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The Teaching Excellence Award from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid was created to recognize the history and teaching of their best teachers., full_html

Ada Louise Huxtable, the first full-time architecture critic at a major American newspaper, died on Monday at the age of 91. For years, Huxtable was the architecture critic for The New York Times and after that, and up until her death, for The Wall…

The catalans architects Josep Ferrando Bramona and Sergi Serrat designed the new police station in Salt. The building has a large presence volumetric with a volume white, massif and horizontal, where one end of the volume rises indicating the…

Two videos on Rem Koolhaas. First (from Biennale Channel Venice), a profile of Rem Koolhaas, Director of the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale (in Italian) and Second, a video (from Riba Architecture) with the Rem Koolhaas lecture in relationship…

Light is a fundamental element of life and a key aspect of any architectural project. Prizes will be awarded to projects that have successfully met the architectural lighting needs of an interior or exterior space, having created a positive synergy…

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Piranesi said after travelling from Rome to Venice and realising how difficult it would be in that period of crisis to mange to build things like those he imagined and saw in the ruins, that since there was no hope for architects of his time to…

Josep Miàs designed the school CEIP Annexa-Joan Puigbert, doing a renovation of the existing building and generating a new volume connecting them…

The London Underground is 150 years old this week. On 9 January 1863 the Metro service opened to the public and now the system transports over 1000 million passengers each year. , full_html

This video is a work by Frederico Gonzalez of Ombú Architecture which shows an alphabetical list the works of 26 architects, with their best known building, from A to Z. A is for Aalto, B is for Barragan, C is for Calatrava… "A lot of them have been…