‘Ideal Double Standard’ is a project for a transformable dwelling in a context of row- or terrace- houses. A folding … More
Author: Rafael Gomez-Moriana
Architect, educator and writer. Partner at ArqEstructura. Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Calgary. Blogger at criticalista.com.
Co-Editor of Berlage Institute Yearbook
As manuscript editor of The Berlage Cahiers #3: The new private realm, I wrote an introductory essay to this yearbook … More
Social Housing at Halbinsel Stralau, Berlin
In 1994, I worked at Architectuurstudio Herman Hertzberger (AHH), Amsterdam, Netherlands, on this social housing project for Berlin, Germany. Sited on … More
Generic Box Prototype Project
Generic Box Prototype is a project for a mixed-use housing, office, and retail complex in Rotterdam. It was designed as part … More
Suburban Speculation Project
This masterplan for a suburban settlement outside of Amsterdam was designed as part of a Berlage Institute studio (instructor: Rudy Uytenhaak; project collaborator: Esten … More
Roof Garden
I designed this Edmonton roof garden while employed in the office of Carlyle and Associates Landscape Architecture and Urban Design … More
Seamless Loft
I designed and built the Seamless Loft in 1992, when I lived in Edmonton (Canada) in a schoolhouse that had … More
Sacred-Profane Mixed-Use Thesis Project
My thesis project at the University of Waterloo, ‘Sacred-Profane Mixed-Use Building’ (advisor: Ryszard Sliwka, 1989), addresses the reconstruction of Montreal’s Unitarian church on … More
Ready-Made Puppet Theater
In 1989, the Ontario Association of Architects invited each architecture school in Ontario to contribute a puppet theater to its 100th … More
YMCA Urban Infill Project
This is a studio project I completed in 1986 in my third year of architecture school at the University of … More
Rafael Gómez-Moriana 