Arquitectura Viva 263: Peris + Toral

Peris + Toral, 42 social housing units in Son Servera, España

Against market fever, housing construction in Barcelona has in recent years found the protection of government policies whose effectiveness is partly due to the know-how of the architects. Marta Peris and José Toral have contributed to this promising panorama through their twenty years of experience, demonstrating that quality does not conflict with affordability and that the field is still full of programmatic, spatial and material potential, as evidenced by the five public projects. residential construction in Arquitectura Viva.

The issue’s dossier presents two parking garage projects that reshape the conventional plan for these facilities: the Kronenrain area in Neuenburg am Rhein (Germany) by Mono Architekten, and four parking structures in Muharraq (Bahrain) by Christian Kerez.

In the Art and Culture chapter, Kosme de Barañano pays tribute to the recently deceased Richard Serra with a walkthrough of his biography and oeuvre, as Carlos Jiménez does for the American architect Antoine Predock. And in line with the announcement of this year’s Pritzker, Luis Lope de Toledo celebrates Riken Yamamoto’s architecture through memories of time spent in the new laureate’s studio. All this with the usual News and Books sections, plus a text written by Luis Fernández-Galiano in memory of Manuel Melis Maynar, an engineer who changed Madrid in recent decades.

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