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The Festival of Britain exhibition held in London in 1951 occupies a noteworthy place in the history of British architecture of the post-war period. This is because it constituted the starting point for the urban renewal of London’s South Bank. It was given strong support and great prominence by The Architectural Review, which published several articles and a monographic issue about it, in order to show how the master plan for the exhibition matched the ideals of Visual Planning and Townscape that the journal had been putting forward for some years previously. However, it was also the subject of criticism from a group of young architects, headed by Reyner Banham, who reacted to it by advocating an alternative style of architecture that was termed New Brutalism.

Reseña de "Santiago CANTERA, Hispania, Spania. El nacimiento de España. Conciencia hispana en el Reino Visigodo de Toledo. Actas, Colección Pasado Remoto, 3, Madrid 2014, 563 pp"

En 2011 se cumple el centenario del viaje a Oriente de Le Corbusier, con el que de alguna manera da fin a su periodo de formación autodidacta. Con este ensayo se desea evocar el contexto artístico e intelectual del joven Jeanneret en el momento de iniciar el viaje, a partir de algunas cartas que envía a Charles L’Eplattenier y a William Ritter, prestando especial atención al carácter finalista que van adquiriendo sus dibujos, bocetos y pinturas en aquellos decisivos meses.