Rafael Moneo Manuel de Solà-Morales   Spain   In the year 1986, the architects Rafael Moneo and Manuel de Solà-Morales won an invitational competition for a complex urban program on a wide trapezoidal site located between Avinguda Diagonal and Carrer Déu i Mata, on the one hand, and Numància and

Rafael Moneo Manuel de Solà-Morales   Spain   The ‘Diagonal Block’ - between Diagonal, Deu i Mata, Numancia and Entenza avenues - is a vacant lot within the city that remains true, on one hand, to the Cerdá Plan and its idea of continuity and closed edifications, and on the other hand, to that o

José María Ezquiaga   This book on urban planning, despite its seductive erudition and lucid reasoning, does not lead to a solid conclusion in the way that texts by Rose or Glaeser do. Sometimes it sounds more like the inspired uncertainty of the most recent Sennett or th

1939 - 2012 As author of Barcelona’s seafront transformation – through the refurbishment of the Moll de la Fusta – as well as of the Illa Diagonal, in collaboration with Rafael Moneo, Manuel de Solà-Morales i Rubió had a key influence 

Joan Busquets   Siempre desde el compromiso ético y el rigor profesional, el recientemente fallecido Manuel de Solà-Morales concebía la ciudad como una trama compleja y viva en la que interactúan arquitectura, urbanismo, paisaje y territorio.

(1910-2003) Father of two architect sons, Manuel and Ignasi de Solà-Morales i Rubiò – the latter prematurely deceased in 2001 –, the architect Manuel de Solà-Morales de Rosellò was born in Olot, Gerona, in 1910, and died on 18 December in Barcelona,

Marta García Carbonero   Viviendas en Gerona y Alcoy The modest architecture of social housing is 1999’s resounding winner of the Fomento de las Artes Decorativas Awards. An apartment block by Arcadi Pla in Gerona and a residential development by Manuel de Solà-Morales in th

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The end of a millenium rightly calls for panic. But this will be denied us, for lack of time. To decently enjoy the millenarian terror, it is important to inhabit the planet with a calm and vegetal rhythm that nurtures uncertainties, projects anxieti

Mercedes Reig   If it were not for the fact that we know that the new patrons have an advertising man lodged in their brains, one might think that the contest called “Sotto Napoli” is just a superfluous amusement. Without digging deep underground, Naples has more th

Barcelona  2021  
Acantilado   - 320 Pages