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Rafael Gómez-Moriana's architecture blog

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Circular Container Housing

Does the sight of absurd architectural projects containing shipping containers make you cringe? Do you break into a cold sweat … More

APROP, Barcelona, circular economy, housing system, prefabrication, shipping containers, Straddle 3, sustainable design

The Poseidon Adventure: Social Housing in Formentera by IBAVI

[Originally published in The Architectural Review July-August 2019] The small, idyllic Mediterranean island of Formentera, Spain, isn’t the first place … More

building materials, civil servant architecture, countryside, experimental prototype, housing, IBAVI, low carbon footprint, resource map, small town, sustainable design, The Architectural Review

Into the Woods

[Originally published in RocaGallery.com. Versión en castellano sigue a continuación] Forget steel or concrete; or even carbon fibre. The most … More

CLT, engineered wood, Lacol, low carbon footprint, rocagallery.com, sustainable design, wood

Experitecture

Empirical experimentation has always been intrinsic to architecture. Attempting to build something that has never been built before in terms of form, height, … More

Coque Claret, Daniel Calatayud, design-build, Energy, Ressò, science, solar decathlon, STEM, sustainable design

Radical Architecture at its Most Subversive

This house near Barcelona ranks among the most radical and subversive works of architecture of 2014, and yet it’s not by … More

activism, adaptive re-use, agriculture, countryside, embodied energy, Marcel Fontanillas, oligarchy, politics, radicalism, sustainable design

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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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