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Rafael Gómez-Moriana's architecture blog

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For Greener Cities

[Originally published in RocaGallery.com. Versión en castellano sigue a continuación] Urban mobility is becoming ever more diverse: electric cars, trucks, … More

bicycling, infrastructure, rocagallery.com, sustainability, urban mobility

Bicivia 7: El carril bici que une la metrópoli

[articulo publicado originalmente en BCN MÉS #71] En marzo [2018] se inauguró un nuevo carril bici –la Bicivia 7– de apenas … More

Barcelona, BatlleRoig, bicycling, bike lane, green corridor, infrastructure, landscape urbanism

Mega-Market

Barcelona’s biggest market, Mercat Sant Antoni, has finally opened its doors after a renovation process lasting nearly a decade. The … More

Barcelona, Eixample, infrastructure, megastructure, modernisme, rehabilitation, Sant Antoni Market renovation, superilla

La globalización de los mercados municipales

[publicado originalmente en BCN MÉS #63] Cualquiera que haya pisado uno de los recién remodelados mercados municipales en barcelona se … More

Barcelona, BCN MÉS, globalization, infrastructure, leisure, market, tourism

Built-In Obsolescence

The other day, out of the blue, my printer suddenly stalled, even though it had been working perfectly for once. Strange warning … More

automobile, infrastructure, obsolescence, suburbia, technology, urbanism

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

Brutal Underground

[Originally published in Mark Magazine #54] Barcelona has a problem: too many motor vehicles occupy too much space and fill … More

Barcelona, Brutalism, civil engineering, Garcés - de Seta - Bonet, infrastructure, Mark Magazine, Metro system, museology, public transportation

Perspective is Everything

Same place seen from different viewpoints (Pas de la Casa, Andorra). Neon duty-free stores selling discounted liquor and cigarettes to … More

architecture, countryside, infrastructure, landscape, mountains, perspective, politics, small town, tax haven, urbanism

Quaderns #262: A Gut Reaction

[Originally published in Quaderns d’arquitectura i urbanisme online] Quaderns d’arquitectura i urbanisme #262 is provocatively titled “Parainfrastructures”, an invented word that … More

architecture, Catalonia, infrastructure, Parainfrastructure, Quaderns

Context is Still Everything

The building visible in the photo above is a soon-to-be-completed design museum by the veteran firm MBM (Martorell, Bohigas, MacKay). … More

Barcelona, cantilever, context, infrastructure, MBM, strategy, urbanism

Water Tower and Bridge Pavilion

[originally published in Mark Magazine #16] Water TowerOne of the ironies of world expositions is that while they apparently act … More

bridge, Enrique de Teresa, Expo Zaragoza, infrastructure, Mark Magazine, Spain, tower, Zaha

Everyday Camouflage in the City

[Originally published in Lotus International # 126. Earlier versions published in proceedings of Second Savannah Symposium “Authenticity in Architecture” (2001) and in On … More

authenticity, camouflage, cultural identity, facadism, infrastructure, Lotus magazine, modernity, semiotics, social class, strategy, theory, urbanism

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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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