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Well-Rounded Well-Being: The Low-Carbon Bioclimatic Architecture of the Balearic Housing Institute

[Originally published in Kuroishi, Izumi, ed. Post-War Public Housing and Well-Being: Modernity, Economic Recovery, and Social Change. New York: Routledge, … More

bioclimatic, construction, IBAVI, social housing, sustainability, well-being

Espacios ambiguos

Espacios versátiles, flexibles e indefinidos, hacia una arquitectura doméstica sostenible y resiliente. [Publicado originalmente en Poch, Marta, editora: Vivienda en … More

ambiguous space, Barcelona, dwelling unit, flexibility, housing, IMPSOL-AMB, social housing, versatility, well-being

Ambiguous Spaces

Versatile, flexible, undefined spaces: towards a sustainable and resilient domestic architecture [Originally published in Marta Poch, ed.: Housing in the … More

ambiguous space, Barcelona, dwelling unit, flexibility, housing, IMPSOL-AMB, social housing, versatility, well-being

The Post-Olympic Transformation of Barcelona

[Originally published in Heide Wessely and Sandra Hofmeister, editors: Barcelona: Urban Architecture and Community Since 2010. Munich: Edition DETAIL, 2023] … More

architecture, Barcelona, Edition DETAIL, politics, tourism, urbanism

Housing Thinking

[Originally published in HOUSE US, eds. Jae Sung Chon and Kent Mundle (Winnipeg: OCDI Press, 2018)] In comparison to the … More

architecture, housing, theory, urbanism

A World Apart: Architectural Autonomy as Artistic Freedom / Un mundo aparte. La autonomía arquitectónica como libertad artística

[Originally presented at and published in Out-onomy, Critic|all II International Conference on Architectural Design and Criticism, ETSAM / Resumen en castellano sigue … More

architecture, art, autonomy, Critic/All conference, museum, society, theory

Criticism 2.0, or Nobody Likes a Critic when Everyone’s a Critic

[This text originated as a talk at the CICA Critical Juncture symposium session “Architectural Criticism Now” in February 2014 at the … More

architecture, blogosphere, CICA, Critical Junction, criticism, interactivity, internet, Joseph Rykwert, media, theory, web 2.0

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Criticalista collects Rafael Gomez-Moriana's writings on architecture and the built environment. All photographs by the author unless indicated otherwise.

©2014 Rafael Gomez-Moriana. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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