The building that looks like an anvil is the soon to be completed Disseny HUB Barcelona, a design museum by … More
Tag: strategy
City as Landscape: City of Culture of Galicia by Eisenman Architects
[Originally published in Mark Magazine #27] Monte Gaiás Library Is the pleasure of architecture intellectual or sensual? Of the mind … More
Monument Ahead: CajaGranada Cultural Centre by Alberto Campo Baeza
[Originally published in Mark Magazine #22] The CajaGranada complex and Genil River seen from beneath the Sierra Nevada highway The … More
Designer Façadism
Façade by Toyo Ito A new luxury apartment building for tourists has recently opened on Passeig de Gràcia, across from … More
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
The pursuit of pleasure by the most efficient available means: the urbanism of Benidorm, Spain
[originally published in Onsite Review # 14] Benidorm is a city in southeastern Spain with an urban morphology that is highly unusual … More
Kitbashing, street remakes, and bisexual architecture: a conversation with Kim Adams
[originally published in C International Contemporary Art #70, summer 2001] Rafael Gómez-Moriana: Kim, you gave a talk in 1988 at … More
Straightforward
[originally published in VMX 95] “Architecture, whether it is a work of art or not, must be utilitarian or else … More
