Skip to content

Criticalista

Nobody likes a critic.

  • About + contact
  • Exclusive texts
  • Published texts
  • Reviews
  • Rants
  • Observations
  • Comparative analyses
  • Speculative texts
  • News
  • Interviews
  • Notes

Tag: politics

Collective Intelligence or Collective Stupidity?

The above image is circulating on the internet representing all sorts of cities on all sorts of continents, showing us … More

authenticity, cultural identity, ethics, flexibility, interactive, internet, photography, politics, popular culture, site-specificity, social class, urbanization

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

Interview with Peter Eisenman

[This is an excerpt of an interview I conducted with Peter Eisenman in Santiago de Compostela in May 2010. The … More

architecture, Galicia, Interviews, KLAT magazine, Peter Eisenman, politics, Santiago de Compostela, theory, topographic architecture

City as Landscape

[Originally published in Mark Magazine #27]   Library Is the pleasure of architecture intellectual or sensual? Of the mind or … More

cultural identity, fundamentalism, Galicia, landscape, Mark Magazine, Peter Eisenman, politics, Santiago de Compostela, strategy, topographic architecture

Triumph of the Shell

  [originally published in Mark Magazine #26]   In cinema, there is a common type of architectural scene: a building … More

building envelope, film, Lleida, Mark Magazine, Mecanoo, politics, small town

Ugh Canada

An architect is, by definition, a designer of buildings, right? Well, the government of Canada, a nation whose credo is … More

Canada, cultural identity, Expo 2010 Shanghai, installation, pavilion, politics, spectacle

Less and More

[Originally published in HUNCH 6 / 7  109 Provisional Attempts to Address Six Simple and Hard Questions, in which 109 … More

architecture, education, ethics, HUNCH journal, manifesto, politics, popular culture

Posts navigation

Newer posts

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 1,070 other subscribers

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.

Like what you're reading? If so, please make a donation. Thanks.

Follow Criticalista on WordPress.com
Create a website or blog at WordPress.com
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Criticalista
    • Join 143 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Criticalista
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar