Interview with Alejandro Zaera Polo [1963- ] founding partner of FOA [Foreign Office Architects]  along with Farshid Moussavi [1969-] based in London. He has a strong relation with the discipline since he worked at El Croquis magazine -where he wrote articles and made interviews-. Master in Harvard GSD with distinction [1989], Zaera Polo worked in OMA between 1991 and 1992. He has been teaching at Architectural Association, Columbia, Princeton and Harvard to name a few. [MORE...]

In this last episode with Alejandro Zaera Polo [FOA], we asked about the relation between architecture and media –overrated term in this 2.0 society- and about the possibility of resistance to the current corrupted panorama.
The last question of the final chapter is about the ‘center-periphery’ issue. [MORE...]

In this second episode with Alejandro Zaera Polo [1963-] of FOA [Foreign Office Architects we discuss about the last Venice Biennal Architecture beyond building and her implications. Also, Zaera Polo speaks about the excesses of the architectural panorama and how the moment of crisis will be affect the architectural production and rhetoric from now on. [MORE...]

Interview with Alejandro Zaera Polo [1963- ] founding partner of FOA [Foreign Office Architects]  along with Farshid Moussavi [1969-] based in London. He has a strong relation with the discipline since he worked at El Croquis magazine -where he wrote articles and made interviews-. Master in Harvard GSD with distinction [1989], Zaera Polo worked in OMA between 1991 and 1992. [MORE...]

Exhibition of New York artist Banks Violette at Maureen Paley Gallery. It is divided in two parts: The first one is a room with two black aluminum screens, one forms a right angle with one wall and the other is violently crumpled. The second part is a video of a horse projected in vapor. [MORE...]

Yung Ho Chang [1956-] was the first chinese architect to establish a private practice in his homeland, Atelier FCJZ [even before Turenscape's Dr. Yu did].

This video shows his new installation on England’s Victoria & Albert Museum [June - September 2008]. Featuring recyclable materials –quoting chinese vernacular constructions- and using traditional tea house pavilions as an inspiration [MORE...]

Video of the last exhibition of the english graffiti artist Banksy with another fourty artist from around the world. An old Eurostar tunnel [that connected London with Europe] was intervened with stencils, graffiti and installations. For more info check the video below or visit the site of The CANS Festival here. [MORE...]

Video that shows an interview to Rachel Whiteread in 1993 and 2005 about her House project. She won the Turner Prize in 1993 for this work. Images of the construction and House in the next video. [MORE...]