Architecture Road-Tripping: Marseille

Earlier this August, I went on a roadtrip through southern France and spent two nights in l’Unité d’Habitation in Marseille, … More

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

Leon Battista Alberti famously wrote: “The city is like some large house and the house in turn like some small … More

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

Tourism is the only ‘industry’ in Spain that is not downsizing in the current (well, actually it’s been five years … More

If Venice, the Wild West, or Asia can be themes for parks, casinos, or hotels, then why not contemporary architecture? … More

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

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