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Arquitectura Viva 197 On the Waterfront
Mangado in Palma, Levete in Lisbon, Piano in Santander

Arquitectura Viva 197 On the Waterfront.
Mangado in Palma, Levete in Lisbon, Piano in Santander

In Short. The Botín Centre, Renzo Piano’s first important work in Spain, has finally been inaugurated; the MoMA hosts ‘Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive’; Selgascano finishes the Auditorium and Convention Center of Plasencia; Francis Kéré opens his summer pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery in London; the burning of Grenfell Tower in London coincides with the catastrophe at Pedrógão Grande in Portugal and other conflagrations in Spain; documenta Kassel travels to Athens and coincides with the Skulptur Projekte of Münster; Muka arquitectura builds the unique Piedrabuena House (Ciudad Real); and the MACBA shows ‘Forensic Architecture: Towards an Investigative Aesthetics.’

Palma, Lisbon, Santander. Places where land ends and sea starts are ambiguous, but this ambiguity is what makes them alluring. Port docks and piers give way to civic and cultural centers that, besides promoting enjoyment of sites which used to turn their backs on cities, are inspiring architectural solutions that make a point of addressing the ever changing and difficult relationship with the vast looking-glass that the ocean is. Each of the three examples featured here, all located on the Iberian Peninsula, has its own strategy for colonizing the coast. The Congress Center and Hotel in Palma de Mallorca by Francisco Mangado is solidly anchored to the ground and joins the castle and the cathedral in being a landmark of the Balearic capital; the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology in Lisbon by Amanda Levete opens its organic, near-liquid forms on to the Tagus estuary; and the Botín Centre in Santander by Renzo Piano projects lobes over the water which dematerialize in reflections.

Urban Masters. The critic and Pulitzer winner Paul Goldberger writes on the exquisite headquarters of the Norman Foster Foundation, which opened in June in Madrid; and the architectural historian Stanislaus von Moos describes the urban megastructure that Yvonne Farell and Shelley McNamara (Grafton Architects) recently completed for UTEC in Lima.

Political Geographies. Two works on ‘hotspots’ of the planet, Jerusalem and Afghanistan, present architecture as a geopolitical tool. Also: a choral study of modern comfort techniques, a collection of articles on the social and political challenges of sustainability, and two urbanism texts on great European cities: Berlin and Madrid.

Dossier: Artificial Lighting. Electric lighting transformed the interiors and the cities of the 20th century; today, the development of more efficient technologies that lead to intelligent and personalized control of luminaires – from the now widespread OLEDs and LEDs to the future BioLEDs made of luminescent bacteria – is already allowing analogous transformations in the way we understand architectural atmospheres. In presenting the basics of con- temporary artificial light, the specialist Rosa Urbano throws light on technical advances, analyzes some application examples, and points out the importance of the aesthetic dimension of lighting projects.
To close, with asteroid 216241 given the name ‘Renzopiano,’ Luis Fernández-Galiano relates the master from Genoa with Fuller and Saint-Exupéry.

On the Waterfront
Mangado in Palma, Levete in Lisbon, Piano in Santander
Dossier: Artificial Lighting

News
Piano: First Spanish Work
Wright’s Archive Speaks
Selgascano in Plasencia
Kéré’s Serpentine
London Fire
Spain and Portugal Ablaze
Kassel, Athens, and Münster
Piedrabuena House
Forensic Architecture

Solid, Liquid, Gas
Three Examples:

Luca Molinari
Urban Matter
Francisco Mangado
Congress Center, P. de Mallorca

Andrew Ayers
Cultural Landscape
Amanda Levete / AL_A
MAAT, Lisbon

Luis Fernández-Galiano
Miracle in Santander
Renzo Piano
Botín Centre, Santander

Art / Culture

Paul Goldberger
Legacy for the Future
Foster Foundation in Madrid

Stanislaus von Moos
Streets in the Air
La UTEC in Lima

Books
Jerusalem and Afghanistan
Cultures of Comfort
Anthropocene and Society Berlin and Madrid
Publications Received

Technique / Construction

Rosa Urbano
From Bulb to Bacteria
Lighting Challenges
—Environmental Impact
—Personalized Atmospheres
—OLEDs and LEDs
—Smart Control
—Design and Lighting
—Light of the Future

Products

Luis Fernández-Galiano
Architect on Asteroid