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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.

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

Ideal Double Standard Project

‘Ideal Double Standard’ is a project for a transformable dwelling in a context of row- or terrace- houses. A folding … More

furniture design, housing system, transformable dwelling, urban prototype

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

Berlage Cahiers, yearbook essay

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

Berlin, Herman Hertzberger, housing system, social housing

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

architecture, housing system, mixed-use, patio housing, urban prototype

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