Cristina Guadalupe Galván is a visual artist, architect and writer from Spain based in New York. She is principal at Idée Fixe, a trans-disciplinary studio of art and architecture where she addresses social and cultural issues through critical thinking and media-specific projects.

Timelessness - DAMN° Magazine

Timelessness

Charlotte Perriand’s ethos Time can play funny tricks. In Charlotte Perriand’s time, much of what she strove to achieve was unable to effectively happen. This was mainly due to her […]

The Essence of Things - DAMN° Magazine

The Essence of Things

Brancusi in New York The work of Constantin Brâncuși is timeless by nature. Encapsulating the essential, it remains independent of any era or movement. This means that its impact can […]

Neither the Time nor the Place - DAMN° Magazine

Neither the Time nor the Place

Ant Farm’s antics This is a tale relating the exploits of Ant Farm, the architecture collective that started life in 1968, a seminal year for all things radical. Operating in […]

Artist’s Digest - DAMN° Magazine

Artist’s Digest

Antoni Miralda’s El Internacional adventure The streetscape is becoming evermore smartly furnished. Such things as fixtures to accommodate bikers stopped at the traffic lights and digitally intelligent bus shelters that […]

Anatomy of Fruit - DAMN° Magazine

Anatomy of Fruit

Lorenzo Vitturi documents decay Fruit has a way of decaying in a relatively short space of time. This is readily observable in one’s own fruit basket, but even more fascinating […]

The Incomplete City Strikes Back - DAMN° Magazine

The Incomplete City Strikes Back

Saskia Sassen toots her horn Saskia Sassen is a social scientist. In her analysis of what comprises a city, she differentiates between a real city, which is complex and incomplete, […]

The Core of the Matter - DAMN° Magazine

The Core of the Matter

Atelier Bow-Wow gets reconstructive This is the tale of two Japanese architecture firms who had the chutzpah to put their heads together and come up with a rather ideal solution […]

Sprawl and Renewal - DAMN° Magazine

Sprawl and Renewal

Urban madness / part 2 So here is part two of our double-loaded article. As you know, in the first part, DAMn° dug into the roots of ‘urban renewal’ and […]

Sprawl and Renewal - DAMN° Magazine

Sprawl and Renewal

Urban madness DAMN° has broken the rules this time by featuring a double-loaded article. But so as not to cause imbalance, we have split the theme into two different helpings, the […]