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Rafael Gómez-Moriana's architecture blog

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Tag: popular culture

Welcome to the Hotel Barcelona

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

Barcelona, branding, highrise, hotel, leisure, popular culture, total design, tourism

Benidorm: The Pursuit of Pleasure by the Most Efficient Available Means

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

Benidorm, coast, cultural identity, highrise, leisure, Onsite Review, popular culture, pragmatism, strategy, theory, tourism, urbanism

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

From White Cube to Big Box: Three Exurban Themes in the Work of Kim Adams

“Non-places are the real measure of our time; one that could be quantified…by totaling all the air, rail and motorway … More

adhocism, agriculture, art, automobile, Biennale of Sydney, countryside, D.I.Y., exurbia, installation, Kim Adams, popular culture, sculpture, suburbia, urbanism

Kitbashing, Street Remakes, and Bisexual Architecture: A Conversation with Kim Adams

Rafael Gómez-Moriana: Kim, you gave a talk in 1988 at the Christiane Chassay Gallery in Montreal in which you showed … More

adhocism, art, C Magazine, D.I.Y., Kim Adams, popular culture, prefab, sculpture, strategy

Winnipeg: One Great Situation-Normal (1)

[Originally published in Winnipeg Art Gallery exhibition publication Sit(e)ings: Trajectories for a Future] “Incredible…one can actually order ‘a cup of coffee’ … More

art, authenticity, cultural identity, D.I.Y., housing, popular culture, WAG, Winnipeg

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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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