| DECONSTRUCTING BARCELONA |
| We will be the future. |
 |
|
|
||||||||||
| old buildings | new buildings | |||||||||
|
|
Hi. I moved to Barcelona because of its nice ambience emerging from architecture and nature. Barcelona without doubt has got some of the most beautiful buildings. Mostly it's the about 100 years old houses that take care for a movie-like and very comfortable scenery. The hills are urbanised with plenty of cute and playful constructions. But strange wise this is not what the Barcelonese government is proud of. In fact most Barcelonese don't even know about their heritage. Many old houses rot and often get torn down to be replaced by a brutalist, inhuman architecture that wants to symbolise the connection to modernity. This taste bases in the error that pure functionality would still be the sign of the times in Europe while in Northern Europe this now is a past attitude. Still some of the new buildings show innovation, but they all have in common a rather inhuman and cold style. It seams that the taste of the Catalans has turned 180 degrees in the times of oppression by the Franco regime.
OTHER
INITIATIVES Plataforma Civica i Veinal de la Font d'en Fargas i el Turo de la Rovira d'Horta Guinardo. Veins en defensa de Barcelona Vella Book by Stefanie
von Heeren on demolitions in the old town: THIS SITE IS NOT ABOUT URBAN SPECULATION It is a weird situation, when you try to explain something and people support you and react like they understood, but actually understand the contrary and only reflect their own agenda. I am NOT against a certain degree of construction for the purpose of making money. If Diagonal Mar and the destruction of old houses would generate money, so be it, but I am not sure. I think it's not fashion with the people who could afford it, at least not from a northern european view. Diagonal Mar, Maremagnum, Pueblo Olympico, Glories, all are catastrophies in architecture that make people joke about Barcelona. The town has a reputation as being creative, because of Gaudi and many other thing. But not because of its new architecture. I am afraid Barcelona will change its name form Gaudi City to Dildo Town very soon. I am NOT against the destruction of buildings that hinder the generation of capital, but the reason for the broad destruction of beautifull buildings in Barcelona is the antipathy towards these buildings. I talked to many people. Old style is dissrespected by the mayority of people even in creative business, they even feel ashamed for it. They think its romanticism, nostalgia and not appropiate in our time or whatever. Spain should wake up from this ridiculous misunderstanding. It was the same in the rest of Europe 40 years ago, but now exactly those old buildings people wanted to get rid of are very much fashion, and rationalist, "modern" or brutalist architecture is completely out. The same will happen in Spain in some years. |
|
||||||||
|
|
||||||||||
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
){kind=small}
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
|
GUESTBOOK
|
add comment |
| #id#
#name# from
#nation# #email#
|