Over sixty years of professional practice, the firm founded by Abraham Senerman Lamas has amassed more than three million square meters of built space. Nevertheless, very little has been written about their work to date.
This prolific body of work—comprising over 200 designed and built projects, previously unpublished—is brought to light in this publication. Yet, this is not merely a retrospective. Instead, it is an account that signals the next steps for this notable architecture firm. As the title of this monograph suggests, ASL Arquitectos continues to develop.

Luis Fernández-Galiano, professor of architectural design at ETSAM and the guiding spirit behind the triplet of A&V journals—whose pages have served as a precise X-ray of the finest architecture of each era—has structured his work, both as an educator and a critic, from the exceptional vantage point of an advanced observer. This dual role allows him to operate as an agile, sharp-witted columnist and the author of books such as the prescient El fuego y la memoria: sobre arquitectura y energía, Empeños sostenibles, Fracturas y ficciones, La edad del espectáculo, and Tiempo de incertidumbre, as well as the encyclopedic creator of several Atlas de arquitectura del siglo XXI and the instigator of the polyphonic La quimera moderna.

The place Gego's work occupies in Venezuela's abstract-geometric tradition—one of the most fertile in the Americas—is complex; indeed, this subtle body of work, which paradoxically conveys so many meanings, resists definition. Consequently, this book serves as an exploration of how the artist, while engaging with the leading figures of this tradition and acknowledging and sharing some of their ideas, freely expressed their own vision.

In fleeting times, when emotion ages before reaching consciousness, it is necessary for the individual to opt for being in the world: to set out in search of memory. At the limits of memory, the Japanese garden is discovered as a transcendent mesh woven with an asceticism and an aesthetic that do not seem to be of this world. The Japanese garden resembles nature in that it adopts the forms and elements of the landscape, yet it distances itself from the exuberant and chaotic perceived world. Nature is evoked in the Japanese garden, but this aesthetic recreation of the landscape is always striving to reach the sacred.

An architectural showcase of Panama City’s oldest neighborhood, the existing structures serve as testimonies or remnants of the golden, glorious era of this historic district.

She studied architecture at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, earning her Master’s degree in History and Philosophy of Architecture at the University of Cambridge and her PhD in History and Theory of Architecture at the Architectural Association. She is the editor of the book Dust & Data: Traces of the Bauhaus across 100 Years, published by Spector Books, Leipzig (2019). In 2014, she edited Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence, published by Routledge.

As in global politics, the history of architecture has often treated refugees as mere human surplus. Consequently, conventional architectural histories have largely limited themselves to echoing the nation-state’s exclusion of refugees as people out of place. This book examines several often-overlooked yet critical intersections between mass population displacement and architecture, tracing a trajectory from the 19th and 20th centuries to the present day. By identifying the refugee as the central collective political subject of our time, this study seeks to initiate a history of refugee architecture that bridges the gap between architectural history and the study of displacement.

Somatic space and multiple bodies reveal a place from which architectures and landscapes emerge. An architectural environment that exists within us. This architecture aspires to be made of the same matter shared by bodies, vital impulse, or the planet.

As turbulence of every kind increasingly defines our contemporary climate, there is a growing focus on a handful of attitudes and works that, throughout the 20th century, cultivated the poetics of silence and were able to interpret the chaotic and elusive reality of our era through it. These pages are dedicated to unraveling some of the keys to this alternative sensibility.

On February 28 at 11:30 a.m., BoConcept Montevideo will host designer and luminary of Danish minimalism, Morten Georgsen.

Festival Castro Abierto announces its second edition for March 28 and 29. This free cultural event in the Chiloé archipelago aims to become a benchmark for the mediation and dissemination of architecture, landscape, and heritage, with the goal of promoting community participation in the construction of their environments.

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Revestimientos del Limarí is an exhibition showcasing a research project by architects Patricia Marchante and Amada Rivera Vidal, which investigates traditional methods for protecting walls in earthen heritage buildings in the Limarí province.

Join us on Monday, July 13, at 8:00 PM for a talk with Felipe Carrasco, architect at GMMC Australia and Director of the SouthAmerican Masterclass - COMA. Presented by: Nicolas Valencia | Editorial & Data Manager | ArchDaily

We all see because it is a natural human gift. However, if we learn to LOOK through the eye of the camera, we can Frame. If we can distinguish between near and far, sharp and blurry, foreground and background, we can Focus. By prioritizing, categorizing, organizing, and balancing, we can Compose. By drawing with light, concealing with shadow, and saturating and texturing the subject, we can Illuminate. By understanding the situation, tracking movements, positions, and paths, and waiting for the exact moment, we can Capture. The sum of these five actions results in a great photograph.

The primary objective of this course is to equip students with fundamental concepts and powerful tools for developing projects that involve structural engineering, including buildings, residential housing, industrial facilities, and soil feasibility. By the end of the course, students will be able to navigate the variables involved in including, removing, or modifying structural elements through an examination of structural philosophy, the state of the art, national and international regulations, and plan review.

From August 27 to October 8, every Thursday at 7:00 PM, the "Women and Modern Architecture Series" will take place. This series aims to serve as a meeting space to examine the contributions of women to architecture, not only within the discipline itself but also through design, photography, and historiography.

The Universidad Católica de Córdoba will host a summer workshop from February 25 to 28, featuring guest architects Angelo Bucci and Marina Correia.

This Wednesday, August 12, the talk "Urban Challenges Amid the Water Crisis" will be held, organized by the Technology and Sustainability and Energy Committees of the Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile.