Alberto CAMPO BAEZA is a man of letters, committed to his art body and soul. Between gravity and weightlessness, transparency and translucency, light structures and structural light, he strives to build poems to be lived in. His buildings sensitively capture the landscape and reinvent the static typologies in our imagination. His masters are Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Barragan and also Goya and Rembrandt, geniuses of light, of matter. AA met with him in his Madrid office.

Interview: Rafaël Magrou / Text: Manuel Blanco

Photos: Javier Callejas, Roland Halbe, Fernando Alda and Hisao Suzuki

AA 389 - Focus section

Stanislaus VON MOOS' response to Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani.

Calling an artist who happens to disregard the canon of taste and elaborate craftsmanship a "dauber" would be hard to imagine nowadays. In architecture, however, traditionalist art prejudice appears to be back in fashion. Are urban design and architecture about to become the stage for a new fundamentalism?

Text: Stanislaus von Moos

Photos: Vincent Fillon

AA 389 - Tribune section

With admirable clarity, graphic designers METAHAVEN set out to explore their boundaries in a world of agile social networks and mobile protest movements. This insightful investigation results in a direct, brassy and raw approach to design.

Text: Justin McGuirk

Photos: Metahaven

AA 389 - Design section

Born in Shanghai in 1963, TONG MING establishes a link between production-oriented official architecture and more critical personalworks. This representative of a new generation of architects explores international culture without turning his back on Chinese construction principles. An examination of his work with Zhou Chunya's house.

Texts: Hélène Reinhard, Marlène Leroux and Francis Jacquier

Photos: Clément Guillaume and Lu Hengzhong

AA 389 - Projets section

In his painting and photography, between motif and abstraction, Gérard TRAQUANDI tests our perception of colour and light, and provides an example of modern metaphysical sensitivity.

Text: Régis Durand

AA 389 - Art section

At first, CITY ONE may appear to be nothing more than a rather intriguing place name on the Hong Kong metro map. However, this ever expanding neighbourhood, also known as Shatin, is home to 650,000 people and is one of this city's largest and most impressive districts, comprising 52 nearly identical residential tower blocks which house some 40,000 people.

Text and photos: Vincent Fillon

AA 389 - Retour de section

The Aarhus School of Architecture, in Denmark's second-largest city, is attended by nearly 800 students, with around hundred fulltime teachers. Resolutely international in its approach, the school has been invited to the next Venice Biennale, which will see 30 or so Master's students display work on the theme "Future Greenland". Before discovering their work, AA reviews the degree projects of five recent graduates.

AA 389 - École section