El Croquis 231: SelgasCano 2014–2025 documents a decade of work from the Madrid-based practice that has consistently pushed architecture toward lightness, colour, and an intimate dialogue with the natural world.
About This Book
Founded in 1998 by José Selgas and Lucía Cano, SelgasCano has built a body of work that resists easy categorisation. This issue of El Croquis picks up where the earlier monograph on the practice left off, covering projects completed between 2014 and 2025. The selection is deliberately varied — from the ephemeral Bathing Pavilion at the Bruges Triennial to the Beijing Xicheng Exhibition Hall, a bookshop on Hanbury Street in London, and a series of private homes. What connects them is the studio's sustained interest in transparent, lightweight structures and their experimental application of colour and emerging materials technology. Essential reading for anyone tracking contemporary architecture's relationship with materiality and nature.
Key Features
- 325 pages of monographic project documentation, drawings, and photography from SelgasCano's 2014–2025 output
- Notable projects include the Bathing Pavilion at the Bruges Triennial, Beijing Xicheng Exhibition Hall, and a bookshop on Hanbury Street, London
- Published by El Croquis, 2013
What You'll Discover
- How SelgasCano's use of transparent and lightweight materials constructs a specific spatial relationship between interior environments and the natural landscape
- The studio's approach to colour as a structural and experiential element, not mere surface treatment
- How experimental material technologies are applied across building types that range from temporary pavilions to permanent civic and residential works
- The breadth of SelgasCano's practice across scales and programmes — from intimate domestic projects to large-scale cultural and exhibition buildings in international contexts
About the Author
SelgasCano was founded in Madrid in 1998 by architects José Selgas and Lucía Cano. The practice is internationally recognised for its inventive use of industrial and synthetic materials, its characteristically lightweight and transparent structures, and its enduring focus on the relationship between built form and the natural environment.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 325
- Dimensions: 250 x 340 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9788412823462
- Publisher: El Croquis
- Publication Date: 2013
Perfect For: Architects and designers interested in contemporary material experimentation, students of European practice, and collectors of the El Croquis monograph series.