WB+W Issue 12
| 2024 |
Víctor López Cotelo
cover by: Małgorzata Maria Olchowska
“As one of the important contemporary architects of Spain, López Cotelo’s work shows a deep examination of the place and its qualities. The everyday experience of space and its sensory perception are elementary in its award-winning buildings. The architect himself says that it is the temporal dimension of the architecture that employs him and that he expresses in his buildings. He does not distinguish conversion from new construction, because both are based on the permanent, as a basis for the future. Architecture should make the experienced time seem rich, enrich one’s own world of experience – an approach that is universally valid. (…)”
( from the editorial of werk, bauen + wohnen )