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Tag: Madrid

Everyday Camouflage in Suburbia

[Originally published in Bauwelt 9.2024] The suburban single-family house has long been promoted as the ideal residential building type; as … More

Bauwelt, ca, camouflage, house, Madrid, OF Architects & Ignacio G. Galán, suburbia

Community Integration

[Originally published in Bauwelt 14.2022] With a current average life expectancy of almost 84 years, Spain’s is one of the … More

adaptive re-use, Chamberí, day center for elderly persons, Madrid, Mariluz Sánchez Moral & Padilla Nicás Arquitectos

Spanish Steps

[Originally published in Azure, Nov/Dec 2013] One thing becomes immediately apparent when approaching MediaLab-Prado. There is no confusing old with … More

adaptive re-use, architecture, Azure, Langarita Navarro, Madrid, media

Quietly Brilliant: Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

[Originally published in Mark Magazine #35] Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano are truly architects’ architects. They may not be a … More

architecture, competition, geometry, Interviews, Islamic architecture, Madrid, Mark Magazine, museum, Nieto Sobejano

Power to the People

[originally published in Mark Magazine #29] The office of Andrés Jaque Arquitectos Still on the shy side of 40, Andrés … More

activism, Andrés Jaque, ethics, housing, interactive, Madrid, Mark Magazine, politics, Research, urbanism, urbanization

Team Play

As any sports fan can confirm, the architecture of elite sporting venues is the forefront of technologically inventive design these … More

dominique perrault, flexibility, Madrid, Mark Magazine, piranesi, sport

Exquisite Corpse

A large sculpture next to a mega monochrome painting – at first glance and from a distance, that’s what the … More

adaptive re-use, art, heritage, Herzog de Meuron, Madrid, Mark Magazine, museum, Spain

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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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