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Vacation Ruin

Ruins are as depressing as they are beautiful. Building abandonment is never a happy occurrence, but when it precedes building inhabitation, it’s … More

Cala d'en Serra, countryside, Ibiza, Josep Lluís Sert, resort, ruin, seashore, tourism

Architecture Without ‘Parti’

One of the first lessons every student learns in architecture school is that an architectural design must always be based on a … More

architecture, building typology, Casa Erwin Broner, house, Ibiza, parti, seashore, small town, studio, vernacular

Contemporary Ruins II

Further to my last post, here is another Spanish contemporary ruin by a Pritzker laureate: Toyo Ito’s spa near Torrevieja. … More

architecture, countryside, ruin, seashore, spa, Spain, Torrevieja, Toyo Ito, wood

Still Nurbing Along

Enric Ruiz Geli’s Villa Nurbs is still incomplete after 13 years. The good news is, however, that it does not appear to … More

Cloud 9, Enric Ruíz Geli, house, resort, seashore, small town, Villa Nurbs

La Grande Motte Revisited

I first saw La Grande Motte in the summer of 1978, more than a decade before I would graduate from … More

beach, building typology, concrete, france, Jean Balladur, master plan, resort, seashore, tourism, urbanism, waterfront

Strange Bedfellows

The image at left shows the construction of the “Instant City” during the congress of the International Council of Societies … More

activism, Almería, beach, coast, corruption, crap, hotel, Ibiza, politics, resort, seashore, tourism, utopia

Villa Nurbs: a Sad Spectacle

It is June 2012, and  after a decade of construction Villa Nurbs is still incomplete. In fact, construction has now seemingly come … More

Cloud 9, digital fabrication, Enric Ruíz Geli, ethics, resort, seashore, small town, spectacle, Villa Nurbs

W: what is it good for?

A building has been going up–or did it come from outer space?–on Barcelona’s Sant Sebastià Beach that is popularly refered … More

activism, Barcelona, beach, ethics, George W. Bush, hotel, popular culture, Ricardo Bofill, seashore, tourism, war

Rocket Architecture

[Originally published in Canadian Architect, February 2001] The ensemble of structures illustrated here could easily be mistaken for recent work by … More

authenticity, Churchill, Manitoba, rocket range, seashore, The Canadian Architect Magazine, wilderness

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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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