6 AV Proyectos for 25 euros
23/01/2026

6 AV Proyectos for 25 euros

Enjoy a special offer, to order 6 AV Proyectos magazines for 25 euros (shipping costs aside). You can purchase more than one 6x25 pack by returning to this page. Please contact us with any queries...

Architecture in Chronological Order
14/11/2025

Architecture in Chronological Order

Rafael Moneo   In my hands, the books by Luis Fernández-Galiano – ‘A Tremor in the System’ and ‘Territories of Risk’ – which bring together texts published from 2007 to 2020 and follow on from the previously published volumes ‘The Age of Spectacle’...

27/01/2026

Pola Ginza in Tokyo

Kazuyo Sejima   Japan   The new salon of the Japanese cosmetics brand Pola is in Tokyo’s Ginza neighborhood. Designed by the architect Kazuyo Sejima, co-founder of SANAA, it redefines the beauty flagship as a space of perception...

Highlights

28/01/2026

Divided in Xian

The installation Divided is part of SpY's research into the relationship between body, space, and perception. Through large-scale interventions in the urban fabric, the Spanish artist explores how monumentality and light can transform...

29/01/2026

‘The First Siza’ documentary

O Primeiro Siza is a documentary about the Four Houses, the first built work of Álvaro Siza (Matosinhos, Portugal, 1933), who designed while still a student. It is a reflection on architecture’s impact on people’s lives. Directed by Sara Nunes...

23/01/2026

Reopened historic stretch of Villanueva Tunnel

Following its restoration, the original stretch of the tunnel designed by Juan de Villanueva, in Madrid’s Campo del Moro gardens, has been reopened to the public by Patrimonio Nacional, Spain’s National Heritage organism. It is a unique construction...

16/01/2026

Norman Foster’s time capsule

Norman Foster has designed a time capsule to commemorate the 250th anniversary of US independence. The piece was officially presented in Washington, D.C., by UK Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy...

07/01/2026

Jarmusch and Trier

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Two films that premiered in December are fusions of silence and sentiment. Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother, winner of the Golden Lion of Venice, explores family ties almost wordlessly...

World Tour 2026

For the past three years, the Spain Yearbook has been complemented by a special edition of AV Monographs that is an invitation to travel the world through twelve foreign works presented by Luis Fernández-Galiano, who reflects on the uncertain contemporary landscape. The year has been marked by Donald Trump’s prominence, but there have been other relevant issues on the international level, such as the unstoppable rise of China and the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, and on the national one, with the massive blackout and the summer fires. The buildings of the year include long-awaited landmarks such as Heneghan Peng's...

Foster & Partners

At ninety years of age, Norman Foster still steers his firm at the speed of a cruise liner, without letting its corporate structure blur the signature stamp that makes any of his works unmistakable, however disparate their locations, scales, or programs. Now joining this big family of forms and spaces are a skyscraper in Manhattan for JPMorgan Chase and the Zayed National Museum in Abu Dhabi: two icons which materialize the British architect’s grand ambitions. For its part, this issue’s dossier looks at the work of ten young Portuguese practices that verify a change of attitude in the country’s solid tradition, as the members of fala explain...

Network of Realists

Architecture today must not relinquish either criticism or context. AV Proyectos 132 features seven examples in Northern Europe, such as Studio Muoto's Innovation Hall, Baukunst and Bruther's FRAME building, and Buchner Bründler's Kunsthaus Baselland, which follow this ethic. The article by Jesús Vassallo, architect and professor at Rice University, advocates negotiating with the resources available and maintaining ambitious agendas without the built work losing relevance, andanalyzes the relationship between this new architecture and photography. The latter is also the main theme of our conversation...

Souto de Moura

Eduardo Souto de Moura wraps up the triad that placed Porto in the circuits of global architecture by virtue of honoring vernacular tradition in combination with geometric rigor, constructive precision, and material solidity. Such a sublayer has enabled him to handle types, scales, and strategies with agility, while still stamping an unmistakable mark on his projects. Celebrating his forty-five years of work, Arquitectura Viva presents that same number of projects of his in a 344-page book, hardbound and bilingual (Spanish and English), testimony of a brilliant practice that has been both intensely local and resolutely open to the world...

Other publications

LFA Award 2025

Iñaki Bergera   Architectural photography, especially of the kind that contextualizes architecture in the complexity and heterodoxy of its urban and territorial dimensions, wanted its own internal competition...

The Defense of El Cabanyal

Eduardo Mangada   This book perfectly presents the situation of the coastal district of El Cabanyal in Valencia, in both its physical and social dimensions. A hinge between the city, Cap i Casal, and the sea, this urban slice attached to El Grau...

Serpentine Pavilion 2026

Serpentine Pavilion 2026

LANZA Atelier   The architecture firm LANZA atelier, founded in Mexico City in 2015 by Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo, has been selected to design the 25th temporary pavilion for London's Serpentine Gallery...

Letter from London

Kenneth Frampton   Dear Luis Fernández-Galiano, By way of wishing you a happy New Year, I simply wanted to express how much I appreciate your faithful contribution to architectural culture...

On the Valencia fire

Ricardo Aroca   Ten people have perished in a conflagration which in a matter of minutes wrapped the facades of the fourteen-story building in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia...

Pérgola series of Grupo Ayuso

Grupo Ayuso presents its Pérgola series for terraces and gardens. With mixed aluminum and canvas coverings, it is designed to provide spaces where one can enjoy the open air while being sheltered against adverse weather...

New black PVD finish by Comenza

The Galician company Comenza, which specializes in developing industrialized railing and handrail systems, presents the PVD Black Finish for its GlassFit CC-800 and GlassFit CC-775 glass railings, offering it as an...

10/12/2025

Frank O. Gehry, 1929-2025

Luis Fernández-Galiano   At the age of 96, Frank Owen Gehry died at home in Santa Monica on Friday 5 December. The most popular American architect since Frank Lloyd Wright, who marked a turning point in the art of building with his Guggenheim Bilbao...

06/12/2025

Martin Parr, 1952-2025

What makes Benidorm so different, so appealing? For Martin Parr, who died on 6 December, this middle-class paradise was an inexhaustible source of subjects, equally everyday and kitsch...

05/11/2025

Lars Lerup (1940-2025)

Lars Lerup has died at the age of 85. Dean emeritus at Rice and formerly a professor at Berkeley, the Swedish architect is the author of After the City (2001), which explores the boundaries between nature and culture, and The Life and Death of Objects (2022)...