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Monolith of Memory

[Text originally published in Mark Magazine #61] The Camp de Rivesaltes, a sprawling military base built in 1938 near Perpignan, … More

communication, concrete, countryside, detention, france, history, Mark Magazine, materiality, Mémorial de Rivesaltes, memory, monolith, Perpignan, Rudy Ricciotti

Architecture Road-Tripping: Marseille

Earlier this August, I went on a roadtrip through southern France and spent two nights in l’Unité d’Habitation in Marseille, … More

france, Le Corbusier, Marseille, tourism, Unité d'Habitation

La Grande Motte Revisited

I first saw La Grande Motte in the summer of 1978, more than a decade before I would graduate from … More

beach, building typology, concrete, france, Jean Balladur, master plan, resort, seashore, tourism, urbanism, waterfront

Two Optimistic Architecture Yearbooks: a comparative analysis

[originally published in Annuel optimiste d’architecture 2008 / Optimistic Architecture Yearbook 2008, Les Éditions de la French Touch. Book can … More

architecture, france, housing, yearbook

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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.

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