Mark Wigley is a professor at GSAPP, Columbia University (New York), where he served as dean from 2004 to 2014. He has written extensively on the theory and practice of architecture. His books include: Passing Through Architecture: The 10 years of Gordon Matta-Clark; Cutting Matta-Clark: The Anarchitecture Investigation (2018); Buckminster Fuller INC: Architecture in the Age of Radio (2015); Casa da Musica / Porto (2008), Constant’s New Babylon: The Hyper Architecture of Desire (1998), White Walls, Designer Dresses: The Fashioning of Modern Architecture (1995); and The Architecture of Deconstruction: Derrida’s Haunt (1995).

Francesca Hughes is an architectural theorist, educator, and specialist in the relationship between architecture and technology. She is the director of the School of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She has taught workshops and courses in history and theory at the Architectural Association and the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL in London, where she is from. She has also taught at The Berlage, TU Delft, and served as a visiting professor at KU Leuven in Belgium.

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The Uses of Decoration comprises four essays that investigate a set of normative representations of non-professional home decoration and its instrumentalization within various economies.

Arquitectura Maulina was born out of the absence of a platform focused on the Maule Region, Chile. The magazine proposes an architectural survey featuring online articles from professionals, students, photographers, and more, operating on the understanding that architecture is about more than just construction—it is also about establishing dialogues, posing questions, and maintaining records. This initiative is shaped by how we observe the region and what we should do to support it.

Published in Buenos Aires in September 2020, this 240-page volume reflects a meticulous investigation and cataloging of Latin American architecture magazines published in print between 1874 and 2015.

"I return to read, with interest and pleasure, the text by Josep Quetglas on the German Pavilion at the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition, a work that established the stature of architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe [...] The flashes of lucidity that illuminate the complex scene in a text like this do not aim to convince the reader of a specific thesis; on the contrary, they engage the reader with the text and compel them to read at a measured pace, discovering moments of clarity throughout that bring them closer to the drama of Mies. A drama that may not have been resolved even after crossing the Atlantic. Reading Quetglas’s text, and mindful of the aforementioned flashes, one appreciates this way of viewing the new role of the critic,” writes Rafael Moneo in the new prologue to El horror cristalizado by Josep Quetglas, written specifically for this fourth, revised, and expanded edition, which was overseen by the eminent professor, curator, and researcher Guillermo Zuaznabar.

Our project aims to make the towns of the Spanish colonization program visible once again by revisiting their current state through a contemporary lens, using photography as a crucial medium for the dissemination and analysis of architecture.

Juhani Pallasmaa himself explains this book: "I have given the six lectures a unifying title: 'Touching the World Through Architecture,' derived from a comment by Maurice Merleau-Ponty on the paintings of Paul Cézanne, which 'make visible how the world touches us.'"

In August 1981, the Italian architect, historian, and critic Manfredo Tafuri visited the cities of Buenos Aires and Rosario in Argentina, marking his only visit to Latin America. This book presents the conversations, interviews, and lectures Tafuri gave during his visit; among other topics, they discuss the role of criticism, his work in Venice, and even his historical research methods. Additionally, the book includes a series of texts by a group of Argentine scholars close to Tafuri, who reconstruct the political, social, and intellectual context of his visit and analyze his work and legacy.

Alejandro Crispiani—Full Professor at the UC School of Architecture, architect, and PhD in Human and Social Sciences from the University of Quilmes, Argentina—explores the socio-cultural role of architecture in the wake of the February 2010 earthquake in Chile in La arquitectura y su reverso. Meanwhile, in Hacer sin esperanza, he examines the legacy and cultural production of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso School of Architecture through the lens of the "poetic act."

The Ugly is the first posthumous book by Mark Cousins (1947–2020), the renowned British cultural and architectural theorist and critic who sadly passed away a few months ago.

Each issue of engawa magazine is a new experiment born from the image on its cover, which serves as a common thread. From there, the articles diverge, interweave, or simply juxtapose, forming a tapestry that everyone is invited to read, discuss, and contribute to.

Alejandro de la Sota is one of the great masters of modern Spanish architecture, the author of such notable buildings as the Civil Government (Tarragona, 1957–1964) and the Maravillas School gymnasium (Madrid, 1960–1962).

This book compiles various essays, originally published in different media, in which the Galician architect reflects on the legacy of the Modern Movement and its atypical integration into the cultural landscape of Franco-era Spain. Simultaneously, it serves as a chronicle of the challenges faced by Spanish architecture from the 1950s until the architect’s death in 1996.

For some time, an entire generation of architect-educators has been exploring the real connections between the speculation inherent in design studios and the professional practices of those who lead them.

CLEA Magazine is an annual publication that seeks to promote and disseminate the analysis of the diverse social and spatial realities throughout Latin America. By gathering the experiences and perspectives of students and professionals—who are active participants in the conceptualization and materialization of spaces at all scales—the magazine encourages the exploration of new and more conscious understandings of architecture, the city, the territory, and those who inhabit them.

In this notable attempt to define the meaning and idea of architecture, José Ricardo Morales proposes the noun Arquitectónica. Starting from a critical analysis of the prevailing trends in 19th-century art history and a precise dismantling of early 20th-century architectural theories—form, function, and space—Morales clears the ground to propose his own theory of architecture.

The book’s title is a provocation—an invitation to rethink landscape not as a given, but as something constructed through history, design, art, technique, representation, and experience, among other lenses.

Arquitecturas de la estrategia examines the marketing techniques that architects use to secure commissions, sell projects, and build works.