About This Book
AMAG 43 brings together two contemporary Spanish practices — Madrid-based HANGHAR and Bilbao-based BeAr (Ane Arce and Iñigo Berasategui) — whose work approaches architecture from strikingly different directions. Bear works through colour, pattern, narrative, and deconstruction; Hanghar favours white, repetition, and subtraction. Beneath these differences, both practices share an interest in the autonomy of spatial structures over programme, pursuing architecture that exists before use and persists beyond it.
Key Features
Essays by Ana Leal, José Manuel Pedreirinho, and Filipe Magalhães. Extensive project documentation across both practices' individual and collaborative work, including houses, cultural buildings, and installations, photographed primarily by Luis Díaz Díaz. Printed as a numbered edition of 5,000 copies.
What You'll Discover
How two practices working from opposite formal instincts — one maximalist and narrative, one reductive and repetitive — arrive at a shared conviction about architecture as an autonomous cultural project; and a survey of contemporary Spanish architecture as a context where such divergence is actively cultivated rather than smoothed over.
Specifications
Format: Softcover
Dimensions: 320 x 240 mm
Pages: 224
Language: English / Portuguese
ISBN: 9789893662670
Publisher: AMAG Publisher
Publication Date: Late June 2026
Edition: 5,000 numbered copies
Perfect For
Readers of contemporary European architecture journals, and anyone interested in emerging Spanish practice.