“Restless Architecture” curated by Diller Scofidio + Renfro at MAXXI Rome
Curated by one of the world’s most famous and influential design studios, which is also featured, the exhibition investigates movement as an internal property of architecture: buildings that change their configuration, have mobile elements and swell or turn to welcome visitors. We live in a world in constant motion. Why should architecture stand still? Since […]
„Dogma: Urban Villa“ with the Flanders Architecture Institute at De Singel
The exhibition Dogma: Urban Villa, curated by the Italian firm lead by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara, makes the case for more cooperative and collective housing. Dogma and the VAi both hope that it will kick-start a dialogue around better urban densification and the creation of diverse, collective and affordable housing units. How can we live […]
Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos, appointed Spanish National Architecture Award 2023
The architecture office, led by Ángela García de Paredes (member of the BigMat International Architecture Award Jury of 2023) and Ignacio Pedrosa, have been awarded with the highest recognition in Spain for their contributions to the social, technological and sustainable contributions to Spanish architecture. In proposing the award, given by the Spanish Ministry of Housing […]
‘José María García de Paredes: Meeting Spaces’ at ICO Museum
The first major retrospective of the complete works of José María García Paredes, a key figure in modern Spanish architecture during the second half of the 20th century, is available from October 2 to January 12, 2025. ‘José María García de Paredes: Meeting Spaces’ offers an extensive overview of four decades of his professional career […]
“LAN – Spaces without Species” exhibition at Galerie d’Architecture
The Galerie d’Architecture in Paris presents the exhibition “LAN – Spaces without Species,” an inventory of eleven spaces created by LAN, awarded as BigMat Finalist Prize in France’21, whose definition is open. „I would like there to be stable places, immobile, intangible, untouched, and almost untouchable, immutable, rooted; places that would be reference points, starting […]
Abade Pedrosa Museum by Álvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura
Álvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura, recipients of the BigMat International Architecture Award National Prize for Portugal 2017, designed the Abade Pedrosa Museum and the International Contemporary Sculpture Museum in Santo Tirso. Architects Álvaro Siza Vieira and Eduardo Souto de Moura worked together on the project for the Abade Pedrosa Museum, located in the […]
„SelgasCano Arquitectos: Unstable Zones“ exhibition at aut Innsbruck
From July to October 2024, an immersive installation by the Spanish architecture duo SelgasCano can be experienced at aut, in which the premises of the former brewery are transformed into ‘Unstable Zones’ using minimal means. Founded in Madrid in 1996 by José Selgas and Lucía Cano, the studio has made a name for itself internationally […]
Lebond Souto Moura by Eduardo Souto de Moura
A year after Alvaro Siza introduced the first Lebond watch, Eduardo Souto de Moura, BigMat International Architecture Award ’19 Grand Prize, unveiled his own design for the brand. The initial model showcased the creative synergy that occurs when renowned architects venture into watch design. For the new model, Souto de Moura, known worldwide for his […]
„Un stade en Irak“ exhibition at The Fondation Le Corbusier
With the support of Galerie Eric Mouchet, whose director is also a specialist in Le Corbusier’s work, Louis-Cyprien Rials has set out to give us his vision of an emblematic yet little-known building: the Baghdad gymnasium, designed by the architect at the end of his life and completed after his death, which for a time […]
Zebro viewpoint by Álvaro Siza Vieira
Portuguese architect Siza Vieira, winner of the BigMat’17 National Prize for Portugal, was responsible for designing the Zebro viewpoint, situated on a rocky massif in the Serra do Moradal, near the ER 238 in Oleiros, north-central Portugal. This marks his second viewing platform project, following the construction of a watchtower in the nearby Proença-a-Nova region. […]
