The former central prison of Barcelona is undergoing a major transformation into something that is not decided yet, except for one clear thing: it will not be a top-down decision but the result of a participative process with residents and citizenship. Here you can follow it up, also finding a lot of documents. And here you can find our opinion about one of the mai aspect of the transformation: the memory and the arc
MMM, «Mies Missing Materiality», has been the installation that architects Anna & Eugeni Bach, have set during a few days in November 2017 at the Mies Van Der Rohe Pavilion in Montjuïc, Barcelona. It is well known that the current pavilion is a thirdy-year old reconstruction of the original 1929 building and, therefore, is almost a fake, a replica made in the same place, with the same sizes and the same materials
Barcelona is in a long-time struggle against the side effects of its touristic booming. Dynamics of substitution of population have started to be a real problem as a consequence of the increasing price of housing, strongly influenced by the extended presence of tourist flats. In the middle of such an effort not to be overwelmed by its own success, a sudden terror attack in its most emblematic public space, the Rambla
Everybody agrees: tourism is a great source of economic income for any city in the short term and a powerful boost for its growth and promotion in the long term. But what happens in terms of coexistence between the city as an urban reality with its social and structural needs and the city as a product mainly manifactured through architecture, urbanism, restoration and public space? Together with AxA association we
In Barcelona, along the coming month of June, a cycle of public conversations will be held about the social and physical situation of Ciutat Vella, the historic center. The cycle is organized by independent local associations and will meet five different places around Ciutat Vella. More information here (in SPANISH and CATALAN): FACEBOOK EVENT You can also follow the #xerradesxcv on twitter. (the aerial picture is by
This is the dissertation of Alessandro Scarnato for his PhD title, in ESTAB school of architecture of Barcelona. Juanjo Lahuerta, ETSAB (left), Paola Di Biagi, IUAV (right) and Joan Busquets, Harvard (right edge) have been the members of the jury who gave the maximum evaluation, «cum laude» to the research led by Alessandro Scarnato under the supervision of Antonio Pizza, ETSAB (in the center). The research deals wit
