Lys Villalba, map of Spanish collectives

Despite the undoubted generational affinities or architectural sensibilities that can often be detected among them, the collectives are a heterogeneous and diverse reality, open and continuously updated in their response to the conditions, also variable, of this society. To give a faithful account of the reality, but synthesizing it in the pages of an architectural magazine is a challenge, given that it is also essential to reflect the networks of cooperation that some groups establish with others, and the different ways in which they are grouped together. When it came to selecting the groups, the first difficulty was to define what a 'group' is, starting from a clear and as objective criterion as possible: the fact that the teams, regardless of their age, their similar sensibilities or their language, are organized according to structures that are not pyramidal but horizontal…[+]