Less Glass

In 1832, as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lay on his deathbed, he famously uttered the words “Mehr Licht” (more light).…

Save Barcelona’s Plaça dels Àngels from MACBA contemporary art museum’s expansion

Please consider signing this petition. [Versión en castellano sigue a continuación / Versió en català segueix a continuació] Barcelona’s Plaça…

Welcome to one of Barcelona’s “newest” green zones. Barely a year old, it’s located one block off Las Ramblas, the…

What is the point of suspending trees in the air? They grow much better on the ground, where they also…

[Originally published in Bauwelt 5.2023. Photos by Aitor Estévez] Barcelona has some of the densest neighborhoods in Europe, so it…

[Originally published in Bauwelt 4.2023] One of the growing problems facing Spain today is the ongoing depopulation of its interior…

The 2022 European Prize for Urban Public Space has gone to the disappearance of an urban expressway in Utrecht, Netherlands,…

[Originally published in Bauwelt #16.2022] When Spain imposed its nation-wide lockdown to prevent the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus on…

Public space belongs to everyone. That’s why the latest proposal to expand the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA)…

[Originally published in Bauwelt 14.2022] With a current average life expectancy of almost 84 years, Spain’s is one of the…

How many architects have an exhibition of their work permanently on display at a cultural institution, replete with nearly full-scale…

In 2018, a study was published that situated “Europe’s most densely inhabited square kilometer” in the working-class town of L’Hospitalet…

This advertisement for a Barcelona snack bar franchise contains an image of a local landmark building by the late Ricardo…

[Originally published in The Architectural Review in April 2022] Before the arrival of steel and concrete, the most widely used…

[Originally published in Bauwelt March 2022] Since the emergence of the pandemic, outdoor private space has come to be newly…

[Originally published in Baumeister December 2021] Older buildings are no longer what they used to be. Until recently, the argument…

Are windows really necessary in buildings? Is an LED panel that simulates a window an acceptable substitute? Some seem to…

The other day, I was preparing a dinner party when I realized my pepper mill was empty. I ran to…

[Originally published in The Architectural Review July-August 2021] It has now been more than 20 years since Enric Miralles died…

[Originally published in The Architectural Review May 2021] One of the first alterations that pupils of the Imagine Montessori Primary…