Five years after the completion of the work of the Municipal Civic Centre in Boecillo (Valladolid), we collect the most important platforms about architecture, specialized blogs or think tank websites that have reviewed it online (click on the image to go to the website):
Presentation of the paper entitled Huts and Shelters. From Domestic Low-Tech to the Making of the Contemporary Fellow in the International Conference on Construction Research. Held in the Eduardo Torroja Institute for Construction Science in Madrid on 21st and 22nd November, the conference topic is Housing: past, present and…
The magazine “proyecto, progreso, arquitectura” from Universidad de Sevilla has just published my paper The System as a Place. Three Collectivization Strategies of the Contemporary Domestic Space on its last issue “Habitat and habitation” (no. 9). The abstract of the paper is next: The article attempts to define a…
The project consists of the renovation of the ground floor of a duplex in the neighbourhood of Arturo Soria in Madrid. The existing apartment does not respond to the new property needs, with intricate spaces that do not maximize the potential surface and available orientations. The project opens the…
The single-family house is on the corner of a row of semi-detached houses with two storeys, garage in half-buried basement and the possibility of space below deck. The project pursues the best position of the house´s orientation to solve the required uses. Thus, it is north-aligned where entrance is,…
Disobedient Pedagogy HipoTesis calls for the collection of texts, ranging between 3500 and 5000 words, for its second issue of its Numbered Series on the theme “Disobedient Pedagogy” within the disciplinary fields of Arts and Architecture. Immediate Context “Being non-travelling travellers” is one of the first phrases that defines…
San Francisco Javier Housing has been published in last issue (39-40) of architectural magazine Future Arquitecturas. The project, in which I have participated in the whole design and construction phases, is signed by architect Antonio Rodríguez, and promoted by the Municipal Enterprise of Housing in Madrid (EMVS). More information here.
Introduction Hands have been regarded in awe and with profound respect by observers of the human genre. They are seen as a peculiar organ key to the transformation of the environment and decisive for both physical and expressive balance as well as for communication and craftsmanship. Hands have a…
Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship for Foreign Scholars and Artists from Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Students (FCS) of the Swiss Confederation, for a research stay in the realm of my PhD. The stay will be at ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE (Centre for Research on Architecture, Society &…
The built work of 91 Social Housing at Colonia de San Francisco Javier in Madrid has been awarded with the First Prize Asprima-Sima 2013 in the category of New Housing from Public Initiative. The Asprima-Sima prizes reward the best initiatives in many realms related to promotion and construction of…
