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Greetings from Barcelona

[Last December, Bauwelt Magazine asked their contributors to send them a postcard from their hometown along with a new year’s greeting addressing … More

Barcelona, Bauwelt, macba, public space, Raval

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 … More

Barcelona, macba, petition, politics, public space, Raval, zoning

The Attrition of Automobiles

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

Catharijnesingel, European Prize for Urban Public Space, landscape restoration, OKRA Landscape Architects, rewilding, Utrecht

Hyperbolic Holiday Greetings…

…and may the funicular be with you in 2017

Gaudí, sketch

New Year’s Greetings

Spa in Panticosa by MoneoBrock

light-show, MoneoBrock

2015 Atmosphere Symposium: Emergence

The annual Atmosphere symposium, presented by the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba, will be held February 5–7, … More

emergence

Groupies: A Mark Magazine project at the Venice Architecture Biennale

We’ve all heard of ‘selfies’, perhaps even taken a few ourselves. So why not ‘groupies’? During the opening of the … More

Interviews, Mark Magazine, photography, Venice Biennale

Critical Juncture: the Work of Joseph Rykwert, critic

CICA, AA and V&A organise events to mark the occasion of the RIBA Royal Gold Medal awarded to CICA President … More

AA, CICA, criticism, event, Joseph Rykwert, London, V&A

Ice Fishing in Gimli, a book project by Rob Kovitz

One of my favorite publishers, Treyf Books, is celebrating its 25th anniversary. To mark the occasion, Treyf is offering, for the first time, Ice … More

art, Canada, Manitoba, popular culture, Rob Kovitz, theory, Treyf

2014

Barcelona, drawing, monument

Remembering Marshall Berman

I think it was in 1985. I would have been in my second year of study at University of Waterloo’s … More

Marshall Berman, politics, urbanism

The Vancouver Model versus El Modelo Barcelona: Trevor Boddy talks, Francesc Muñoz responds.

The Canadian port city of Vancouver has entered centre stage of the global debate about future directions for cities in the sustainability … More

AAAB, Barcelona, Francesc Muñoz, model cities, Trevor Boddy, Vancouver

Happy Trails in 2013

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Holiday greetings

Vienna, 2009

fashion, popular culture

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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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