Arquitectura Viva 262 centres on Lina Ghotmeh — a practice shaped by movement between Beirut and Paris, and by an unusually precise attention to material culture and contextual memory across four landmark projects.
About This Book
This issue of Arquitectura Viva builds its monographic focus around Lina Ghotmeh Architecture, tracing a body of work that moves between scales and geographies without losing its rootedness in material and site. Four projects anchor the portrait: the Estonian National Museum in Tartu, the Stone Garden residential tower in Beirut, the Hermès workshops in Louviers, and the 2023 Serpentine Pavilion in London. Beyond the monograph, the issue turns to the Czech Republic for a dossier on built heritage intervention — three projects navigating one of Europe's densest concentrations of historical fabric. Rounding out the issue are critical essays on Eduardo de Adaro, Antonio Palacios, the new towns of Francoist Spain, and a reflection on fire risk in contemporary buildings following the Valencia fire.
Key Features
- 80 pages of architectural photography, critical essays, and project documentation
- Features writing by Esperanza Guillén, Javier García-Gutiérrez Mosteiro, Iñaki Bergera, and Ricardo Aroca
- Key projects: Estonian National Museum (Tartu), Stone Garden tower (Beirut), Hermès Louviers workshops, Serpentine Pavilion 2023; Czech heritage dossier covering PLATO Ostrava, Vltava riverfront Prague, and Helfštýn Castle
- Published by Avisa, 2023
What You'll Discover
- How Lina Ghotmeh's itinerant trajectory between Beirut and Paris informs a practice grounded in sensitivity to local materials and cultural context
- Three approaches to adaptive intervention within the Czech Republic's historically dense urban and rural fabric — from gallery conversion to riverfront revitalisation to castle reconstruction
- Critical reassessments of Eduardo de Adaro and Antonio Palacios, situating their legacies within the current moment of Spanish architectural historiography
- Ricardo Aroca's reflection on building fire risk, prompted by the recent Valencia fire — connecting regulatory and material questions to lived consequence
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 80
- Dimensions: 300 × 240 mm
- Language: English
- Publisher: Avisa
- Publication Date: 2023
Perfect For: Architects and designers following Lina Ghotmeh's practice, readers interested in adaptive reuse and heritage intervention, and those tracking contemporary Spanish and European architectural criticism.