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Rafael Gómez-Moriana's architecture blog

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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

Fake Architecture News?

A few weeks ago, I received a curious e-mail from someone representing “a digital marketing agency currently working with a … More

advertising, architecture, blogosphere, branding, fake news, media, sponsored content

The Barcelona Pavilion as Cozy Christmas Home

Here’s yet another advertisement that features the Barcelona Pavilion. This one isn’t a print ad for a famous German brand … More

advertising, Barcelona Pavilion, luxury, Mies

Inteligencia empresarial / Corporate Intelligence

[English text follows below] Ya sabemos que hoy en día está muy de moda llamar ‘inteligente’ o ‘smart’ a todo … More

advertising, automobile, corporate intelligence, infrastructure, public transit, public transportation, urban mobility

Plus ça change…

This is a screengrab of what appeared on my laptop recently when I downloaded a New York Times article titled “What You … More

advertising, climate change, corporate culture, global warming, greenwashing, media

Groupies

[Originally published in Mark Magazine #51] We’ve all heard of ‘selfies’. What about ‘groupies’? During the opening of the 14th … More

advertising, architects, architecture, gossip, leisure, Mark Magazine, media, people, photography, Venice Biennale

Skin-Deep Beauty

Rambla de Canaletes, Barcelona. 8:30 AM. The morning light is shining through the window openings of a façade that has been … More

advertising, architecture, authenticity, Barcelona, building envelope, facadism, heritage

Architecture and Status-Anxiety

Ever wondered why luxury products are advertised so heavily in mass-circulation media, even though the market for such products is … More

advertising, architecture, Barcelona Pavilion, status

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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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