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At the end of last summer, when the summer heat became more unbearable, a group of publications drew attention to the change of ownership of premises at number 55 Jorge Juan Street in Madrid, where a work, practically unknown, is located a few…
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![Brutalist Shoe Gallery by Paco Alonso. Photograph by Javier de Paz García Brutalist Shoe Gallery by Paco Alonso. Photograph by Javier de Paz García](/sites/default/files/styles/mopis_home_news_desktop/public/lead-images/metalocus_paco-alonso_zapateria_50_p.jpg?h=3b4e7bc7&itok=DUeEqVmo)
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 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](/sites/default/files/styles/mopis_home_news_desktop/public/lead-images/metalocus-zafos-xagoraris-the-concession-2018-19-outdoor-installation-photo-by-ugo-carmeni_01_p.jpg?h=3b4e7bc7&itok=uapqjQwi)
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. Courtesy of Estudio Campo Baeza](/sites/default/files/styles/mopis_home_news_desktop/public/lead-images/metalocus_alberto_campo_baeza_entre_catedrales_01_p.jpg?h=92c4ac38&itok=jFWZyyaT)
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 y Brandt, directors of the Bauhaus Metal Workshop](/sites/default/files/styles/mopis_home_news_desktop/public/lead-images/metalocus_taller-metales_bauhaus_p.jpg?h=3b4e7bc7&itok=GBIwn5ec)
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's "The Century is Over, Evolutionary Tree of Twentieth-Century Architecture" diagram. Image courtesy of Charles Jencks](/sites/default/files/styles/mopis_home_news_desktop/public/lead-images/metalocus_charlesjencks_muere_02_p.jpg?h=3b4e7bc7&itok=9wP7BNrW)
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 (1897-1983), teacher and director of the textile workshop of the Bauhaus](/sites/default/files/styles/mopis_home_news_desktop/public/lead-images/metalocus_gunta-stolzl_23_p_0.jpg?h=9fc0719f&itok=b2PTPlbD)
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 Miralles during the interview, 1999. Photograph by José Juan Barba](/sites/default/files/styles/mopis_home_news_desktop/public/lead-images/metalocus_cronospaces_miralles_p.jpg?h=ab8fed04&itok=UmmljUct)
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 (1901-1976), student at the Bauhaus in Berlin](/sites/default/files/styles/mopis_home_news_desktop/public/lead-images/metalocus_annemarie_2p.jpg?h=d84c6215&itok=28xH-FPF)
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 and Billie Tsien at their agency in New York, 2019. Photograph by The Japan Art Association / The Sankei Shimbun](/sites/default/files/styles/mopis_home_news_desktop/public/lead-images/metalocus-tod-williams-billie-tsien-a-agence-a-new-york_01_p.jpg?h=3b4e7bc7&itok=Pden8zMQ)