acquire real value truly important to spread paths. As with the Medal of the Royal Architecture Institute of British Architecture British awarded annually since 1848 and this year was awarded to Peter Zumthor.
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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 with you, our readers, about the events and ideas we have for the future.
Follow leyendo Arquiscopio. A first anniversary
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, however, has had to learn to live in many cases with a dimension of scope for the remainder interest (but not canceled) that quality. Also, is probably also necessary to consider how much of our society oscillates between a contradiction in which, while away unsatisfied traditional forms of religion succumb to materialism and consumerism, nevertheless searching spiritual channels that imbue a sense of their existence.
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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 of Arets was included in a longer text, qualified The invaders of bodies, Content in turn City Invasions,a publication by Arthur Kroker in Vienna in 1994.
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A conversation between Simona Rota, Cruz García y Nathalie Frankowski.
Pictures of the island of Tenerife in the series Instant Village
 Fuerteventura Island. Simona Rota, 2012
In July 2012, the young photographer Simona Rota had a conversation about their photographic ideas with editors of the journal WAI, Cruz García y Nathalie Frankowski. Simona is a great artist who has exhibited his work in many parts of Europe. Among themselves, note is the series Ostalgia, architectures dedicated to little known in Eastern Europe. For several years, also spent a long period of residence in the Canary Islands and then prepare another fundamental set in its trajectory would call Instant Village. That "Instant People" is about those other landscapes that rapid urbanization has occurred that has taken place in these islands over the last half century. Now, has the commitment to publish a book entitled missbehave that aims to show some of their work and that is emerging through funding strategy "crowdfunding”.
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Approaching texts Ortega y Gasset (1).
By José Javier González Alayón.
 Three thresholds. Paul Klee, 1929
Origins of the avant-garde aesthetic principles
The continuous accumulation of artistic production came late nineteenth century until crush artistic inspiration, driving a sharp break which represented the vanguard of early twentieth century. The denial took over and everything new must be seen as an opposition to the old art, the historical thread must be broken. For Ortega was the time when there was a strong Dehumanization of Art. As old art rejection, according to the philosopher, new art part of a "disgust living forms", on different scales, but declared to all discipline Muses fed from the Renaissance with all its sensuality and vitality. The intensity of dehumanization in the artwork was different and proportional to the three categories of elements that make up our world: people, other living organisms and inorganic things. For Ortega, the more vital, banished be more avant-garde art scene.
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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 trying to expand its image on the planet. Building global brands is supported by extensive efforts to accurately define both his physical as verbal and visual. The architecture has been well integrated into one of the categories of effort branding.
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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 providing over the last half century. An example of this is located in Maspalomas Oasis Hotel, island of Gran Canaria and whose protection claims in this article the American critic David Cohn.
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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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By Joaquin Casariego Rámirez *
 Shoreline of Guimar in Tenerife Island
During the sixties of the last century and caused by upward estimate of the urban, hitherto unsuspected, Spanish cities experienced a strong expansion, with widespread and systematic occupation of their peripheries, driven, on the one hand, by official agencies themselves, but sometimes, through individual acquisition of small plots of land, product of fragmentation and urbanization of old farms disabled: in respect to its population more receptive regions, including through the "illegal land occupation" of some of those farms. A modality, latter, that the immigrant population took to output your accommodation, and illegality that neither the buyer nor the seller ignored subdivider-, allowing a transaction but less costly to acquire those parcels.
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