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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

Reassessing the Street-in-the-Sky in Times of Coronavirus

As Covid 19 spreads its way around the world, a fear of urban density is similarly catching on, with suburbs, … More

Alison and Peter Smithson, climate change, corrala, COVID-19, Cromwell Building, Edwin Lutyens, exterior access, housing, Jean Nouvel, Mario Fiorentini, megastructure, Michiel Brinkman, Moshe Safdie, Stanley Kubrick, urban sprawl, urbanism

Cocooning in Balconville

With lockdown in effect in many parts of the world, and urban streets and squares largely empty, residential balconies have … More

balcony, Herman Hertzberger, housing, social contact, social space

The Poseidon Adventure: Social Housing in Formentera by IBAVI

[Originally published in The Architectural Review July-August 2019] The small, idyllic Mediterranean island of Formentera, Spain, isn’t the first place … More

building materials, civil servant architecture, countryside, experimental prototype, housing, IBAVI, low carbon footprint, resource map, small town, sustainable design, The Architectural Review

Viviendas para vivir

[originalmente publicado en BCN MÉS #79] En las últimas décadas, hemos logrado conectar la ciudad con el mar, hemos creado espacios … More

Barcelona, BCN MÉS, housing, politics, tourism

Electoral Architecture

Elections for the mayorship of Barcelona are coming up later this year, and we’re already being delivered promises in the … More

artificial island, Barcelona, Dubai, electoralism, housing, politics, waterfront

Small City Architecture: Walden 7 as a Social Network

[Originally published in RocaGallery.com. Versión en castellano sigue a continuación] “The city is like a great house, and the house … More

Anna Bofill, city edge, community, housing, housing system, megastructure, Ricardo Bofill, rocagallery.com, small town, social media, Taller de Arquitectura, urbanism, Walden 7

Housing Thinking

[Originally published in HOUSE US, eds. Jae Sung Chon and Kent Mundle (Winnipeg: OCDI Press, 2018)] In comparison to the … More

architecture, housing, theory, urbanism

Notes from a Recent Construction Site Visit

I was recently fortunate enough to be shown a truly interesting work of architecture currently under construction in Barcelona: La … More

activism, atrium, Barcelona, building industry, building typology, CLT, co-operative, courtyard, housing, Lacol, urban infill, wood

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

Ábalos & Herreros, Ben Wheatley, film, hierarchy, highrise, housing, inequality, Jaques Tati, social class

Revisiting Casa Bloc

  The architecture of housing differs fundamentally from the architecture of other building types in that it is never a purely … More

Barcelona, GATCPAC, housing, housing system, Josep Lluís Sert, museum, urbanism, urbanization

Twisted Logic: Turning Torso as ‘Innovative’ Housing?

I recently had the pleasure of visiting Malmö, Sweden; best known –in terms of contemporary architecture– for its Santiago Caltrava-designed … More

housing, icon, landmark, Malmö, Santiago Calatrava, skyscraper, suburbia, technology transfer, Turning Torso

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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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