Luis Fernández-Galiano   In the blink of an eye, the attention of a world on edge has shifted from Venezuela to Greenland. On 3 January, in a military operation, the United States captured dictator Nicolás Maduro in his stronghold in Caracas, opening a period of uncertainty

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 in three architectural scenes; and Joachim Trier’s Sen

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The Norman Foster Foundation has published two new books, demonstrating its strong commitment to both memory and the future: the sixth of the Sketchbooks continues the series – begun back in 2020 – on drawings selected from the architect’s notebooks;

Luis Fernández-Galiano   In his dismissive response to Polonius, Hamlet questions the value of words. The Fundación del Español Urgente, on the other hand, believes that words define a time and, following the trend that began in Germany in the early 1970s, seeks to crystalli

Luis Fernández-Galiano   From November to March, the Prado Museum is using its two floors of temporary galleries to host monographic exhibitions on Antonio Raphael Mengs (1728–1779) and Juan Muñoz (1953–2001). The painter conventionally labelled Neoclassical is presented in

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, has been eulogized in th

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Holding a vodka martini and playing the gracious host in his loft on Chapel Street during his eighteen years as dean of the Yale School of Architecture: this is the best possible portrait of the architect who on 27 November died in his Manhattan home

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The year, initiated with the return of Donald Trump to the White House and with a key episode in the AI race between US-China was especially dark in a Europe lacking technological companies, unable to defend itself, and with barely any geopolitical i

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Vicente Moreno García-Mansilla has completed an exceptional feat, the interpretation of Paleolithic symbols in cave art as maps of the territory or plans of the caverns they are found in. In a knowledge adventure I have been privileged to follow, fir

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The two superpowers are already digital autocracies. The Chinese authoritarian model, which avoids the electoral cycles of liberal democracies, and which builds safe cities by multiplying facial recognition cameras, offers the countries of the Global

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Two days after hosting the planet’s biggest marathon, New York elected a 34-year-old Muslim socialist as mayor. On that same day, 4 November, the country that is the cultural center of the Islamic world inaugurated the Grand Egyptian Museum, a contro

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Two academics distinguished with the National History Prize have published in 2025 essential books to get to know each other better. The jurist Santiago Muñoz Machado, who received it in 2018 for Hablamos la misma lengua, a political history of Spani

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The two volumes of these Chronicles of the Crisis offer a selection of texts that were written over the period between 1976 and 2020. In the first pair of books, under the title Great Expectations, we put together articles of 1976-1984 (‘Sustainable

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Turning sixty, and after more than twenty-five years working together at the studio they founded in 1998, Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores can make a retrospective assessment that will inevitably be introspective. Both born in 1965, she in Barcelona and

Luis Fernández-Galiano   American cinema examines the state of the nation through two fables that combine farce with grand guignol. Both produced in 2025 and premiered in Spain in September, One Battle After Another is the tenth film of Paul Thomas Anderson (Los Angeles, 197

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Shocked by the urbicides in Ukraine and Gaza, and helpless in the whirlwind of conflicts that is changing the world, perhaps it is time to take a step back and celebrate the civilizing capacity of architecture by turning attention to its origins. The

Luis Fernández-Galiano   On the evening of Friday, October 24, Luis Fernández-Galiano recorded a telephone conversation with the British architect while the latter was waiting at Madrid’s Barajas airport, and he edited the transcript as a monologue. In it, Chipperfield discu

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The Yale emeritus professor of Statistics Edward Tufte has in forty years published five admirable volumes on visual explanations. Written, designed, edited, and published by himself, this pentalogy has earned him the monikers ‘Galileo of graphics’ (

Luis Fernández-Galiano   We have gone over the life of that behemoth of a personality that was Frank Lloyd Wright, who broke the box inside which architecture was locked up through organic works like the Prairie Houses, integrated in the landscape, and who at the same time s

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Le Corbusier was as French as he was Swiss, and as much an artist as an architect. Born in La Chaux-de-Fonds but later naturalized French, he developed an architectural oeuvre that was part of an essentially artistic project. Unlike Mies van der Rohe

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Mies van der Rohe is almost diametrically opposed to Frank Lloyd Wright. Compared with an extravagant personality who left complete works of over 1,000 pages, 12,000 drawings, and 100,000 letters, the twenty years younger Mies was a taciturn German w

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Wright is an architect who was larger than life, and overwhelmingly popular. His tempestuous life has inspired an opera, Shining Brow, and Simon & Garfunkel dedicated a song to him in their mythical album Bridge Over Troubled Water. He left us an ext

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Architecture is a choral art, but weaves around individual trajectories. The 20th century saw modern architecture emerge as a product of technical changes, social transformations, and aesthetic mutations: steel and glass, elevators, or air conditioni

Luis Fernández-Galiano   I first visited the country in 1978, invited by the Chinese Communist Party. It was a moment of transition, Mao having died two years before and with Deng Xiaoping in the process of consolidating his power. In a snowy Beijing we walked through the Fo

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The deceased architect designed the covers of ‘AV’ during its first decade and a half, and in his honor we present one of each of those fifteen years. These covers, which together contributed to forging the visual identity of the monographs, show the

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Museums are not dead, they multiply. After their central role in the economic euphoria of the 1990s, the Great Recession of 2008 and the pandemic of 2020, along with different military and environmental crises, should have transformed the cultural an

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The torrid temperatures of August came with flames and ashes: devastating wildfires that also inflamed impotent spirits and the intimate desolation of losing two friends essential to our history. These material flames and those emotional ashes are mi

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The architect and professor Javier Alau Massa died on 10 August after a long illness, leaving behind a trajectory that ties in with this magazine’s and mine. Friends since the Madrid School of Architecture and summers spent in the military service, i

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The architect and critic François Chaslin passed away on 7 August in Lanildut, a small commune on the coast of the French deparment of Finistère, where he lived in a house he had renovated himself, far from the Parisian maelstrom where the bulk of hi

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Anne Holtrop wanted to be an artist, and has become one through architectural means. Born in 1977, graduated in 2005, and with an office in Amsterdam since 2009, his first works, from the Trail House to the Temporary Museum, were artistic commissions

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Summer has not been a sleepy pause, but an accelerated time in the transformation of the world. After the United States’ attack on Iran in the last week of June, July saw Ursula von der Leyen at a Scottish golf course meekly accepting the tariffs imp

Luis Fernández-Galiano   China’s transformation in the 21st century can be felt on a visit there, as chronicled in ‘Six Watercolors’ (AV Proyectos 130), but is also documented through its cinema, which since the dazzling appearance of Zhang Yimou with Red Sorghum (1987) has

Luis Fernández-Galiano   There is no better architecture exhibition this summer than that of Veronese at the Prado. The great painter created the myth of rich and opulent Venice with his crowded compositions of exquisitely dressed characters participating in lavish dinners i

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The house has always been an aesthetic laboratory, where new languages have been tried out, sometimes calling into question their very function, as happens with some icons of modernity. It has also been a social laboratory, ready to adapt to the tran

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Two iconic museums in New York and London opened anew in May. The Frick Collection returned to its original home on Fifth Avenue, after expansion works that lasted five years, carried out by Anabelle Selldorf, and the same architect remodeled the Sai

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The ancient world nurtures us with histories and myths, and two recent books offer this spiritual food in easily digestible bites. David Hernández de la Fuente, professor of Greek philology at Madrid’s Complutense, whose Pequeña historia mítica de Es

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The Luxembourg-born architect, writer, and draftsman Léon Krier, one of the key drivers of the postmodern movement, passed away on 17 June in Palma de Mallorca, where he had been living since 2013 with his partner Irene P. Stillman, in a house near t

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The escalation of the war in the Middle East opens Pandora’s Box, Israel bombarded Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities, killing nuclear scientists and military leaders, and Tehran responded launching ballistic missiles over Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Three Spanish academics defend reason, freedom, and science with ambitious works in several volumes, and a German philosopher culminates a trilogy on 20th-century thought glimpsing the dawn of a new Enlightenment. The philologist Darío Villanueva has

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2025  
Arquitectura Viva   - 344 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Críticas y crónicas

Various authors   Madrid  2023  
Instituto de España   - 252 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   1984-2021

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Textos y dibujos

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2020  
Ediciones Asimétricas   - 136 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Las grandes esperanzas (1976-1984)

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Las grandes esperanzas (1985-1992)

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2019  
Fundación Arquia    - 120 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2019  
Fundación Arquia    - 120 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2019   - 208 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2019   - 352 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2019   - 352 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano Lisa Heschong   Tallinn  2018  
Eesti Kunstakadeemia   - 64 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Años alejandrinos 1993-1999. A Chronicle of Architecture

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Años alejandrinos 2000-2006. A Chronicle of Architecture

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2017  
Fundación Arquia    - 124 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2018  
Fundación Arquia    - 104 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2018  
Fundación Arquia    - 108 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2017   - 240 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2016   - 352 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2016  
Fundación Arquia    - 52 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2016  
Fundación Arquia    - 68 Pages 

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’ and ‘Time of Unc

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

Francisco Mangado   The publisher Arquitectura Viva recently released a volume on Eduardo Souto de Moura, with a preface penned by Luis Fernández-Galiano and an introductory article by Kenneth Frampton. It is an exhaustive revision, counting as many as 340 pages, that g

C Magazine, edited by Cosentino and Arquitectura Viva, celebrated its first ten years with an event held on 20 November at COAM. After a dialogue in which Santiago Alfonso, VP Strategic Communication of Cosentino, and Luis Fernández-Galiano, director

Fuensanta Nieto & Enrique Sobejano, in dialogue with Luis Fernández-Galiano, presented our double monograph devoted to their practice on 7 March at Fundación Arquia. Experimentation and dialogue are the central axes of Nieto Sobejano’s creative proce

Luis Fernández-Galiano received the Award for Values of Spanish Architecture on 29 February at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. He upheld architecture and architects in an acceptance speech that can be viewed in the video of the ceremony, an

Luis Fernández-Galiano gave the inaugural lecture, speaking on the healthy city, at the 32nd National Psychiatric Updating Course held in Vitoria from 28 February to 1 March. Here is the interview he gave in line with the event, as published in the n

Luis Fernández-Galiano has been distinguished with the Award for Values of Spanish Architecture, one of a series of accolades which the association Foro España Cívica gives to individuals with proven excellence in their respective areas of knowledge

Andrés Trapiello   Stores in 50 Spanish provinces are used to paint a graphic and literary portrait of an urban landscape of traditional charm that deserves to be saved from oblivion.

This photographic and literary journey through shops of the fifty Spanish provinces recovers the languages of popular architecture in the signs and facades of old establishments, and travels along the country’s sidewalks in search of ‘the common beau

The AV/Arquitectura Viva project celebrates in 2024 its fortieth year, and the magazine has wanted to mark the occasion with a special issue that reproduces the last lesson Luis Fernández-Galiano gave at the Madrid School of Architecture before his r

Eduardo Prieto   A species in extinction, a fragile koala still existing even though the ecosystems it thrived in no longer do, architecture criticism has for a while now been facing the question of how to die. Some part of it will take leave of us discreetly, bequea

Six years after the opening of his foundation in Madrid, on 26 September Norman Foster headed a public launch of the Norman Foster Institute, an educational center that will draw from his indefatigable anticipation of the future to focus on cities an

On 13 September Rafael Moneo presented AV Monographs 250, devoted to his oeuvre, in the course of a relaxed conversation with Luis Fernández-Galiano, after which a number of guests put in a word. Unlike in other encounters in which he has looked back

Over the course of a fruitful career as critic of the newspaper El País and visible head of the magazines AV and Arquitectura Viva, Luis Fernández-Galiano has written on architecture and many other things. A rich sampling of his articles has now been

Set to open on 29 April, the exhibition ‘Parque del Drago, 1998-2023: 25 years around the thousand-year-old dragon tree,’ curated by Fernando Menis, will be presented by Luis Fernández-Galiano at the Visitor Center of Dragon Tree Park, in the Tenerif

Titled 'The Spanish language, mixing, and interculturalism,' the 9th Spanish Language International Congress in Cádiz took place from 27 to 30 March 2023. Organized every three years by the Cervantes Institute and the Royal Spanish Academy in collabo

In the interview, held at the Norman Foster Foundation, Luis Fernández-Galiano explains his relationship with Norman Foster, how his innovative design has changed the world of architecture, and how they worked together for the Norman Foster Foundatio

In line with the opening of the new Arquia headquarters at Tutor 16 in Madrid, a forum was held there on 30 November, titled ‘Sharing Experience,’ in which prominent architecture figures, with Luis Fernández-Galiano as moderator, voiced their reflect

On these covers, the rough strokes of nine female painters illustrate the intellectual and social mutations that have marked recent times. The transformation is the theme of ‘Debates,’ the latest addition to the book series – published by Arquitectur

On 10 October, with King Felipe VI presiding, the Royal Academies of the Institute of Spain (IdeE) commenced the 2022/2023 course with a ceremony held at the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts, It fell upon Luis Fernández-Galiano, a full-fledged

The new head of the United Kingdom is an advocate of traditional architecture and has promoted it in his estates in Cornwall through a development, Poundbury, with Léon Krier as principal advisor. During his time as Prince of Wales he wrote texts in

Arquitectura Viva and its director, Luis Fernández-Galiano, understand and regret the discomfort caused by the series Conversations. Filmed between 2013 and 2018, this documentary series of Fundación Arquia, now being streamed on Netflix, was left un

Emilio Tuñón   Running one of the most prestigious architecture firms in the world, David Chipperfield is particularly appreciated in Spain, not only by virtue of his beautifully balanced work but also because of the warmth that radiates from one who spends long pe

The second pandemic year began with the horror of seeing the United States Capitol invaded by a multitude rejecting the results of the presidential elections, and ends with a sixth viral wave caused by a more contagious new variant named Omicron. In

Luis Alemany   Imagine that Renzo Piano is a cell. The nucleus of his DNA would be an image of the shipyards of the city of Genoa; if the cell were Norman Foster, the helix would be the sequence of a science fiction cartoon strip; and if the cell were the duo Jacqu

As part of the proceedings of the UIA General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro, Barcelona has been announced the winner of the bid to host the World Congress of the International Union of Architects (UIA) and be UIA-UNESCO World Capital of Architecture in

On view through 29 April at the Ateneo de Madrid is a walk through the pictorial work of the architect Javier Sánchez Bellver (Madrid, 1951), organized on the occasion of the publication of the catalog La vida quieta (Lapislázuli, 2019), with a forew

Luis Fernández-Galiano was twice on a scholarship program of the Fundación Juan March – in Spain in 1976-1977 and abroad in 1966-1968 – but his first lecture at the foundation headquarters took place in 2010. In the course of a decade thereafter, he

Museo ICO   Curated by Luis Fernández-Galiano, the exhibition is a journey through the many works of Carme Pinós that follows a clear guiding thread: the importance of context and environments in the creation of architectural space. Prominent among them are the

Jacques Herzog For a young architect at the beginning of his career it is a challenging moment to see the widely admired work of established colleagues, often with a mixture of disdain and admiration. For my generation this moment was in the 1980s, a

Richard Ingersoll   In the past three decades, Luis Fernandez-Galiano, editor-in-chief of this magazine, has produced an exceptional treasure of texts on contemporary architecture. I know of no one in the field who is so thoroughly aware of facts and trends of the momen

Luis Fernández-Galiano gave a series of lectures over different years for the Friends of the Prado Museum Foundation: ‘Jerusalén y Babilonia en el siglo XX’ ‘Del Gabinete al Campus: las transformaciones de la sede del Museo del Prado’ ‘El clasicismo

Architectural Record   Cathleen McGuigan   President Biden ordered the revocation of the Executive Order, “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture,” signed by former President Trump on December 18, 2020. The Trump order, mandating the preference for “traditional and classical architect

La Vanguardia   Fernando García   The ICO Museum in Madrid hosts a retrospective exhibition that the public can view through 9 May, presenting 80 projects by the architect Carme Pinós and the eight she carried out with Enric Miralles. In accordance with the theoretical and spatial ap

Curated by Luis Fernández-Galiano and on view from 10 February to 9 May, the exhibition is a journey through the many works of Carme Pinós that follows a clear guiding thread: the importance of context and environments in the creation of architectura

Eduardo Prieto   Sometimes criticism twirls around itself, as in going from judging buildings to questioning its tools, even its essence. When this happens, it is through cover-up, on the pretext of a conventional theme, or plain opportunity. The collection of texts

El Mundo   Luis Alemany   Calatayud, 1950. Arquitecto, catedrático y editor de las revistas Arquitectura Viva y AV. Las grandes esperanzas reúne sus escritos del periodo 1976-1992 en dos tomos: Fracturas y ficciones y Empeños sostenibles.  PREGUNTA. En 45 años de escribir sob

As part of the Textos críticos series published by Ediciones Asimétricas, Luis Fernández-Galiano has gathered twenty articles that look at architecture and the city from an ecological perspective. The real estate bubble, the transformations in the la