The Geometry of Occupation

Conference lectured at the cycle "Borders". Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona , 1st March 2004 1. Some Principles of Frontier Geography If borders are nothing but abstract lines denoting the edges of jurisdictions, barriers make them concrete. With the complete mechanization...

On Collective Memory, Central Space and National Identity

Conference lectured at the symposium "Beirut: Civil Pleasures, Civil Wars". Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona , 5-7 June 2005 Observing Beirut in the throes of reconstruction is a bewitching, often beguiling, experience; both existentially and conceptually. From a close and...

Les conditions de l’urbain : À propos de l’espace public et de la politique

Spaces of Risk, Spaces of Citizenship and Limits of the 'Urban' in European cities

Conference lectured at the symposium "(In)visible Cities. Spaces of Hope, Spaces of Citizenship". Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, 25-27 July 2003. Introduction The easiest way for me to introduce this lecture is by paraphrasing the title of the Conference, if I am...

Reflexiones sobre el futuro de la ciudad

 Publicado en A. Garcí­a Espuche y S. Rueda (eds.), La ciutat sostenible. Barcelona: Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona, 1999 (Urbanitats;  9) Barcelona, verano del año 1936, durante las primeras semanas de la guerra y la revolución. Un...

The Urban Imaginary

Published in the exhibition catalogue The City that Never Was. Barcelona: Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona,  2003 Does the city lend itself to reverie or to the dream? At first sight the city as a monumental built space does not trigger the equivalent of the rustic or...

Habits/Habitus/Habitat

Georges Teyssot Hábitos/Habitus/Hábitat Como resultado del catolicismo de A.W.N. Pugin en Inglaterra y del fourierismo de Victor Considérant y César Daly en Francia, la teoría arquitectónica dio un paso hacia nuevos objetivos moralizadores.1 En vez de responder servilmente a las necesidades...

For the City Yet to Come: Remaking Urban Life in Africa

  Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona 2003 Conference lectured at the cycle "Mapping Africa". CCCB, 17 February 2003 Introduction Urban Africans have long made lives that have worked. There has been an astute capacity to use thickening fields of social relations, however,...

Apolíneos y dionisíacos ante la arquitectura de masas: Cinco tesis en veinticinco párrafos

 Conferencia leída en el simposio «Debate de Barcelona. Presente y futuros. Arquitectura en las ciudades», Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, 2-4 de junio de 1995   Un prólogo o resumen Ante los grandes desafíos cuantitativos...