As an architect who is blessed with having double citizenship –Spanish as well as Canadian– I was quite amused, while … More
Tag: urbanization
Revisiting Casa Bloc
The architecture of housing differs fundamentally from the architecture of other building types in that it is never a purely qualitative … More
Design and Decadence in Sabiñanigo
The land-scars of Spain’s construction boom-gone-bust have been documented photographically to great extent. More typically than not, these images portray a landscape of newly built … More
Power, Corruption and Architecture
Transparency International released its annual report some weeks ago, and this year’s corruption perception index, which ranks 177 countries from least to most … More
Collective Intelligence or Collective Stupidity?
The above image is circulating on the internet representing all sorts of cities on all sorts of continents, showing us … More
Power to the People
[originally published in Mark Magazine #29] The office of Andrés Jaque Arquitectos Still on the shy side of 40, Andrés … More
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