For Federico Soriano, architecture, above all, comes close to being a semantic formulation. This observation does not refer solely to his strictly literary and discursive activities. Soriano, who was the editor of Arquitectura from 1991 to 1994, then founded the magazine Fisuras de la cultura contemporanea (1994); he has also been teaching, since 1991, at the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura in Madrid. His actual architectural praxis, more akin to "poetics" than architectonics, can only be understood in this ongoing quest for meaning, and in this exploration of the evocative power of architecture. The Muséo de los Niños (Valencia, 1999) refers to the theme of the primitive cave of fairytales; the Euskalduna Mansion (Bilbao, 1998) with its rusty steel shell, calls to mind the beached cargo vessels in old shipyards. Each project is presented like an architectural fiction, and like a phenomenological graph, seeking to weave links with a context or situation. The Six Chimneys project (Barkaldo, 1999), consisting of six housing towers on a piece of wasteland in the outskirts of Bilbao, is an interpretation of the industrial skyline of the Ria.	(SP)
	S&A a Soriano (Federico) (1961), Palacios (Dolores)
	• Six Chimneys Barakaldo, 1999