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Arquitectura Viva 198 Handmade

Arquitectura Viva 198 Handmade

In Short. The Islamic State attacks Barcelona’s emblematic street, the Ramblas; Luis Maldonado, director of the Madrid School of Architecture from 2008 to 2017, passes away; the Guggenheim of Bilbao and the Thyssen in Madrid present two women artists, Anni Albers and Sonia Delaunay; Rafael Moneo receives the Praemium Imperiale and the first Soane Medal, and Toyo Ito the UIA Gold Medal; Fernanda Canales and Claudia Rodríguez build the Casa Bruma in Mexico State; and twenty-five years have passed since two events that transformed Spain’s self-image, the Expo of Seville and the Olympic Games of Barcelona.

Six Works, Three Continents. Modernity divided into defenders of industry and defenders of traditional crafts, but this opposition no longer holds today, when digital technologies and sustainability concerns have reopened the doors of manual techniques. This brings opportunities and challenges which the sociologist Richard Sennett discusses in a text that precedes feature of six works located on three continents: the Kulm Hotel in St. Moritz (Switzerland) by Norman Foster, whose cantilevering wooden canopy enlarges a preexisting building; the Spinelli Pavilion for migrants in Mannheim (Germany) by Atelier U20, built by students; the Yardhouse in London (United Kingdom) by Assemble, built with traditional solutions and collaborative processes; the secondary school in Koudougou (Burkina Faso), which reinterprets local construction techniques and types; the ‘quincho’ in Asunción (Paraguay) by Solano Benítez, which makes the most of brick craftsmanship; and the structures of landscape in Montana (USA) by Ensamble Studio, where nature and artifice merge.

In Conversation. In time with the opening of the Botín Centre and the eightieth birthday of Renzo Piano, Luis Fernández-Galiano interviews the Genoese master in his studio at Punta Nave; for their part, Eduardo Souto de Moura and Juhani Pallasmaa talk about the challenges of globalization surrounded by treasures of the San Fernando Fine Arts Academy in Madrid.

Return to Nación. In the troubled context of current politics, three books take stock of the paradoxical, complex process of Spain’s historical construction as a nation. Also: a journey through the Peruvian landscape, an essay on modernity’s relationship with landscape, a Dominique Perrault manifesto on excavated architecture, and a monograph on the work of Francis Kéré.

Dossier: Footbridges. Pedestrian bridges can be extraordinary exercises in structural skill and delicate interventions on the landscape. The engineers Alejandro Bernabeu and Jorge Bernabeu present the basics of their design and construction in an article followed by three examples high on formal expressivity: the public space in Seoul (South Korea) by MVRDV, built on an old vehicular circulation overpass; the Tintra in Voss (Norway) by Rintala Eggertsson Architects, an exquisite lattice beam that strikes a contrast with the Norwegian landscape around; and the Lucky Knot in Changsha (China) by Next Architects, executed with interlinked parabolic arches.

To close, the Houstonian Carlos Jiménez, professor at Rice University, describes the destruction wrought by Hurricane Harvey in his city.