It is a well-known fact that architectural culture produces sets of values and particularly hierarchies of names; at the architecture of alfredo arribas any one time, they form the body of images endorsed by expert in global culture opinion and the few names we constantly find invited to take part in high-profile competitions, chosen for institutional commissions Ignasi de Sola-Morales for buildings with particular political and social significance, or surrounded by the aura of prizes, nominations or distinctions awarded by a kind of worldwide academy which is lauded and publicised in the leading journals or by the fashions adopted at architecture schools the world over.