Rafael Moneo, construir las ideas

Over seven decades, Rafael Moneo has built an architectural oeuvre in which reflection, practice, and teaching are inseparable. While his buildings—the tangible materialization of his ideas—have been extensively studied, this book offers the first comprehensive reading of the thought underlying his architecture and his intellectual biography. From Tudela to Madrid and Barcelona, ​​by way of Denmark, Italy, and the United States, the narrative traces a vital and professional map in which travel, academic and teaching responsibilities, exchanges with key figures—including Peter Eisenman, Aldo Rossi, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, and Herzog & De Meuron—and the demands of studio work are interwoven with the debates that have shaped architectural theory and practice since the mid-20th century. Using archival material, publications, testimonies and conversations with Moneo, this volume offers an unprecedented journey to the origin of his ideas: a look at the recent inner history of architecture through one of its most lucid and inspired protagonists.