How post-pandemic architecture has always shaped our cities

"La historia de la arquitectura es la historia de las enfermedades infecciosas.”, afirma Beatriz Colomina, teórica de la relación entre arquitectura y sanidad en el vídeo de El Confidencial. La lucha contra las epidemias de colera que asolaron ciudades de todo el mundo en el siglo XIX impulsó...

Balcony rights and wrongs

During the pandemics, balconies have offered a platform for display, solidarity, communication and protest across a planet. They have become a symbol of a developing global and local togetherness, says visual artist and writer Will Jennings in the essay published in the journal Landscape. He...

Debate The Future of Cities: A View from the Global South

Teresa Caldeira, an anthropologist and Professor of the University of California-Berkley is a reference in contemporary urban thinking. She has spoken with Judit Carrera, director of the CCCB about the challenges confronting cities as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in the...

Public space’s normality

• Hans Ibelings

What are the responses of designers and architects to the crisis of the pandemic with regard to public spaces? The architecture critic Hans Ebeling observes that the debate about the spatial implications of confinement has mostly focused on the home and workplace, while public space has only been...

Tearing Down Statues Doesn’t Erase History, It Makes Us See It More Clearly

Anti-racist movements, arisen worldwide after the killing of George Floyd, have put the past into question by targeting monuments, situated in symbolic place of public space, that represent the legacy of slavery and colonialism. Italian historian Enzo Traverso contextualizes the phenomenon and...

What Is a Park Worth?

The concept of the environmental services that nature brings us has been evolving throughout history. Evaluating this is increasingly necessary so we can understand the worth of its conservation, maintenance, and adaptation, says an article in The Conversation. But can what has hitherto been...

"Domi manere convenit felicibus": Notes on the Health Crisis and Public Space

• Xavier Monteys

Xavier Monteys reflects on the overvaluation of public space and speaks out in favour of stigmatised domestic space. Our home, inviolable and guardian of our privacy, is our true space of freedom. 

Public house: the city folds into the space of the home

El confinamiento nos ha hecho redescubrir el hogar como un lugar central en nuestras vidas. El ensayo de la Architectural Review analiza la transformación histórica de la casa, en sí misma y en relación con su papel en la ciudad, a partir de la revolución de género, la irrupción de la esfera...

Public Spaces: Places of Protest, Expression and Social Engagement

El espacio público es un lugar de reunión e intercambio desde la época del ágora griega. También es un espacio de libertad de movimiento y expresión. A menudo acoge protestas y se transforma en lugar de resistencia, donde surgen revoluciones y levantamientos sociales. Este artículo de ArchDaily...