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May 2026 — World Architects publishes an extensive review of 'Dispositional Intelligence in Architecture' brilliantly written by Guiomar Martín.

“[H]istory is deployed as a rigorous instrument for theoretical investigation, and […] theory, sharpened by historical grounding, reciprocates . . . For Aragüez’s discursive recovery of an alternate history does not merely look back; it aims to resonate with the contingencies of present-day architectural production by stimulating new avenues for spatial creativity at the intersection of rationality and imagination.”

April 2026 — Arquitectura Viva publishes a review of José Aragüez's 'Dispositional Intelligence in Architecture', written by Joaquín Medina Warmburg:

“Rarely does the encounter between design theory and architectural history make for a well-matched pair whose union surpasses the sum of its parts. The new book by theorist and architect José Aragüez is one of those rare exceptions … [A] whole repertoire of original ideas [in the book], without doubt, enriches the design discourse surrounding architecture and its structures.”

April 2026 — The German magazine Bauwelt publishes a review of José Aragüez's ‘Dispositional Intelligence in Architecture’, written by Cecil Barnes V:

“In his book ‘Dispositional Intelligence’, architect and theorist José Aragüez brings us the third installment of his decade-long research into an alternative chapter to post-modernism, a history of architecture that critiques and moves beyond modernism [...].” As Aragüez rightly notes, the vast majority of buildings designed today can be distilled to the form of Corbusier’s 1914 Maison Domino — and what this book lays out are perhaps some ways for architects to move beyond the hegemony of this modernist form.”

December 2025 — Presentation of some of José Aragüez's body of work at ETSAM in Madrid.

November 2025 — Full house last November at the Pratt School of Architecture in New York City for José Aragüez's lecture on ‘Dispositional Intelligence’, followed by a conversation with Sanford Kwinter and Andrew Holder. With many thought-provoking and intelligent questions from audience members.

November 2025 — BOOK REVIEW: commentary on ‘Dispositional Intelligence in Architecture’ by Midwest Book Review.

November 2025 — Now available in video on Cooper Union’s website: ‘Dispositional Intelligence’ lecture held last month at the Cooper Union School of Architecture, followed by a conversation with Dean-Elect Michael Young. The school is going to be in the best possible hands with Michael for years to come; many congratulations.

October 2025 — Now available in video on Yale SoA’s YouTube channel: ‘Dispositional Intelligence’ lecture held at the Yale School of Architecture last April, followed by a conversation with Professor Adjunct Sunil Bald and Norman R. Foster Visiting Professor Akihisa Hirata. With thought-provoking and intelligent questions from audience members.

October 2025 — Commentary on ‘Dispositional Intelligence in Architecture’ in El Croquis #231.

September 2025 — José Aragüez to lecture at the Cooper Union School of Architecture in NYC this semester.

September 2025 — José Aragüez to lecture at the Pratt Institute in NYC this semester.

September 2025 — Commentary on Dispositional Intelligence in Architecture by Efi Michalarou of Greek art magazine ‘dreamideamachine ART VIEW’.

July 2025 — Now available in video, Dispositional Intelligence book lecture at Steven M. Holl Foundation's 'T' Space. With thought-provoking and intelligent questions from hosts, students, and audience members at the end.

June 2025 — Dispositional Intelligence book lecture & discussion held at the Venice Biennale, in the Arsenale. With superb responses by Pippo Ciorra, Maria Fedorchenko, and Anna Font.

June 2025 — e-flux announcement of Dispositional Intelligence in Architecture.

April 2025 — Now available in video, Dispositional Intelligence book lecture & discussion held at New York Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture and Design. With superb responses by Marta Caldeira and Dongsei Kim.

April 2025 — Commentary on Dispositional Intelligence in Architecture by Princeton Prof. Sylvia Lavin.

April 2025 — José Aragüez lectures on Dispositional Intelligence at MIT.

March 2025 — Now available in video in José Aragüez's YouTube channel, DISPOSITIONAL INTELLIGENCE book talk and round table discussion at the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s School of architecture. With responses by architects and NJIT Professors María Hurtado de Mendoza and Etien Santiago.

March 2025 — José Aragüez to lecture at Steven M. Holl Foundation's 'T' Space this summer.

March 2025 — José Aragüez's Dispositional Intelligence, straight to #1 in new releases.

March 2025 — José Aragüez publishes his third book, titled Dispositional Intelligence in Architecture (Actar).

February 2025 — José Aragüez to lecture at the New York Institute of Technology this semester.

January 2025 — José Aragüez to lecture at MIT this semester.

January 2025 — José Aragüez to teach an advanced design studio at Yale with Akihisa Hirata.

December 2024 — José Aragüez Architects, awarded an Honorable Mention in a competition for a new 100.000 sq. ft. interdepartmental building at the Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid. Congratulations to the impressive line-up of awardees.

November 2024 — Now available in video in José Aragüez's YouTube channel, DISPOSITIONAL INTELLIGENCE lecture & round table discussion at IE School of Architecture and Design’s tower in Madrid. With superb responses by Clara Murado (Murado & Elvira), Ignacio Senra (bojaus), and José Vela (IE).

March 2024 — Now available in video, second part of an interview discussing several aspects concerning architectural thinking as a form of knowledge as addressed in José Aragüez's latest book, Spatial Infrastructure.

February 2024 — Now available in video, first part of an interview discussing several aspects concerning architectural thinking as a form of knowledge as addressed in José Aragüez's latest book, Spatial Infrastructure.

December 2023 — The Architect’s Newspaper publishes an extensive review of José Aragüez's latest book, Spatial Infrastructure, brilliantly written by Guiomar Martín.

November 2023 — “Sponge Territory,” one of the essays published in José Aragüez's latest book, Spatial Infrastructure, republished in urbanNext with compelling visuals. The piece discusses Toyo Ito’s Taichung Opera House, completed in 2016, as a building that inaugurated a new design territory in architecture with implications at the level of epistemology, representation, typological invention, program, geometry, phenomenology, envelope, circulation, and spatial organization.

July 2023 — Review of José Aragüez's latest book, Spatial Infrastructure featured in Arquitectura Viva #256, both in English and Spanish.

April 2023 — José Aragüez's latest writing—proposing the notion of “medium in-betwenness” vis-à-vis architecture’s becoming and chaos theory—is published in Domus. Under Steven Holl's masterful editorial vision, this April issue features works and contributions by Thom Mayne, Alberto Campo Baeza, Lebbeus Woods, Stan Allen, Eric Owen Moss, Iannis Xenakis, Höweler + Yoon, Zaha Hadid, John Hejduk, and Giovanni Michelucci, among others.

March 2023 — José Aragüez Architects, along with Jordi Herrero and ANTE Atelier, to design and build an office building for the Spanish State in Ibiza.

January 2023 — Available in video, José Aragüez's lecture on Spatial Infrastructure at The Cooper Union in New York. With superb responses by Pratt SoA Professor Catherine Ingraham and Cooper Union Professor Nader Tehrani. Moderated by Cooper Union Assistant Professor Elisa Iturbe.

January 2023 — José Aragüez to teach an Advanced Design Studio in Spring '23, alongside Pezo Von Ellrichshausen, at the Yale School of Architecture.

December 2022 — Available in video, José Aragüez's lecture on Spatial Infrastructure at the AA in London. With superb responses by Architectural Association School of Architecture tutor James Khamsi, AA PhD candidate Anna Font, and Prof. Sophia Psarra, director of the Architectural and Urban History and Theory PhD programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture.

November 2022 — José Aragüez lectures on Spatial Infrastructure at IE University in Madrid. With superb responses by by Fernando Rodríguez (FRPO), Clara Murado (Murado & Elvira), and Macarena de la Vega (University of Melbourne).

November 2022 — José Aragüez lectures on Spatial Infrastructure at ETSAM in Madrid. With superb responses by Ignacio Senra and Guiomar Martín, as well as introduction and questions from Jacobo García-Germán.

November 2022 — José Aragüez lectures on Spatial Infrastructure at the Catalonia College of Architects in Barcelona. With superb responses by Erica Sogbe and Amadeu Santacana, as well as introduction and questions from Ricardo Devesa.

November 2022 — José Aragüez publishes his second book, titled Spatial Infrastructure. Essays on Architectural Thinking as a Form of Knowledge (Actar).

September 2022 — José Aragüez publishes an essay titled “Patenting Arrangement” in the catalogue of “TECNOSCAPE. The Architecture of Engineers”—a momentous exhibition that recently opened at the MAXXI Museum in Rome.

July 2022 — José Aragüez Architects, in collaboration with ANTE Atelier and EOVAStudio, places 4th in restricted competition for a kindergarten & school in the north of Spain

May 2022 — José Aragüez publishes "Architectural Language and the Search for Self-determinacy”—the first outcome of his research project on Cooper Union between 1964-1985—in Radical Pedagogies, an epic volume released by MIT Press

September 2021 — José Aragüez to teach a graduate studio at UPenn in Fall '21

May 2021 — Final Review of José Aragüez's Spring '21 Advanced Studio at Texas Tech

January 2021 — José Aragüez, interviewed on architectural thinking and The Building for Review Architecture. Other interviewees include Ben Van Berkel, Mario Carpo, Theodore Spyropoulos, and François Roche

December 2020 — Final Review of José Aragüez's Fall '20 Advanced Studio at Texas Tech

November 2020 — José Aragüez gives second of two talks for the inaugural year of the new master's program launched by the tech lab at the Málaga School of Architecture

November 2020 — Review of José Aragüez's The Building published on Review Architecture

November 2020 — José Aragüez gives first of two talks for the inaugural year of the new master's program launched by the tech lab at the Málaga School of Architecture

August 2020 — José Aragüez serving as the H. Deane Pearce Chair at Texas Tech in Fall 2020, to teach option studio

January 2020 — Lecturing on spatial infrastructure at the Málaga School of Architecture and participating in a debate on the nature of architectural research

September 2019 — Available video of José Aragüez discussing principles of urban design during vernissage of 2018 Venice Biennale

September 2019 — José Aragüez lectures at Texas Tech University College of Architecture

August 2019 — An online repository of José Aragüez's The Building (2014-2019) is finally available

August 2019 — Now available in video: José Aragüez lectures at Harvard on The Building. Responses from Michelle Chang, Tom de Paor, Simona Malvezzi & Johannes Kuehn of Kuehn Malvezzi, and Pier Paolo Tamburelli of Baukuh

July 2019 — Available video of José Aragüez discussing "distribution" in cities of the digital era alongside Vicente Guallart, during vernissage of 2018 Venice Biennale

June 2019 — José Aragüez awarded PhD from Princeton University

March 2019 — José Aragüez lectures on The Building at Harvard GSD. Discussants: Michelle Chang, Tom de Paor, Simona Malvezzi & Johannes Kuehn of Kuehn Malvezzi, and Pier Paolo Tamburelli of Baukuh

March 2019 — Studio Aragüez at Columbia GSAPP organizes talk by Akihisa Hirata

January 2019 — José Aragüez defends PhD dissertation at Princeton. Sylvia Lavin, advisor. Committee: Stan Allen, Axel Kilian, Sanford Kwinter

December 2018 — José Aragüez in conversation with Toyo Ito and Akihisa Hirata in Tokyo

December 2018 — José Aragüez delivers talk at Kyoto University. Discussants: Akihisa Hirata and Makoto Ohsaki

December 2018 — José Aragüez lectures on The Building at Turin Polytechnic. Discussants: Alessandro Armando and Michela Rosso

December 2018 — Available video of José Aragüez's participation in round table at Venice Biennale

December 2018 — José Aragüez lectures on The Building at The Berlage. Discussants: Salomon Frausto, Michiel Riedijk, Arjen Oosterman, Martino Tattara, and Ido Avissar

November 2018 — José Aragüez publishes "Critical Imageability" in e-flux

November 2018 — Part II of interview with José Aragüez for urbanNext now available

September 2018 — José Aragüez's "On Architecture's Metacriticality" published in The Routledge Companion to Criticality in Art, Architecture, and Design

July 2018 — José Aragüez's The Building awarded at the Spanish Architecture Biennial

June 2018 — Review of The Building published in Bauwelt

May 2018 — José Aragüez takes part in discussion event at the Venice Architecture Biennale, alongside Matteo Robiglio, Vicente Guallart, Nina Rappaport, Hyungmin Pai, and Jianxiang He

March 2018 — José Aragüez lectures on The Building at University of Michigan. Respondent: John McMorrough

March 2018 — Part I of interview with urbanNext now available

November 2017 — José Aragüez lectures on The Building in Brno

November 2017 — José Aragüez lectures on The Building at the AA

November 2017 — José Aragüez lectures on The Building at ETH Zurich. Discussants: Jan de Vylder, Philip Ursprung, Laurent Stalder, and Irina Davidovici

November 2017 — José Aragüez publishes "Stuck in the 60s" in LOBBY

October 2017 — José Aragüez lectures on The Building at COAM Madrid. Discussants: Luis Fernández-Galiano, Emilio Tuñón, Stan Allen, and Luis Rojo

October 2017 — José Aragüez lectures on The Building at EPFL Lausanne. Discussants: Kersten Geers, Christophe van Gerrewey, and Tibor Pataky

September 2017 — José Aragüez publishes "Sponge Territory" in Flat Out

June 2017 — José Aragüez lectures on The Building at A+D Museum in LA. Discussants: Sylvia Lavin, Mark Lee, Dora Epstein-Jones, and Neil Denari

June 2017 — José Aragüez lectures on The Building at Columbia University

April 2017 — José Aragüez lectures on The Building at UIC in Chicago. Discussants: Bob Somol, Sean Keller, John McMorrough and Penelope Dean; moderator: Thomas Kelley

April 2017 — Review of José Aragüez's The Building in Arquitectura Viva 194

March 2017 — José Aragüez in panel discussion on The Building at Columbia University. Discussants: Amale Andraos, Stan Allen, Bernard Tschumi; moderator: Jorge Otero-Pailos

February 2017 — José Aragüez lectures on The Building at MIT. Discussants: Rafi Segal, K Michael Hays, Amanda Reeser Lawrence, and Bryan Norwood; moderator: Ana Miljacki

February 2017 — Presentation of José Aragüez's The Building with Lars Müller in NYC

December 2016 — Presentation of José Aragüez's The Building at the Lisbon Architecture Triennale. Respondent: Andre Tavares

November 2016 — José Aragüez's The Building now available globally

March 2016 — José Aragüez speaks at event at Storefront for Art and Architecture in NYC, alongside Sean Anderson, Iñaqui Carnicero, Nahyun Hwang, Carla Juaçaba, and Lorena del Río

April 2015 — Running seminar session at Columbia University alongside Kenneth Frampton

February 2015 — Running seminar session at Columbia University alongside Cecil Balmond

November 2014 — José Aragüez organizes "The Building" conference at Columbia University

June 2014 — José Aragüez organizes "The Building" symposium at the AA

April 2014 — José Aragüez participates in discussion event at Princeton around Atelier Bow Wow's work

February 2014 — José Aragüez participates in discussion event at Princeton around Jun'ya Ishigami's work

November 2013 — José Aragüez participates in discussion event at Princeton around Office KGDvS's work

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