Back in 1989, the Italian philosopher Emanuele Severino wrote a pivotal book, “il Giogo”. Aeschylus is discussed as a thinker whose character Prometheus utters the following words: “I can bear everything because I have foreseen the future; and since…
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Zafos Xagoraris, The Concession, 2019 Outdoor installation (reconstruction of a gate on Makronisos attached with clamps to the entrance of the Greek Pavilion), dimensions variable (clamp system design: Zafos Xagoraris and Katerina Stefanidaki). Pavilion of Greece at the 58th International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia. Photograph by Ugo Carmeni

Greek Pavilion: A Peripheral Viewpoint at last!

The architect Alberto Campo Baeza (1946) awarded with the Gold Medal of Architecture, the most prestigious recognition of the…
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Alberto Campo Baeza. Courtesy of Estudio Campo Baeza

Alberto Campo Baeza, awarded with the Gold Medal of Architecture

This year it is the centenary of the Bauhaus, an event to remember why this German school became so important, so…
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Itten, Moholy-Nagy, Wagenfeld y Brandt, directors of the Bauhaus Metal Workshop

Itten, Moholy-Nagy, Wagenfeld and Brandt, directors of the Bauhaus Metal Workshop

Charles Jencks, the noted architectural historian, landscape designer and cultural theorist has died aged 80, at his home in London night sunday.

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Charles Jencks's "The Century is Over, Evolutionary Tree of Twentieth-Century Architecture" diagram. Image courtesy of Charles Jencks

Charles Jencks, historian of post-modern architecture and landscape designer, dies aged 80

Gunta Stölzl is one of the most important figures of the…
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Gunta Stölzl (1897-1983), teacher and director of the textile workshop of the Bauhaus

Gunta Stölzl, teacher and director of the textile workshop of the Bauhaus

The following article is reproduced exactly how it was published on the website "Homenaje a Enric Miralles" (Homage to Enric Miralles) directed and coordinated by Eduardo Almalé, on…
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Miralles during the interview, 1999. Photograph by José Juan Barba

Enric Miralles. Cronospaces

Annemarie Wilke, an architect training at the Bauhaus in Berlin (Germany), between 1929 and 1932. After finishing her…
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Annemarie Wilke (1901-1976), student at the Bauhaus in Berlin

Annemarie Wilke, student at the Bauhaus in Berlin

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) named Ensamble…
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Ensamble Studio DOMO, Structures of Landscape, 2016. Photograph by Iwan Baan

Ensamble Studio winners of 2019 RIBA Charles Jencks Award

Japan's art and architecture prize, the Praemium Imperiale, announced the newest round of laureates with the award in the Architecture category going to…
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Tod Williams and Billie Tsien at their agency in New York, 2019. Photograph by The Japan Art Association / The Sankei Shimbun

Tod Williams & Billie Tsien new 2019 Praemium Imperiale

In this cordial conversation, two relevant figures of architecture – the Swiss Pritzker Prize-winning Jacques Herzog…
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Jacques Herzog Meets Tatiana Bilbao: Everybody Deserves a Decent Home

Jacques Herzog Meets Tatiana Bilbao: Everybody Deserves a Decent Home