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Hotel Empanada

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

advertising, analogy, form, metaphor, Ricardo Bofill

Presenting the E-Window®

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

developers, e-window, fakery, fenestration, housing, simulation, window

The Anti-Circular Pepper Mill Scandal

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

consumerism, product design, recycling, reuse, sustainability, throw-away society

UNStudio’s Plagiarism of Elastic Living by Angelo Roventa

In the field of research, plagiarism is unacceptable and denounced. Here begins a post denouncing UNStudio’s shameless plagiarism of over … More

Ben van Berkel, celebrity, copy, copycat, intellectual property theft, lack of originality, plagiarism, scandal, star system, UNStudio

Dear Ben van Berkel

Dear Ben, To have a design idea copied by you, a global starchitect with offices all over the world, is … More

Ben van Berkel, copy, plagiarism, UN studio

Home is Where the Pathologies Are

Here we are, in the ninth month of coronavirus crisis, eagerly awaiting the birth, any day now, of a new … More

anthropocene, architects, architectural education, brico-therapy, Eduardo Aquino, house-doctor, housing, King Architecten, performance, room, studio, University of Manitoba

Dear Mayor Ada Colau:

Dear Ms Colau, internationally esteemed mayor of Barcelona. I write this letter in English because many citizens of Barcelona are … More

Ada Colau, Barcelona, Barcelona en Comú, gentrification, narco-speculation, Raval

Barcelona, posa’t guarra (get dirty)

Welcome to Carrer Príncep de Viana in the Raval neighbourhood of Barcelona, a small, normally quiet street lined with trees … More

Barcelona, drugs, narco-speculation, politics, Raval, squatters, urban degradation

Canadà Park: Barcelona’s Maple Leaf Themed Suburb

As an architect who is blessed with having double citizenship–Spanish as well as Canadian– I was quite amused, while on … More

Barcelona, branding, Canada, Catalonia, cultural hybridity, landscape, suburbia, urbanization

Pop (-Up) Urbanism in the City of Design

Barcelona is known around the world today as a city of design. Its urban grid, buildings, parks, squares, streets, benches, … More

automobile, motor traffic, pedestrians, public space, sidewalks, streets, tactical urbanism

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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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