ZARCH. Journal of interdisciplinary studies in Architecture and Urbanism
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description: ZARCH. Journal of interdisciplinary studies in Architecture and Urbanism is a biannual scientific publication, published in digital and paper versions, which presents, around successive monographic themes, original research work not previously published in other journals, books, congresses, seminars and other similar formats. It is aimed at a wide academic and professional public: architects and engineers, students and researchers of Architecture, Urban Planning and Engineering, and those interested in their projects and constructions. ISSN 2341-0531 ISSNe 2387-0346 DOI: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/23410531
publisher: Universidad de Zaragoza
language: en
publication name: ZARCH. Journal of interdisciplinary studies in Architecture and Urbanism
issn: 2341-0531
items: Interferences: New Scenarios for the Architectural Project
items: Interfered Modernity: A Coffee with Adolf Loos
items: Architecture and Urban Planning in Contemporary Crises: Deontology and Climate Security
items: Participatory processes, politics and something from the architect. Symmetries or the paradoxes of more is less
items: GO.DB. architects. A Different Approach to Architectural Practice in 1970s Valencia
items: Expanding the forms of visual representation. The First International Festival of Architectural Films at the 8th UIA Congress, Paris 1965
items: The Computer Centre of the University of Madrid. A space of collective experimentation and creative freedom
items: Presence in architecture: materializing the stimuli
items: The Communicative Façade. Interdisciplinarity in the Work of Herzog & de Meuron and Kuehn Malvezzi
items: Landscape Urbanism and Territorial Praxis: Analysis and Alternatives for the Operational Landscapes of Ribera Navarra
items: Environmental impact in the learning of the architectural design
items: The exhibition space as an Architectural Laboratory: Frederick Kiesler’s Endless House
items: Collage and architecture: pop interference in the early work of Alison and Peter Smithson
items: A viaduct for Madrid. The infrastructure project of Agustín Aguirre
items: Multiculturalism, Gender and Age: Three Challenges for the New European Collective Housing
items: Laboratorio de Formas de Galicia: Reconstructing the regional identity through architecture
items: Infraestructure: Architecture, Engineering and Pragmatism
items: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? A conversation with Salvador Pérez Arroyo
items: A loop of environmental crises. A conversation with Winka Dubbeldam
items: AMADEO RAMOS CARRANZA Y VALENTÍN TRILLO MARTÍNEZ (eds.) - Manuel Trillo de Leyva. Obra completa 1964-2005
items: VÍTOR OLIVEIRA - Urban Morphology and Human Settlements
items: ARTURO ALMANDOZ Y MACARENA IBARRA (eds.) - Enmarcando la ciudad planificada en América Latina, 1940-1980. Desarrollo, territorio y planes sectoriales.
items: JOSEPH RYCKWERT - Remembering Places. A Memoir
items: STEFANO MANCUSO - Fitópolis
items: ROSANA RUBIO Y FERNANDO NIETO (eds.) - Arquitectura de la soledad
items: JAVIER MONCLÚS - ¿Qué hay de nuevo? Conversaciones con urbanistas contemporáneos
items: DANIEL GARCÍA-ESCUDERO Y BERTA BARDÍ-MILÀ (eds.) - Carlos Martí Arís: pensamiento y arquitectura
items: EDUARDO DELGADO ORUSCO - El amigo americano
items: KORYDON SMITH AND MIGUEL GUITART - Introducing Architectural Theory. Expanding the Disciplinary Debate
items: SUSAN LARSON (ed.) - Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain

Interferences: New Scenarios for the Architectural Project
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description: The constant evolution of the different ways of practicing architecture has accelerated in recent years due to a series of concomitant factors. Digitization, which was timidly integrated into studios in the early 1980s and has been sweeping in the last decade, has transformed the way we access information, draw, and even think about projects. The exponential increase in laws and regulations has also contributed to this process, with economic repercussions on construction methods, effective floor space, and resource management. The culture of image and the spirit of permanent immediacy that characterize our time have led to an acceleration of project-related processes, giving rise to the construction of discourses with little theoretical content and favoring the use of graphic fetishes as a common subterfuge for solving fundamental problems. At ZARCH 24, we have sought to identify the new working conditions linked to architecture and urban planning, the different plural and varied contexts of action, as well as the new responsibilities of both disciplines. We have also reflected on the formats for practicing the profession, the roles associated with it, and the way in which the project should be organized to respond to all the unknowns and challenges identified.
subject: Editorial
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subject: Architecture
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subject: Project
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subject: Change
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subject: Evolution
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subject: Future
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creator: Eduardo Delgado Orusco
creator: Inés Martín-Robles
creator: Luis Burriel Bielza
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Eduardo Delgado Orusco, Inés Martín-Robles, Luis Burriel Bielza https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 4
ending page: 11
doi: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.20252411664

Interfered Modernity: A Coffee with Adolf Loos
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description: The transition to modernity in medieval city of Vienna took place in the second half of the 19th century through an urban transformation driven by the emperor, as a representation of the future capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Ringstrasse, inspired by Parisian urban plans, was designed as a showcase for the neo-styles of a new era, but also as a platform for establishing the institutional ideological discourse. As an alternative to this linear boulevard within the “hollowed-out wall,” a series of atomized and introspective architectural spaces emerged: the Wiener Kaffeehaus. Within their interiors, alternative paths to the imposed modernity were conceived, such as the Viennese Secession, which promoted the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk—the total work of art—integrating art, architecture, and everyday objects. Between the reproductive continuity of institutional modernity and the evolutionary disjunction of a dissident modernity, an individual emerged—unadapted to the Viennese bourgeois society. Educated in the unprejudiced metropolises of modern America, Adolf Loos became the instigator of an incipient interfered modernity.
subject: Miscellany
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subject: Ringstrasse
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subject: Otto Wagner
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subject: Wiener Kaffeehaus
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subject: Modern Architecture
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subject: Adolf Loos
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subject: interferences
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creator: Ricardo Montoro Coso
creator: Franca Alexandra Sonntag
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ricardo Montoro Coso, Franca Alexandra Sonntag https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 204
ending page: 215
doi: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.20252411158

Architecture and Urban Planning in Contemporary Crises: Deontology and Climate Security
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description: This article examines the role of architecture and urban planning in contemporary crises, from the 2008 financial crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic and the current climate emergency. Revisiting Buchanan’s Big Rethink (2011)—a necessary radical revision of architectural and urban principles—the study analyzes regulatory frameworks and urban strategies that have emerged in response to these crises. Based on a corpus of over 500 press articles, the research identifies emerging discourses and proposes legal and deontological tools to strengthen the profession’s strategic role in adapting to and mitigating climate insecurity in urban environments. The study concludes that it is essential to reform architectural and urban planning practices to expand professional responsibility in addressing emerging environmental and social challenges.
subject: Topic papers
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subject: urban crisis
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subject: public health
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subject: pandemic
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subject: climate change
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subject: deontological change
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subject: climate secutiry
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creator: Irene Quintáns-Pintos
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Irene Quintáns-Pintos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 58
ending page: 71
doi: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.20252411161

Participatory processes, politics and something from the architect. Symmetries or the paradoxes of more is less
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description: The increasingly frequent participation of citizens in the design of public spaces is forcing architects to establish geometric patterns of consensus adaptable to the plurality of demands that arise in these forums. Paradoxically, symmetry as a principle of equivalence and open order, aims to facilitate a space of understanding between the control necessary in these processes and the freedom of action that is demanded. Analyzing both past and present projects of these participatory architectures, we observe the reiteration in these symmetrical organizational schemes as a framework that enables flexibility. This text focuses on one of the latter, the open-air auditorium in Plata and Castañar Park (Villaverde. Madrid), a work that was born from a participatory process where the particularity is that the competition for the drafting of the project had as bases the conclusions of this process. The analysis of the architectural solution adopted based on the results of the dialogue between the different agents allows us to reflect on these productive and operational interferences and the role that the architect must play in achieving flexibility, not only in the work, but also in the project itself. It is the logic of its genesis, the paradox of these times: more is less; more order, more symmetry, less projective rigidity.
subject: Topic papers
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subject: participatory architecture
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subject: project
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subject: open order
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subject: symmetry
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subject: flexible
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subject: paradox
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creator: Francisco Felipe Muñoz Carabias
creator: David Garcia-Asenjo Llana
creator: Enrique Castaño Perea
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Francisco Felipe Muñoz Carabias, David García-Asenjo Llana, Enrique Castaño Perea https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 20
ending page: 31
doi: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.20252411153

GO.DB. architects. A Different Approach to Architectural Practice in 1970s Valencia
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description: This research analyzes the organizational structure of GO.DB. arquitectos, firm founded by architects Fernando Martínez García-Ordoñez (GO) and Juan María Dexeus Beatty (DB). Their strategy was conceived to approach architectural practice from a business-oriented perspective, as a response to the increasing complexity of the technical design process. García-Ordoñez’s involvement in the Technical Office of the Plan Sur allowed him to establish connections with engineers and large-scale infrastructure projects, an influence that was further enriched by his exposure to the collaborative and multidisciplinary work dynamics characteristic of major American firms. These references resonated with the religious beliefs García-Ordoñez shared with Miguel Fisac, with whom he collaborated at the beginning of his career, awakening his interest in industrialized construction and experimentation. As a result, GO.DB. arquitectos developed a distinctive multidisciplinary organizational model, characterized by a tendency towards specialization and departmentalization, which contributed to the firm’s expansion and diversification.
subject: Topic papers
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subject: GO.DB architects
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subject: corporate structure
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subject: departmentalisation
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subject: multidisciplinary
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subject: macro-study
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subject: Modern Movement
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creator: Maite Palomares Figueres
creator: Fernando Usó Martín
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Maite Palomares Figueres, Fernando Usó Martín https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 96
ending page: 107
doi: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.20252411154

Expanding the forms of visual representation. The First International Festival of Architectural Films at the 8th UIA Congress, Paris 1965
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description: Researching on cinema as a means of creation, diffusion, and propaganda of the image of architecture, as well as the construction of our collective imaginaries and the symbolic appropriation of spaces, is also to work in favor of architecture. Therefore, to approach the relationship between architecture and cinema in international meetings of architects, where ideas were exchanged while architectural cinema was exhibited and awarded, is the general objective of this work in order to recover the knowledge of what existed and has disappeared from memory. The specific objective is to focus it on the event that consecrated the official union between both technical arts: the First International Festival of Architectural Films at the 8th Congress of the International Union of Architects (Union Internationale des Architectes, UIA), held in Paris in 1965. The text responds to a historiographic approach that investigates an archeology of documentary cinema linked to architecture and is a pioneer in identifying and inventorying the qualified filmography as an audiovisual framework in which the professional meetings took place, as well as their influence among the Spanish architects who attended. Recovering this heritage of the re-presentation and re-production of architecture is crucial for the training of students, which in recent times has been inexorably linked to these audiovisual media of communication and dissemination of information.
subject: Topic papers
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subject: architecture
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subject: congress
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subject: UIA
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subject: documentary film
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subject: festival
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subject: filmography
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creator: Josefina González Cubero
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Josefina González Cubero https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 122
ending page: 133
doi: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.20252411150

The Computer Centre of the University of Madrid. A space of collective experimentation and creative freedom
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description: With the arrival of the first computer at the University of Madrid, the Computer Centre, one of the most significant spaces of creative freedom in pre-democratic Spain, began its activity. The incorporation of the machine into the different creative fields was woven around a series of seminar structures. They favored a formula for creativity based on collective experience, at the crossroads of disciplines. The Seminar on Composition of Architectural Spaces, coordinated by Javier Seguí de la Riva, initiates a reflection on the logical bases and operational foundations of design in architecture for its possible automation. A second line of research is the so-called architecture of regulation, in which the computer is integrated into the architecture itself. Juan Navarro Baldeweg and José Miguel de Prada Poole explore complementary aspects of the architecture of regulation. The theories enunciated by Navarro Baldeweg in Residential Automat, are experimented by Prada Poole in his prototypes of Structures of variable morphology. This study builds bridges between the fields of experimentation in architecture opened up by the pioneers of computation in architecture and the new models of contemporary digital design and production.
subject: Topic papers
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subject: Computer Center
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subject: University of Madrid
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subject: collective and interdisciplinary structure
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subject: beginnings of computation
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subject: experimentation in architecture
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creator: Mónica García Martínez
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Mónica García Martínez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 108
ending page: 121
doi: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.20252411148

Presence in architecture: materializing the stimuli
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description: The concept of "presence" is gaining increasing relevance in architecture, particularly since its consideration by Peter Zumthor in Atmospheres (2006). This article examines the elusive concept from an interdisciplinary perspective that includes psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, aiming to explore its potential as a design tool. After reviewing its definition and applications across various disciplines, the discussion delves into its relationship with human emotions, employing models such as Robert Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions and Antonio Damasio’s theory of emotionally competent stimuli. The text addresses the creation of spaces capable of evoking emotions, emphasizing the interaction between architectural stimuli and personal experience. It also explores the impossibility of separating "presence" from cultural and subjective connotations, highlighting the need to understand how architectural attributes can materialize emotional stimuli. Finally, it is proposed that studying "presence" as a stimulus offers a design strategy that is conscious of its emotional impact and its ability to shape the user experience.
subject: Topic papers
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subject: presence
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subject: stimulus
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subject: perception
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subject: emotion
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subject: Zumthor
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creator: Javier Sáez Gastearena
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Javier Sáez Gastearena https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 72
ending page: 81
doi: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.20252411147

The Communicative Façade. Interdisciplinarity in the Work of Herzog & de Meuron and Kuehn Malvezzi
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description: The façade, as the exterior layer of the building, has a remarkable communicative capacity. Historically, it has been considered the result of the accumulation of signs and ornaments that transmit cultural and political conceptions. During the last decades, as can be seen from the unique cases developed in this article, the façade has become a fertile ground for experimentation with different disciplines neighboring architecture, from a material, technical and conceptual point of view. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Herzog & de Meuron experimented with different strategies to make the facades of their buildings acquire a representative image that could reflect the conceptual foundations of the project. To achieve this, they collaborated with artists such as Gerhard Richter, Remy Zaugg and Thomas Ruff. The Eberswalde Library can be considered the culmination of this period. Years later and with some influence from the early work of the Swiss office, Kuehn Malvezzi in collaboration with Michael Riedel have demonstrated in the Momentane Monumente exhibition and in the façade of the Saarland Museum extension a willingness to use architecture and conceptual art as a means of making socio-cultural and political realities visible. In the work of these architects and artists, the façade reflects their communicative intentions and establishes itself as an architectural element capable of manifesting the processes that make it possible.
subject: Topic papers
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subject: Interdisciplinarity
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subject: Contemporary Architecture
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subject: Conceptual Art
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subject: Façade
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subject: Herzog & de Meuron
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subject: Kuehn Malvezzi
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creator: Angela Juarranz Serrano
creator: Carlos Mombiela Torres
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Angela Juarranz Serrano, Carlos Mombiela Torres https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 82
ending page: 95
doi: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.20252411149

Landscape Urbanism and Territorial Praxis: Analysis and Alternatives for the Operational Landscapes of Ribera Navarra
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description: The article examines how planetary urbanization has transformed the agricultural landscapes of Ribera Navarra into operational landscapes, driven by irrigation projects and the expansion of hydraulic infrastructures. The Canal de Navarra project has promoted land consolidation and agricultural intensification, fostering a large-scale production model of agriculture production focused on exports. This transformation has reshaped the traditional function of the territory as a local food basin and as an extension of the fluvial ecosystem. As a result, the study highlights biodiversity loss, soil erosion, and the alteration of natural flood cycles, reflecting the impact of urbanization on rural landscapes. In response to this scenario, the concept of Territorial Praxis is introduced as an integrative approach that combines planning and design, aiming to incorporate the ecological and social dynamics of the territory in planning. Through a multidisciplinary approach, the study proposes a new framework for landscape planning, where design and territorial planning aligns with natural dynamics, fostering sustainable and adaptive agricultural models. Thus, the discipline of landscape urbanism through Territorial Praxi is reaffirmed as a key component in formulating policies that balance economic forces with territorial sustainability.
subject: Topic papers
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subject: operational landscapes
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subject: landscape urbanism
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subject: territorial praxis
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subject: landscape planning
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subject: Ribera Navarra
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creator: Silvia Ribot
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Silvia Ribot https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 46
ending page: 57
doi: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.20252411138

Environmental impact in the learning of the architectural design
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description: The immediate future will be characterized by the double environmental crisis that is already being felt in the present: the climate change and the depletion of natural resources, with their consequences in the population’s health. Schools of architecture in Spain do not seem to have incorporated these two variables into their curricula or have not done so systematically in the core of their training: the architectural design as opportunity to synthesize the knowledge and skills obtained in specialized subjects. Today, everything seems to indicate that decisions aimed at guaranteeing the well-being of the population in this context of environmental emergency will be hasty and improvised. A consequence of this possibility would be that the resilience of buildings and infrastructures would prevail over the cultural component of architecture. It is therefore necessary to propose strategies for the integrated design of buildings and public spaces that can be a viable alternative to urgent and fragmented measures. This article analyses a simple method of introducing these aspects into architectural project learning and its implementation, analysing the effect of simple quantitative approaches to environmental impact on design decisions.
subject: Topic papers
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subject: architectural design
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subject: teaching
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subject: learning
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subject: environmental impact
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subject: sustainability
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creator: Jaume Valor Montero
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Jaume Valor Montero https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 32
ending page: 45
doi: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.20252411143

The exhibition space as an Architectural Laboratory: Frederick Kiesler’s Endless House
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description: The model of Frederick Kiesler’s Endless House was part of the MOMA’s exhibition Visionary Architecture, organised in New York, in 1960. This project, not built, developed the concept of endless in domestic space from ideas defined by the author in the Manifesto of Correalism, where architecture, biology and technology are together. Conceived as a second skin to human body, biomorph and continuous, creates in the interior a space that reject the premises of Modern Movement in favour to the consideration of architecture psychological influence in its inhabitants. This article proves how the Enless House is the result of a creative process developed by Kiesler in his exhibition space projects as architectural ideas laboratories where spectators interact with it and with the object of art. The Enless House summarises these finds through the construction of a membrane from: the integration of arts, the psychological relationship with the space and as a second skin to the body. This proposal is an example of a pioneer architecture from multidisciplinary perspectives that includes biology, art, technology and human behaviour.
subject: Topic papers
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subject: Art-Architecture interaction
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subject: exhibition space
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subject: experimental architecture
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subject: critique of Modernity
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subject: Endless House
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subject: Frederik Kiesler
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creator: Luz Paz Agras
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Luz Paz Agras https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 134
ending page: 145
doi: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.20252411135

Collage and architecture: pop interference in the early work of Alison and Peter Smithson
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description: This article seeks to direct our attention to one of the countless interferences that, throughout the twentieth century, intertwined the path of art with that of architecture. A perspective born from the cultural and political expansionism promoted by the United States during the postwar years, which would eventually lead to the birth of the Independent Group and, with it, to a new way of looking at our discipline through consumption and pop. As a result of these interferences, this article values the significance of the collection of projects launched with the 1953 exhibition Parallel of Life and Art and concluded with the design of the Appliance Houses between 1956-1959. These projects positioned British architects Alison and Peter Smithson as two of the main representatives of a way of understanding architectural space through objects and collage.
subject: Topic papers
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subject: collage
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subject: pop
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subject: objects
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subject: consumerism
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subject: Alison and Peter Smithson
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subject: Independent Group
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creator: Jaime Sanz
creator: Nadezhda Vasileva Nicheva
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Jaime Sanz, Nadezhda Vasileva Nicheva https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 146
ending page: 159
doi: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.20252411125

A viaduct for Madrid. The infrastructure project of Agustín Aguirre
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description: The Modern Movement in Spain was received in 1928, according to historians. It met with some resistance among the architects of the Madrid group, who were willing to accept the renewal of the style if it was oriented towards solving problems in a natural way. One of the most talented architects of that generation was Agustín Aguirre. He was someone who, throughout his career and due to various circumstances, did not make the most of his gifts as a draughtsman. His most important work, the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, coincided with the years of the Second Spanish Republic, probably when his contact with the avant-garde was most intense, both through his travels abroad and through his reading of publications. In 1932, while the final design for the Faculty was being drawn up, Aguirre took part, together with the engineer Rafael Ceballos, in the competition to rebuild the Madrid viaduct over Segovia Street. It was an unpublished project with a special sensitivity for combining monumentality and practical utility, which this article will attempt to explain from three future perspectives: city-scale building, informed matter and coherence. Road infrastructure as such is a territorial interference, but this concept would be amplified by the ephemeral resonance of the avant-garde and interdisciplinary collaboration.
subject: Topic papers
  topic: section
subject: Agustín Aguirre
  topic: keywords
subject: European avant-garde
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subject: modern Spanish architecture
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subject: Madrid’s 1925 Generation
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subject: viaduct
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creator: Ismael Amarouch García
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ismael Amarouch García https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 160
ending page: 173
doi: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.20252411151

Multiculturalism, Gender and Age: Three Challenges for the New European Collective Housing
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description: Starting from the denunciation that "cultural studies" have made of the way housing has been produced in recent years, this article reflects on three challenges for the contemporary European collective housing project. Firstly, it analyses how collective housing must respond to the growing multiculturalism of our society; then it addresses the question of gender perspective in housing architecture; and finally, it takes age as a determining factor in the design of new housing. The aim is to discuss some of the opportunities and limitations that arise when approaching the housing project from these three perspectives. As part of that reflection, this article analyses five contemporary projects that address these issues. It concludes that new formulas are still required to respond to the challenges that multiculturalism, gender and age pose to European residential architecture.
subject: Topic papers
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subject: Collective Housing
  topic: keywords
subject: Cultural Studies
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subject: Gender Perspective
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subject: Multiculturalism
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subject: Age
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creator: Alfonso Guajardo-Fajardo Cruz
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 ZARCH https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-05-15
publication date: 2025-05-15
starting page: 184
ending page: 195
doi: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.2023218884

Laboratorio de Formas de Galicia: Reconstructing the regional identity through architecture
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description: Laboratorio de Formas de Galicia is an interdisciplinary project led by Luis Seoane and Isaac Diaz Pardo from the Argentine exile in mid-twentieth century, with the aim of reconstructing the galician identity and memory from the study and dissemination of existing forms in history and tradition. Recovering the ceramic industry created by Antonio Raimundo Ibáñez in Sargadelos (Lugo) in the early nineteenth century is fixed among its action lines. The factories of Magdalena (Argentina) and the new industrial complex in Sargadelos are create at the end of the sixties with this intention. In its architecture, designed by Andrés Fernández-Albalat in collaboration with Diaz Pardo, new paths about the industrial building are linked to the idea of “new regionalism”, with a careful reading of the site and an attempt to humanize and signify the space of workers. The Laboratorio understand the forms as a wide territory from industrial design to the urban setting. Within this territory, the principles of modernity evolve into a recovery of regional identity. According is defended by their creators, a work must be a child of its time but must not ignore where it comes from.
subject: Topic papers
  topic: section
subject: Architecture
  topic: keywords
subject: XX Century
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subject: Galicia
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subject: Sargadelos
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subject: industry
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subject: regionalism
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creator: Antonio Río Vázquez
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 ZARCH
date: 2014-12-31
publication date: 2014-12-31
starting page: 30
ending page: 41
doi: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.201439185

Infraestructure: Architecture, Engineering and Pragmatism
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description: Starting from the statements, as comforting as they are false, of our times, the author delves into a description of the needs and resources put into play to feed human progress at the present time. It is an exhaustive and holistic review of the amount of work and energy put into world trade: from the materials that circulate around the planet in containers and large ships, to water as the great resource of the future coveted by all governments. The whole system is still based on three words: production, supply and consumption. This vision, which includes the Achilles Heel of a decarbonization impossible with the current means, offers on the other hand remarkable opportunities for architects as it raises the transformation of the planet and its infrastructures: there is no Art without work, nor without deep connections with the means of production, with the matter and the life of an era. The author ends by turning to his own personal trajectory, re-reading how those early works and their consideration in a cultural key earned him a well-deserved international acclaim.
subject: Featured texts
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subject: Infrastructures
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subject: Progress
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subject: Water
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subject: Energy
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subject: Techné
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subject: Pragmatism
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creator: Iñaki Ábalos
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Iñaki Ábalos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 14
ending page: 19
doi: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.20252411671

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? A conversation with Salvador Pérez Arroyo
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description: Salvador Pérez Arroyo is something of an Eastern teacher. Even before he packed his bags and transferred his life to what we call the Far East, the being of Salvador already had a near and distant presence at the same time. From the elegance of his wandering through the classrooms and corridors of the old Madrid School of Architecture, Salvador exercised a profound, original and cultured teaching, very different from that of other contemporary colleagues. In his heterodox chair, he summoned a wide variety of professionals—from Iñaki Ábalos or Juan Herreros to Alejandro Zaera—with the sole condition of being willing to work side by side with the students to jointly unveil the future of architecture. Salvador is an architect and an atypical academic. He is off-the-radar but still, in these turbulent times, maintains the teaching profession of those who have not given up living as long as they are lucky. Moreover, he has never refused to respond to any formula that we have proposed to him, whether that be interviews, reflections, writings, or otherwise. The conversation that is published here occurred during a new time of transition for Salvador. In this case, he moved from Vietnam to Italy, to Padua in particular, where he has decided to settle for the pleasure of recovering the conversations with his colleagues of yesteryear. The title of the conversation, obviously taken from the work of Philip K. Dick, illustrates his interest and authority for contemporaneity. In this case, we ask questions related to the practice of the project and its teaching in this new era that artificial intelligence has opened. In his speech, many of the characters that have helped shape our time, from David Lynch to Michel Houellebecq and including the architects Sigurd Lewerentz or Le Corbusier, also appear.
subject: Conversations
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subject: Architecture
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subject: Teaching architecture
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subject: Future
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subject: Teaching profession
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creator: Eduardo Delgado Orusco
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Eduardo Delgado Orusco https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 190
ending page: 201
doi: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.20252411663

A loop of environmental crises. A conversation with Winka Dubbeldam
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description: Winka Dubbeldam's career is undoubtedly impressive, both professionally and academically. A founding partner of Archi-Tectonics NYC, her firm has distinguished itself through its international focus and the diversity of scales of its work. The firm has built on four continents, and in this sense, Winka is a 21st-century professional, aware that her field of action extends across the globe. In the academic sphere, she served as chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design [2013–23], where she taught alongside figures such as David Leatherbarrow, Thom Mayne, Ali Rahim, and Marion Weiss, among others. She promoted the creation of an advanced Robotics Lab and currently directs the Advanced Research Institute (ARI). Other renowned architects practiced and taught in Philadelphia, home to the institution, with Louis I. Kahn and Eero Saarinen among the most prominent. From this vantage point, the conversation turns to the present and future of architecture and its teaching, with a special emphasis on the impact of new technologies.
subject: Conversations
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subject: Architecture
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subject: Teaching architecture
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subject: Future
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subject: New technologies
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creator: Eduardo Delgado Orusco
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Eduardo Delgado Orusco https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 176
ending page: 189
doi: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.20252411662

AMADEO RAMOS CARRANZA Y VALENTÍN TRILLO MARTÍNEZ (eds.) - Manuel Trillo de Leyva. Obra completa 1964-2005
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description: AMADEO RAMOS CARRANZA Y VALENTÍN TRILLO MARTÍNEZ (eds.) Manuel Trillo de Leyva. Obra completa 1964-2005 Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Sevilla, Recolectores Urbanos, 2024. Tapa blanda. 40 € Idioma: español ISBN 978-84-128092-0-6
subject: Book reviews
  topic: section
creator: Carlos Labarta Aizpún
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Carlos Labarta https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 231
ending page: 231
doi: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.20252411661

VÍTOR OLIVEIRA - Urban Morphology and Human Settlements
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description: VÍTOR OLIVEIRA ISUF, Urban Morphology and Human Settlements Springer, Cham (Suiza), 2024, 274 pp. Tapa blanda y tapa dura. 145 € Idioma: inglés HARDCOVER ISBN: 978-3-031-58135-9 SOFTCOVER ISBN: 978-3-031-58138-0
subject: Book reviews
  topic: section
creator: Carles Llop Torné
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Andrés Ávila https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 230
ending page: 230
doi: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.20252411660

ARTURO ALMANDOZ Y MACARENA IBARRA (eds.) - Enmarcando la ciudad planificada en América Latina, 1940-1980. Desarrollo, territorio y planes sectoriales.
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description: ARTURO ALMANDOZ Y MACARENA IBARRA (eds.) Enmarcando la ciudad planificada en América Latina, 1940-1980. Desarrollo, territorio y planes sectoriales RIL editores, Santiago de Chile, 2024, 508 pp. Tapa blanda. $23.250 Idioma: español ISBN: 978-956-01-1580-5
subject: Book reviews
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creator: Carlos Sambricio
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Carlos Sambricio https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 229
ending page: 229
doi: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.20252411659

JOSEPH RYCKWERT - Remembering Places. A Memoir
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description: JOSEPH RYCKWERT Remembering Places. A Memoir Routledge, Londres, 2017, 198 pp. Tapa blanda. £35.99 Idioma: inglés ISBN-10: ‎ 9781138242470 ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1138242470
subject: Book reviews
  topic: section
creator: Carmen Medina
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Carmen Díez Medina https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 228
ending page: 228
doi: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.20252411658

STEFANO MANCUSO - Fitópolis
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description: STEFANO MANCUSO Fitópolis Galaxia Gutenberg, Barcelona, 2024, 178 pp. Tapa blanda/dura. 18 € Idioma: Español ISBN: 978-84-19738-87-5
subject: Book reviews
  topic: section
creator: José Luis Oyón
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 José Luis Oyón https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 227
ending page: 227
doi: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.20252411657

ROSANA RUBIO Y FERNANDO NIETO (eds.) - Arquitectura de la soledad
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description: ROSANA RUBIO, FERNANDO NIETO (eds.) Arquitectura de la soledad Ed. Asimétricas, Madrid, 2024, 248 pp. Tapa blanda. Idioma: español. 24 € ISBN 978-84-10065-09-3
subject: Book reviews
  topic: section
creator: Guiomar Martín
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Guiomar Martín Domínguez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 226
ending page: 226
doi: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.20252411656

JAVIER MONCLÚS - ¿Qué hay de nuevo? Conversaciones con urbanistas contemporáneos
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description: JAVIER MONCLÚS ¿Qué hay de nuevo? Conversaciones con urbanistas contemporáneos Ediciones Asimétricas, Madrid, 2024, 180 pp. Tapa blanda. 22,80 € Idioma: español ISBN Papel: 978-84-10065-76-5. Digital: 978-84-10065-77-2.
subject: Book reviews
  topic: section
creator: Javier Pérez Igualada
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Javier Pérez Igualada https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 225
ending page: 225
doi: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.20252411655

DANIEL GARCÍA-ESCUDERO Y BERTA BARDÍ-MILÀ (eds.) - Carlos Martí Arís: pensamiento y arquitectura
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description: DANIEL GARCÍA-ESCUDERO Y BERTA BARDÍ-MILÀ (eds.) Carlos Martí Arís: pensamiento y arquitectura Fundación Arquia, Colección La Cimbra, Madrid, 2024, 192 pp. Tapa blanda. 21 € Idioma: español ISBN: 978-84-125906-8-5
subject: Book reviews
  topic: section
creator: Arturo Frediani
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Arturo Frediani https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 224
ending page: 224
doi: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.20252411654

EDUARDO DELGADO ORUSCO - El amigo americano
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description: EDUARDO DELGADO ORUSCO El amigo americano Abada Editores, S.L., Madrid, 2022, 186 pp. Tapa blanda. 21,00 € Idioma: Castellano ISBN: 978-84-19008-10-7
subject: Book reviews
  topic: section
creator: Alegría Colón Mur
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Alegría Colón Mur https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 223
ending page: 223
doi: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.20252411653

KORYDON SMITH AND MIGUEL GUITART - Introducing Architectural Theory. Expanding the Disciplinary Debate
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description: KORYDON SMITH AND MIGUEL GUITART Introducing Architectural Theory: Expanding the Disciplinary Debate Routledge, New York/London, 2024, 278 pp. Tapa blanda. 42,39 $ Idioma: Inglés ISBN: 9780367335229
subject: Book reviews
  topic: section
creator: Andreas Emminger
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Andreas Emminger https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 222
ending page: 222
doi: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.20252411652

SUSAN LARSON (ed.) - Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain
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description: SUSAN LARSON (ed.) Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 392 pp. Tapa dura. 100.00 $ Idioma: inglés ISBN-10‏: ‎ 1487529104 ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1487529109
subject: Book reviews
  topic: section
creator: Maite Zubiaure
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Maite Zubiaure https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 221
ending page: 221
doi: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.20252411651