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Rafael Gómez-Moriana

Architect, educator and critic.

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Author: Rafael Gomez-Moriana

Architect, educator and writer. Partner at ArqEstructura. Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Calgary. Blogger at criticalista.com.

Essay on the Future of Architecture

 ‘Less and More’ is an institutional critique published in HUNCH 6 / 7: 109 Provisional Attempts to Address Six Simple and … More

HUNCH, institutional critique

Light Pavilions

Light Pavilions is a series of constructions that form part of a video installation titled Quadern de bitàcola (Logbook) by the … More

art, Chema Alvargonzález, dismountable, installation, lightweight, prefabrication, Tarragona, Tinglado 2, warehouse

Catalogue Essay on Artist Kim Adams

‘From White Cube to Big Box: Three Exurban Themes in the Work of Kim Adams’ is an invited catalogue essay … More

art, catalogue essay, Kim Adams, Sydney Biennale

Quick ‘n’ Cheap Architecture: Ephemeral Urban Micro-Interventions

In this workshop seminar, students researched Iberian urban public space typologies through a series of ephemeral micro-interventions. The temporary physical … More

ephemeral architecture, Iberian city, micro-interventions, public space, urban art

Nomadic Bookcase

I designed and built this modular bookshelf system to facilitate moving house with my library. Modules stack into bookcases like … More

bookcase, carrying crate, design-build, furniture design, modular, plywood, wood

Co-Curator of Installation by Adrian Blackwell

‘Model for a Public Space’, an installation by Adrian Blackwell (originally titled ‘Spiral Space’), was exhibited in the Architecture II … More

architecture, installation, public space

CourtHomes for America Project

The CourtHome is a suburban house designed to attached at the sides and the rear, creating a more compact, energy-efficient … More

court yard house, housing system, suburbia, sustainable

Bridge House

The Bridge House was designed while employed in the office of Bo Helliwell and Kim Smith Blue Sky Architecture (Vancouver). Built for a … More

Blue Sky Architecture, British Columbia, forest, house, timber, waterfront

Menu: Inside Randstad Holland Competition Entry

[With Jan Peter Wingender. Awarded “Incentive Prize”] This submission to the Inside Randstad Holland competition of 1994 proposes a gradual and adaptive urbanisation process … More

Green Heart, Holland, landscape urbanism, Randstad

Installation in Aldo van Eyck’s Orphanage, Amsterdam

Light and Space is an ephemeral intervention in Aldo van Eyck‘s famous Orphanage building of 1960, installed as part of a group exhibition … More

Aldo van Eyck, Amsterdam, art, Berlage Institute, color, installation, intervention, light, orphanage, space

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