Publications

They say that we are what we eat, but fundamentally, we are what others thought before us and we make our own or not… Without knowing what those who preceded us did, we will hardly find our place or...

The book collects some of the series of interviews published all of them in the magazine t18 that seek to delve into the relationship between architecture and other bordering disciplines to see how...

I will think that architects are most likely to talk about who they are not and these is the reason of that collection of ´Architectural Guides for non-Architects’ in which I explain in a planned...

Book that collects 70 buildings built and 70 lost competitions, written as a result of having closed with my conference, the ARQ Festival of 2026 in Guadalajara (Mexico), a conference in which I...

Our work as an architect has a certain condition of alchemist, of transmuting metals, of turning worthless bricks into something valuable... And woe to anyone who renounces that magic, that search...

We have made the headquarters of Inmobiliaria Colonial and, for them, half a dozen rental office buildings, several Regional Government Offices (the Labor Department and the Territorial Relations...

BAT 774 at CERN.The book talks about the need for internationalization and the needs of CERN (acronym for Center Européen de la Recherche Nucléaire), an organization that occupies nine...

Increasingly, our destiny as architects will be to work in established environments. The urban condition is the environment in which we develop and for a single-family home that we build, we will...

We never wanted to be specialists in anything (let others be), but the truth is that many have us for it. In this country, you win a competition for a library, a court or a school and you end up...

I met Sergio Danisowski at a World Festival in Barcelona. My house in Tamariu had already been published in more than a dozen magazines, they had made television programs, we included it in our book...

Mies van der Rohe used to say that God is in the details. Mies was a man of presence and resounding phrases, of which, perhaps, his Less is more is the best known. Although the American architect...

“Every staircase goes up to the light” (I remember writing in my travel notebook, as a student, having visited LC's studio in Paris on Nungesser et Coli street)… Of course, there are also stairs...

This book gives an account of some of the houses that we have designed and built over 25 years of profession. As the book is designed for a young audience, possibly architecture students, it´s in...

The College of Architects used to publish some books around the presentations of some outstanding books presented at the Architectural Association with the interventions of those who presented it....

Inhabiting, building, thinking ... They say of novelists that they are always writing a single novel, like architects that we always do a single work. And, perhaps, it is true. It will not be but...