Down with High-Rise, Up with Mid-Rise

From 2005 to 2013, I taught a seminar in the Metropolis Masters Program in Architecture and Urban Culture titled “LandSpec” … More

Dizzying Inequality

Ben Wheatley’s film High Rise, a multi-story about decadence and class war in a Brutalist housing estate in London, brought plenty … More

[Originally published in Azure, May 2014] The elevator soars up the Hotel Renaissance Fira Barcelona, and my knees buckle beneath … More

Leon Battista Alberti famously wrote: “The city is like some large house and the house in turn like some small … More

Barcelona is a city without very many tall buildings. Not only that: the few tall buildings that do exist are … More

In case anyone hasn’t noticed, Barcelona is in the tail-end of a hotel construction boom. And Barcelona being “Barceloooooonaaaaaa” means, … More

Benidorm is a city in southeastern Spain with an urban morphology that is highly unusual for Europe: it is a … More