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| Revista de Arquitectura | |
|---|---|
| Title | Revista de Arquitectura |
| Category | Architecture |
| Language | Spanish |
Revista de Arquitectura is a Spanish-language architectural periodical notable within Iberian and Latin American professional circles. The publication engaged readers across Barcelona, Madrid, Buenos Aires, Mexico City and Santiago, intersecting with institutions such as the Instituto Cervantes, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Over decades it intersected with movements connected to figures like Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Oscar Niemeyer, and Alvar Aalto while publishing essays referencing exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Tate Modern, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
The magazine emerged amid debates paralleling projects by Gustavo Eiffel, Antonio Gaudí, Santiago Calatrava, Ricardo Bofill, and Enric Miralles and during cultural shifts tracked by institutions such as the Real Academia Española, Fundación Joan Miró, and Casa de América. Its foundation coincided with architectural discourses involving architects like Luis Barragán, Mario Botta, Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, and Norman Foster and referenced international events like the Venice Biennale and the World's Fair. Editorial changes reflected dialogues with pedagogical models from Bauhaus, École des Beaux-Arts, and Harvard Graduate School of Design while responding to urban policies debated in municipal governments of Barcelona City Council, Madrid City Council, and Mexico City Government.
Editorially, the periodical combined theoretical essays that invoked Aldo Rossi, Manuel de Solà-Morales, Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, and Peter Eisenman with project monographs on works by Carlos Ott, Javier Carvajal, Teodoro González de León, Lina Bo Bardi, and Enrique Norten. It featured critical reviews of exhibitions at venues such as the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Centro Pompidou, and Serpentine Galleries alongside technical analyses referencing engineering firms like Arup, Foster + Partners, and Ove Arup. The magazine regularly published manifestos and manifest essays juxtaposing debates around preservation exemplified by discussions of Hagia Sophia, Alhambra, and Sagrada Família with contemporary interventions in projects associated with Zaha Hadid, Santiago Calatrava, and SANAA.
Contributors included architects, critics and historians such as Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Álvaro Siza Vieira, José María García de Paredes, Christopher Alexander, Kenneth Frampton, Rafael Moneo, Emilio Ambasz, and Michael Sorkin. Special editions spotlighted regionally significant projects like those by Teodoro B., Antoni Bonet, Antonio Bonet Castellana, and thematic issues devoted to topics connecting to the UNESCO conventions, the International Union of Architects, and the Union Internationale des Architectes. Guest editors from institutions including Columbia University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, and Politecnico di Milano curated issues that engaged with urban interventions in cities such as Lisbon, Valencia, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, and Montevideo.
The magazine influenced discourse alongside journals like Architectural Review, Domus, Casabella, El Croquis, and Dezeen and shaped curricula at schools such as ETSAM, ETSAB, and Facultad de Arquitectura Universidad de la República. Critics and historians—drawing comparisons to works by Nikolaus Pevsner, Sigfried Giedion, Lewis Mumford, Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez, and Hal Foster—debated its positions in forums at La Biennale di Venezia, Bienal de Arquitectura de São Paulo, and academic symposia at Royal Institute of British Architects. Its articles were cited in monographs on projects by Jean Nouvel, Tadao Ando, Sverre Fehn, and Alejandro Aravena and informed conservation practices involving ICOMOS recommendations for built heritage such as Casa Batlló and Casa Milà.
Distribution networks connected the periodical to libraries and archives at Biblioteca Nacional de España, Biblioteca Nacional de México, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile, and university libraries at Universidad de Sevilla, Universidad de Granada, and Universidad de Chile. Circulation reached professional associations including the Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile, Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid, Consejo Superior de los Colegios de Arquitectos de España, and international bodies like UIA and ICOM. Subscriptions were common among offices of firms such as RCR Arquitectes, EMBT Miralles Tagliabue, GAS Arquitectos, and practices led by Fernando Higueras and Fermín Vázquez.
The magazine's visual program referenced typographic and layout experiments aligned with traditions from Jan Tschichold, Herbert Bayer, and Massimo Vignelli while publishing photography by practitioners influenced by Ezra Stoller, Julius Shulman, Fernando Guerra, and Iwan Baan. Graphic collaborations involved studios and ateliers connected to Pentagram, IDEO, and Hassell and showcased plans, sections, and axonometrics in the lineage of drawings by John Hejduk, Lebbeus Woods, and Giancarlo De Carlo. Cover designs and image essays engaged curatorial sensibilities similar to exhibitions at Fundació Antoni Tàpies and Museo de Arte Moderno (Buenos Aires).
The periodical received commendations from cultural institutions such as Ministerio de Cultura (Spain), Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura, and professional awards from associations like Fundación Arquia, Premio Nacional de Arquitectura (Spain), and regional prizes akin to honours granted by Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Cataluña. Individual issues and contributors were shortlisted for editorial prizes associated with Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo and recognized in retrospectives at venues including the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya and Museo de la Ciudad de México.
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