El Palacio Nacional

A detailed study and documentation of one of the most noted architects in Chile from the 1920s to the 1970s. The study puts his work into context of the social environment of Chile during those years. The architecture of Munizaga encompassed residential, commericial and public buildings that included theaters and multi-family dwellings.

La obra de Rafael Iglesia (1952-2015) ha sido extensamente difundida. No obstante, de la copiosa labor crítica dedicada a su producción se recorta un campo escasamente explorado: su programa creativo. Para abordarlo, Claudio Solari hace uso de la definición que Paul Valéry hiciera de poética como acción que hace y que atiende a los dos movimientos que concurren en igual medida en los trabajos de Iglesia: el de la contradicción y el error, y el del orden y la concentración. El trabajo devela una construcción poética en Iglesia que, según la hipótesis del autor, se funda en...

A selection of the most prominent works of architecture selected by El Croquis with an introduction by Juan Antonio Cortés and an essay by William Curtis. Among the works are the Sendai Mediatheque by Toyo Ito, the Yokohama International Port Terminal by Foreign Office Architects, the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin by OMA-Rem Koolhaas, the Braga Municipal Stadium by Eduardo Souto de Moura, the Prada Aoyama Epicenter by Herzog & De Meuron, the Scottish Parliament building by EMBT, the Monastery of Our Lady of Novy Dvur by John Pawson, the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art expansion by Steven Holl,...

"Taking over the baton from their mentor and friend Eduardo Chillida, the architects Juan Carlos Sancho (San Sebastián, 1957) and Sol Madridejos (Madrid, 1958) have pursued a sensitive dialectic between matter and void that lies at the foundations of a fertile formal laboratory, one where the fold is an instrument with great potential in the attainment of structural, spatial, and material coherence. In these pages Arquitectura Viva presents a selection of four Spanish works – ranging from a small chapel to a large educational complex – in which the duo composes variations on the same...