If the work of Rafael Moneo had to be tied to a single word, it would be ‘context.’ In both senses: attention to context as material capacity to intervene, with sensitivity, in different places and landscapes; and attention to context as spiritual capacity to echo the culture of every location.

This is demonstrated in the two projects presented in this issue of 'Arquitectura Viva', each one linked to the concept of ‘cultural landscape’ and commented on, with his usual pedagogy, by the author himself: the Descendientes de J. Palacios winery in Corullón and the building at Schinkelplatz in Berlin.

If the work of Rafael Moneo had to be tied to a single word, it would be ‘context.’ In both senses: attention to context as material capacity to intervene, with sensitivity, in different places and landscapes; and attention to context as spiritual capacity to echo the culture of every location.

This is demonstrated in the two projects presented in this issue of 'Arquitectura Viva', each one linked to the concept of ‘cultural landscape’ and commented on, with his usual pedagogy, by the author himself: the Descendientes de J. Palacios winery in Corullón and the building at Schinkelplatz in Berlin.