In the mid-1930s Richard Neutra designed and built the Von Sternberg house, whose client was the famous Austrian-born film…
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Von Sternberg House by Richard Neutra. Photograph by J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2004.R.10)
French studio Dominique Perrault Architecture was chosen to manage the transformation of La Poste du Louvre, an ambitious project to…
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Transformation of the Poste du Louvre by Dominique Perrault Architecture. Photograph by Michel Denancé
With the death of the architect Genaro Alas (1926-2021) a great loss is suffered in modern Madrid architecture. Alas was an architect closely related to some…
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Monky Coffee Factory (1960) by Genaro Alas and Pedro Casariego. Photograph by Uria foto, courtesy of Juan Casariego
Next, to know more about the 2021 Pritzker Prize Winner, we delve more deeply into the successful and extensive…
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FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais by Lacaton & Vassal. Photograph courtesy of Philippe Ruault
I read Aynd Rand's book being very young, in an old leather-lined edition, and it was very inspiring for me. Actually it was for all architects of a time, and it still is, but now with longing.

I say longing because the figure of Howard…
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Von Sternberg House by Richard Neutra (1935). Photograph by J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2004.R.10)
After the end of the Second World War and its disastrous consequences, American society tries to recover the illusion through an optimistic vision of life. The exaltation of the triumph in the war and the growth of the middle classes requesting…
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Norm's Restaurant on La Cienega. Photograph by Jack Laxer
Lola Álvarez Bravo was born on April 3 in the Mexican state of Jalisco and died at the age of 90 in Mexico City on July 31, 1993. She was one of the most important…
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Lola Álvarez Bravo. Photograph by Lola Álvarez Bravo
Helen Levitt , a New York photographer born in a southern Brooklyn neighborhood called Bensonhurst. She was one of the best photographers of the last century, specializing in…
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Three figures on a stoop, New York City, by Helen Levitt (1939)
"A machine-made shape is no less beautiful than a hand-made one"1. Cuban, architect, designer, artist, professor, scholar and art lover among many qualities describe this unique woman who excelled in architecture and design especially in Cuba and…
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Exhibition "Clara Porset: Design and Thought" by Museo Jumex