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Architect, painter, and sculptor Joaquín Vaquero Palacios (Oviedo, 1900–Madrid, 1998) was a total creator who approached the creative process holistically. The exhibition 'Joaquín Vaquero Palacios: The Beauty of the Colossal. Asturias, 1954-1980' at the Museo ICO focuses on the work he realized through a 30-year collaboration with Hidroeléctrica del Cantábrico, resulting in five Asturian power plants conceived as total works of art.

The eighth edition of the CINECOAR Film and Architecture Cycle is taking place, organized by the Fundación Cultural de Arquitectos de La Rioja in collaboration with the Filmoteca Rafael Azcona. As in previous editions, we aim to examine various themes related to the city and our role as citizens.

MINI Hub, MINI's space for innovation and urban culture in Madrid, resumes its programming in 2018 by addressing the theme of creativity applied to architecture and urbanism. The session will be led by members of the Pez Estudio team, a creative cell of architects formed in 2006 that has not only held exhibitions, lectures, and workshops at artistic and educational institutions throughout Spain, but also across Europe, North America, and Latin America.

This Friday, April 26, marks the start of the Concéntrico 04 Festival, an international architecture and design festival held in Logroño, Spain. The festival invites visitors to explore the city through installations, exhibitions, meetings, activities, and performances that create connections between venues, plazas, streets, courtyards, and hidden spaces that often go unnoticed in daily life. Below is the complete festival program:

Reinier de Graaf joined OMA in 1996. He is responsible for construction and masterplanning projects in Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, including Holland Green in London (completed in 2016), the new Timmerhuis in Rotterdam (completed in 2015), the G-Star Headquarters in Amsterdam (completed in 2014), De Rotterdam (completed in 2013), and the Norra Tornen residential towers in Stockholm.

‘Housing the Basque Country (Vivienda Pública en Euskadi/Euskadiko Etxebizitza Publikoa). 1981-2018’ is the title of an ambitious exhibition summarizing nearly four decades of public housing policy in the Basque Country since the transfer of powers to the regional government.

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Tejiendo La Calle is an open-participation project. It consists of creating sunshades using an XXL crochet technique, which are installed in the streets of Valverde de La Vera during the town's cultural week and August festivities. We began in 2013 and continue to work on the project today.

The resulting installation helps express the local identity and serves as a medium for the intentions and desires of the project's participants. It welcomes visitors and helps create a celebratory atmosphere. The pieces function as sunshades during the day and are illuminated at night, lighting the way to the town square, the main meeting point during the festivities.

On November 21, we will present the book Raili and Reima Pietilä: The Dipoli Project. This engaging yet accessible Spanish-language volume on the Finnish architect duo features previously unpublished plans of their work.

nuevosnuevos launches in Madrid on Saturday, June 23, through nuevosENCUENTROS, an initiative addressing the central theme of "making the public public" throughout 2018. During the event, experts from various disciplines related to creation, thought, research, and communication will engage in open dialogue with the public regarding current urban issues, establishing an open and horizontal relationship that allows for the sharing of experiences and reflections.

Supertrama is a public art program in Extremadura, Spain, that promotes artistic experimentation rooted in specific environments, their urban (or rural) configuration, architecture, historical memory, and social fabric. The program fosters cultural growth across the Extremaduran territory in collaboration with architects, artists, and creatives working in the field of public art.

This exhibition presents an architectural photography project by architect Alejandro Gómez, which draws parallels between buildings from different eras through their geometry, using framings that aim to depict elevations, almost devoid of scale. The selected buildings were designed by prestigious 20th and 21st-century architects.

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The Cultural Foundation of Architects of La Rioja (FCAR) and the Official Association of Architects of La Rioja (COAR) are celebrating Architecture Week this October. World Architecture Day falls on the first Monday of October; in 2018, various architecture-related activities will take place from Monday, October 1, through Friday, October 5.

On June 13, we have an important date with #URBACT at Medialab-Prado in Madrid: 'InfodayES 2018: Learning to Plan Holistically.' This is a free event, welcoming professionals and cities interested in learning how to improve urban life through sustainable urban development and citizen participation.

This exhibition showcases the results of the 2018 Richard H. Driehaus Architecture Competition and the Richard H. Driehaus Building Arts Awards. It will be open to the public from June 14 to July 26 at the Arquería de Nuevos Ministerios exhibition hall (Paseo de la Castellana, 67 - 28046 Madrid).