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
For more than two centuries, the discussion on architectonical heritage has been mostly about authenticity and the relation between the single monument and the urban fabric. The growing tourism business and the raising conscience for every cultural sensibility, have now shifted the debate from conservation to usage. In Florence, between nov. 9th and 14th, the General Assembly of ICOMOS (International Council on Monum
